Delayed Solutions Game

It would help to know why you want to signal your wealthy status- because if it's something like "have better success while asking people out" the answers are very different than if it's "be treated better normally."

Hmm... One way to approach this would be, instead of looking for examples of people trying to signal, try to get inside the heads of your target impressee. What would really, genuinely impress the sort of person you're trying to impress? What would impress you?

I imagine, for example, that someone who knows a lot about wine, or is conversant in the pros and cons of the driver experience in luxury cars, is clearly signalling a lot of leisure time and resources to pursue the habit, and I'd be more impressed by that person than by someone who simply brags about the expensive car or wine they just bought. Of course, that kind of approach may work on a limited range of people; you'd want to pick a domain that your impressees know enough about to recognize a real connoisseur.

Polishing a monocle with a £50 note is right out.

I don't know why, but I find the idea very funny and worth trying.

Signaling your wealth is likely to be socially advantageous, but may also bring with it the expectation that you will spend your money freely, which you would consider wasteful. Is it possible, even, that the status boost you are seeking is associated more with spending money than with having money?

Here's one way to phrase the question:

What can I purchase which is in fact inexpensive, yet gives the impression of being, or is commonly thought to be, very expensive?

It seems plausible that the list of expensive-seeming things and the list of fairly inexpensive things might have some points in common. The main question would be how to figure out what they are, and which ones actually suit your taste.

This sounds like it would require lots of delving into signalling literature. The prospect mildly excites me.

What goals do you have your breakfast fulfilling? Inexpensive? Weight gain/loss? Taste?

Does the type/kind of breakfast have a larger or smaller impact your later mental state?

I think that actually thinking about breakfast for a little time would actually prove beneficial depending on your goals. I don't think you'll require a large amount of time, but you can spend a few minutes thinking about it. Those few minutes could have net positive or negative impact on your future self that day.

edit moved, originally posted it as a top level comment and not as a reply. Sorry

Have you considered making a FAI on a computer that includes a cereal port?

Simplified nutrition problems are usually given for examples of constrained optimization, and there's no reason in principle you can't use the techniques to decide what to have for breakfast. To this extent, once you've examined the evidence on various nutritional philosophies and perhaps self-experimented with your diet a bit, it's a matter of deciding on the end goals your breakfast is in support of, as Hurt said. Because the evidence on nutrition can be somewhat scrambled, performing these tasks with eggcellence is easier said than done.

Perhaps you're also asking the wrong question -- should you, in fact, have formal meals such as breakfast? There are some who advocate eating as hungry, and not at set times. Food for thought.

Good factors to consider would be what's available, what is least costly (depending on your budget), and what provides optimal nutrition. Combining multiple food groups is probably a good idea.

This is a good illustration of why we shouldn't always hold off on proposing solutions. Have some Cornflakes and spend your time thinking about something more important.

The blogs I have been most captivated by as a reader have been those where the creator's personality is readily perceivable in the content... that is, those with a distinctive voice. (Of course, the blogs I have been most turned off by have had this property as well.)

On the one-blog/several-blogs front, it might be worth thinking carefully about just how strict the line between subjects is, and how likely you'd be to write a post that belonged in multiple blogs. If the likelihood is more than negligible, you might look for hosts that simplify that sort of thing.

A lot depends on how confident you are that you really will generate content and collect readers. At least, I can't see why having a paid-for domain is better than something like Blogger (or livejournal, or, or, or) for minimal content. Especially if money is tight.

I'd suggest giving serious thought to the kind of reader-community you want to create... both what kinds of people, and how you want them to interact, and how much work you are willing to put into making that happen... and select your hosting and promotion with that firmly in mind.

Treat this simply as evidence rather than a solution to anything: I have personally found free Wordpress blogs to be very simple, customizable, aesthetically pleasant.

I'm sure there are other "gotchas" that a beginning blogger needs to worry about. What are they?

Burn-out and writer's block are a couple of things that come to mind.

One thing you should think about is what the aim is of the blog. Do you want to simply get your thoughts down, have a place for permanent high quality material you've written, do you want to entertain people, get the feeling of having lots of people read what you've written? Several of these require significantly different approaches to the task.

There are multiple areas of research needed for brain-robot integration.

Ranking in order of importance from my point of view

1. Artificial organs etc. for life support.

At this point you have a brain in a jar.

1. Sensory input (even if you're keeping the eyes you'll want propioception, and some sensitivity to damage)

At this point you've got a brain in a jar that can see.

1. Output connections (allowing the brain to control, for example, speakers, or a word processor)

Now you have a brain in a jar that can talk; and probably browse the web.

1. Artificial limbs

After which you've got a full-on cyborg.

Hmm, it sounds like there are a few domains you need to learn some specific things about first.

1) What is the state of medical technology in this field? You can try to find people working in the field, either researchers or businesspeople who are probably clued into the state-of-the-art. This will help you avoid reinventing the wheel, or on the other hand, settintg a goal that's far too ambitious (too many steps away from what's been done) too soon.

In general, my guess is that everything will be easier if you have a partner already working in the field; lots of things will be totally unknown to you, but obvious to them.

2) What sort of things get what sort of funding? Again you should ask people in the field. There may be more than one way to get funding, I don't know.

Then, if you still think your original goal is feasible, you need to figure out based on this info, what specific advance in technology you want to pursue, and what kind of team you can put together to sell your idea and possibly start working on it.

You could also think about other ways to contribute to the same end state. Do you really have to personally control the way in which this stuff gets used, the way you would if you founded the company? Or would some other way of furthering basic research in the relevant field also satisfy your goal?

I don't think you know what kind of companies venture capitalists invest in.

Maybe it goes like this: For most people, death is considered to be final and unescapable. Cryonics is thought of closely related to death. Thus cryonics' promise to bring people back from freezing is seen with a much higher level of scepticism than warranted.

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE.

Nice one :-)

A person who founded a stabilization organization in Europe has recently admitted to associations with a vampire group and a satanist group. Does this kind of thing harm cryonics publicly perceived credibility? Or does it draw useful attention to it?

On imminst there has been some attention to human hibernation. This only loosely related to cryonics but seems to have a lot more mainstream interest.

Fix'd.