Posting via telepathy

[afuna]

I'm beginning a campaign. This shall be a sticky post until the idea is implemented, or I get tired of campaigning for it, whichever comes first.

Title
Posting via telepathy

Short, concise description of the idea
Instant journal updates just by thinking of them!

Full description of the idea
Use telepathy to post to your journal; no need to type up posts. You'll never again have to worry about losing another entry just because you couldn't make it to a computer in time.

An ordered list of benefits

• no more discrimination against slow typers


• will help those with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome


• more accessible to those with assorted disabilities


• sometimes, you think of something brilliant to post but can't remember what it was when you sit down to type it. If you could only post it the moment you think the thought, you would stop losing these brilliant ideas

An ordered list of problems/issues involved

• possible discrimination against slow thinkers


• possible discrimination against visual thinkers (versus verbal thinkers). Solve it by adding a telepathic module for LJ's Scrapbook


• sometimes, certain ideas that were brilliant when you thought them up turn out not to be so when you post them. This isn't because you forgot the original phrasing or whatnot; it's because the idea wasn't actually brilliant in the first place. Certain LJ users may be forced to realize this and bruise their egos


• LJ would first have to prove the existence of telepathy


• LJ would have to develop in people the ability to post telepathically


• LJ would have to develop or buy the hardware required to catch telepathic posts. Such hardware would have to work at the speed of thought


• billions of people would realize that this is a brilliant idea, sign up for LJ, and try to post at once. Might kill the servers


• LJ would be blamed for an upsurge in stream-of-consciousness writing


• possibility of posts containing certain thoughts that users would, ah, rather not admit to


• dude, thoughtcrime

An organized list, or a few short paragraphs detailing suggestions for implementation

• I don't know, but the idea is absolutely fab, and I'm sure that everyone will love LJ forever if you would just give us this (oh, and more userpics)

(Originally posted as a comment here. Reposting it as an entry because I need to put it somewhere where I can edit the grammar. Also, grabbed the title and short description from chasethestars).

Comments

[murklins.livejournal.com]

Still full of awesome. :D

[afuna]

*bows* Pleasure to serve :)

I say we get ourselves some momentum. Pimp it out everywhere and get other voices to suggest it! (aren't you glad I'm too lazy to do all that?)

[iruka11.livejournal.com]

not bad idea. i hope they can make it in our lifetime. XD

[murklins.livejournal.com]

I labelled this thread in gmail as "community:suggestions" -- now you must maket that come true. The sanctity of my gmail labels depends on it!

[afuna]

In our lifetime? Dream big! I'm hoping it will be implemented by the end of 2007 ;)

[afuna]

I would love to do that. You know I would. But unfortunately, the suggestions maintainer would kill me! (And by extension, you, once I point out that I would never have posted it there if it weren't for you ;))

[murklins.livejournal.com]

(Credit where credit is due, eh? Or is is more "if I'm going down I'm taking you with me"? I prefer the latter; that's a sign of true friendship!)

Do you think dreaming would trigger it? Those would be some lame posts. Or some seriously disturbing ones. Defriendification worthy for sure.

[afuna]

(The latter, of course. Would I admit to anything else? :D)

I am not sure. I assume there would be a setting somewhere, or else everyone would complain. I predict lots of naked people and flying. Maybe lots of naked people flying -- but I pity the poor fools in that updraft.

Hm, I suppose one way around it would be to make the conscious decision to turn on posting. But what if you dreamed you'd made the conscious decision to turn on posting?

Gives another meaning to the words "opt-in" though.

[afuna]

That last line didn't make any sense. I meant to say "Gives another meaning to the word 'dreamjournal'", not "opt-in"!

[murklins.livejournal.com]

Maybe you can only post telepathically, but not change settings that way. So every night you could disable it, then re-enable in the morning.

I'm pretty sure no one would complain if the telepathic posting feature were opt-out instead of opt-in. How awesome would it be for those first few days when everyone was just posting everything they thought without even realizing it? That's right: TOTALLY AWESOME.

[afuna]

The chaos! The angst! The drama! The defriendings!

....oh wait, that's normal LJ.

[homeworldfan829.livejournal.com]

actually i was thinking of thought messaging. you know, instead of SMS, a thought message would go directly from your brain to the person you want to send it to. it is possible, the device just hasn't been invented yet or it's still too advanced for us to tackle. but with the smaller and smaller chips and devices, it certainly is possible..

[afuna]

I think it's a bit more complicated than that. I mean how would a thought message be processed? When we post right now, we filter our thoughts into readable form by typing them in as words using a keyboard, but let's say that we somehow manage to get advanced enough technology to wire our brains to a chip (not saying that everyone will want to do it, but let's assume first that it's possible and that people are willing to use it), how do we output the thoughts into a form that others will be able to understand?

I seem to remember seeing something where people managed to manipulate errr robots? Prosthetic limbs? to do simple tasks, but I don't know if it would be possible to do that on a more abstract level using the same method. I wish now I'd paid more attention to that *g*

[atomic-clay.livejournal.com]

For the win. XD

[homeworldfan829.livejournal.com]

well probably, the best way is to say it to a microphone, press some stuff, use any wireless medium to move that voice recording, have it recorded, and posting would not be readable, but be in voice - lj posts would no longer be on the web as we know it now but on the (i've made this up) the "stream"..

yung stream is a more complicated internet, but could lead to the human's "information overload" as you could tune in and out of it... I remember I watched a sci fi TV show Outer Limits on this before, and the guy got his brain cell fried and died due to a virus on the "stream"...

[homeworldfan829.livejournal.com]

This show was "

Stream Of Consciousness - Season 3
We quantify our world in order to learn... We break it down into facts, numbers, information... But how far dare we go before we destroy its mystery? We make tools to extend our abilities, to further our reach, and fulfill our aspirations. But we must never let them define us. For if there is no difference between tool and maker, then who will be left to build the world?"

from http://www.theouterlimits.com/noflash/downloads.html

[afuna]

But then it wouldn't be true telepathic posting, which was the point of the post.

LJ already has voice posts *g* There just needs to be a client on a handheld device (use a cellphone to call the number? Ahahha), though there's a limit on the number of voice posts per month, so it's not practical for everyday use. Also, voice posts are already stored as files, so no need to have a separate stream.

The voiceposting thingg just made me realize, though, that say there ever is developed straight mind-to-computer posting, the computer doesn't need to understand what it's receiving. I mean the computer already doesn't understand the data in the voicepost, right? It just needs to understand the commands to start and stop and also to add metadata, maybe... :D

[afuna]

Yay, I win! (Wala lang XD)

[chasethestars.livejournal.com]

+5!

I especially like the "Solve it by adding a telepathic module for LJ's Scrapbook" for visual thinkers. And of course, thoughtcrime in the list of possible problems.

[afuna]

My first green thumb!

...though it's been deleted now *g*



Things would go crazy if this ever became possible. I'M IN YOUR ELJAY, READING YOUR THOUGHTZ. (Something like that).

[chasethestars.livejournal.com]

I deleted after I posted because I noticed that Expressive/Mixit is missing the icons on comment subjects, and it looked like I left an empty comment, which essentially I did, but it didn't look so empty if the icon was there. (grr, I thought all the bugs had been found/noted)

I'M IN YOUR ELJAY, READING YOUR THOUGHTZ is already true ;)
it's just translated by the person thinking the thoughts, not straight from the thoughts.

[chasethestars.livejournal.com]

do'h. I meant to add a green thumbs up to that reply so that you'd still have one, for when the bug gets fixed or if you switch your layout, whichever one comes first.

[afuna]

The former is more properly I'M IN UR ELJAY, READING the transcription of UR THOUGHTZ, but that lacks a certain ring to it ;)

The bug will probably be fixed before I decide to change my layout. *g*

Thanks for the thumbs-up, by the way! All I lack now is the little acceptance/rejection message as a comment and tags, and it will look like a proper suggestions report *g*