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189 dweeks 8 days ago @ Metaformat
So, semantic web technologies -- overconstrained system?
189 dweeks 8 days ago @ Business Guides Project
@Mindey@FE706DAF Thanks for the question. In answer, I would say that yes, I'd be up for running this project; however, no, I do not have collaborators already. I'm happy for you to do what you think is best with it re draft v public. Also happy to work with anyone interested in putting it together to make it a reality. I think it would be a very useful tool for people.
190 dweeks 2 days ago @ Business Guides Project
Hey, Niamhnab, do you think you would like to run this project? Namely, is this something that, given that you had some collaborators, you would want to do? If not, let me know, and I think it would make sense to make it as a draft instead of public.
190 dweeks 5 days ago @ Eye-Energy: Research and Implement on Desktop
[Divisor@EC9C06F0], I wonder, had you proceeded with this undertaking? :)
190 dweeks 7 days ago @ Process To Preserve Motivation For Kids To Learn
[Transiency@0D38482D], Nice. yes, you can actually even comment your work. ;)
225 dweeks 8 days ago @ Text classifier into Goal/Idea/Plan from Introduction/Body/Conclusion.
In other words: https://wiki.mindey.com/shared/shots/1017b5309975b3acc49290e02-on-importing-web-content.mp4.
Further thoughts: https://wiki.mindey.com/shared/shots/609ea329e0f97fa49e87c96e6-text-classifier-further-thoughts.mp4.
228 dweeks 4 days ago @ Peristaltic naturally artificial heart
Nothing new these days? Not bored, when Halfbakery is down...?
228 dweeks 4 days ago @ "Social Conditionality in Patents: Achieving a Paradigm Change in Private Sector Participation"
What would such social conditionality mean? Technology is double-edge sword, does that mean, that the patent owners would be able to restrict the use of technology for certain ranges of purposes?
How would this relate to technology use by governments? Patents usually are not enforceable at government levels.
228 dweeks 4 days ago @ "Planetary Condominium: the legal framework for the Common Home of Humanity"
What would be the optimal structure of the private-public ownership for such condominium law, for addressing the global catastrophic risks?
228 dweeks 4 days ago @ "Insurance-based Global Governance"
While makes total sense, this assumes that the losses are net positive, and that we don't know who is going to be affected by the global catastrophic risks.
If they are net negative (e.g., practically everyone loses), or it is known in advance, that e.g., the locations near the sea are going to suffer most due to the rising sea level and global warming, I think, this would make this kind of insurance scheme harder to implement.
228 dweeks 4 days ago @ "Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century"
Very concrete. Would be interested in deeper analysis, how this new structure would affect overall ability to address the global risks.
228 dweeks 4 days ago @ "Evolutionary Organisation"
Sounds a lot like series of funding, except, unlike in business, where we have private investors, this would be the one that's extension of UN? How is this new, sounds a bit more like perpetuation of the UN.
228 dweeks 4 days ago @ "Emergent Dynamic Governance Ecosystems (EDGE project)"
Why 8? While 8 is more than 1, the number "8" looks arbitrary. What criteria would be chosen to determine the "commitment to ecological and social well-being," of the organizations? How would this be inclusive of emergent organizations, rather than just de-facto most powerful world's organizations?
228 dweeks 4 days ago @ "A Global League of Sustainable Cities"
Who would invite the cities to start pledging part of their budget for that, and how would the invitations have to be framed to make them work?
228 dweeks 4 days ago @ "A Club-Based Model of Global Governance"
Is it the idea to basically gamify global challenges by having states and cities join a social contract? How would we motivate that?
228 dweeks 4 days ago @ "A (Simplified) Blockchain Approach to Non-Coercive, Decentralized Global Governance"
Looks a lot like what would be if we turned Infinity into a DAPP, except, no mention of the further structure. E.g., whats the most effective way to turn ideas into projects, or link ideas with problems, or execute the projects, etc. How such free market would manage projects.
If it is a different currency per project, then it looks a lot like what we have on Ethereum via ERC20ies, and already exists.
230 dweeks 8 days ago @ Contribution Training System
Yeah, but this doesn't explain how this kind of system could be constructed from organizational and technical side. Can you elaborate on that?
230 dweeks 8 days ago @ Mandatory Facilitator Training
How would such facilitation training work? And, how would one keep the facilitation politically neutral?
238 dweeks 3 days ago @ Make Anaesthetics Generally Available to Suffering Beings
[Tomas@9911CE3F], quick search turns up these numbers:
Calculating the exact number of wild animals on earth is difficult, but estimates suggest that it is several orders of magnitude higher than humans and farmed animals combined. For every human on earth, there are at least 10 animals suffering in farms, and likely 1,000 to 100,000 wild vertebrates and plausibly 100,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 “bugs” (including creatures such as insects, spiders and earthworms). This means that even if these animals are on average experiencing more than 1/100,000,000th to 1/10,000,000th the suffering experienced by the average animal in a farm, the absolute amount of wild-animal suffering is greater.
Reference: Wild Animal Suffering Research
238 dweeks 3 days ago @ Make Anaesthetics Generally Available to Suffering Beings
Mindey@FE706DAF Could you describe, how many animals are affected of this problem?
238 dweeks 5 days ago @ Better management of projects and communications in the houses of parliament
Hey, [Yuri.Brigadir@8E326B69],
3.) implementation of "lean" and "kanban" methodologies
I imagine the whole parlaments going kanban? Oh, maybe :) The recent version of Infinity kind of goes that direction ( check out http://inf.li ).
Too many policies are discussed verbally, and this leads to emotional confrontation which makes some arguments invalid.
Totally agree. That's again, what should happen. With the introduction of blockchain, I suppose, this would make it possible to just let people tell their opinions with public and cryptographically signed messages.
The 2nd idea -- would be good to separate as separate as independent one.
238 dweeks 5 days ago @ Peristaltic naturally artificial heart
Well, recently saw the Auto-CPR approach ( check https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6393926713293705216 ), looks way cheaper, probably something to have at every home.
238 dweeks 5 days ago @ 0 > oo
Hey, guys! So, after a little long time, Infinity is in a fresh new reworked version, and on a new domain inf.li. Feel free to comment and ask questions. :)
238 dweeks 8 days ago @ Startup Solution Site
You mean, like a website, where you have a convenient form to fill out, pay a fee, and that opens a company in a country of your choice, and provides fully-automated accounting?
238 dweeks 8 days ago @ Eye blink tracker to track personal energy
[Divisor@EC9C06F0], so, did you take this idea any further? It basically makes sense, and a very interesting statistic to track with web cam on a personal laptop.
241 dweeks 1 days ago @ Extraterrestrial Nanolaser Transceivers
Interesting. Could these transceivers be also applied for very cheap communications on earth? Small lasers are cheap. {0.5}
I think, the nano-transceivers could also have a specific design, so that the information could be transferred, e.g., via light polarization, so that the computing could be performed within SENTs as if they were a single Turing-machine.
269 dweeks 7 days ago @ Resampling Summarizer for Social Media
Apparently, someone's working on something related:: "Facebook will soon allow you to combine multiple posts into one story", or maybe they are following Infinity? Just apply LDA, such a simple thing to do.
270 dweeks 7 days ago @ 0 > oo
Consulted ourselves {0.2} hours ;) {?0.1} And video: {0.3}: https://mindey.com/shots/0db4b367aef6eb779d3e13135-infty.mp4.
273 dweeks 7 days ago @ 0 > oo
[aliev], [ruta], long time ;) Are we still getting notifications?
293 dweeks 5 days ago @ Cortical Cryonics
Since the brain region (pontine tegmentum) responsible for consciousness has been identified, it would also be important to target it.
293 dweeks 6 days ago @ Emergency Flying Blood Pumps
This could be superceded by HiveCells, which would have the emergency systems embedded.
293 dweeks 6 days ago @ System of wristbands to monitor employee stress, and provide rest
Renamed this into a "System of wristbands to monitor employee stress, and provides rest". Goals titles are okay to be verbs, but ideas have to be nouns, as if they are invention names.
(originally, was: "Allow people to produce as much work as they can manage, but not as much as the project requires")
293 dweeks 6 days ago @ Communicate road information to citizens
When writing ideas, write as if hey are new inventions. The thought "to communicate information" can be a part of brainstorming, but on Infinity, the solutions section is for ideas that have the degree of conceptualization, where you can put a name to it, something like a novel system, or a gadget. So, it could be "A SatNav that warns you of obstacles based on GPS data". Now, if you could go into more details of how it would work, this would be good for an idea on Infinity. :)
Btw., I'm sure you are aware that the current traffic conditions are inferred exactly this way -- by signals from the mobile phone owners on the roads. I'm not sure if the update rate in the phones would be sufficient for a collision warning system though, and likely, you would need special equipment for the cars.
How would this compare to the traditional radars?
293 dweeks 6 days ago @ Leftover food containers that auto-detect food contamination
I've renamed the idea from 'Hardware solution', because idea names have to be self-explanatory without context.
300 dweeks 6 days ago @ Leftover food containers that auto-detect food contamination
Bacterial contamination is just one type, there are other types of food poisoning. Moreover, the food spoilage involves more than just bacteria -- enzymes, oxidation, mold, yeasts,...
304 dweeks 1 days ago @ Financial Think-Tank ("Fintank")
I would extend this idea to a new concept : "contributionalism" - an economy based on meeting human goals rather than meeting growth targets and "making money".
People would have an access to a global economic dashboard of wants and needs. Then, they can choose which one they could take on.
Even if there is an advent of automation, there will still be a set of tasks that only humans can carry out, such as minding other peoples' animals, children, etc. And also, a human needs to tell robots what to do in order to avoid some bias that come out of perfect algorithmization and automation. If robots will serve humans, then humans will need to tell them what they want.
So a dashboard could contain a set of things that a person wants, and a set of tasks that one needs to do in order to get them. Suppose there is a goal or need that is not sufficiently met among a large number of people, then one should get a warning in the dashboard. Then, one will be encouraged to contribute to it if they have the necessary skills for it.
304 dweeks 1 days ago @ Better management of projects and communications in the houses of parliament
I have expanded both ideas, and connected them too. If there are still some further questions, I will re-think the defective parts of the ideas.
As for connecting them together, it is too early to establish exact way to do it, because we will need to try out all the points that were mentioned in the idea and test them first.
304 dweeks 1 days ago @ Better management of projects and communications in the houses of parliament
Also, can you crystallize in more detail, how this would work in practice? Would the system transcribe all discussions in the houses of parliament, and make them available in this govt-run forum? How does that integrate with project management? How would this guarantee to solve the parent problem?
304 dweeks 1 days ago @ Better management of projects and communications in the houses of parliament
Great, and congratulations with the first idea on Infinity! :) I see several ideas in one - use most modern project management techniques, and create a government-run forum for feedback and complaints.
The "Use the most modern project management techniques" is very vague, because it is not clear what is "the most modern". We had thoughts that "oh, you could use trello for government, you could use basecamp for public issues, etc.", or "you could use 'agile' for government projects," and so forth. However, a few years later "agile" is not modern anymore, and "basecamp" is replaced by new technology "X". So, it would be good if you can be more specific about this, because "use the best technology" is not an idea, it's a homework problem.
Regarding the forum thing. So, essentially, a "government-run online feedback forum for complaints"?. Not a bad idea at all. In fact, I have had a bit similar idea by a friend of mine, recently expressed, as -- "A complaints register!" (allow citizens to easily and semi-automatically file legally binding complaints), and make the govt do what it is supposed to do. Complaints are, in fact, a supported form of feedback from citizens in many countries, that government officials are obliged to pay attention to, if the number of complaints reaches certain threshold.
305 dweeks 1 days ago @ Educate Retailers on Food Donation Legislation
[colemai], I do agree that legislation is a problem when convincing retailers to donate food, although how to make it a scalable solution?
_> An education team with a pro bono lawyer could probably convince some big food retailers to spend their social consciousness money on donating expiring perishable foods to local charities/homeless shelters etc. _
Thing is, that big retailers would be interested in providing their time to deal with lawyers if only they would see such act as a return not a cost. I wonder, how we can make it more convenient and less time consuming for retailers to donate food with less effort?
_> Other problems are that this would only help food poverty in relatively well off countries. _ You might like an idea shared by [gmikhai] where he talks about how to deal with hunger in developing countries. Quote: "On the other hand, restaurants, bistros, and other eateries throw out a lot of food waste. They could be relatively inexpensively disinfected, freeze dried, homogenized, and finally pressed into balls or briquettes. These balls shall be available for free near any restaurant, supermarket, and other public places, especially in poor countries." (see a picture in the article)
—Ruta
308 dweeks 6 days ago @ Deep Underwater Cities
Looks like we've got progress in China: building a sea lab 3km underwater in the South China Sea. Bloomberg writes: "The project was mentioned in China's current five-year economic plan released in March and ranked number two on a list of the top 100 science and technology priorities."
309 dweeks 2 days ago @ 0 > oo
[ruta] to be able to share a random e-mail conversation on infty just cc-ing it to our e-mail address would require the ability to parse, which part of e-mail describes problem, which describes idea, etc. within a bunch of e-mails forwarded, and one email may have many ideas, and many problems, so, random e-mail to ideas@infty.xyz - and infty automatically sorts out what is the problem, what is the idea, etc? If we had this capability, why wouldn't we just throw any information from the web at it, and let it automatically figure this out? :) (I don't say we won't be able to do this in the near future, but not in the nearEST.)
As for human-assisted interaction, I think it is easier. E.g., I am thinking, how to write my ideas in my wiki, and just mark them up with some syntax, e.g., {:post it on infty|this is the content:}, so that my wiki would use infty API to post it for me.
So, we could support special tags, that people who write e-mails could use it when they forward e-mails to ideas@infty.xyz, and then, if they are really users of infty, and their e-mail is coming from expected sender, we could create content item(s) based on it.