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 Facebook’s 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
‘Know thyself’ is not just silly advice: it’s 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.