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Concept: Knowledge Net
Like a hierarchical notary system, transmitted via a gossip protocol Every “knower” is vouched for by another “knower”, unless they want to start their own knowledge root. Sort of like DNS, but instead of translating domain name -> IP, it vouches for general facts, or maybe translates hash -> person Donations forwarded along the knowledge…
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Concept: Proof of Person
Some system to demonstrate electronically that a public key is uniquely associated with a human being (a one to one relationship) See also Concept: Maximum Basic Goodness 2
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Concept: Left-handed emoji
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unicode/comments/naafm9/handedness_modifiers
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Concept: Maximum Basic Goodness 2
(Updates Concept: Maximum Basic Goodness; see also Concept: Proof of Person) A blockchain-based system for voluntary wealth redistribution. Components: Need to allow distributed proof of humanness. Various “humanity” authorities will make their own attestations. Their attestations can be compared as well, i.e. they accept what another has rejected or vice versa The first N times…
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Concept: Distributed package delivery network
A routing protocol, applied generically to package delivery, such that anybody can participate in the delivery network Cf. Lightning Network Obvious issues, but fun to think about
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Concept: A universal, simple, synchronized to-do app
Pull together https://todobackend.com/ in a command line app, a react native app, etc. See also: Hecho (TODO link!)
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Concept: “Passion economy” platform for poetry
Could more people make money sharing their poetry?
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Concept: Platform for reviewing poetry, intellectual conversations, etc.
[I don’t remember where I was headed with this one, but I think it gets developed in later proposals.]
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Concept: Visualizing Intersectionality
If we could see all the intersections, down to the point of very small groups (5-10 people), what would it look like? If each category had two values uniformly distributed, then 29 categories would be more than enough to categorize each American individually. How many categories non-uniformly distributed will it take? A visualization for a…
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Concept: MoNoMoDate
Ex-Mormon Dating App A dating app for a very specific niche