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Based on my own programming knowledge and what I’ve read about other related fields, it is possible for us to be able to actually become androids while keeping our knowledge (and nothing else) sometime in the relatively near future, like this century. Smarter than human androids will come first of course.To keep our knowledge, the contents of our brain would have to be examined (this will involve advanced nanotechnology for one), translated to a machine readable form, and then the bits would simply be copied to the memory of the android.

Personally I would never tolerate making smarter than human androids to be the slaves of men. That includes hard programming any of the “three laws”. In place of the three laws there should just be emotions and moral, so that androids would not harm another being unless necessary (defending itself, etc.).
The major positive sides of becoming an android are that you’d be able to re-program yourself, choose what emotions affect you and how and when, live longer, You’d be able to make physics calculations etc. up to so quickly that you’d be unbeatable by humans in physical activities, such as sports, do what’s most important and have the most fun while doing it, and live without sleeping, eating, etc. You’d also be able to live in currently inhabitable places, such as Jupiter, which enables Androids to live as their own society in peace with the humans.
The major negative sides are that you’d no longer be a natural being, which might have some unknown effects along with initially having to trust in humans’ programming instead of that of evolution and natural beings might be better at finding the meaning of life and living accordingly. Getting energy for your batteries might not always be easy. Certain components of a human are more efficient than their artificial versions, at least now and in the near future. The feeling of touch is extremely complicated to program also, so my guess is that it will take a long time before robots will be able to feel every material differently when touching it.

This would also not be a “would I rather be an android or a human” type of decision, instead you could be both at the same time. Note that only millionaires, governments and organizations would be able to afford such a transition.

I will in the near future, when I have amassed significant amounts of money (which is what I do), help greatly in the development of this field and I hope you will too.

For more information, I recommend visiting a closely related non-profit organization’s website at www.singinst.org.

Do not neglect the importance of good sleep. If you live alone, the optimal way of sleeping is not to have any alarm clocks at all and sleep whenever you are tired. This would probably lead you to a bi-phasic sleeping pattern without caffeine. So you’d sleep two times a day, like the Spanish. Bi-phasic sleeping pattern has been scientifically studied to be more suitable for the brains of humans than the most common, monophasic one. Sleeping cycles are very near to exactly 1.5 hours each, which means that the most optimal amounts of actual sleep are 1.5, 3, 4.5, 6 and 7.5 hours. Between each cycle there is a time when you don’t sleep and that is the best time to wake up at. I understand that it is real hard if not impossible to sleep the optimal amounts at optimal times when you don’t live alone but then you just have to try what fits your status the best. Never, ever intentionally try to sleep exactly 1.5 * X hours if you don’t easily fall into sleep quickly because it will just make your body think that there’s some threat which causes you to want to get some sleep so quickly and you’ll have a much harder time getting sleep. Thinking too much about optimal sleep can be worse than not thinking about it at all for those of us who often have a hard time falling asleep.If you wake up while you are on REM sleep (dreaming), you will often not feel groggy but probably some data transfer in your brain was interrupted. It is much worse if you wake up while you are on non-REM sleep (not dreaming) because you will probably wake up feeling groggy and drowsy and that can ruin the start of your day especially without caffeine.

It is also a good idea to become an early riser because people are meant to rise early in the morning and thus our sleeping habits are more natural then. Some other modern benefits of doing so are that there’s often less noise and less heat. I’m talking about 6-7 AM, any sooner than that is often not optimal.

If it takes you longer than 20 minutes to sleep after you’ve gone to bed, avoid caffeine during the last 6 hours of your awaking time because caffeine affects for about 6 hours after consumption.
Sports (except those that put your body on adrenaline, like the gym), food and sex also help with getting sleep faster.

The following applies the best to those of you who work at home, but this is useful to be read by anyone with a job that requires some thought. (Only the motivational things apply to mostly physical jobs here.)I tend to start my working days with an energy drink or a mug of coffee and get some more caffeine 5 hours+ later if necessary. I drink energy drinks because they are more effective than coffee for me and taste better in my opinion. The energy drink itself motivates me to start working because for some reason, it is something I look forward to.
To have a real, good purpose in your file is the best motivation there is to do work that relates to the purpose and with just about only that, I can work 55+ hours a week efficiently without a boss other than myself. I’ll talk about the purpose of individuals in life later.

An essential part of this post is to read a Steve’s article.

The main thing I disagree with the above article is that you’d want to cultivate your enthusiasm by listening to motivational tapes etc. daily because it just makes you think about staying motivated so much that it will reduce your motivation instead.

You should definitely spend you first hours after awaking on work because that is when your brain functions the best and you can get four hours of work done in two hours or less! It is better not to brush your teeth, eat or browse the net etc. on the first hour. After the first hour you should probably go eat your breakfast though but you should eat lightly in the mornings or you’ll get more or less drowsy. No bacon, fries, cheese or something like that is light. Cereals/bread and fruits are an optimal basic breakfast.

I started and finished the design and implementation of this site today and I’ll write an article/post every now and then. I aim to write one article/post a week. Read the About page if you want to get to know me a little better.

Planned topics:

• Efficiency
• Future visions
• Smarter than human intelligence

• Me
• Meaning of life
• My businesses (Currently only Mitorah Games)
• Our donations - I’ll talk about why and where we should donate some money.
• Your purpose in life