https://www.reddit.com/r/Unicode/comments/naafm9/handedness_modifiers

(Updates Concept: Maximum Basic Goodness; see also Concept: Proof of Person)

A blockchain-based system for voluntary wealth redistribution.

Components:

• Attestation of humanity: authorities that cryptographically attest that a given person is (within their system) a unique human being, not otherwise represented.
• Ability to publicly or anonymous donate to all people that meet a particular proof of humanness, e.g. every human attested by a state’s vital records division
• Ability to publicly (or anonymously?) subscribe to receive donations
• Ability to pledge certain amount and frequency of donations in the future

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 an assessment is made, the parties involved get a reward.

Or, the parties involved always get a reward, which declines according to a function, reflecting the diminishing returns involved.

(Could this reward be determined by a market?)

The reward mechanism implies that this is a currency.

The reward is the same for confirmations and rejections.

A high rate of rejection disincentivizes people to use the authority.

Confirmations can be annotated with useful information like genetic hashes and whatnot

(Closed or open vocabulary for annotations?)

Authorities can also attest to each other.

(Are authorities people?)

Like Web of Trust but with a financial incentive to get it right—hopefully. Or to do it at all.

Authorities (and people in general?) can publish contact information, allowing them to be investigated and their trust level increased.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/bulgyu/cryptographic_systems_demonstrating_existence_of

I want there to simply be a “donate(amount)” function that equally distributes the amount to all humans on the system.

But that implies a default set of nodes that are valid.

You pick one or more “trust roots” (authorities) whose judgements you accept.

And you pick a minimum number of confirmations (default 2?) and maximum number of rejections (default 0)

Because received donations will be very small fractions, precision issues would easily arise. Donate 0.001 to a hundred million people and you start to see precision problems.

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

Pull together https://todobackend.com/ in a command line app, a react native app, etc.

See also: Hecho (TODO link!)

Could more people make money sharing their poetry?

[I don’t remember where I was headed with this one, but I think it gets developed in later proposals.]

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 few categories: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/nVennR/vignettes/nVennR.html

We would need something different for higher dimensions!

The data to answer this question might not exist.

Ex-Mormon Dating App

A dating app for a very specific niche

Replace a window with a digital display, put one or more cameras on the back of it, then apply transformations to the outdoor view: make a rainy day sunny, make a short day longer, or replace a brick wall with a stunning view.

Difficulties:

• parallax: the illusion is ruined as you move around the room unless the display tracks your location, a la Disney/Lucasfilm’s “Stagecraft”. And I bet that’s patented.
• further, even Stagecraft can’t alter the view for different people separately

It seems like what you really need is a smart hologram? Something that can alter or override the transmission of light at all angles. Something that did that would not need to track the viewers’ locations. It would also massively complicate the computational task of updating the view.

Looking Glass Factory has a holographic display that might work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMUdmE0lKIU

Though it’s not currently large enough for an entire window, at least not a very large one.

Light Field Lab also seems to be working on something similar

Follows along in the text as a group reads or performs a play.