Incomplete Ideas, Volume 3

• incomplete ideas = brainshards
• Fantasy universe where oppositional magic systems are actually different computation models. e.g. functional/lambda calculus as white magic, imperative/turing machines as black magic, etc. Holy shit, this is an expansion on the Harold Shea stuff.
• Do (name)tag heavy environments result in an atrophying of facial/personal recognition ability?
• Ranking system for prioritizing book reading and rss feed reading order, perhaps with a small amount of randomization.
• Are electric knifefish a sort of distributed intelligence?
• The whole idea that work often or always involves alienation from ones family and children seems to be a post agricultural one.
• Distributed and peer to peer systems constrast with centralized systems in ways quite similar to the free market/centralized planning dichotomy. A similar analogy might be the utility of memetic diversity and free interaction among peers ought be similarly advantageous to genetic diversity and sexual vs asexual reproduction.
• Transgendered points of view have potential utility because they can act as a differential operator regarding social expectation and personal treatment as a function of gender. This can almost certainly be generalized. Transracial? Transreligious? Transheight?
  • Is low cost, reversible, true gender reassignment the solution gender discrimination?
• A free society ought never adopt the convention that a behaviour be justified as a necessity to be allowed. Freedom to act as one pleases without justification to others (and without harm to them) is the essence of liberty. (Nearly) any behavior/item involving actually physical power can be abused to cause harm to others. If there is a level of risk in a behavior so great as to justify limitations on that behavior, that standard should be applied universally without appeal to aesthetics, morality or other view point dependent justifications.
• Cooperative RTS or TBS where players perform roles like General (military leader), Architect (base builder) and Economist (Resource management)
• Dunbar's number is ~150, which was roughly the attendance of '99 MGS. Ought camps and other self contained societies and clubs be around such a size?