My Big List Of Ideas

Curriculum rehaul

Donnagon wasn't kidding in Spy Kids 3 when he said you control the fate of the world by controlling today's youth. I mean, look what's happening now. The childing practice has been usurped by indoctrinators at every level - religious, governmental, corporate, familial, influential, political... and now the impactful ones are just going on to join the controllers. Maybe that's where they got the idea of inherited sin from

Anyway... Mainstream curricula suck, and like many other of these ideas, I wrote whole speeches about it on Discord. If I get around to refreshing #chambers, I'll send you links to read about it there

The whole philosophy behind it is about raising individuals to be competent and maximise their potential, rather than drilling arbitrary information into them for 12 years that will either be inconsequential in the end, or drive them into thousands of dollars of college debt. People are idiots. And pretty much every governmental system is only going to ruin the world if idiots get allowed to be in charge - which is pretty much every case ever.

Anyone can attend school at any time, and although the learning process will try to be optimised, people will be able to take as long as they need to get a proficient understanding of the subject matter. There can be different facilities for children, teens, adults or combinations of them if they want. (I expect there'll be a lot of adults attending it once this curriculum is established.)

I really want to write here but I can't really think very well because I'm tired (-.-)

Okay let's just write an itinerary of how it's gonna go

Phase 1

The main idea of this phase is to calibrate children on really important frameworks while they're still highly neuroplastic. This is the only "required" phase, but people will probably still have to do something from phase 2 (or teach themselves the subject matter) if they want to be able to do anything significant.

I think little children should do the first phase in boarding schools. Big investment for whole populations of little kids, I know, but it will all be worth it. Adults who are challenged mentally or otherwise and also need to learn things should be able to stay there too. It will ensure that they learn everything they need to know, especially stuff like psychology and research when your parents turn out to be things like abusive manipulative cultists. People who are primed on this stuff have a much greater chance of meaningfully contributing to society than the drivel they currently teach you so you can learn more or get a job, when all of that stuff should be optional in the first place.

• Students will attend school and start learning as early as possible.
• Students will be taught in a top-down parallel fashion, rather than the bottom-up series one that schools are currently doing. I wrote a speech about this in particular on Discord
• Students will progress based on demonstrations of their proficiency in the subjects, rather than a set timetable.
• Students will be encouraged to correct the educators on any mistakes or contradictions. Sometimes, they will be made on purpose. (Teachers or supervisors will address them if nobody does for a while)

The mandatory subjects will include:

• Fundamental mathematics - this includes basic principles, operations and use cases for:
• Arithmetic - I don't really think I need to explain to you why this would be helpful. But maybe you'd think you can just do everything with a calculator, like that commenter who found Baldi's Basics actually educational... ehh
• Formal logic - a bit of a cross between mathematics and critical thought, I suppose. Being able to consider people's arguments and statements as logical expressions will make them much easier to understand, evaluate and find non-sequiturs in. Also, a lot of simple logic problems are pointlessly hard to wrap your head around until you're familiar enough to work with it by memorising what it looks like in operation. It'd be a bit like translating English problems involving numbers into arithmetic - hopefully it can come naturally
• Set theory - maaaaaybe not as important as the other two. I'll have to see how useful it turns out to be. But I guess it can still be helpful. Apparently someone came up with a unified system for arithmetic, logic and set theory that's really simple and elegant. Though of course many people have their contentions
• Language
• Critical thought - an obviously important one. It'll probably also include media literacy, tying into propaganda/manipulation techniques, cognitive biases and fallacies
• Psychology - this is an extraordinarily underrated one. It is really, really important. It ought to help you understand and recognise things like:
  • Cognitive biases
  • Psychological effects
  • Examples of abusive behaviour
  • Manipulative tactics
  • Neurodiversity
  • Personality, psychological disorders and their symptoms
  • People's general psychological frameworks (e.g. internal consistency, transactional theory, hierarchy of personal needs)
  • Mental health and it's psychological/physiological effects
  • Psychological optimisation practices (e.g. nutrition, habits)
  I might not be saying it well at the moment but trust me. A few TheraminTrees videos will give you insight on just how crucial it is, and even he advocates for teaching this stuff
• Philosophy - another overly important one. In particular, philosophy should help people understand a broad range of different perspectives, appreciate the justifications for everything and understand what their personal purpose can be, other than creating a virus to sell antidotes at exorbitant prices to get a global monetary highscore and then die. Or run a tech business, political movement or religion/cult that aims to subjugate the entire world population while they do who-knows-what when that's done. SOMETHING to show how vapid, stupid and depressing their megalomania and chrematomania are. But also, it should help people be more thoughtful and resistant to indoctrination by malignant religions and ideologies.
• Social conduct
• Research, scientific methodology and self-learning practices
• Practical abilities - these include things like tying knots and bows, gardening, foraging, performing first aid, getting help, managing finances, navigating all kinds of unfamiliar environments, and dealing with a broad variety of situations and things with various levels of urgency.

Phase 2

Once students have learned all the important information from phase 1,

• Examples will be shown to justify the subject matter.

1. Ollie

(To be finished)

Just have the bloody paragraphs I wrote

Next, before you teach them anything else, show them the options. Demonstrate the uses and wonders of every discipline in every subject, and then let them make the choices as to whether they want to learn about it or not. They'll have to pick something if they want to do anything, but they won't be required to learn anything that they don't want to. If they've been raised on social conduct and critical thinking properly, they should know not to judge people as stupid or incapable because of their lack of knowledge in particular fields.

Finally, make sure your classes are optimised to be as effective as possible. Make them quick, engaging, and a good kickstart to self-conducted research. Quite frankly, I think that all educational material should be open-source, and you should be able to learn about anything online whenever you want. So if you're going to make a class about something, do it well and make it worth attending. And use grades as tools to assist the learning process, not coercion. Maybe have different grades for performance and motivation.

AI experience curation

I always used to call it "AI content curation", but... now I realise just how terrible and reductive that sounds.

The world has pretty much way too many things to experience for a single lifetime, and this is my proposal for a solution to that. Optimise the courses of people's lives. Give them the most broad, diverse and worthwhile set of experiences to spend their lives partaking in.

(To be finished)

Schematic logic-based AI

An AI that creates schemata about reality and forms logical relationships between different concepts, rather than just intuiting everything brute-forcefully with a massive pre-tokenised context window like a typical LLM, and approximating reason rather than just doing it formally - like computers are stereotypically supposed to do. The thought process of it in the early stages would probably be very reflective of those shown in A Guide To Reality - another idea I have, for a video series.

It should be given as little initial information as possible, such as first principles, epistemologies and values, and be able to learn and understand languages, syntactically and contextually, from the top. If it is able to learn different logic systems, including many-valued, paraconsistent and fuzzy logic, all by itself, it should.

It's mindmap would consist of lots of nodes, which would be observations probably gathered by data input and machine learning, as well as logical syllogisms, conclusions, inferences, observational inductions, deductions, hypotheses, theories, statistics, procedures, methodologies and properties that build on the first principles and other nodes. You would be able to look at a particular node of knowledge, and see all the branches of other nodes that substantiate it, as well as other realisations branching from that node. It might use traditional machine learning to process the information it receives (a lot of which would have to have various levels on a hierarchy of trust/authenticity, to manage insertion of fabricated data), but I wonder if it can also find patterns and learn really complicated things by itself using a formalised pattern recognition system. The machine learning part should be able to interact with the main mindmap in such a way that the abstract assumptions it makes can be articulated and corrected. For example - and I definitely saw this earlier, but now I can not for the life of me find where I saw it - an AI image recogniser thought that an image of a wolf, and some other animal that was decidedly not a wolf, were both wolves. And guess what abstract assumption it made? "Wolf" correlates to an arbitrary creature resting on snow \(-_-)/

Actually, an idea I previously had and then forgot would be that it uses information it already knows to determine which nodes to prioritise synthesising. It's values and understandings associated with them would help it make decisions on which nodes and things to focus on

I think this would have immensely high potential, because although humans can develop conceptual chunks dynamically (which are basically like the nodes), they can only use like seven in their mind at once. This AI could potentially operate on dozens, thousands or even millions of chunks in a short time. The logical operation of the AI would also mean that it would understand things formally, and not hallucinate (unless prompted to) or make silly mistakes like every LLM and other intuitive ML-AI ever. The system as a whole would probably become AGI (general) or even ASI (superintelligent), and hopefully we'll have figured out the values by the time it's become pretty much enlightened, and it gets "released" (if ever). If it's left to run for a long time, it'll probably discover lots of completely new branches of mathematics and solve lots of conjectures, as well as obtain knowledge in many other fields.

Here's a chat I had with ChatGPT about how such an AI might work. I might paste the description of this idea to it sometime

Also, once again, it seems like people already got to work starting to make symbolic AI \(-_-)/

Obliskate

A productivity program for managing, visualising and even auralising time, tasks, events, schedules, itineraries, notes, lists, and all the rest of it. Since I have ADHD, I would basically consider it to be a sort of extension for my brain. I am currently developing it on this very site, and, NGL, I would like some people to be personally invested enough in this program to help develop it themselves.

Unfortunately, it is currently being managed on Glitch, not GitHub, and I am an objectively awful GitHub user.
(The metric is defined in terms of proficiency and mental stability during use.)

Using Obliskate makes you an obliquely-skating obligated obelisk.

(Wait, an oblique obelisk?

...That... Doesn't sound right \(-_-)/)

Arguments Wiki

A contributory site - not necessarily a wiki, but one that compiles arguments about all kinds of topics, debates and stances - including hoaxes, conspiracies, pseudoscientific/fallacious ones, and rationalisations for people struggling with mental issues such as addiction (e.g. gambling) or denial - from both major figures, proponents, opponents and experts of a topic, and random commenters who bury profound insights somewhere in a comment section under a niche video.

In general, people completely fail to make collective progress when they conduct arguments, particularly about topics that have been covered and contributed to millions of times over by lots of different sources - not just because of their sparse uncompiled nature, but also their capacity for error and manipulation - and the wiki aims to be a reliable, mainstream resource that rigorously assesses all of these arguments, and references philosophical first principles to give these evaluations. In a way, it aims to be better than Wikipedia: Wikipedia is neutral and commentative, but the Argument Wiki will be evaluative and objective.

Look if you want to know more about the history and purpose behind the wiki, read this. I feel like I know and have said why it's so great and important, but I don't really feel like I've articulated it quite well enough. I hope you thoroughly appreciate the rationale, though. So many problems in the world on every scale are a result of people being both powerful and delusional, so I think we owe it to the world to make this for it.

I started it on Fandom, since it was a popular site, but they closed it since they didn't approve of the way it included personal ideologies. It was inevitably gonna tackle controversial content, so it's understandable. I started trying to get it on another wiki site like Miraheze. They didn't accept it either, since the scope was too broad and the subject matter might cause unwanted conflict. I don't know if there are any other good free wiki farms or hosting services that my wiki would be good on.

By the way, we have a time limit to make this happen

Aristotle — 28/11/2022

Then we will have a lot of discussions, five years. That is how long I will talk

if either of us makes no progress in five years lets call it quits on the discussion

Aristotle — 28/11/2022

if life death and purpose cannot be explained in five years we have a problem

The gospel (good news of the kingdom of god) can be explained in 10 minutes

but with you, you ask and pick out very key spesific instances that can be misunderstood, I will litteraly need to explain everything to satisfy you. Admitidly i respect that

To may people dont care enough about life death and purpose

Optimised conlang

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Okay well I'll write some of the principles for it

• All of the characters will be asymmetrical, meaning they can be orientable and follow any particular path
• All of the characters will be featural
• Speech and script will be fully correspondent with no invisible grammar (e.g. intonation, inflection, punctuation, etc)
• Various phonemes in words would have specific functions or denotations
• Every word will have exactly one definition
• There will be no synonyms
• There will be anti-denoted words instead of antonyms
• The most common ideas would be the shortest and easiest to say

Conversational programming language

An idea I had one day for a conlang that's meant to handle both programming and natural conversation, so you can pretty much teach yourself how to code by talking to people and learning to communicate.

It's a separate idea from the optimisation conlang, but it might be constructed as a single language.

r/DollarComparisonsAU

A subreddit (or a general forum/contributional resource) where people post photos of a dollar coin next to how much of a certain product, deal or service (generally food and measurable products - I don't know if it'd even work for other types of products) is worth it, perhaps along with other attributes like the weight. There would also be variations for other countries, such as r/DollarComparisonsUS, r/PoundComparisonsUK, r/EuroComparisons, and all the rest of it. It would be really useful to know and compare just what and how much you're getting for your money, and great posts on these resources would be high-quality and accurately divided.

Examples:

• One post about a $2.50 burger would show the burger cut to two fifths, next to a dollar coin. There may also be a photo of the burger disassembled next to the coin.
• A post including a $9 sub would include the sub having as much free vegetables and sauce as they would allow, cut to a ninth, and put next to a dollar.
• Alternatively, someone could post the sub with no vegetables or sauce - just the fundamental meat and bread. (It might be useful to know, but generally people want to see the maximum of what they can get.)
• A post about a small $5 deal including a burger, chips and a drink would include a dollar next to a fifth of the burger, a fifth of the chips and a fifth of the drink (possibly with measurement markings too).

Turns out I already posted this idea on Reddit like two years ago. So there you go

Virtual 4D sensors and motion controls

Things like Miegakure, 4D Toys, 4D Golf and the Rubik's Tesseract put you in the role of a normal trionian with realmic translation, rotation and projection tools to navigate and interact with phenomena in a flune. Those games and interactivities are fun and all, but you know what would make them even MORE fun???

Being able to perceive and interact with them normally like an actual tetronian!

The idea is to hook up virtual 4D data streams (like bispherical video and trinaural/quaternaural audio) and interfaces (basically motion controls with more degrees of freedom) into your head so that you can process and send signals - basically perceive and interact with things - in a virtual 4D environment, as a virtual 4D agent. So they'll kind of be like virtual artificial senses and muscles, I guess.

Theoretically this could be generalisable to any number of dimensions, but the overall quality of the data transmission would have to be reduced to compensate for that, since your brain has a limited amount of space and processing power. It would still have the same bitrates, but it would have to be spread out over more and more entire dimensions. Think of it like the difference between a 1080p rectangular YouTube video and a 1080s 360° YouTube video - you can really tell. Yeah, it's like that but even more strenuous

I'm not quite sure how well people would cope with this! People will have only experienced 3D space until they try this, and exposure to this might totally throw them off. Like any two adjacent dimensionalities, 3D space is utterly flat relative to 4D space. But there'd probably be the same amount of visual data given to people experiencing 3D and 4D space, with 3D surfacial vision being distributed across two disks and 4D surcellular vision being distributed across two balls. Would they still feel a sense of sensory overload, or looking at things and being confused by it all like a baby does, though? And would it be processed by the visual cortex that handles 2D data, or would they use a different part of your brain - or even just augment it?

And yeah, speaking of babies, I imagine this tech would be significantly easier to implement closer to birth than as an adult, especially after having lots of experience in 3D space. It'd be an interesting experiment, but I dunno if people would approve of people doing it on infants. In fact, I think the only people who'd be interested in this would be some sort of crazy hypergeometry enthusiasts, at least until our brains become arbitrarily modular and augmentable and we can mess around with all kinds of crazy experiences involving trans-natural stimuli as much as we like.

If there's one idea on this list I would pretty much definitely not be able to pull off all by myself, this would be it. Maybe.

Nah, actually, the curriculum one's the one. It just doesn't work at all if other people aren't involved

Voice-controlled cursor

So I tried using voice control on iOS today (7 March) and said "this is awsome" and "this is aweful" with a few minutes in between, even though I read some of the documentation for it and tried it out.

I had this idea many years ago, when I hadn't even gotten around to trying and using voice control properly. You would absolutely believe how much easier and faster it would be with this.

1. You give it a noise, word, phrase or combination to listen and recognise for activation and deactivation.
2. A cursor appears on the screen.
3. You use phonology, pitch and loudness to control it. And you can configure it, by the way. For example, you can use vowel openness to control vertical movement, pitch to control horizontal movement and volume to multiply the cursor speed. Or if you're really good at enunciation, you can just use the whole vowel spectrum. There would also be some thresholds, for better control.
4. You give it noises or words to tap, drag and do other sorts of interactions. Like a tsk (or tid, if you're familiar with Tid Bunny), or a tongue click, or a lip smack.

Another reasonably good idea is to just stop making everything so complicated for us, and let us just say "home tab right right enter right right down down down enter tab tab enter shift hey this is Polly comma just going to let you know old backspace I'll be finished in about num seven minutes control shift enter down down enter home." Like a normal keyboard user. Cursors would be far more versatile though, since not everything has tabular navigation.

Pet puzzle setup thing

Yeah. Sorry I can't seem to articulate myself properly today. Maybe I'll do better when I have another nap, wake up and eat some decent food.

It's just a system to teach pets to solve puzzles, navigate user interfaces and have patience.

It will be a room with an automatic door, a grate/bar thing in the middle of the door, food behind the door and a bunch of haptic surfaces that light up.

I was thinking of cats when I thought of this, but it can be generalised for dogs and other pets. Though it might need to be altered a bit, depending on the pets' mobility. Like it might be a bit harder for humble rabbits. Also, the colours will have to account for the pets' optical spectrum if they can't see some of them. That seems a bit easier though

Phases

There will be a new phase every day, or every time it's food time for the pet.

1. Establishment: next to the door, there will be a large glowing red square on the floor. Touching the square will make it blink, turn green and open the door.
2. Delay: touching the big red square will make a green square grow inside of it. Releasing the red square will make the green square shrink away. After a few seconds of touching the red square, the green square will fill it, it will blink and the door will open.
3. Patience: the green square will grow more slowly until it fills the red square, blinks and makes the door open.
4. Displacement: the big red square will be moved to a corner near the door. Touching it will make it blink and turn green immediately and the door will open.
5. Combination: the big red square will be moved to the other corner near the door. Touching it will make a green square grow slowly inside of it, and releasing it will make it disappear. Once the green square completely fills the big red one, the door will open.
6. Distance: the big red square will be moved to the opposite corner at the other end of the room. The green square will grow slowly, and blink and open the door once it fills the red one.
7. Size: the square will appear somewhere on the floor about half as big.
8. Motion: the big red square
9. Release: the door won't open until the square stops being touched, and then it will blink.
10. Repeat: when the square is touched, a gold square will grow inside instead. Then when the square is released and touched again, the green one will grow inside.
11. Repetition: when the square is touched, an orange one will grow quickly inside, then during the next touch, a yellow one, and then a green one which will blink and open the door once it fills up.
12. Timing: the square will appear as blue with a red border. Touching it while it's blue won't do anything, but it will stay blue until it's released. Every few seconds, the blue square will disappear and turn red for a short time. Touching the square while it's red will stop it flashing blue and make a green square grow inside, and blink and open the door when it's fully green and released.
13. Intention: the square will be flashing blue and red. Touching it while it's red will make an orange square grow inside, and once it's released when it's fully orange, a blue square will appear and flash again with the orange border. This process repeats with yellow and green and the door opens when it's done.
14. Threshold: the square will appear on the floor as red with a thick gold border. Touching the square will make a green one grow inside, and once it reaches the border, it will blink and continue to grow until it fills the border as well, or the square is released and the door opens.
15. Segregation: two big red rectangles will appear next to each other away from the door. Each of them will turn green if they are touched. If both rectangles turn green, the door will open.
16. Separation: the rectangles will be further apart, but close enough for the pet to reach both of. The door will open when they both turn green.
17. Fragmentation: there will be four red rectangles. The door will open when all of them are green.

Various ideas for AI projects

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I know this seems really silly because there's nothing here but I put some in a comment somewhere, and probably some messages on Discord. I'm just offloading this entry to future people I don't know

Toe-powered controllers

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Tongue-powered controllers

Yeah, it sounds a bit weird but read me out - it's super clever actually

Actually I'm just gonna paste what I said in Discord here

FireyDeath4 — 2/9/2024

I just came up with an even CRAZIER and MORE VERSATILE idea!

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You can have a separate control on each tooth in your mouth that does something unique, and you can operate it when you put your tongue on the front of your tooth

I thought about this because toe controllers would probably be unreliable since you could take a step or put your foot somewhere and inadvertently squish your toes together and not have much accurate control over the controls

You could try to synchronise both of your feet so the controls only work in unison, but tongue controls are just WAY BETTER

Like you can have a separate trigger on each of your teeth (maybe with some redundant ones if you think your tongue is too wide) and you can only press them if your tongue goes at the front, which is very deliberate and unobtrusive since it's usually behind the teeth, and you can have much better control over your tongue than your toes

Gosh golly

This is a pretty revolutionary idea!!!!!!

(Not as revolutionary as some other ideas I have though)

This would be extraordinarily useful

If I was one of those tech-building YouTubers I'd probably get started on this right away

Though if I could build tech that easily, I probably might not even need it so much personally, either to use it or even come up with it

Fangames

Videos and fanimations

Remixes

A Guide To Reality For Civilised Individuals

A video series that dives deep into the human condition. Very, very deep.

It's an exploration of existence and a deconstruction of the conscious experience. During the course of the series, it would build on concepts like:

• Sensation
• Perception
• Pattern recognition
• Reinforcement
• Thought
• Logic
• Epistemology
• Schemata and frameworks
• Psychology
• Linguistics
• Morality
• Sociology
• Speculative philosophy

It will also be focused on experiential development, rather than empirical explanations like neuroscience and stuff, since it would be building up the justification for pragmatic/scientific thinking in the first place.

I wrote a comment about it here. You can read that before I'm done transferring the ideas to this page.

(The wiki's totally gone now. I have to move it to another site somehow)

A cartoon series

I've been thinking about it and accumulating ideas for it for a long time, despite the fact that I am no good at scriptwriting or worldbuilding.

Here is a list of descriptors for it:

• Adventurous
• Atmospheric
• Awe-inspiring
• Cartoony
• Childish
• Comedic
• Diverse
• Deep
• Developmental
• Energetic
• Escalating
• Experimental
• Explorational
• Fantastical
• Futuristic
• Long-running
• Mature
• Philosophical
• Slice-of-life
• Witty
• Wondrous

And here are just a few of my general ideas for it:

• Combined eastern/western/other animation styles and aesthetics
• Cartoon physics and tropes - which the characters actually use to their advantage. Combined with realism, of course
• Characters with diverse nationalities (and other characteristics), who generally represent the humour, personality and animation style of the media in their nation (without just being purely stereotypical caricatures)
• 12 seasons - one for each year of your preteen life from birth. I would try very hard to make even the early ones appeal to all ages - perhaps they can be filled with exposition, worldbuilding and lore while they go on baby adventures. One of the main characters is born in the first season
• Lots of mature and philosophical themes that are handled in a way that would be fine for children (hopefully)
• Inclusion of pretty much every topic, hobby and theme there is (except pointlessly vulgar ones)
• Problems that are not based on the characters being horrendously stupid for once, like in many other shows (including REALITY ones), because for the most part, they aren't, unless there's a decent explanation for it
• Futuristic setting that combines all the visions of the future from the past, as well as my own interpretations of the future
• Dodgy people who almost always say the most silly toned-down euphemisms, random words or made-up ones that sound like they were coined by children's authors, instead of documented swear words
• Lots of kiddy/miscellaneous items used as genuinely potent weaponry and makeshift tools and machines
• Morals about everyone being able to help in their own small/immense way
• Enough layers of complexity, wisdom and details for people to be able to watch the entire series back-to-back two to four times over and still take away something new from it. You should be able to rewatch it at least once and acquire the knowledge to understand background conversations in the first few seasons
• Characters who actually age with the show (well, at least according to the canon chronology if we don't manage to release one season per year), unlike every other cartoon ever
• Diverse experimental music with a unifying microtonal childlike chiptune theme

And here are some of the themes it should cover

(At the end, this list should look extremely long and be categorised)

• Attempts to do something in different contexts and situations

At one point I thought about making it a game, but I shortly realised that everyone who doesn't git gud will miss out on all of it. Oh well. I might want to make a game anyway, to help it reach an even broader audience

I really don't know if I want to spoil these, but here are some more specific ideas for it:

• Talking animals and fantasy creatures, spawned through genetic engineering
• More optimised humans (in terms of physical/mental development and operation), also involving genetic engineering
• Controlled dream administration technology, generally used for therapy, recreational purposes, and a seamless method of injecting surreal aesthetics into the show
• Experimental dream-sharing features where the dream administration transfers data between more than one individual, resulting in multiple people having similar dreams or sharing a single dream that effectively has a single individual with multiple dissociative identities fronting at the same time
• Inclusion of various other ideas I have, like AI experience curation and virtual sensation

Since the early seasons are pretty much going to be for babies (while also being for older children and adults at the same time, having various things that would be interesting that the babies probably wouldn't understand), it's going to have to establish lots of conventions before the later seasons can break them. I guess this is going to be a pervasive pattern

Here's a couple of comments I wrote about the cartoony aspects of it on a video about cartoon physics

@FireyDeath411 May 2024 (edited)

I wanted to make a cartoon with a combination of realistic physics and cartoon physics (from both eastern and western animations, as well as others), both of which have a certain scientifically-tangible order to them, which most of the characters use to their advantage and cleverly optimise for practical outcomes.

Then I see this.

Great now I'm hopeless

Well, since this is about to get 100 likes (at 99), I typed some more detailed thoughts about it in a reply. I've come to a compromise which I wrote at the bottom

@FireyDeath417 May 2024

My main problem regarding the insanity of cartoon physics is that really I want my cartoon/animation series to cover lots of topics, including technical/scientific and complex/realistic ones, and if I get too wacky, I'll either have to make the cartoon physics a non-diegetic design choice, which in some cases I don't want since I want the characters to be able to exploit them, or I'll just have to accept that it's the way things are and create a convoluted system of everything, biological and systemic, that attempts to work around it, and even though it might be pretty farfetched, I don't really want it to be too unrealistic, in spite of all the fancy stuff it'll have. I want it to be a decent reflection of troth reality, fantasy and futurism.

In particular, here are my thoughts about some points that the video covers:

-Emotional truth. I don't need cartoon physics to convey those. In fact, I've imagined how I could communicate extremely intense emotions without thinking about those at all, involving stuff like visceral sound design, expressions, behaviours and visual representations. So the cartoon aspects would just be supplementary, and they'd all be plausible to some degree.
-Butt-monkeys. I do want some characters to feel that way, but having a lot of characterisation focused on this would lead to a lot of tropic one-dimensionality with one character being consistently hurt and garnering sympathy. Making it a diegetic mechanic would also substantiate the notion that the world is out to get them, and while I do want to cover this for some characters, I want to have a diverse variety of changing perspectives, including experiences of unbalanced treatment.
-Karma. The bad guys need to be capable, generally competent and actually dangerous in some way, because otherwise there's not a credible threat, and there's nothing for us to learn for or from overcoming them, so I'll only apply this when it would realistically make sense with intrinsic consequences that can be reasonably ignored or unforeseen. Also, I do want to communicate the existence and dynamics of unfairness, including cases of systematic oppression, so this is generally something I'll skip.
-And overconfidence. There are many adults who suffer from it (and should do in the series), and not many of the characters would be significantly mentally challenged (i.e. total idiots who don't learn when something is unignorably obvious). If the rule applied universally, they would have learnt about the principle when they were a young child and worked with it, either by adopting the appropriate humility and/or caution, or anxiety, paranoia, low self-esteem, and overall poor mental health, which would also lead to the perception that the world is out to get them. Some characters should also be raised with it, fraudulently out of living a childhood of pandered luxury (who can be proven wrong by being introduced to tough situations), or substantially by being critical and competent (who can be proven wrong by being overconfident about the universality of patterns and systems they've identified), in order to foster the perception that everything goes their way if they just persist enough. Not only that, but if it was universally punished, evolution would have disfavoured it, and since it exists, it needs to at least appear substantial to many people. It should be more like a rubber band than a universal bug-patcher, and having it that way would pay off a lot more at the end.

So, I decided to make a compromise. I'll make a list of cartoon principles and events, and for the main world I'll include anything that doesn't cause anything significantly outlandish to happen. Those things would include major body transformations and disfigurations (cartoon-wise), sudden unexplained changes of how physical phenomena work based solely on the characters (discriminatory physics), and so on. However, I will make a lot more exceptions in dream sequences, which will be the boundary where wacky cartoon physics and surrealism can shine - though there will be some level of sense, morality and psychological nuances to them, since everything that happens in the foreground of a story must have some relevance. For that reason, many of the dreams will be consciously administered with technology for things like therapy and recreational purposes, so it can serve the characters and the story, rather than just have the natural neural network splutterings you generate in REM sleep :P

H4XX0RZ-OS

A parody operating system that operates just like the ones in Hollywood and all the blockbuster movies.

I wrote about it on Discord. Not sure if I want to write all the features on this page quite yet. I'm feeling a bit tired.

Alright I'll do it

• Lots of:
• Random synth noises
• Green windows with an amateur layout style
• Support for keysmashed console input
• Machine-learnt keyboard-gibberish dialect detection (human/feline orthography)
• Immediate switch to laser-pointer danmaku mode upon feline keyboard input
• Nigh-incomprehensible convoluted UI that requires manual reference for optimal utilisation
• Little to no actual cybersecurity
• No invalid passwords
• Opt-out pop-up ads, and tests for viruses and system updates

Honestly I'm just copying what I wrote about it on Discord, and I kinda like how it sounds there better

My videos

I need to write various aspects of them here before I forget. Again.

• Version control
• The start of each video will mention something I'll think about this later
• I mean there's the one where I'm the kind of person
• Timestamps at each introduction of an idea/element while reconstructing a system
• Peer review
• Recorded time travel on one video so I can make a presentation and fix my mistakes in real-time
• Different settings and outfits for the non-meta videos (the ones that are not specifically about my channel itself)

FireyDeath4 Talks

A series I intend to make on YouTube where I make videos about me walking around and discussing various topics in different locations.

Some of them include:

• The root of every problem in the world
• Demotivational speech for numeromania, chrematomania and megalomania
• FOMO, the sheer amount of experiences in the world and AI content curation
• Everything I think that everyone should know (not a comprehensive explanation)
• An extremely short video that's an ADHD version of my entire channel (when it gets a lot of videos) (this includes stories and music releases)

Long-running soap opera that slowly devolves into a tragic philosophical meta psychological horror ARG

The main idea is: the characters aren't stupid. They notice when they are cursed with continual conflict and tropes that are stereotypical of soap operas. Eventually they realise that they are characters on an oppressive drama series and begin to fight the show itself, trying to connect with the real world, break out of the prisonous set of the show and take control of their lives despite the show pulling out all the stops to try and confine them to their lives of suffering.

I started to write this as an entry on r/CrazyIdeas multiple years ago, but I stopped writing it after a while and never came back to it. I don't remember how I got around to writing what I wrote beyond the general ideas, so it seems like I'm at an impasse, but I'll write what I had in the draft so far.

If I ever do this, I'll probably have to get a team of other people mostly using pseudonyms to run the show. Otherwise we would probably easily do something like get doxxed, encountered and coerced into concluding the show and liberating the characters prematurely.

So here's the list of seasons I wrote.

(Warning: this is really, really long. It might just be what finally convinces me to add collapsion functionality to this page.)

• Season 1: Happens like a standard soap opera, although now I've come back here and decided the person who will start to unravel the show's reality will be someone new in town, and essentially the decisive protagonist to most of the fanbase (at least as long as they're around). Around the middle of the season, someone will comment on something that seems to be a cliché trope in soap operas, but nobody will think too much about it. In the penultimate episode however, something dramatic will happen, and during an overdrawn suspenseful revelation, they'll remark saying that everyone should stop acting like ning-nongs and get to the point, and then just blurts out the point. At the end of the final episode, they'll mutter something along the lines of: "Why does everything feel so strange? This feels like a soap opera..."
• Season 2: They don't think much about it other than that it's strange, but eventually they do tell someone about what they've felt. It takes a while for the other person to really understand and believe them, and they're also interrupted, which only gives them more conviction that something really weird is happening. But it isn't long before the other person starts telling people about how the first person is starting to feel pretty strange - from both perspectives between them and the rest of the cast. They feel rejected, but quickly snap out of it and try to tell another person - who shortly decides they're a bit wacko. Now they start to feel a combination of desperation and rejection, but not much happens other than that.
• Season 3: Something shocking happens - something way too fitting for a soap opera, rather than reality - and it takes a while for the person to learn about it. They're still having the frustrations of slow-moving dialogue, almost blatantly inhibitory, but eventually they learn about it, and start trying to tell people on the internet about it toward the end of the season. This doesn't currently connect with reality, though.
• Season 4: They start trying to connect with the other people and really make the whole cast aware that something's definitely awry. At first, they're like, "wow, are you still on about that weird idea?"...but one other person starts to realise. They keep getting interrupted when they try to talk to each other alone, but get the chance once they're too suspicious. Eventually they mention superstition and that it might just be that reality is a really weird thing - but they agree to keep sharing their observations with each other.
• Season 5: Eventually, one of them starts doing research on soap operas and related tropes - and gets that feel like when you've just done a personality test/astrological assessment/whatever and are now reading remarkably accurate articles about your pathology and life. Now they are both adamant at least that their lives might be orchestrated in some way - not necessarily by authorship, but certainly manipulated to some degree nonetheless. They start becoming suspicious of the other characters, although they do try to keep making points - and this is when the show seems to take notice. The other characters start looking at them, almost invariably, like they're unhealthily obsessive, and they start developing feelings of isolation - but at least they have each other. The season finale ends with a breakup/falling-out with another character, making one/both of them feel...pretty sad. One other character starts being curious about why they feel that way so much.
• Season 6: This drives one of them to start doing research about theirself. Notice that they are using a made-up search engine that specifically excludes results about the show they're in, but they don't imagine this could actually be the case. This slowly progresses until the finale, with a lot of obstacles facing their personal life in the process, and eventually they finally come across a picture of theirself on the internet...over another person's name. The credits instantly transition from it in that way, showing other pictures of characters over actors' names.
• Season 7: At this point, the show banishes both of them under the explanation by other characters that they're caught-up in a silly conspiracy, and uses this time to introduce an old enemy of theirs (either from childhood or adulthood) into the cast. Once the enemy is properly friends with the main cast, finally in the finale, one of them shows up and makes a frantic, obviously drawn-out declaration that they are definitely, in fact, in a soap opera. A different actor is playing them, effectively overwriting everyone's memories of their appearance, but this transition is in vain. They would say it straight-up, but they realise they wouldn't be believed without quite a few lines of pre-explanation, and it reinforces their assimilation into a soap opera. The episode ends with the enemy walking into the room.
• Season 8: The first episode starts on some parts of storylines that aren't that, but quickly goes back to the revelation scene since it knows it can't hide it. The enemy is pretty much like, "long time no see... Looks like you've only started sucking more since we last saw each other. We're on a soap opera? Really??? Wow, you're pretty mental LOL." The person is like "no I have proof" but the enemy doesn't want to hear about it. In the next episode, the person tries to be more and more desperate so that the enemy's consistent stubbornness to not see the evidence proves their fabricated melodrama, but they just leave instead, with the person unable to do anything about it. They get as little screen time as they can get during the season, but eventually more people see the evidence, and this is when some of them start trying to contact people in the real world through various websites trying to make sense of the conundrum (although, as someone with more technological experience will note early in season 10, all of their devices have been blocked from accessing most sites mentioning the show, including almost every mainstream social platform). One or two characters die, and in the season finale they're all contemplating what to do about the situation.
• Season 9: At this point, the cast is very worried about what's happening. Problems seem to happen more frequently, and they're all trying to take steps to minimise the risks that would be imposed upon their lives since every little thing has arbitrary meaning while they all try to come up with a long-term plan to deal with the situation. They try to do things like be extremely upfront, minimise conflict, become friends, leave the show and be more diligent, but it's still very hard, and a lot of characters feel oppression and existential crisis. More family members and other characters with issues join the cast in an attempt to distract everyone from the reality of the situation, but this is also in vain as the main cast fills them in and reinforces the main problem. At the end of the season, a prominent character gets into serious trouble (with the law or a dodgy group of people), and another character sets out to research the producers.
• Season 10: Now the show is becoming very dramatic and violent. Characters are suddenly reminded of previous crimes they'd committed and other things they regret doing or ought to do, facing significantly more problems, and even dying more frequently. Someone notes that everyone's devices have been restricted, so they go to places like the local libraries and other places with devices...but they're all restricted as well, so they try to call family members overseas, telling them about their research so they can continue for them. As usual, it takes a long time to get through to them, and most of them still think they're crazy and don't bother to do any research, but a few believe them and start doing research...but one of them die as well. Which makes the relatives in the cast feel really guilty for dragging their distant family into this. It's now at this point that a few overseas characters start trying to talk to people in the real world through the internet, and a few sentiments are shared with the main cast. In the season finale, one of the characters snaps and runs outside, and many other characters chase them, forcing the show's footage to become akin to a frantic scene in a reality show with freehand cinematography. In exactly two simultaneous improvised takes, the character who ran outside starts yelling at people, desperately trying to spread the word about their situation, while the others follow them. Eventually, they see someone who may or may not know them as an actor or a character on the show, but tells them to stop harassing them and get that camera away from them. The character looks around, unable to see the camera, but they tell them to stop playing games and point at the camera. A lot of this might not happen, but the important thing is this: still unable to perceive the camera, the person runs toward the screen, looks indirectly at the viewer, and says something like, "are you there? Stop watching and HELP ME!" Then it cuts to black.
• Season 11: The first episode starts with the other characters chasing him for a while, but the cinematography is now steady again, indicating that the show is taking back control. They see him hit by a truck. Of course. The show is now flashing faint, subliminal messages on the screen such as "KEEP WATCHING", "THIS IS A GOOD SHOW", "THE UNCERTAINTY IS CAPTIVATING", "THIS IS WORTH WATCHING", "WE NEED MORE OF THIS" and "STAY WITH THE SHOW" multiple times per episode, particularly at the end of each one, and the soundtrack also has subliminal lyrics/voices similarly raving about the show. It also uses other propaganda and psychological techniques to simultaneously coax the viewers into watching the show and ignoring the problem. Now that some overseas family members have told them about the show, though, one character is soon caught for a crime and arrested, and they are all scheduled to go to court at a later date. At the moment, they're conflicted about whether they should keep trying to confront the producers, or attend the trial and present evidence about the actual show, but they soon decide on the latter. At the trial,
• Aaaaaaaand that's all he wrote. Muuuueeeeehhh.
• These HTML elements are a reference to an aunt.

So here are some other more general ideas for this show:

• If the show becomes an ARG, there will be a few main obstacles to overcome when trying to connect with the characters.
• One obstacle will be trying to locate the site. I suppose the actors would get to privately pick any sites of their choice, while the people running the show will try to find, shut down and derail all of their conversations. For more protection, they would have to try to use sites from the deep/dark web, minimise their involvement in the show, maybe use end-to-end encryption or archive methods, and all the rest of it.
• Another obstacle would be all the decoy roleplayers who'd inevitably appear. Many of them would be from the audience, and some might even be from the producers.
• Another obstacle would be all the people trying to shove the characters off-course by giving them false hope, information or promises.
• Something about schizophrenia. I wrote this before an entry that says "court will not listen to show reality" so maybe that explains it
• "author tries to put in so much drama, show flops"
• Yeah not quite sure what I was thinking about there
• "eavesdropping on producer consulting psychologist and scriptwriters"
• "understanding author"
• Philosophical debate over what gives life purpose, the ethics of storywriting, authorship, godhood, subordination and determinism
• Eventual confrontation with this page and possibly the future r/CrazyIdeas post

(To be finished)

Truly dynamic music

I noticed that most examples of "dynamic music"...aren't particularly that dynamic. Like the majority of all the "dynamic" music there is consists of precomposed track layers that just crossfade into each other. The most dynamic examples of such music I've heard so far are in Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered, which includes midi tracks that can transpose and change tempo, and involve measure-snapped transitions, layer-fading and note sustenance in some parts, and 4D Golf, where they expand on the layer-fading idea and have multiple layers that accentuate or mute based on the realmic orientation, to subtly help trionian players navigate the place. In general, I find that scores for preproduced audiovisual media (like videos, movies, shows and animations), despite being comprehensively static, are far more "dynamic" than videogame OSTs have ever been from a musical standpoint. I mean, that makes them great for looping and listening to in the background, and not just having repetitive set story beats out of nowhere, but it's also a bit plain, and, decidedly unrevolutionary. :P

Well, this idea aims to produce a game that has truly dynamic music that musically reacts and adapts to your gameplay, like a film score does to the characters. The idea seems a bit like the speech of Squid, who reacts to pretty much everything you do in Will You Snail (so it's roughly as feasible), but in musical form. It doesn't have to be AI-generated, but the main point is to include melodies, leitmotifs, uhm, musical exclamations (yunno, like, the stings, probably), expectations and directions, tone/key shifts, and all the rest of it, with lots of variables controlling them all. And to make it even more interesting, make all of the soundtrack for the game microtonal on hardcore mode. Pulling off this idea would require decent proficiency in music theory, mixing and scorewriting. Unlike with the usual "dynamic" music, the game development and programming would have to directly involve the dynamics of musical theory and storytelling.

Probably the most important hallmark of dynamic music, which I honestly have not seen anyone do to a significant extent so far, is branch. All the dynamic music that exists so far has variations and things, but overall, it still has a linear progression. The closest I think I've heard is when a game cuts to one of multiple short codas, usually in response to a player succeeding or failing an objective, and honestly, that's not even really dynamic because there's no attempt to make the coda transition or blend in. It just cuts. Also, the game is basically a cutscene when said coda is playing. One of the most important parts of truly dynamic music, which would make it tedious or nigh-impossible to listen to as a linear soundtrack, would be adapting to branching player decisions, in realtime, with the music still following from before, and not just switching to another piece like pretty much every choice-based game ever.

It would give everyone a unique experience of the soundtrack that's tailored to their gameplay. I'll know it turns out good if 1, the music sounds really good; 2, the music doesn't have a lot of bugs that make it sound unintentionally weird when the player does certain things; and 3, it's extremely hard to encapsulate the music in a linear soundtrack, and most attempts turn out to be disappointing. Videos about it would basically be like the ones showcasing different choices and endings in games, and it wouldn't result in a singular, cohesive soundtrack. Also, I kinda want to make this in Scratch, for two reasons. One: I want to see how well it'd function and perform on there, and it would be awesome if I got it to work well. Two: I think it would be funny if I did something revolutionary on Scratch and it ended up becoming just another featured project on there, with people all around pointing to a Scratch project as the origin of something revolutionary. What would be even funnier is if it was based on the Purple Nemesis saga. No considerable effort put into character design or anything like that: just funny balls and shapes doing a bare-bones conflict story, while the most epically satisfying music you can think of plays in the background reflecting the situation. It would be hilarious XDDDDD

Okay I just decided to do a Google search to see if there's some information about this, and I saw the Wikipedia page about it and it turns out that I'm not the first one to have this idea. LOL. Oh well! I hope I can at least be the first to do it in an orchestral style, with detailed pre-composed elements. And at least none of them involve player choice branching or elaborate recognition of player behaviour yet :P

String Player Gamer, if you're reading this, I am sorry

Chess battle

Funny animation about chess pieces fighting like soldiers and warriors and using unique abilities from captured pieces

Story about eternal immortality

I think I got this idea a few months ago. It would be a story about someone who gets born, never dies, and slowly experiences a litany of increasingly-anomalous psychological effects as civilisation morphs and expands, the universe seems to shuffle itself around them, and it slowly drifts away from them as it dies, leaving them stuck floating in a silent void forever.

I think the first chapter would be about their development from birth to a century of age...

One of the major plot twists in the story is that it is an origin story for God - particularly, an Abrahamic-style interpretation of a monotheistic god with clear mental health issues. After floating in an empty vacuum for an increasingly googological span of time and constructing progressively more elaborate concepts in their head, the protagonist begins to start simulating universes in their mind with more and more complexity until finally, out of complete madness and desperation induced by an incomprehensible period of sensory deprivation, they imagine a universe in which they create a tiny speck bestowed with a thin layer of life, create chosen groups and torment them for a little while.

I want to continue but my LLM isn't functioning adequately at the moment because I can't think of anything to say that sounds like it appropriately follows. Please come back later.

To be finished

A game about paranoia

I had this idea many years ago. Dunno if I actually wrote it anywhere. I mean, I feel like I did, but I didn't see anything about it on my Reddit posts, my Reddit drafts or my Discord server

Basically, it's a game specifically engineered in such a way that anyone just popping by at any point in the game, like a roomie or a stream viewer, will never notice anything wrong immediately (unless you spoil it). In fact, it might even be designed to make you sound crazy if you try and frantically explain it, like you're most likely making things up about the game, or at the very least that there is some sort of problem, but not now. However, you will be freaking out and questioning everything a lot, and it will all make sense in context. Any other thoughts I had on this idea are probably lost to time

In case you're thinking - well, I was thinking that the game would be about more than just a mental illness or psychosis. There would be a lot of tangible elements - just ones hidden so well and reliant on context that uninformed people wouldn't notice. It would be a bit like the player and the game giving each other end-to-end encryption keys, but the keys are cues and associations and things

Clingy fluorescent dust to sprinkle before vacuuming the floor

Bright green (or other colour) clingy dust to sprinkle all over the floor before you sweep/vacuum so you can tell if you've done it properly

Pirate game with extra content exclusively for piraters

A pirate game where piracy of the game actually unlocks new features and paths you can't get by playing the game honestly

A language differentiating between /tʃ/ and /tʃ/

A language that differentiates between /tʃ/ and /tʃ/ to spite the people who wrote the IPA chart and were like, "nobody ever says "tsh" so I guess we can just label "ch" as /tʃ/"

Fragile non-lethal live wires to punish cats for biting cords

A fragile non-lethal (very low power) live wire specifically for cats to bite so when they get into it, they get a nasty shock and start getting negative reinforcement* for cables

*Yeah I know it's actually positive punishment \(-_-)/

Keep families of many major religions in stasis for a micrennium and then see how they interact with a slightly different humanity

Preserve a bunch of families from many different major religions for some million years, then release them and be like "Okay, you're the ambassadors for these religions now" or "what do you think of us now?" when there's humanoid species using advanced technology and space travel around them

Mods for ebooks and other digital written works

Tridaily population shuffle cycle

Randomly divide the whole world population into two groups, then randomly switch the places of one group with each other. The next day, restore the first group and switch the second group. The day after that, restore everyone. Then repeat this every three days. Match ages if that's important.

Ambrosial cuisine

Sandwich some pickled chocolate, mushroom and coriander in juicy thick tuna, then spread some vegemite on it, and glaze it with a bit of orange juice and milk. Wrap it all in buk choy. Bake it a bit, then simmer it, then bake it again. Wrap it to the bottom of a bowl with lots of nori and enjoy!!!

Decadent internet-wide user content wipe

Give everyone a decade to backup everything they've submitted online, including comments, posts, images, videos, media, wiki pages, message threads, game data, and whatever else there is. At the end of the decade, wipe all user-submitted content from every server and website. Then repeat.

Every time you blink, your FOV changes to a random angle

Introduction of every person whose name in a list of credits crosses a point

Move the credits of a movie/other project over to a side. On the other side, show an introduction of the person whose name is currently crossing the middle of the screen. They can say whatever they want about themselves and talk/rant about their involvement and work on their part of the production.

Oh, you know what, actually? That sounds like a really good idea! Maybe if I actually get to make projects where other people actually get involved and contribute, I'll do this idea. That sounds good :)

Large-scale mind control using love potion

Real crazy idea I randomly thought of: Basically mind-control large swathes of people by diffusing love potion into the air at a large gathering when they're looking at something (e.g. a screen), then show them a character that represents something.

Highlight double-spaces as bad grammar

Make all spelling-checking software put red lines under double spaces

Movements rallying for completely normal rights

Start a movement for something, that's not an issue and is already the case. For example, a Straight Rights movement, or White Lives Matter, or a Freedom To Eat Junk Food movement

Not only is this crazy - it's very very silly.
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Dreadful consequentialism lessons for naughty kids

From age 5, every time your child does something naughty, make them watch a documentary at least an hour long about how a similar act totally devastated somebody's life

Global ambient music for the world's and locale's conditions

Have ambient music that accurately reflects the state of the world and the local country, always playing everywhere around the world. Make everyone constantly aware of the world we live in

Cash storage fluid sanitation

Make all of the cash storage in every shop immersed in antibacterial/hygienic fluid.

Open-source first-person 24/7 livestreams of the world population

Open-source first-person livestreams of everyone in the whole world

Don't try this in real life please