/r/CrazyIdeas

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Is your idea too crazy to work? So crazy it might work? Perfect.

Create super hobos? Elaborate. Invisible spiders? Why not? There are no wrong ideas!

Rules
  1. Don't be a dick

  2. Submit original, interesting ideas. Leave sense, rationality, possibility, and ethics to boring people.

  3. Posts must be proposals for new, crazy ideas. Puns, jokes, and wordplay are only allowed as incidental components of more-complete concepts.

  4. No complaining or soapboxing. Offer an (insane) alternative instead.

  5. No posts referencing or relating to politics or political figures.

  6. No done-to-death ideas. If you can find a version of your idea by searching /r/CrazyIdeas, then you aren't being creative enough.

  7. Tag NSFW posts.

NOTE:

Awesome ideas are just as welcome here.

Don't comment saying "This belongs in /r/AwesomeIdeas!"

/r/CrazyIdeas

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3

Give AIs cameras

So hear me out. People keep talking about AI not doing the best with images and talk about how we just feed it all the info on the internet.

Well what if we put cameras in designated access points so that the AI can learn from us.

Either that or maybe make a robot with eyes so it can learn from us.

Even better if we had other things into it. What if we added taste, haptics, and other senses. It would be able to learn so fast.

13 Comments
2024/10/25
14:37 UTC

0

A free lottery with real money winning

Hey all,

I have this crazy idea which I have implemented.
A free to play lottery game.
Find 5 numbers out of 31 and earn the jackpot. Each player has 10 tickets/day

The jackpot increases everyday if there is no winner.
Now you might question where do we find the money? With ads, we added a pool of 2000 $usd, and if there is no winner, we add every day 60% of ads earning to the jackpot prize.

Additionally, we can add money to the prize by individual contributors who want to promote their product or company in our front page of the lottery.

What do you guys think. Is this something you would spend 5 minutes daily and wish for the prize win?
If anyone is interested look for.

gamesandrewards dot com

3 Comments
2024/10/25
14:09 UTC

21

Accumulate fat in your scalp to insulate your brain instead of growing hair

4 Comments
2024/10/25
13:57 UTC

3

Speed reading accident helpline.

A helpline for people who have been involved in speed reading accidents.

Have you, or anyone else you know, been reading too fast and hit a folded page corner or bookmark, and flew across the room? This helpline aims to give you a safe place to voice your anguish.

1 Comment
2024/10/25
11:59 UTC

93

An app that shows you exactly how much money you've earned during your shift in real-time, down to the second (watching your money tick up while working might be oddly satisfying)

Picture this: You're at work, and you open an app called EarnTick. You input your hourly wage or monthly salary, hit the START button, and watch as your earnings literally tick up in real-time.

$0.0047... $0.0094... $0.0141...

It could be either motivating or depressing (depending on your wage), but imagine:

  • Part-timers can see exactly how much they've earned during their shift
  • Salary workers can watch their monthly paycheck build up second by second
  • You can finally answer the question "How much did I earn during that boring meeting?"

It's like those national debt counters, but personal and (hopefully) going up instead of down. Would this make work more bearable or just make time feel even slower? 🤔

43 Comments
2024/10/25
10:06 UTC

9

Apple and Google should volume limit their devices' headphone outputs by default. The option to turn the limit higher/off completely should be hidden in "accessibility" features.

This should apply to Bluetooth headphones or headphones inserted through any port that may still be available.

The device should only go up to a moderate volume with the volume on max by default. If you want to go louder, you should have to go under "general > accessibility > hearing > increase maximum volume"

Why? Nudge theory.

First of all, the extra effort alone might be just enough to get someone to turn it down so they can hear better in old age.

Second, placing it under "accessibility" might make people think. While there's nothing wrong with non-disabled people using accessibility features, especially since such uses can often improve life for everyone (in the way that curb cuts or accessible elevators do), such a placement specifically for a loud volume might actually make people think... is this for me? Maybe this is for people who really need it, who wouldn't be able to hear anything clearly otherwise. Here I am putting myself at risk of actually needing it for a little extra sensory pleasure, but this won't actually help me to hear what people are saying, or hear the finer details in the music!

10 Comments
2024/10/25
07:08 UTC

2

To solve Plato's "those who seek power" conundrum, seek out the least willing people and threaten them to lead the country

1 Comment
2024/10/25
03:25 UTC

0

What does a man who wants to build a dad-bod, muscular build, and strong V-line, but without visible abs, aim to look like?

1 Comment
2024/10/25
02:24 UTC

12

Lick your cat's earwax as they want to do that to you.

7 Comments
2024/10/25
01:52 UTC

5

Hyperbole tax

After a Reddit comment is one year old, if the poster of the comment is deemed to have been being serious when they wrote it, and it transpires that the comment contained a large amount of hyperbole, then they should have to pay a tax on that comment.

13 Comments
2024/10/25
01:16 UTC

127

World Sex Map. Worldwide sexual life study

So I believe it’s a pretty crazy yet achievable idea. I want to create a worldwide study on sexual life with millions of participants. The goal is to share data-based information about sexual health and behaviors across different countries and cultures

Basically, it will be a dashboard of sexual life, so anyone interested can explore and learn more about sexual preferences, attractive body parts, sexual orientation, and other info within their country or worldwide

My friend and I just finished the website this week. Check it out here https://worldsexmap.com

33 Comments
2024/10/25
01:15 UTC

1

Marijuana for Drug/Alcohol Detox

Not in place of the detox meds but in addition to bc marijuana helps with cravings, depression, PTSD, reflection, and so on. Still incorporate psychotherapy, but have it administered medicinally.

0 Comments
2024/10/24
23:06 UTC

0

Soup kitchen goes good delivery for cheap cheap cheap

Get a whole bunch of volunteers / retirees / low cost workers and start a non profit. Set up multiple locations across a large city outskirts, send out a daily home cooked bulk recipe and order in all the produce direct from supplier - sell them at 0 profit to the millions of low income households struggling - maybe get a subsidy to help offset food delivery partner costs? Or bring it in house again like pizza delivery with teens who need a job?

1 Comment
2024/10/24
22:56 UTC

0

Hating AI art is like hating Warhol.

8 Comments
2024/10/24
21:03 UTC

18

“Phone booths” for people to charge their phones and have private phone/video calls

20 Comments
2024/10/24
20:27 UTC

9

What if a mystery book sent you on a real-life clue-hunting adventure?

So I’ve been playing around with a crazy idea: imagine reading a mystery thriller where, at some point, the clues jump off the page and into the real world. Suddenly, you're piecing together a puzzle using things like Reddit threads, weird YouTube videos, or even cryptic emails sent to you. The book gives you hints, but you actually have to go and find the clues in the real world to figure out what happens next.

I’m currently writing a book like this—it’s set in a small seaside town where the main character, Violet, starts uncovering some dark family secrets. But here’s the twist: the clues she finds? You can find them too, hidden across the internet and other real-world places.

I’m curious—would you be into something like that? What kind of real-world clues would get you totally hooked while reading?

7 Comments
2024/10/24
20:03 UTC

3

Somewhere (free or otherwise) that allows you to have a safe, little cathartic scream.

2 Comments
2024/10/24
19:40 UTC

2

Everyone is forced to wear crotchless garmets, but it's okay to cover the top.

Any long shirts or dresses would need their crotches cut out.

4 Comments
2024/10/24
19:16 UTC

8

Get two TVs and set them up side by side. Set one to Fox News, and the other to CNN. Then just chill...

20 Comments
2024/10/24
18:44 UTC

6

Pokémon go but for financial growth

The game tracks your totally not real debt amount and your totally not real income and for the better you save and debt you pay the more happy you make your friend. If people can take the game seriously then the only way you make pikachu happy is by being financially stable in the real world

11 Comments
2024/10/24
18:35 UTC

0

Humanity could solve the moral/ethical issues about eating animals quite easily. We could completely take the strings from nature without being forced to hunt down animals or survive on broccoli, if we were to raise more vore fetishists and eat them at the age of consent instead.

9 Comments
2024/10/24
17:48 UTC

10

All wars should now be classified as "special military operations"

3 Comments
2024/10/24
17:32 UTC

63

Headlamps but for noses: The Noselamp (with picture)

10 Comments
2024/10/24
16:50 UTC

0

A book with all words in it

Kinda like a wiki for all words that exist.

12 Comments
2024/10/24
15:37 UTC

22

Everyone should be incentivized to get therapy before they have children.

2 Comments
2024/10/24
15:21 UTC

1

A mod for Doom Eternal that makes weak points tiny

2 Comments
2024/10/24
13:01 UTC

36

Reddit should let you view which users/posts are banned from a particular sub and why

The quality of a sub largely depends on the quality of moderation, but mostly this is invisible to the user.

If you could look at which users, posts and comments get removed, and under what reasoning, it would be easier to detect possible bias and decide whether a sub is worth your attention or not.

20 Comments
2024/10/24
12:44 UTC

0

America should make more Gay Porn to raise money for the homeless.

8 Comments
2024/10/24
12:08 UTC

12

A lock which uses dashpots to resist picking

From the user's perspective, this lock works slightly differently from a normal one.

To lock or unlock it, insert the correct key, then swiftly move an adjacent lever from the "locked" label to the "unblocked" label or vice versa.

The lock will lock or unlock without the key rotating.

The inner cylinder of the lock (aka the plug) is firmly attached to the lock housing, and the outer cylinder rotates around it to (dis) engage the latch.

There are two rotary dampers; The primary damper is rotated by the "lock"/"unlock" lever and rotates the outer cylinder. The secondary damper connects this lever to the housing.

The amount of tension applied to the outer cylinder is proportional to how fast the user moves the lever, and this lever has a limited range of motion - single pin picking would have to be inhumanly quick - unless the damper were frozen.

The secondary damper protects from a thief freezing the lock by becoming more viscous more quickly than the primary when cooled, essentially freezing the lever.

To prevent a thief from cooking off the liquid in the secondary damper, it has a higher boiling point than the primary's.

To reduce exposure, the housing had a slot for the key which doesn't expose the front of the plug, and the opening for the lever fits very closely around it.

The actual cylinder and plug could be any decent lock type (pin tumbler, disk detainer, etc), as long as it takes a few minutes to pick on it's own.

2 Comments
2024/10/24
07:49 UTC

9

In cases where police fail to pursue a valid case because they are incompetent, they should be be held co-liable alongside the perpetrators in the court case and should pay x9 the damages awarded to the victim for their negligence.

0 Comments
2024/10/24
07:06 UTC

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