Interesting idea: create a search-by-meaning for functions using the memoization database http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2017002_memoization.pdf

One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.

Legal standards invoke the ‘reasonable person’. Who is it? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/legal-standards-invoke-the-reasonable-person-who-is-it

USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/02/usa-wants-to-restrict-ai-exports-a-stupid-and-dangerous-idea

Bad idea of the day: train chess engines to play like specific historic players

Why symmetry gets really interesting when it is broken | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-symmetry-gets-really-interesting-to-physics-when-it-is-broken

Why a market model is destroying the safeguards of the professions | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-a-market-model-is-destroying-the-safeguards-of-the-professions

Bad idea of the day: Evangelion fanfiction in the form of Kaji’s hand-annotated copy of a Fire in the Valley style popular history of the development of Tokyo-3, casting Gendo as an Elon Musk type figure.

Modernist Microfiche Minotaur : “‘User agent’ is a great idea that has been weirdl…” - Eldritch Café https://eldritch.cafe/@/101360959314313478

Bad idea of the day: A shuffle-novel in the form of an oracle deck, with strange or absurd predictions & the premise that it is describing the life of the parallel version of the reader who lives in the world described by the deck.

Bad idea of the day: International ‘journalist exchange’ agreements – newspapers in different countries have an arrangement where they’ll trade journalists periodically & reprint each other’s stories in translation, by entering into clubs.

Slaying the Snark: what nonsense verse tells us about reality | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/slaying-the-snark-what-nonsense-verse-tells-us-about-reality

Folding Ideas - End of Eva Follow Up - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTAQhgXD75I

Folding Ideas - End of Evangelion and the Audience Author Membrane - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMAwErYRpQ

Bad idea of the day: autonomous self-driving solar-powered vending machines

Bad idea of the day: set your terminal font to Brand New Roman before starting to code

Bad idea of the day: bumble bee mounted wifi mesh network APs

Why your favourite film baddies all have a truly evil laugh | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-your-favourite-film-baddies-all-have-a-truly-evil-laugh

Sedimentation: the existentialist challenge to stereotypes | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/sedimentation-the-existentialist-challenge-to-stereotypes

An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/an-ant-colony-has-memories-that-its-individual-members-dont-have

‘User empowerment’ is a useful idea that gets abused to glorify user-hostile design. It’s usually used to refer to situations where the user is empowered to do as we (devs or PMs) tell them, or where the empowerment is too abstract to be proven.

One of the reasons I’m so hard on the original macintosh is that the team appropriated fantastic ideas from better projects that they were totally unprepared to do justice to, then delivered warped & broken versions of them.

Bad idea of the day: a campaign to ensure all life extension therapies are completely covered by medicare, medicaid, & ACA-compatible insurance

The best argument against the idea that AI will replace programmers wholesale is the relative unpopularity of prolog. As an industry, we don’t take advantage of fantastic automation tech from the 70s, and instead write Java.

Bad idea of the day: Instead of a greatest hits album, a greatest failures album: a collection of all the tracks that made the least money and got the least attention (despite never being intended as deep cuts)

Since related ideas are circulating again, here’s my freshly reheated take: making sure your criticisms of reprehensible people are on-topic (focusing on the represhensible parts of them) solves all kinds of problems.

Bad idea of the day: a browser extention that requests the wayback machine spider whatever pages you visit as you visit them

Why A Fringe Idea About The Supreme Court Is Taking Over The Left | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-a-fringe-idea-about-the-supreme-court-is-taking-over-the-left/

Bad idea of the day: live your life as though it is a bayesian poisoning attack on the basilisk

Bad idea of the day: require all ‘tech’ companies to be registered nonprofits – make them prove that they are putting their revenue into ‘changing the world’ instead of just saying it

Bad idea of the day: get commit access to leftpad and make it so that it spawns a thread that loads amazon.com in an infinite loop for every injected space

Bad idea of the day: The Medium Is The Massage, dubstep edition

Bad idea of the day: a mandala of the names of all the people you’ve ever wronged except the names are transliterated into katakana for no reason

Bad idea of the day: supercut of every numinous image set to yakkity sax

Bad idea of the day: time lapse of just really failing to build and paint miniatures

Bad idea of the day: remove every frame of koyansiquatski that is a multiple of a fibbonacci number

The people vs tyranny: the secular martyrdom of John Lilburne | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/the-people-vs-tyranny-the-secular-martyrdom-of-john-lilburne

What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/what-einstein-meant-by-god-does-not-play-dice

The Journal of Controversial Ideas”academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/the-journal-of-controversial-ideas-academic-freedom-sans-responsibility-is-reckless/

Bad idea of the day: furniture modeled on cray equipment, with spaces to put your own computers in

Bad idea of the day: Sieze the amazon.com domain and point it to the wikipedia article for the Amazon river

Bad idea of the day: transpose Pretty Hate Machine into a major key, shift every word in the lyrics to the least semantically distant word with a more positive sentiment score, and call the result Pretty Great Machine

Why the Enlightenment was not the age of reason | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-the-enlightenment-was-not-the-age-of-reason

A Big Little Idea Called Legibility https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-called-legibility/

We still live in the long shadow cast by the idea of Man-the-Hunter | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/we-still-live-in-the-long-shadow-cast-by-the-idea-of-man-the-hunter

The idea of intellectual property is nonsensical and pernicious | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-intellectual-property-is-nonsensical-and-pernicious

Bad idea of the day: to combat writer’s block, use automatic writing as a divinatory method to predict what you would have written if you didn’t have writer’s block

Bad idea of the day: Rather than having a ‘madness’ mechanic, have a ‘stress’ mechanic that causes perceptual distortion (tunnel vision, increased color contrast, blurred vision, louder environmental sounds) & motor distortion (worse aim, movement delays)

Bad idea of the day: replace whitespace with color changes

Bad idea of the day: sort r/all by controversial