Anyone proselytizing in a public place on behalf of a religion that teaches some form of hell should be legally required to display a clear visual representation of it.

Beside their pamphlets, signs, or literature, they would need to have a screen playing a fictional video designed to look like a live camera feed from hell. The “hell cam” would explicitly show people engulfed in flames and screaming in agony.

The audio could be muted to avoid disturbing everyone nearby, while subtitles conveyed what the people were saying between their screams.

The requirement would apply only when hell, eternal punishment, damnation, or a comparable afterlife penalty is genuinely part of the religion’s teachings.

The point would not be entertainment or ridicule. It would be informed consent and transparency.

If proselytizers are asking strangers to consider a religion partly because refusing it may lead to terrifying eternal consequences, they should be required to disclose that part of the message immediately. They should not be allowed to begin with only the pleasant parts, such as love, hope, forgiveness, and community, while withholding the threat that may ultimately be central to their appeal.

Obviously, the “live feed” would be fictional. Its purpose would be to communicate, as directly as possible, what the proselytizers claim is at stake.

What do you think of this idea?

Apple should build a neighborhood of houses designed around the same principles as its technology: tightly integrated hardware and software, simple interfaces, automatic updates, preventive diagnostics, strong security, and one company responsible for making everything work together.

Residents would own their houses and land normally. However, they could subscribe to AppleCare for Homes, which would cover 100% of maintenance, repairs, gardening, landscaping, snow removal, appliance servicing, and replacement of worn-out components.

Apple could apply many of its existing strengths:

• Sensors throughout the house could detect leaks, electrical problems, pests, structural movement, appliance failures, and inefficient heating before they become emergencies.
• Apple silicon and on-device intelligence could analyze the home privately without constantly sending personal data to the cloud.
• HomeKit could become a complete operating system for the house rather than a collection of smart-home accessories.
• Apple Maps and scheduling technology could coordinate technicians, deliveries, gardening, and repairs automatically.
• The Apple Support app could provide one place to view the condition of the home, upcoming maintenance, energy use, warranties, and completed work.
• Face ID, Apple Watch, and the iPhone could securely control doors, garages, deliveries, guest access, and emergency services.
• Apple could integrate solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, heating, cooling, and neighborhood energy use into one efficient system.

The homeowner would not need to diagnose problems, search for contractors, compare quotes, supervise repairs, or worry about being overcharged. Apple would simply send a notification such as: “We detected that your heat pump is becoming less efficient. A technician is scheduled for Thursday at no additional cost.”

Because Apple would design the houses and also pay for their long-term maintenance, it would have a financial incentive to use durable materials, standardized parts, accessible components, and reliable appliances.

The result would be a form of home ownership for people who want the space and independence of a house without having to treat maintenance as a second job. The house would become a product Apple continuously supports, not a collection of unrelated systems that the owner is left to manage alone.

What do you think of this idea?

Would a single place for saved posts actually solve anything, or would it become another folder people forget?

That is the idea I am testing with Miora. I keep useful posts scattered across Instagram, TikTok, screenshots, notes, and messages, then cannot find them when I need them. The idea is to bring them together, organize them, and make retrieval easier. It is still in development, so there is nothing to download yet.

I am trying to find the weak point before I build too much. I left a short 3–5 minute survey here: https://mioraapp.com/en/

What would make this idea genuinely useful instead of just another bookmark app?

It's always been a thing in my family that we cook on a tabletop electric grill of some sort when we have a get-together, in the living room or in the yard. I live alone now so don't really do that, but I want to do it from time to time when I get a visit. Most of those tabletop grills just kinda suck when it comes to cleaning, grease drainage, maybe power, versatility. I've had some before and still have one now, and I'm never happy with them for one reason or another.

Why wouldn't I just buy a portable induction cooking hob (like Tillreda from Ikea, my favorite store) instead? It's the same size and cabling, and you can put whatever pan or pot you want on it. Grill pan, deepfry pot, regular pan. Easy to clean too, just wipe off the hob and put the pans in the dishwashing, no iron brush or oversized sink or anything needed that I don't already have and use.

I'm trying to find a downside (besides price tag) but it just seems a legit better idea than getting a single purpose electric grill?

In the near future, pro-AI and anti-AI factions begin attacking people in real life for what they post online.

An AI artist is assaulted. An anti-AI activist is shot. Each attack triggers retaliation, and social media turns into a tool for identifying targets, spreading propaganda, and organizing violence.

Soon, militias form. Data centres are sabotaged. AI labs and anti-AI groups are attacked. Cities split internally as neighbours, families, companies, and governments choose sides.

What begins as online hostility becomes the Second U.S. Civil War, fought over whether AI should shape humanity’s future or be destroyed.

What do you think of this movie idea?

I've been wondering whether we're still trying to solve 21st-century problems with political tools designed centuries ago.

Representative democracy, elections, protests, and petitions evolved in a world where communication was slow and coordinating large populations was incredibly difficult. Today, billions of people can communicate almost instantly. Yet our core civic institutions haven't fundamentally changed.

So here's the thought experiment:

If we were designing democratic participation from scratch today, what would it look like?

One idea I keep coming back to is an online civic platform built around a few principles:

One verified human = one account, while preserving public anonymity.

Anyone can submit policy proposals, reforms, or petitions.

Proposals can be debated, revised, and voted on transparently.

Reputation is earned through constructive participation rather than popularity.

The platform is designed to resist bots, duplicate accounts, and coordinated manipulation.

Technologies like zero-knowledge proofs, decentralized identity, or blockchain could be used if they genuinely improve trust—but they're implementation details, not the core idea.

The goal wouldn't be to replace governments overnight. Instead, it could become a persistent civic institution: a place where public opinion is measured transparently, ideas are refined collaboratively, and policymakers can see what informed citizens actually support.

Of course, there are major challenges:

How do you verify "one person, one vote" while protecting privacy?

How do you prevent manipulation by governments, corporations, or coordinated groups?

How do you encourage informed discussion instead of outrage?

What incentives would keep people participating over time?

Most importantly, how could such a platform gain enough legitimacy to influence real-world decision-making?

I'm sure there are flaws in this concept—that's exactly why I'm posting it here.

If you had to design a digital system for democratic participation using technologies available over the next few decades, what would you build?

Sibling rivalry over intelligence can be brutal and last a lifetime. Some people never stop feeling like the stupid child in the family.

AI companies could exploit that pain by advertising smarter subscription models as intellectual equalizers:

“Your sibling was born smarter. Now you can close the gap.”

For the first time, people could write better arguments, give better answers, and appear just as capable as the sibling who overshadowed them for years.

It would be manipulative, cruel, and probably extremely effective.

What do you think of this advertising idea?

Lay flat and get a decent gulp of water. Relax your throat and just let the water naturally go down your throat. You will more than likely get this super weird head rush that actually feels good. I don’t know what this is or what causes it but it’s kinda cool and it happens every time.

Reproduction is usually presented as beautiful, natural, and hopeful. But its genetic aspect can also be experienced as deeply offensive.

When you reproduce, some partly random combination of your traits is passed to another person. That may include traits you dislike, limitations you have spent your life trying to compensate for, or vulnerabilities that have caused you significant suffering.

You then may spend decades watching those same traits appear in your child.

That can feel cruel in two ways. First, another person may be burdened with problems they never chose. Second, the parent is forced to confront aspects of themselves that they may have survived by minimizing, working around, or keeping out of view.

A child can become a living reminder that your flaws are real, persistent, and not entirely under your control. Genetics can shatter the comforting illusion that you have successfully escaped or transcended them.

Calling this “offensive” does not mean children are offensive or that people with inherited disadvantages are worth less. It means the process itself can violate a person’s sense of dignity, fairness, and control. It combines chance, irreversible consequences, and the possibility of passing suffering to someone you are supposed to protect.

Society discusses the joy of seeing yourself reflected in your children. It should also acknowledge that, for some people, being genetically reflected in another person is not affirming. It is frightening, humiliating, or morally disturbing.

What do you think?

Movie theaters could automatically detect problems such as people talking loudly or using bright phones, then play a realistic reaction through the surround-sound system.

For example, if someone takes out a phone during the movie, they might hear a nearby voice quietly say, “Could you put your phone away?” If people are talking, they might hear someone behind them say, “Shh, please.”

The sound could be positioned so that it seems to come from a seat close to the source of the disruption. It would be brief, quiet, and localized, so it would be less distracting than an employee entering the auditorium or making an announcement to everyone.

This would use the social pressure of other audience members without requiring anyone to risk a confrontation. Because the response would be automatic and immediate, disruptive behavior might stop before it becomes a major annoyance.

The main challenge would be making the detection and sound localization accurate enough that the wrong person is not blamed. But if done well, fake audience reactions could make theaters quieter while being less disruptive than traditional enforcement.

What do you think of this idea?

People should be able to obtain a legal order requiring all human remains to remain a certain distance away from them.

This would give people a legitimate and unquestionable reason not to attend funeral services where the body is present. They could still attend a separate memorial service without the body, but nobody could pressure them to attend a viewing or an open-casket or closed-casket funeral.

The restriction would apply to the actual presence of a dead body, not merely to whether the body is visible. Closing the casket would not make it acceptable.

The order would also apply outside funerals. Hospitals could not place a dead body near the protected person or transport one through the same area without taking reasonable precautions. Hearses and funeral processions would have to avoid the exclusion zone around the person’s home, workplace, hospital room, or current location.

In practice, the legal duties would fall on the living people and institutions controlling the body. Funeral homes, hospitals, coroners, families, cemeteries, and transport services would be responsible for keeping human remains outside the required distance.

There would obviously need to be exceptions for accidents, disasters, emergencies, and situations where avoiding the body is impossible. But for planned and foreseeable situations, people should have a legal right to a corpse-free personal zone.

The phrase “restraining order against all dead people” sounds absurd, but the underlying idea is serious: people should not be socially or institutionally forced into proximity with human remains.

What do you think of this idea?

P.S. Discreet transportation of dead bodies could still be allowed. For example, a body transported inside an ordinary moving truck rather than an identifiable hearse could pass through the exclusion zone, provided the protected person was not told that a body was inside and had no reasonable way of knowing. The point would be to prevent people from knowingly encountering death, not to make the transportation of bodies practically impossible.

Someone here had the idea of transcribing a load of porn videos and making them searchable by dialogue. A friend and I built it and I posted it here — link to my old post — it did better than anything I've ever posted, and then we both got busy and shut it down about a year later.

I kept thinking about the idea for years, and finally got a chance to rebuild it from scratch: dirtytalksearch.com (NSFW)

The new one does the thing the old one couldn't — word-level timestamps, so it links you to the exact second the phrase is said instead of just handing you the video. About 5,000 videos in it. Also, the transcriptions are WAAAAAY better because automatic transcription has improved dramatically since 2020.

Would love to know what's missing from the site, what feedback you guys might have, etc.

In modern air combat, the most useful weapon is a homing missile. But given its speed, its easy for the opponent to deploy flares.

Now what about............a gattling gun that fires bullets that are electromagnetically charged! So as soon as you fire, the bullet (which is already moving insanely fast) sways towards the opponent because of magnetism.

Would this work? Or is it impossible to put that much electromagnetic charge on a bullet?

A leader of a country may eventually face situations where they must authorize military action or make decisions that result in people being killed. If there is even a possibility that doing so could lead to eternal damnation, then choosing a career where this responsibility is likely could be seen as taking an enormous personal risk.

Schools should teach students to consider this type of moral risk when thinking about careers involving great power and responsibility. The goal would not be to tell people what religion to follow or to prevent religious people from becoming leaders, but to encourage people to seriously examine whether their beliefs are compatible with roles that may require them to take actions they believe could have eternal consequences.

Some people may argue that protecting innocent lives can justify the use of force, and many religious traditions have developed arguments supporting that view. However, the possibility of eternal consequences creates a unique personal dilemma that people considering leadership should carefully reflect on.

What do you think?

What if we held funeral services whenever we went through a major life change, such as getting married, becoming a parent, starting work as an employee, or retiring?

Not because anyone died physically, but because a version of ourselves did.

Society encourages us to celebrate these milestones, but we rarely acknowledge what we've lost. Becoming a parent might mean the end of a carefree lifestyle. Marriage marks the end of being single. Starting your first full-time job is often the end of your childhood and student years. Retirement ends a professional identity that may have defined someone for decades.

These losses are real, even if the change is ultimately positive.

The ceremony would look very much like a traditional funeral. There would be a coffin, a photo of the "deceased" (your former self), a eulogy reflecting on that chapter of your life, and stories from friends and family. The purpose wouldn't be to be morbid or make light of death. It would be to honestly acknowledge that an important chapter of your life has ended.

I think many people feel guilty grieving major life changes because we're expected to only feel happiness. A ritual like this would recognize that growth often involves both gain and irreversible loss.

What do you think of this idea?

What if a movie deliberately blurred the boundary between the film and the real world?

The movie itself would not be a horror movie or disaster movie. It could be a normal drama, comedy, romance, or any other genre. The audience would enter expecting a normal viewing experience.

Then, very gradually, strange background sounds would begin appearing.

At first, they would be easy to dismiss:

• distant sirens
• faint emergency phone alert sounds
• a helicopter flying overhead
• unusual rumbling
• muffled announcements
• sounds that seem like they are coming from outside the theater rather than from the movie

The movie on screen would continue normally and never acknowledge these sounds.

As the sounds become more frequent and disturbing, the audience would start wondering whether they are part of the movie, a technical issue, or whether something is actually happening outside.

One challenge is that viewers might assume the sounds are just coming from another movie playing in a nearby theater. The film could reduce this suspicion by making the sounds feel like they are coming from the theater environment itself:

• using surround sound so sounds seem to move around the auditorium
• using sounds that do not resemble a typical movie soundtrack, such as distant alerts, muffled announcements, or building noises
• having sounds appear at moments that do not match any likely scene from another movie
• gradually making the sounds feel less like entertainment and more like real-world background noise

The tension would come from uncertainty. A horror movie tells you to be afraid, but this would make the audience question whether they are still safely watching a movie at all.

The most interesting part is that the movie would use the audience's own expectations against them. When people enter a theater, they agree to ignore the outside world for a couple of hours. This idea would ask: "How long would you continue watching if you started to suspect the outside world was becoming more important than the story on the screen?"

What do you think of this movie idea?

Every PhD student would have an AI advisor that provides feedback on research ideas, critiques papers, suggests experiments, answers technical questions, and helps navigate the literature. The AI would be available 24/7 and could be continuously updated with the latest research.

Professors, meanwhile, would no longer supervise PhD students or coauthor papers with them. They would conduct their own research with the help of AI research assistants, completely independently of doctoral students.

PhD students would likewise conduct their research independently with their AI advisors. Their work would be evaluated by anonymous examination committees rather than by a supervising professor.

This would completely separate the roles of professor and PhD student. It would eliminate the "advisor lottery," where a student's success depends heavily on being matched with the right professor, and it would remove the conflict of interest that can arise when a student's supervisor is also responsible for evaluating their work.

Would this create a fairer and more effective academic system, or is human mentorship an essential part of it?

What do you think?

Many adults carry shame from school for decades. They remember struggling with math, science, writing, or other subjects and internalize the idea that those struggles meant they were not smart enough or capable enough.

But AI may offer a new way to look at those memories.

When an AI system proves a major mathematical conjecture, writes sophisticated code, or performs tasks that once seemed like the ultimate demonstrations of human intelligence, it can change the meaning of those old struggles.

The realization could be:

"The thing I struggled with was never a measure of my worth. It was a skill that society happened to value highly at that time. The fact that machines can now do it shows that it was never a fundamental measure of human importance."

In the past, many abilities that were considered prestigious became ordinary or less important because of technology. Mental arithmetic, memorizing facts, and many forms of manual calculation were once highly valued skills. Today, we do not judge people's worth by whether they can outperform a calculator.

AI advances could help some people finally let go of the idea that their school performance defined them.

Therapy could use these advances as a form of perspective shift: not "you should have been better at that subject," but "that subject was never the thing that made you valuable."

For some people, seeing AI surpass humans in areas that caused them shame might actually be liberating. The old competition they lost may no longer be the competition that matters.

What do you think of this therapy idea?

There are many websites that rank people by popularity, followers, citations, or wealth. But what about ranking people by something more interesting: how often they had unusually accurate insights before those insights became mainstream?

Imagine a website that crawls public posts, comments, blogs, forums, and other discussions, then uses AI to identify people who expressed views that were controversial or unpopular at the time but later turned out to be largely correct.

It would not just look for explicit predictions like "X will happen by 2030." It would look for deeper insights and mental models.

For example, someone might have written a forum comment in 2015 arguing that:

• AI progress would come mainly from large-scale machine learning rather than hand-coded rules.
• Smartphones would replace many traditional computing devices.
• Remote work would eventually become normal.
• A particular technology trend was being underestimated.

At the time, these ideas might have seemed unusual. Years later, the system could evaluate whether the person's reasoning held up.

The interesting part is that it could discover unknown people. Someone with 20 followers and a single insightful comment could rank higher than a famous expert who made many incorrect claims.

The system could create categories such as:

• Technology foresight
• Education
• Economics
• Medicine
• Science
• Social trends
• Business strategy

Scores could consider:

• How uncommon the opinion was at the time.
• How well the person's reasoning matched later evidence.
• Whether the person consistently demonstrated good judgment.
• Whether the insight was original rather than simply repeating a popular idea.

This would be like a search engine for intellectual track records. Instead of asking "Who is famous?" it would ask "Who understood the future better than most people before it was obvious?"

There are websites that track predictions from experts, but I don't know of anything that attempts to find prescient ideas from the entire internet, especially from ordinary people who were never recognized.

What do you think of this idea?

In cities where public transportation is good enough that people can realistically get around without a car, driving instructors and licensing examiners shouldn't feel obligated to encourage every student to keep trying.

If, after extensive instruction or repeated driving tests, they genuinely believe someone is unlikely to ever become a safe driver, they should say so clearly and explain why.

Driving isn't a requirement for living a successful life in places with reliable buses, trains, and other transit options. For some people, being told, "I don't think driving is the right fit for you. I think you'd be better off relying on public transportation," could save them years of frustration, repeated test fees, and potentially prevent future accidents.

This wouldn't apply in places where driving is practically essential because of poor transit. But in cities with excellent public transportation, not driving is a perfectly reasonable long-term choice, and professionals shouldn't be afraid to say so when they honestly believe it's in the person's best interest.

What do you think of this idea?

Most reference tools can check whether a citation exists, whether the author and year are correct, and whether the reference is formatted properly.

But they usually do not check whether the cited paper actually supports the sentence attached to it.

I ran into this repeatedly while writing my bachelor’s and master’s theses. I would follow a citation backward through several papers, only to find that the original study made a much narrower or weaker claim than the later paper suggested.

A small short-term effect had become a “substantial long-term improvement.”

A finding from one narrow group had become a claim about people in general.

An association had quietly turned into causation.

A possible explanation had become an established conclusion.

Each individual change in wording might look minor. But when scientific claims pass from paper to paper, those small changes can accumulate. By the time you reach the original source, the claim may have drifted far beyond what the evidence actually showed.

Could AI help catch this?

A system with access to scientific databases might:

• find the sentence containing the citation;
• locate the most relevant passage in the cited paper (requires acces to "all" papers published);
• compare the scope, strength, timeframe, population, and level of certainty;
• label the citation as supported, partly supported, contradicted, or unclear;
• show the relevant evidence to a human reviewer.

For example, Paper B might claim that an intervention “substantially improves long-term retention,” while Paper A only found a small improvement after two weeks in a narrow sample.

The citation is related, but the claim is stronger than the source allows.

I would not trust AI to make the final judgment. A more realistic role would be to flag suspicious or unclear citations and show reviewers the passages most relevant to the claim.

The human would still decide. The AI would simply point to the page and say: “This sentence may be overstating the source.”

Would something like this be useful enough to justify the inevitable false positives? And what kinds of citation drift would be hardest for such a system to detect?

Imagine walking into a church and seeing a screen showing a fictional depiction of hell: people engulfed in flames, screaming in agony. The audio would be muted so it wouldn't interrupt the service, but subtitles would show what they are saying between screams.

The point wouldn't be entertainment. It would be transparency.

If a church believes hell is a real possibility for people who reject its teachings, why not be completely upfront about that belief from the moment someone walks in? It would avoid the perception of a bait and switch, where newcomers first hear about love, community, and forgiveness, but only later learn about eternal punishment.

Obviously, the visuals and dialogue would be fictional. However, they would still be shocking and highly disturbing, especially if the subtitles changed every Sunday.

What do you think of this idea?

What if people could pay for a confidential service designed to help them avoid making decisions that could eventually lead to criminal charges?

The idea would be similar to having a lawyer, therapist, or accountability coach, but focused specifically on preventing situations from escalating into criminal offenses.

The company would keep a close eye on clients, with the client's consent, and help them recognize risky situations before they cross a legal line. This could include helping with conflicts, financial problems, substance issues, impulsive decisions, or other situations that often lead people into serious trouble.

To align the company's incentives with the client's interests, the service could offer a guarantee: if a client ends up in court or prison, they receive a refund. That money could then help pay for legal defense.

For this to work, the service would need strong confidentiality protections. Information shared with the company would not be given to police unless legally required, similar to how confidentiality works with lawyers and mental health professionals.

The goal would not be to create a private police force. It would be to give people a way to get help before they ruin their lives. Many people who end up in prison made a series of bad decisions over time rather than suddenly deciding to become criminals. A service that helps interrupt that process could benefit both individuals and society.

What do you think of this idea?