IDEA LEDGER

Speculative ideas

Unfinished on purpose.

These are proposals, analogies, and design directions that I want to make more falsifiable. They are not accomplishments wearing futuristic nouns.

Some will become experiments. Some will collapse as soon as the first useful control is added. Both outcomes are better than letting an interesting phrase impersonate a result.

SPECULATIVE IDEAPublished 2026-09-01

Attention and interruption economics

What would it mean for users to control who—or what—can interrupt them through permissions, budgets, priorities, or negotiated access?

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attentionhuman-computer interactionpermissionsagent systems
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SPECULATIVE IDEAPublished 2026-09-01

Salience signals in generation

Could generation use an additional learned “this matters” signal—distinct from next-token probability—to represent attraction, aversion, surprise, intensity, or resonance?

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saliencegenerationmodel architecturemusic cognition
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SPECULATIVE IDEAPublished 2026-09-01

Parameter strainer

Can model weights be treated as signals and progressively transformed toward a smaller target representation before or alongside ordinary quantization?

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not applicable
model compressionsignal processingquantization
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SPECULATIVE IDEAPublished 2026-09-01

Gunpla-scale embodied agents

Could inexpensive modular robotics give a persistent local agent a practical physical environment without starting at humanoid scale?

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not applicable
roboticsembodied agentslocal inference
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SPECULATIVE IDEAPublished 2026-09-01

Search-oriented biological computation

Can unusual search or brute-force framings of genetic systems yield testable computational questions without being mistaken for established biological research?

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not applicable
speculative biologysearchcomputational framing
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