Other Realm Task List

Web Presence –

YouTube/other media

Entropy (Name may change)

• A show that is part a dramatization of the creation of the organization and (probably, script is still being worked on) part a tale of a very charismatic man  (probably named Aphiri) born in Sub-Saharan Africa (probably Eastern Province Zambia/Malawi/Northwestern Mozambique, i.e. Chewa areas) when it was still under colonial apartheid.  They rebel against an imposing preacher father and run away to become in cahoots with a British land baron and fairly quickly became quite well off.  This is all thrown away with the overthrow of the colonists and his dishonoring in the community.  Although he had done all this under the pretext of trying to improve the lives of those under repression, he got sucked into the enticement of wealth and fortune. Fleeing to the U.S.A., he resolves to become a better person and stand up to his principles of not bowing to plutocratic/autocratic (side note: autocracy should really mean rule by an automated system and not rule by a single person without checks and balances) authority.  (Need to work with someone who actually went through this time window to make sure it is historically accurate.  May need to change how he got his wealth, but the general story of rebel, gain money though sycophantic means, have this blow up on him, flee to America, should be his backstory).  At the same time, he makes the shrewd decision to not burn down the ties has made with the wealthy but instead use them to circumvent the powers that be.  While doing this wheeling and dealing, he encounters a young women who is trying to attend a university and being discriminated against for being a woman interested in engineering during a time when it was "not proper" for women to partake in such things and having autism on top of all that.  Finding her treatment by the men at the event appalling, and wanting to be chivalrous, he takes her under his wing.  She has an amazing ability to make whimsically elaborate mechanical automata. Eventually, Aphiri and the women (probably named Milla) get married.  Moving ahead to present day, Aphiri has sold his past businesses and property and is mainly retired, although he is playing around with a generative AI video generation business.  When the show begins, he has received word that he has Parkinson's Disease.  He is devastated with this diagnosis but resolves to find a solution to this predicament.  He enlists his two daughters, one of which happens to be part of our group (and soon in the series, both of which are), in trying to find a way of transcending our, as he describes it: "corporeal corps capsule" and achieve transhuman transcendence.  Although we are all (well, maybe not Billly [a fictitious member of our group in the story], mainly because of his contrarian personality) are very scientifically rational, Aphiri has starting having these flashbacks to his childhood and his preacher father's sermons that we rationally dissect during the show.  There may be flashbacks to other character's backstories as script is refined.  This provides nuance and context that adds counter play to the much more quantitative nature of the show going forward.  After the initial largely scripted backstory of Aphiri and maybe fictional versions of the rest of us, the story continues as we all decide to work with Aphiri on trying to achieve his herculean mission.

Possible other channels, mainly because they are funny/mildly informative and have the potential to generate money 👇

• The Redder Rick (i.e. The Rhetoric Roller) – short quotes of an AI generated person (Rick) who looks like the classic "red neck" and makes profound sayings in a very over exaggerated way, making his face become redder and redder.

  • Will need to look into the algorithms to see if there is a penalty for using AI to generate content.  As long as we are transparent (side note: it is annoying the fact that it is actually, by definition, harder to see things that are transparent; analogies are weird) about the whole thing, it shouldn't be an issue (but maybe, nonetheless🙄).  Generating AI short content currently requires more work than just recording people saying things in real life, so it may make sense to just record someone saying things.

• "Other Fans"

  • A play on the "Only Fans" website only this channel reviews and explains the physics of the kind of fan that blows air

Other Us

• A web app that serves as a way of connecting fellow live expansionists 

  • Social networking function

    • A sort of ok cupid/tinder/bumble for transhumanists

    • A better/more feature rich user interface than the above example websites that is not behind any kind of paywall (money sources is described below)

    • For connecting people to work on projects and discus new ideas

    • A coordinating place for physical events 

  • Physical testing of various unique or undertested scientific and/or social ideas related to shared consciousness.

    • A guess the number app

      • A random number is given to 40% of participants and a blank input box is given to the rest of the participants.  (May change this % after more thorough reading of literature on this kind of testing^[1],[2],[3])  It is the goal to have the participants who were not given a number to try and beat a random chance that they get it right.

      • Multiple versions: guess a number out of a thousand, guess a binary choice, guess a trinary choice, or have the number of options be user selectable and have groups for each number.

    • A collaborative graphics creation app

      • Basically, a graphic diffusion model, where the "noise" comes from many humans trying to arrive at a single image, with the only method of collaborating being through collective thought

• A system of incentivizing people to contribute to open source code – basically a structured version of GitHub Sponsors that gives monetary values to tasks outstanding, probably integrate with GitHub/GitLab.

  • A more direct and accountable way of donating/subscribing to things than just giving money and a better means of direct meritocracy. 

    • A subscription/donation model where subscribers get to chose tasks they want completed each month and people who complete the tasks get the money that it was allocated towards, with some of the money going to a general pool to fund ongoing upkeep needs, possibly funding operative members. 

      • Will have physical (i.e., nondigital things in the real world) tasks

      • Will have the ability to donate physical infrastructure/money towards the purchase of equipment in addition to service tasks

      • The media content will be a good resource for getting subscribers/contributors

oShoe

• An initiative to improve the gait of the millions of people who have trouble walking.  This is currently on the back burners but still making occasional progress.

A better open source EEG (and other brain/reader/writer units)

• The current options for EEG units are still limited to things that are expensive and/or limited in scientific rigger and robustness in durability and ease of use and/or are proprietary and difficult to extend.

• Requires much more physical capacity than the web presence tasks, possibly work with an existing institute of higher learning or social enterprise.

• Works in conjunction with Other Us

• Is a good project to teach people brain computer interfaces (BCIs)

Other Brain Extending Methods

• Assembloids that mesh with robot swarms and the BCIs

Build the physical infrastructure

The idea is to create an intentional community and have a place to do experiments and enjoy the company of people who also are seeking to sustainably improve their health and abilities

Location

• There are many factors that need to be considered

• Possibly have the selection and development process be a feature of Other Us and/or the Entropy video series

Possibly already identified locations:

• There is land in Maine that, although it cannot be the only or main location where The Other Realm to sets up shop due to the desire for it to remain largely undeveloped, could be a gathering place where we begin until a more permanent location is established.

• The current rented location in Massachusetts can possibly have one or two more residents, although this would require the approval of the current owner and the other current residences