What would you do with your life if you solved the money problem?
qaexl: (1) Practice martial arts 4hrs a day, and travel around the world preserving some lineages that are disappearing this generation.(1a) I want to meet some Khampas(1b) I want to meet some of my teacher's teachers in Taiwan.(1n) ad nauseum(2) Set up a lab where I can play and build AI models, specifically relating to OpenCyc and neural networks, using Google news as training data then feed it people's RSS feeds and blog posts. Run the whole thing on the cloud and see what else I need to get it to start messing with people.(3) Collect a huge library and read. Lots. Both non-fiction and fiction.(3a) Get to the point where I can consistently beat the top Go software and can hold my own near the top kyu rankings. Then go back and read through history books with the skills I acquired from playing Go. Figure out if people make different strategic decisions based on whether they played Go or played chess. Maybe write a book about it.(3b) Study all of Joseph Campbell's work, and identify the top active, modern myths operating on modern social psyche, both overt and hidden. Distill it and write something similar to Neal Stephenson's Primer (from Diamond Age).(3c) Write a series of short stories in English using themes from classic wuxia theater (martial art fantasy stuff, like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and embed in there how to survive high school with your sanity intact. Then slip it out in the wild.(4) Write a mobile MMO.(5) Learn Ancient Chinese, maybe take a crack at Sanskrit. Dig up some old stuff and figure them out.