A List of Projects

The Expletive Project

The <proposed> name of my startup company, aimed at 'curing' software piracy.  The premise is to incorporate piracy into conventional digital supply chains (such as the iTunes Store, or the Steam store, or XBox Live Arcade) in such a way that the peers on the network are compensated for supplying content, and the peers that have content that they haven't paid for yet can have that compensation directed to paying it off for them, before earning normally.

Shorter version: You buy "Bananaphone" through this or an affiliated marketplace for $1.  $0.80 goes to Raffi, the song's creator, $0.10 goes to the person who sent the song "Bananaphone" from their computer to yours, and the network takes $0.10 to cover infrastructure/overhead costs. This shit aint free, yo.

If you are a pirate who didn't buy "Bananaphone" but supply it to 10 people, that goes to paying off your song, and then you get a license and legally own it and can continue supplying it for money.

Terraforming

Stand-in for better title of a project that has to do with both delivering a basic standard of well-being to all members of our species, and at sufficiently packaging these in such a way as to allow them to be carried in a minimal payload to other planets. The end goal is to enable specific ecosystems that deliver all of the culinary ingredients of specific sets of cultures to be packaged into the space of a standard shipping container. Because whether I'm living on Mars or an Asteroid, sometimes I'm going to want some pizza and some fucking Chinese food, and once those become permanent settlements, I'm going to need to make that stuff there.

The end goal of this project is a sufficiently compact block of technology that can reproduce itself, which fits inside of a 20 foot (8 meter) shipping container, which can be dropped anywhere on any planet that will not destroy it utterly, which can then- over a period of weeks or months- develop sufficient habitats, closed or open, to sustain human life.  The proposed test case of this is to use these to kick-start agriculture in notoriously inhospitable regions of the world, such as Somalia.

Faith Healing

A project aimed at documenting the madness of religion, so that it can be demonstrated to subsequent generations. While it should not be taken as an indictment of the pious, the statistical correlation between educational accomplishment and an unwillingness to believe fairy tales has been duly noted. Part of this effort is aimed at recording human rights abuses by religious organizations or explicitly in the name of religious reasons, for the use in obtaining justice- whenever it becomes possible, as it usually is not under the sort of regimes it currently occurs under.

The end goal of this project is to give every government in the world the tools to fight crimes committed in the name of faith, to record all of these possible to bring their perpetrators to justice, and to provide a support and resistance network to the secularists at the mercy of the people committing these crimes, and those against whom direct threats have been made.

Terminatrix

An artificial intelligence project, aimed at across-the-board reimplimentation of the logical systems at work behind the human mind in the neurotypical population, with some practical additions to allow practical usage of this system for applications such as distributed manufacturing, dynamically adaptive 3D printing, and robotic transportation.

The end goal of this project is functional and useful AI capable of performing tasks such as driving your car, building your house, fighting your wars, and folding your laundry, and also capable of networking ("sharing data") between different instances of the program, to increase the rate at which the network can respond to and overcome new obstacles.

WikiWeapon

I've designed guns for years as a hobby, and with the new 3D printed guns and the way that they seem to inevitably point, I want to make sure that the safest and post practical versions of these are available as soon as possible, so that less safe and effective versions don't cost needless lives. Also, because the ability to manufacture a firearm is the test of a manufacturer's capabilities, the project is designed to expand on that and let the gun makers also make, eg, transportation and agricultural tools. Because gun-making doesn't have to make you an evil dick.

The end goal of this project is to develop a set of printable precision machining tools that can be printed and made from off-the-shelf components, sufficiently sophisticated and precise to allow the manufacture of a firearm or any other tool or instrument requiring such precision at the available scale of the printing platform.

Superhouse

This is a project aimed at providing a basic standard of housing with little or no energy input requirements.  The basis for this project is the body of work surrounding the Earthship project, and the intent is to make this as adaptable and flexible as the human species residing in it needs it to be. 

The end goal is an adaptive set of blueprints for small-scale residential buildings ("houses") that can be built anywhere, using local materials, with minimal investment and off-the-shelf components to deliver climate control, power, water, some amount of food, sewage treatment, and basic automation and basic professional services (printing, network storage, 3D printing, manual labor automation, etc).