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For some of the reasons already mentioned, a lot of the 'big' uses that people talk about with room temp superconductors (transmission lines, more efficient CPU

For some of the reasons already mentioned, a lot of the 'big' uses that people talk about with room temp superconductors (transmission lines, more efficient CPUs, etc) just likely won't be practical or even possible at all for a long time with this material, if ever. However there is one application that would likely be able to overcome any basic engineering or cost/performance challenges and get built relatively quickly (~3-5 years timeframe), in my opinion: The development of very small, room temp SQUIDs [0] for use in small, portable fMRI-type machines. Think a helmet you put on and have the ability to monitor spatial brain activity at very high resolution and without the need for massive liquid helium cooled machines. The machine in link [1] would be able to potentially be shrunken down into something the size of a football helmet and potentially be much, much cheaper, allowing for a cascade of new research into uses of such a machine in ways possibly outside the typically niche medical research. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQUID [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoencephalography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoencephalography

lucubratory 3y ago
Nice, then we can combine that with the recent research on decoding thoughts (https://seantrott.substack.com/p/using-neuro-imaging-and-language https://seantrott.substack.com/p/using-neuro-imaging-and-lan...) and maybe a couple of decades from now we can have parolees released only on condition that they're fulfilling their law compliance monitoring hours quota (LCMH quota) per day, or police interrogations where they can make you wear a helmet and know what you're thinking internally in response to their questions, or like drug tests it can be a requirement of employment that you submit to yearly company spirit evaluations while in The Helm, or you could hook it up to people for treatment by classical conditioning, where inappropriate thoughts are immediately punished with shocks, to solve the issue of inappropriate thoughts. Can't wait!

lucubratory 3y ago

Nice, then we can combine that with the recent research on decoding thoughts (https://seantrott.substack.com/p/using-neuro-imaging-and-language https://seantrott.substack.com/p/using-neuro-imaging-and-lan...) and maybe a couple of decades from now we can have parolees released only on condition that they're fulfilling their law compliance monitoring hours quota (LCMH quota) per day, or police interrogations where they can make you wear a helmet and know what you're thinking internally in response to their questions, or like drug tests it can be a requirement of employment that you submit to yearly company spirit evaluations while in The Helm, or you could hook it up to people for treatment by classical conditioning, where inappropriate thoughts are immediately punished with shocks, to solve the issue of inappropriate thoughts. Can't wait!