Richard J Schueler

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People love a level playing field. In baseball, they lowered the pitchers mound, to give batters a better chance of hitting the ball, and creating higher scoring games. In football, the worse you did, the better you picks you get in the draft next season. We have laws against monopolies, many other laws in the hopes of creating level playing fields.

Level Playing Fields
It’s obvious level playing fields are something we value and work for. The more level the playing field, the more productive competition is, the better it is for everyone. Everyone has to work hard to earn their keep, no free rides. Competition breeds excellence, and there can only be true competition with a level playing field.

Now apply this same powerful logic to politics, and elections. Say you have a presidential primary where there are 8 people competeting for their parties nomination. Let’s say half poll better than the other half.

The Media’s Role
Single question. Which of the following 3 things does the media do?

1. Give more airtime to the current 2nd tier than the first, to make it an exciting race.
2. Give equal coverage and light to all cantidates regardless of current polling, so as to remain neutral and not bias the election.
3. Completely swamp to death the airwaves with a continual bombardment of the front runners, names, positions, frontrunner vs frontrunner comparisons, and constant mention of “has no chance, long shot, [insert negative descriptor here]” in regards to anyone they don’t consider a front runner.

You already know the answer. Level playing fields have served mankind well in so many areas of our lives, that you have to regret seeing them so hastily thrown to the wind for a little ratings bump for a tv network. I wonder how many great ideas have never caught on because their life was choked out of them by not getting attention fast enough to compete in the viscious “spend 90% of our time pushing whatever bumps the ratings.” If you’re not noticed first, the games already rigged against you. How important should be the order you’re noticed? Shouldn’t your posiitons, and what you’ve achieved in the past greatly outweigh the chronology of when you’re “noticed”?

“Your Role!”
Sadly, the media is not only to blame, as they are only doing what best serves their business interests, and emotionally what’s most exciting for them as it is for their viewers. We’re also to blame. Even if there were no media consensus on “who has no chance”, or who the “front runner” is, we’d come to that consensus on our own, individually. A great number of us prefer to vote for someone “that can win” because we feel if we vote for someone who can’t we’ve wasted our vote. Not only is a level playing field harmed at the top where the news comes from, but at the very bottom where the news lands!!! So few people try to vote for the underdog, or make an effort to see who’s being ignored by the media. The media wants to push front runners, and the public wants to vote for front runners, because everyone wants to win, and it’s easier to feel like you’ve “won” even if you vote for the lesser of two evils, because at least your pick still makes office.

Here are the problems with believing “winning” is having the guy you picked in office, instead of the guy you wanted in office:
1. If you never vote your heart, your heart never wins.
2. The opinion of America as a whole changes over time, often, a long time. If people that best represent your beliefs are not rewarded with good percentages of the vote, fewer and fewer people will adopt those beliefs. Few politicians campaign on things they believe which are unpopular, for to do so is likely to result in the same outcome for their election as not campaigngin at all. If you want more politicians and better politicians to represent your views, you must vote for those that best represent them NOW, whether the media thinks they can win or not.

Don’t fall for it!
If you met a homeless man on the street, and you asked him, what’s your position on the foreign policy of the USA? Would you value his opinion? What if you polled 1 million homeless people? Then? What if you instead polled 1 million fast food preparers? 1 million econmists? How does the opinion of a group of peopel of any demographic or size affect the rightness or wrongness of a thing? Right and wrong, better and worse

If the majority of Americans get their political news from for profit corporations who make money based on viewers and advertisers, they have every reason to self fulfil the election prophecy of grabbing whoever starts most popular, finding whoever the other most popular person is right behind them, and setting them vs each other. This creates the maximum viewership as each cantidates fans continue to watch the channel/show for the blow by blow contest between the two favorites.

If there were a concern for a level playing field where coverage of cantidates were concerend, the American people would learn a much wider gamut of solutions to the problems that our nation faces today, and be less polarized, as we found more common ground between each other, and less polarization. We might see shows called “the agreeement zone” instead of “cross-fire” and “profiteering by highlighting and creating difference.” Shows that focused on agreement and progress instead of disagreement and dissent, would serve to educate, unite, and make our nation much stronger. If only we were wired to enjoy unity and cooperation on tv more than violence.

Polls are what other people think, what the masses thing has nothing to do with the rightness or wrongness of a thing. LESS POLLS! More real talk about the real issues which affect us. You have to make up for the medias tilting of the field by educating yourself, the internet has everything you’d ever want to know these days.

Focus on our common beliefs, what we all want for our grandchildren, and if you give the media better ratings for giving you better actually “fair and balanced” news, they will respond and give you what you want! Level playing fields benefit us all. Vote your heart! If you don’t vote your heart, your heart will never win.

When we take responsibility for being fair and balanced ourselves, and educating ourselves, only then can we execute our civic duty to the best of our ability, and cast our vote for the cantidate we feel best represents our beliefs, and attract in the future even better cantidates to do the same.

I was thinking about gas mileage, and how many prius owners say a good diesel gets better mileage, so I was watching a documentary on electric cars, and it came to me. What will happen to gas stations, oil refineries, oil tankers, and middle eastern companies which rely on having a liquid fuel being passed through them and burnt?

There will always be demand for oil, for the same reason there are millions of rotary dial phones still in service today. Even still, it would be very profitable for the gas stations and tankers that bring them that gas, to have a nice liquid fuel of some sort to carry. It’s much easier for them to replace the petroleum products with hydrogen or ethanol, than to relegate the distribution of fuel to the electric companies.

Electricity has a distribution system unmatched by anything else man made.

You read on sites like http://physorg.com all the time about nanotech being applied to hydrogen fuel cells, super-capacitors (eestor and the like), and using living organisms to create hydrogen and oil, like this:

If you look at advances in solar tech like nanosolar has made (being cheaper than coal and having the next 14 months or more of production entirely sold out.), Solar makes electricity directly, it doesn’t make hydrogen or ethanol. It looks like there’d be a compounding in that area of solar reducing energy costs, and cars that run directly on that energy. I think nanotech is making faster and larger progress in the area of solar than wind or wave.

So my rather uneducated guess is that cars that run on electricty benefit the most from the advances that have and are rapidly being made via nanotech, beacause of energy storage becoming lighter, faster to charge and stronger. Those same storage advances are revolutionizing the direct harnessing of energy from the sun. Hence those 2 compound in my mind to look like cars that run on electricity will outrun those that run on liquids you pump into them.

A funny way of looking at it is, electrons are very light, it’s much easier to pipe massive ammts of energy in electrons around, than it is to pipe around gallons of fuel. You never see an electricty tanker carrying electricity to another place. So if you can store that energy compactly enough with the minimum ammt of overhead (the battery), it looks like a pretty ideal way to do things.

Here’s a very good graphic I found explaining it: (from

If you want to get far out there, and I mean really far out there, they are really plans to send solar panels into space, then turn that energy into microwaves or lasers, to get the energy down to earth. ap release I’ve not found a good explanation as to how moving solar panels from our earths crust to geostationary orbit is going to overcome the insane cost of creating, blasting off, and maintaining such an operation, let alone the rather gigantic power loss of getting the energy beamed back down here.

This guy has an amazing understanding of the system as a whole. You being to realize how important weight is:

You can download his book for free at http://oilendgame.com/ReadTheBook.html

Fastest electric vehicles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrightspeed an electric sports car based on the Ariel Atom chassis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killacycle 0-60 in under 1 second and 1/4 mile in less than 8 seconds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_roadster 0-60 under 4, is a real car with total real car functionality, like a roof.

On the hydrogen front, the prettiest I’d say is the BMW hydrogen 7. Good review here: Edmunds

Negative review of the BMW 7 series here: Spiegel Magazine

It would be nice to have a wide array of viable alternative fuels. One thing is for sure. No matter who wins the alternative fuels race, we all win.

Hundred’s of millions of people read the newspaper or watch the news more than 5 days a week. Much of that learning goes to waste. For instance, I’ve been on the cutting edge of knowing which computer processors are the fastest, and overclock the best, (overclock means speed up at the cost of higher heat, and possibly computer death.) Take all that knowledge that took 40 hours or more to learn regarding the processors from 1 year ago, and what value has it now? None. 40 hours down the tube.

So the only way I can think to still read about things I enjoy, and not have regret 1 year later the uselessness of that old information, is to share it as I find it. Then at least the info is more valuable while it’s worth something. You can’t always focus on information that has long term value, because thre are something you just have to master to get to the next level.

Hence, I’m goinig to start posting all of the good news I find out via reading too much news regarding longevity.

The only people I’ve heard of referring to themselves in the 3rd person are politicians. It’s an interesting habit.

1. If you’re not a politician and you do this, you will certainly be labelled pompus.

2. It probably indicates that you are more prone to be… manipulative? We see people with shifty eyes as dangerous and sneaky. We’re basicly programmed inherently to detect shifty eyes as someone who’s dangerous. Why? Because usually a person with shifty eyes doesn’t want you to notice that he’s looking at something, giving the clue to your subconscious that he’s trying to manipulate you, whether he knows it or not, by denying you the information that would otherwise be available that he was looking at something.

3. A person that refers to himself in the third person is thiking of how you perceive him. He’s looking at himself, while you’re looking at him, so that he can modify how he appears to you to get the best result he wants from you. A person that is so self absorbed and focused on himself that he actually sees the “him” he’s created as separate from himself so much to cease using the word “I”, is too busy trying to invent himself to “BE” himself. Hence, people that refer to themselves in the 3rd person (and aren’t mentally ill or challanged), should earn some of the same caution that people with shifty eyes earn. It’s abnormal behavior, and probably a lucky view into the mind of someone who got where they are by being quite manipulative.

To quote Richard Nixon who refer’s to himself here in the 3rd person: “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.” After he lost his run for govenor, and before he was elected president. Something to think about.

1. Distributed computing is worth billions of dollars
Every day people like you and I install a tiny program on our computers, and the power of the internet connects us all together to create a computing machine worth hundreds of millions of dollars. http://top500.org/ shows the ranking of the most powerful super computers in the world.

Just Folding@home is 4 times stronger than the strongest super computer known to man. The IBM BlueGene/L system has 280.6 teraflops of processing power. As you can see here Folding@home has 1190. That’s 4 times more processing power. Hence, folding@home’s processing power is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, dontated by every day people like you and I!

If you include other distributed projects, especially ones that run on BOINC WCG’s HPF2 project being my favorite, it’s much, much more than 4 times more powerful. This is interesting graph: Boinc Stats If you’re not already donating your idle computer time, please download the client, it’s only 7 megs.

2. Distibuted computing is growing fast
These distributed computing initiatives have little to 0 marketing budget, and have grown to such massive power for a few good reasons. 1. It’s a good cause. 2. It’s competitive, it shows a face to how generous you are and how strong your computer is. 3. People can join teams adding comraderie and more good spirits to the achievement and competition.

3. It can grow faster!
I say that a 4th element should be added to the mix! Teams, real time stats, easy to place stats notices like the one you see in the bottom right corner of this page, make people what to participate more. If they’re on a team it makes them want to bring friends on their team. ADD GENEAOLOGY!

If you allow users to indicate who referred them to the program, normal folks who may not have a computer could have points too, as they may have many friends that do. People that have lots of influence on the internet (popular bloggers, website owners, companies…), would have even more of a reason to tell their friends and/or customers about distributed computing because they’d get well deserved recognition for it.

Imagine what the family tree of referrals to distributed computing projects would look like today, if it existed. Important people who spread the word and added massive value to the projects would get the recognition they deserved.

Referal programs work amazing well (too well often) in MLM programs. Affiliate programs such as amazon.com, and thousands others on cj.com, linkshare.com… Disributed computing is an IDEAL cantidiate for the same great idea that works in mlm, and on the internet. It’s the next logical step in stats that make people enjoy donating their computers idle time even more.

If you listen even half attentively, some of these ideas could change the way you think forever.

TED talks
Stephen Petranek: In 2002 he predicted staph infections mutating and becoming resistant to antibiotics 5 years later (today), and here they are: More schools reporting drug-resistant staph. Kids are dying. Also, you’re as likely to die from astroid impact as plane crash or lightning, and we can prevent asteroids…among many other amazing points.

Steven Pinker: The world is acutually the least violent it’s ever been.

Dan Dennett: We have immune systems against bad ideas, some cultures immune systems aren’t as strong:

Jeff Hawkins: How the brain actually works, and how we’ll build truly intelligent machines:

Dan Gilbert: People make their own happiness, they synthesize it in their own minds…

Aubrey de Grey: We can and should end aging.

Wade Davis: We’re making strides to save the forrests and save animals protecting that diversity, but ethnic/cultural diversity is being decimated. Many languages are being lost and will never ever be heard again.

among others…

Some from the conference I helped at SENS3

Zheng Cui: This man cures cancer in mice, permanently cures, with only white blood cells!

Ray Kurzweil: How the accelerating acceleration of change leads to unanticipated changes

Rutledge Ellis-Behnke: Nanotech bandaid which stops bleeding faster than any other method known (saves lives.) Also used in the brain to provide scaffolding for brain/nerves to grow into and actually repair what was previously unrepairable. We’re talking, cut the spinal cord, and watch it grow back.

David Gardiner: Experiments growing 3 arms where one used to be on salamanders, and how it will lead to human limb regeneration.

Here is a link to an article written today, titled: Extension Technologies To Facilitate Elite Technocracy /
Malthusian rulers’ obsession with eugenics and population control to render humanity obsolete, say leading scientific pioneers. Infowars

It’s hard to decide whether this article is good for general awareness of possiblity of life extension, or bad because it ties life extension to enslavement/eliteism… You make the call.

If you know the people at the forefront of the llife extension movement, you’ll find a pretty serious lack of “elite.” At the SENS3 conference, no one had personal security, no one showed up in an exotic sports car, and there was no hint of talks for world domination in the pub.

100,000 people died from age yesterday. For many of them, the things we valued most in them died before their bodies did. I’d say once your mind is gone, there’s not too much too stick around for.

More do, less talk.

See the Ted Talk

We get good at what we focus on, and we love to focus on what we can see. A very long time ago in middle school I think, we all had to build a little model of a cell, 1 plant, 1 animal. It was a great exercise to learn about the cell. Funny enough, my cell only had 1 mitochondria that I can remember, and so until recently, I thought cells only had 1 mitchondria (power plant).

Until I read “Ending Aging” by Aubrey de Grey anyway. Turns out there’s thousands of them, in each cell, I believe some more than others…Why does it matter?

Human progress in any area is a function of a few things. The number of people trying ideas on for size, the creativity, tenactiy, and intelligence of the people focused in that direction, and there’s always those mistakes, many many great things come about accidently, (and most often accidents occuring while experimenting.)

Technology that gives us the ability to “see” what’s really happening in the cell gives more people “hooks” for their minds to grab on to, so that more people can try better ideas, in a world they never even really visualized moving before. (Have you ever seen the insides of a cell doing their work before?)

And with that added layer of movement, and interaction, it becomes much much easier for the layman and the hobbyist to become professional. Innovations like these that offer a paradigm shift in understanding a system vastly improve creativity in the field. I know that as this technology comes along, I will be very interested to see videos alongside descriptions for when a cell is doing something properly, and when something has gone wrong, and how it functionally affects the cell’s mission.

Mechanical engineers have had the benefit of CAD “computer aided design” for many years now, it’s pretty amazing to see the beginnings of CAV “computer aided visualization.” The presenter says that we’ve only got a good grasp on maybe 1 percent of what’s really going on inside the cell, (as though there were only one ), One day we’ll be at 99 percent, and we’ll be designing instead of just understanding.

We all get good at what we focus on. The easier and more enjoyable a topic is to think about, the longer, harder, and more creative we’ll be in that area. People are doing cold fusion in their garages (yes, I’m serious: http://lenr-canr.org/Experiments.htm) How many people are doing work to improve the human machine in their garage? Body builders everywhere are raising their hands.

The animated, accurate representation of what’s really going on in the most complicated machines we know of is a huge step in the right direction. Animation is power.

Every one of us has something that we really want to do, but never find the time, or the energy, or the money… There is always something which seems to stand in the way. For some people it’s travel, for others it’s exercise and diet, some more time with the kids.

When I used to play paintball, I had a few nick names, preach, teach, preacher, lips…I love to talk about things I believe in. The subject that I’ve found myself telling people about the most the last few years is longevity research. If you CURE cancer and CURE heart disease, it adds 7 years to our life expectency. 100,000 people died yesterday from age. Yes, 100,000 real live people. They didn’t die from starvation, they didn’t die from aids, they died from age. Why not work on something that can give us 3.5 years? 7.5 years?

You can only cure cancer once. You can add 3 years to your life expectency more than once. (to verify the 3 and 7 year numbers, google “s jay olshansky”) It’s an actuarial fact among folks that know what actuarial means I’d guess. I definitely never ever knew that curing cancer would be worth only about 3 years. Wow.

So I went a few years preaching and preaching about it, the world didn’t change. About 2 years ago I started donating my computers time to cure disease at http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org and I felt a lot better. It felt WONDERFUL knowing that I was no longer just talking, but doing, making the world a better place.

So I made the next step. I decided to dedicate my life to the combat and elimination of age related diseases wherever possible. My fiancee (who I’m sooo lucky wants to do the same thing!) and I bought our tickets for Cambridge, England and our tickets to the SENS3 conference, sept. 6-10, the largest conference in the world with a focus on age related disease and prevention.

I met up with Aubrey de Grey (buy his book!) before the show with the aim of finding where I would fit best in helping progress happen. I volunteered to take charge of the video of the event and Ray Kurzweil’s video conference with us. I bought a tripod, hooked up my handy Sony SR8, and got to work. The 5 day event went great, and except for the heat in the projection booth, the accomodations were excellent. Cambridge really is a beautiful city.

After the show I copied the 300 gigs of hidef video to 2 hard drives for the directors to work on. I knew in the back of my head how hard it is to edit hidef video, and figured I would get started on it myself to cut down on their work load. I got to work on my laptop and it wasn’t going fast enough, so I bought/built a quadcore q6600 and overclocked it to 3.2ghz. Now I can encode the movies in 2x realtime instead of slower than real time. Editing and separating the 79 different speakers talks, and sometimes even figuring out what to name them, is much harder and time consuming than I thought.

I’ve uploaded some of the videos to this site already, and am distributing ones without watermarks on them directly to the good folks at mprize.org. I’ve been spending all day and all night every day working on this. I will be very very proud when I’m done, as some of these talks were AMAZING. Truly amazing talks on technology that we really will be using in the next 5 years. You have to check out the nanotech molecular band aid (Rutledge Ellis-Behnke). Stops bleeding instantly without coagulation. No more bleeding out on the operating table.

The moral of the story is! If there’s something you’ve always been talking about doing. I can’t stress enough to you how great you will feel once you’ve done it! Finally making the move from talking to walking is a life changing event. As long as your peer group or loved ones supports you, it’s one that sticks!




Here’s a video of no scientific value at all, but I’m proud of! Me running the Ray Kurzweil video conference on my little sony tx and logitech webcam. How awesome is technology these days!

Here are the videos from the conference: http://richardjschueler.com/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=56847

Here’s some good folks who talk about this story:
LongevityMeme.org
FightAging.org
Partial Immortilization
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