Space to Think

+ Problems Rules

Wish / ProblemWhy?

"I wish this thing be like that..."

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  | (19213)  Dressing up future humans :  How might we classify clothing elements and imagine new ones?
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  | (19210)  Funding-Work-Revenue cross dependency :  To get something created and sustainable you need money and customers, to get customers you need something created. To get something created you need worker. To get funding you need something you're going to create. It's such a vicious cycle that has no obvious opening. If people could get together to create a product, they could all profit in excess of a salary.
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  | (19209)  Scaling trust :  There's spam, scams, lying, malware and thieving on the internet and in the world for material gain. How do we scale security and trust?
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  | (19203)  Invention code :  Imagine there's a list of attributes that you can design something to have and there's a list of implementations to those attributes. This looks like a nested list of numbers [[1], [3,2, [0, 2, 3], 3, 2]]] where each placement corresponds to a known property of that invention.
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+ Ideas Rules

Method / PrincipleHow?

"I found a way this could work..."

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  |  (19214)  Principle of Balancing Transparency with Capability : Parametrize the balance between privacy and transparency, with the level of capability.
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  |  (19212)  Capped debt : The problem with debt is if something fails, the debt provided an unlimited risk, we want failure to have a minimum cost.
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  |  (19208)  Coffee shop queue : A large room arranged with efficiently arranged chairs and tables, to be used as a queue, people are called out in turn
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  |  (19197)  Guaranteed return : From an investors perspective, if someone wants to do something and they think it shall create lots of money, I kind of want to give them money in return for a guaranteed return of whatever they earn. We need some form of economic obligation to return this return. The current mechanism is debt, but this doesn't really work in both parties' interests due to the punitive effects of debt
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  |  (19196)  Virtual GoodReward thank tokens/shares : Issue tokens to people when they do something good for you, can be redeemed for favours later
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+ Projects Rules

Work / GroupAct !

"Here's what I did, and will do next..."

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  | (19213)  0 > oo : Global financial think-tank for pursuing goals together.
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  | (19212)  W.BART : Transform clothes, transform feelings
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  | (19212)  KOKONO : Evolving communication
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  | (19207)  Creating a scalable storage server : I'm going to set up Ceph on Vagrant multimachine to see if I can create a growable storage cluster
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  | (19198)  Nested loops with index locality : Can we loop and avoid cache misses for computer performance?
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  | (19191)  Trillions rows multiplied by a trillion rows : How to write efficient code to multiply two lists of trillion numbers
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