Bad idea of the day: Use eliza as your therapist for an hour a day for years, then train a markov bot on the logs.
What caused Elon Musk’s Twitter meltdown? He’s enraged people stopped believing his tall tales. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/30/17405922/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla-valuation-bubble-model-3-promises-reality
Bad idea of the day: A fediverse node that only federates over packet radio via moon bounce
Writing long, overly complex, & logically flawed apologia of bad mainstream ideas in order to recast them as revolutionary is a growth industry. (See the ‘intellectual dark web’, whose major unifying trait is boringly normie positions.) Why not reach for a surreal or absurd take?
Bad idea of the day: Put the ‘hyper’ modifier key back on the keyboard, but you hold it while typing to create hyperlinks, press it while clicking to open a hyperlink
Bad idea of the day: altcoin where the proof of work is correctly decoding messages from extraterrestrial civilizations
Bad idea of the day: As soon as a topic is identified to be trending, hide all conversation about it from anyone not already in the thread. Keep it hidden for 24 hours.
Bad idea of the day: Take advertising jingles and slow them down by 8x or more, remix them together, add infrasound and 19hz binaural beats.
Bad idea of the day: Replace each word with another with maximum delta in word vector space but minimum edit distance, or vice versa. Tune weights until result is interesting.
Bad idea of the day: MC Eliza, who rephrases your diss track in the form of a question. “How does that make you feel? Tell me more. Perhaps in your fantasies my flow is basic.”
Bad idea of the day: use those ear-mounted accelerometers that normally wake people who are dozing off at the wheel to instead redden the display, replace desktop background with surreal and dreamlike images, fade in quiet calming ambient music, raise the thermostat
Bad idea of the day: use eye tracking to save power by blanking the parts of the display not within the light cone of the fovea
Bad idea of the day: a full-sized hand crank on the side of your keyboard that acts as a scrollwheel with large (page per click) delta
Bad idea of the day: a dual-layer LCD (like the 3d TVs from a few years ago) that uses the top layer exclusively for hover behavior
Bad idea of the day: a gesture based interface that uses DSP on the audio produced by a theramin to identify gestures, while playing that audio for learning feedback
Bad idea of the day: A browser extension that links everything in your browser cache with a fake file whose name is a hash of that item, serves those fake files over bittorrent, and, for all URLs whose expiration date is in the future, keeps a distributed table of URL to hash & attempts to fetch from bittorrent before from http
Bad idea of the day: philosophy speed-dating: get a prime number of doctoral candidates, split into two lines, and have them give hot takes to each other for 5 minutes on a stated topic before moving on.
Bad idea of the day: run podcast transcripts through char-rnn and then through the duplex speech synthesizer to generate hours of nonsense indistinguishable from NPR
Bad idea of the day: a browser extension that gives you long-now-dates by prefixing a zero to all four digit numbers
Bad idea of the day: an irc-style chat interface for mastodon, where whatever you type is posted & you just see your home timeline
Bad idea of the day: an irc-style chat interface for mastodon, where whatever you type is posted
Bad idea of the day: an irc-style chat interface for mastodon, where whatever you type is posted
Bad idea of the day: an extension that disables all CSS on all pages, and then allows you to approve rules one by one, or edit them in place
Bad idea of the day: a parser-based IF where the parser language is turing-complete
idea: medication for highly resistant infections laced with (carefully tuned) mood improvers so that people remember to take it regularly
Bad idea of the day: a system for sharing playlists of things that aren’t audio or online video, like themed triple-features or reading lists, so you can curate or browse that kind of human recommendation
Oracle’s Network Computer: Larry Ellison’s Too-Early Idea https://tedium.co/2018/04/12/larry-ellison-network-computer-history/
Bad idea of the day: a letter-writing campaign to members of CS program accreditation boards (at their home addresses) requesting algorithmic bias & data ownership be a part of mandatory ethics classes in the curriculum.
Bad idea of the day: an emoji moon but it renders as whatever phase the moon is actually in
Bad idea of the day: creepypasta in the form of a walkthrough for a nonexistent game from an alternate universe where a game like that described is normal
Are you really Facebookâs product? The history of a dangerous idea. https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-you-really-facebooks-product-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea.html
Bad idea of the day: a program that computes the degree to which the response to a query meets gricean maxims and, if beyond a threshhold, produces potential implicatures, on a synthetic logic-based language and an ontology
Bad idea of the day: a prolog repl, except pred definitions are checked in reverse definition order and all pred definitions not starting with underscore are persistent. you can export the persistent environment image as a regular prolog file.
Bad idea of the day: twitch plays pictionary
The reason it’s a bad idea is that the kind of people who badmouth poststructuralist methods as unscientific will do so even while using them. (See: Jordon Peterson)
Bad idea of the day: quantitative poststructuralism (with corpus statistics ofc)
The lucid dreaming playbook: how to take charge of your dreams | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-lucid-dreaming-playbook-how-to-take-charge-of-your-dreams
Bad idea of the day: an all-robot jam band
Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/dungeons-and-dragons-not-chess-and-go-why-ai-needs-roleplay
What we talk about when we talk about post-truth | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-post-truth
Bad idea of the day: use the luma channel from one VCR and the chroma channel from a different one
Bad idea of the day: video theramin
In the gap between writer and reader the novel comes to life | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/in-the-gap-between-writer-and-reader-the-novel-comes-to-life
The desire to fit in is the root of almost all wrongdoing | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-desire-to-fit-in-is-the-root-of-almost-all-wrongdoing
Bad idea of the day: a game show with fantastic cash prizes, where contestants distinguish between real and fake headlines from the past week.
Bad idea of the day: Require a 60% majority in a state-wide popular vote for congressional redistricting.
Bad idea of the day: Wear a rubber band on your wrist and snap it every time you say ‘technology’, ‘market’, ‘end user’, ‘standard’, ‘I’, or ‘is’.
Bad idea of the day: ‘mastogone’ – a script that identifies people you’re following who haven’t posted in more than a year
Bad idea of the day: Instead of an index fund, choose stocks completely at random, and buy or sell/short them completely at random, one share at a time, once every ten minutes or so.
Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ
âKnow thyselfâ is not just silly advice: itâs actively dangerous | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/know-thyself-is-not-just-silly-advice-its-actively-dangerous
If we disagree about morality, how can we teach it? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/if-we-disagree-about-morality-how-can-we-teach-it
#nanogenmo idea: Create a pantheon with thematic names, modeled on sumerian, & sumerian-style myths around them. Ex., a god of water could be called Ena or Nina (since ‘a’ means water, & ‘en’ & ‘nin’ are prefixes for god names) & have hundreds of generated epithets based on domain
Bad idea of the day: A bot that generates not surrealistic and impossible recipes but merely strange Futurist Cookbook style recipes you could actually cook.
Bad idea of the day: An RPG whose stats are traits like alienation, shadow integration, neurosis
In The Eternal… http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2018/01/31/in-the-eternal-inferno-fiends-torment-ronald-coase-with-the-fate-of-his-ideas/
Bad idea of the day: donate synthetic diamond machines to hackerspaces
Bad idea of the day: Take two movies & drop or combine frames until they are exactly the same length. Then, interpolate the two, so that in each frame, every other line is a different movie. Then, interpolate the FFT of the soundtrack so that, for some band size, every other band is the other movie.
Bad idea of the day: Rearrange the frames of a movie so that each frame is followed by the remaining frame that has the minimum (or maximum) difference, in terms first of brightness and then of color
Bad idea of the day: Sort the frames of a movie by average color & play it that way
Bad idea of the day: A voice assistant specifically designed to answer toddlers when they ask ‘why’.
Philosophy has a lot to learn from film | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophers-have-much-to-learn-from-the-great-filmmakers
IDEA – nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions https://idea-instructions.com/
Bad idea of the day: bibliomancy by generating random sentences in toki pona
📚 Finished reading We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham
📚 Finished reading We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham
art project idea: robot that swivels menacingly towards anybody pointing a camera at it (or tries to steal it, or hides)
Bad idea of the day: A bot that iterates over one-syllable verbs, saying, for each verb X, ers gonna , , , , ,
The tech bias: why Silicon Valley needs social theory | Aeon I… https://aeon.co/ideas/the-tech-bias-why-silicon-valley-needs-social-theory
Samurai, spy, commando: who were the real ninja? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/samurai-spy-commando-who-were-the-real-ninja
Why hiring the ‘best’ people produces the least crea… https://aeon.co/ideas/why-hiring-the-best-people-produces-the-least-creative-results
Bad idea of the day: an extension that renders every word in a font chosen based on the hash of that word
Bad idea of the day: an extension that decreases the size of images based on how many copies of similar images are already in your browser cache
Bad idea of the day: an extension that runs term extraction on whatever web page you’re viewing and then increases the size and contrast of words based on their computed importance ranking
Bad idea of the day: a captcha system that shows you something that should be upsetting and then determines if you’re humane by checking your computer for signs of whether or not you were upset by it
Bad idea of the day: Raspberry Pi based seedboxes built into your shoes, connecting to every open network, and trying to break into every not-open one.
Bad idea of the day: ESP32 throwies with flash memory as store-and-forward nodes for an incrementally growing DHT
Bad idea of the day: a claw machine except it’s a fishing pole with a hook on the end
Bad idea of the day: at a wedding, the bride, groom, bridesmaids, and best man all wear identical suits and photorealistic masks of Richard K. James
Bad idea of the day: spaghetti and cakeballs in a cinnamon-sugar-butter sauce
Bad idea of the day: playing cards with oblique strategies on tghem
Bad idea of the day: set your voice assistant’s wake word to ‘OK computer’
The problem with building a “fair” system - O‘Reilly Media https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-problem-with-building-a-fair-system
Bad idea of the day: Adversarial social graphs. 99% similar to your actual graph, but friending one guy makes Facebook think you’re actually Al Gore.
Bad idea of the day: Feed all those KMart recordings into sample-rnn and generate infinite automatic mallsoft
How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisi… https://aeon.co/ideas/how-schopenhauers-thought-can-illuminate-a-midlife-crisis
Bad idea of the day: Stop distinguishing between wartime non-civillian killings and non-wartime civillian killings, and have all actions during war subject to regular police investigation and trial by jury.
Post-work: the radical idea of a world wi… https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/19/post-work-the-radical-idea-of-a-world-without-jobs
Bad idea of the day: a TMBG cover band called In Those Days There Were Giants
Bad idea of the day: require a payment of a dollar (held in escrow by the copyright office) to send a DMCA takedown notice. The dollar goes to whoever is determined to be the legitimate owner, in case of a dispute. If there is no dispute, it goes into the federal education budget.
Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is unclassifiable acts of kindness toward disadvantaged strangers
Bad idea of the day: A book-length work of fiction that contains no nouns
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is making and serving coffee
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is burning dollar bills on live television
Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is computing a giant-ass rainbow table
Bad idea of the day: Instead of ads mining bitcoins in your browser, they run IPFS nodes and pin arbitrary hashes in browser persistent storage then store them.
Bad idea of the day: Distribute a copy of Society of the Spectacle in the form of playing cards
#nanogenmo idea: a database of loosely-related epigrams or paragraphs, tagged by topic; going to a topic displays the associated epigrams in arbitrary order. the tags are generated from analysis of the text.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think we already discussed encrypted tweets some time ago, but no encryption seemed short enough. GPG ist just too big. Any ideas?