Incomplete Ideas, Volume 2

• Distributed social media/facebook analog with strong searching, git-like back end and directed acyclic graphs for comment threads
• Conjecture: We're just not wired to emotionally understand or intuit the risks of living in a teleconnected 300 million person nation/society. In some sense, we believe that we live in a much smaller society and so we can't correctly the process the risk or distance when we see scary/bad thing happen to other people. This is both good, for empathy, and bad, for unreasonable reaction due to fear and/or poor risk estimation.
  • Can we use this as way to calculate a "natural or optimal size for human communities" (perhaps as a function)? i.e. pick a human societal size that causes our reaction to rare events to be an appropriate risk estimate.
• We ought culture a desire to test everything (possible) with adversarial systems. White hat crackers writ large.
• There's a reasonable level of donation to any store/service/gathering that one benefits from, one might calculate an hourly tip rate to avoid tragedy of the commons situations and provide for and signal interest in useful gathering places. Slightly relevant
• Human societies are self organizing?
• Cell phone holders for rest rooms