Latest lifelong to-do list
This is always evolving... here's what I was thinking a month or so ago.. it's my quite optimistic to-do list! Lisa said she recently crossed off everything on her list(!!) so I was inspired to make one. She has to make a new one since hers is finished...
- program a computer to write beautiful, human-like, creative, new music. (Note: this has been on my list since I was about 7 years old)
- develop the first artificial consciousness
- hook up with women from all 7 continents before I get married (Antarctica is super-difficult)
- get married
- reject a really hot girl
- develop grand unified theory of emergence
- learn to speak Cantonese
- learn to write Chinese
- learn to write Arabic
- write a Cantopop song
- get my Cantopop song on the radio in HK
- write a broadway musical, get it produced in a major venue, attend world premiere. Hear people on the street humming the tunes.
- write a textbook on music cognition and computer models
- develop automatic stock trading software to manage my own trading portfolio
- develop a theory of emergence in complex systems
- revolutionize computing with "pressure-based cognitive programming", a replacement for traditional AI techniques based on ideas from Doug's group
- make a lot of money
- live in a luxury apartment high in a tower or on a hill somewhere like HK. Maid service must be included.
- academic position, tenure (unless I have enough $ that it doesn't matter)
- publish in Music Perception and also in Cognitive Science
- publish book with MIT press
- visit Morocco
- visit HK and China
- visit Brazil
- visit Svalbard
- have some correspondance with Schoenberg (Les Miz guy) and Neil Diamond about music composition and creativity
- reduce my weight to 190 lbs
- create music composition-assistance software to suggest melodies in songwriting
- buy some decent speakers for my stereo
- improve finances via multiple streams of passive income
- start my huge creative AI research company (mentioned above). Open an office in a town I love, and solve the big AI/consciousness problems.