I've done a lot of reading on artificial intelligence and hard scifi and one of my best friends is an academic researching brain-machine interfaces.

We chat a lot about the ethical aspect of his research and it's potential misuse. This, alongside current political unrest and operations, keep increasingly make me think about a postwar future, where the technology may exist but is much less accessible than today. How could AI be used to control humans, way beyond hot it is used today.

I've started with some RP partners to plot some thoughts for this, but they often ghost or just don't like to get into as much detail as I do.

So I'm thinking about opening up a Discord server where this world can be discussed and built. Due to my fear of ghosting I'd keep some protected 'canon' chats but would open them to be read by others and fed back on with ideas.

If anyone here is interested, please do let me know.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h-CEzsNNN_3NkO1C8jFy73H0QUNv6AmHK7egi-xt1V8/edit

From pure logic and imagination, we construct a sphere upon the real world. From the top, a bright spot shines through the surface, and shine on the real world the sphere's image.

On the real world, a straight line will extend to infinity, and two lines after passing each other will never meet again. But when looking upwards the sphere, they are just images of circles going through the top, repeatedly passing and meeting each other. We see that they not just reunite at infinity, but also reunite their past in the future.

Whenver the sphere spins, everything around us changes. Distant things will move close unexpectedly, and familiar ones will leave us softly. This may seem absurd, but also evident at the same time. Evident, but cannot be grasped, for it comes from a place out of our sight. Can not explain the unreasonable, nor can explain the obvious, that ambiguity would be frustrating.

Let's gather all the ambiguities altogether, and name it as x. With just a simple question, a puzzle piece is flipped. And by preserverance, the symmetry within will emerge. Turns out it's symmetry. They will run along a circle, imitate the symmetry of the sphere, creating periodic movements, the simplest of which is the pendulum.

Untold pendulums are imprinted in every single thing, swinging perenially. All things are just combinations of them. Each pendulum has its own rhythm, it will move slowly at two opposite ends, but faster during the middle of the swing. This is why the link between two obvious points is so faded. Sometimes it is so faded that no-one can possibly consider that the two extremes are just the same thing.

It will resonate when acted by its own rhythm. The resonance, even transient, is enough to evince it. The pendulums can also join together to form waves. The waves might be invisible, but can spread out throughtout space, recurrent over time, ready to resonate to anything share its rhythm.

This is the preamble of my recent research, and I'm thinking about crowdsourcing it. I'd like to see how it would be developed by other people :)

I feel bad asking for help with people here in such dire situations. but even a little bit would help immensely

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-my-daughters-tv-success-release-her-1st-ep#/

I am in no way a writer so be light on me ok.

Here is my idea... A man with a relatively routine and boring life has everything turned upside down. when one day on his drive to work he has a car accident killing a man.(who was driving drunk)

Racked with guilt he searches the internet after he finds out in a news article the man he killed had 2 daughters and a wife.

After some searches he finds out where they live. Seeking a way to resolve his guilt(that is eroding him) he decides to travel across the country to a mid western town to meet this family.

When he finally arrives at the destination he discovers a family living in very poor conditions. He explaines to the women who he is (the man who killed your husband).

After he is let into the house the widow explained how her husband beat her and her kids, (basically tortured them)

In a nutshell this guy who was racked with guilt finds out that he may have unintentionally done a good thing.

Welcome to crowdwriting!

If you’ve got an idea for a book or a movie and you’ve got no idea what to do with it, we want it. Just post your outline or synopsis, and if you blow our minds we’ll write it for you. (With your help, of course.)

How it works:

It begins with an idea – your idea. Post it here and the community will vote you down into obscurity or up into superstardom. On the off chance you’re a superstar, we’ll blow up your outline and start threads for every part of your story. Each thread is open to submissions, and each submission is subject to the same communal vote. Winners are collected and reposted for criticism and editing, recollected and compiled into a final product. While this is a community effort, you will have creative control over the final product, granted that you credit the contributers.

Submission Guidelines:

Your submission can be in any form, as long as it follows these criteria.

1. State clearly at the outset the genre, setting, and form. eg, Fantasy, Faraway Land, Novella

2. The idea must be whole. You must have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Think of this as a summary of your entire story. Make it as detailed as you can.

3. You must be willing to actively engage the crowdwriting process should your entry win.

4. I suppose it must be said: No plagiarism. And fan fiction is probably a bad idea.

5. Seems like there ought to be another rule. Can’t think of one.

Have fun and please vote!

This only works because of your ideas, your writing, and your input. Submission deadline is 12/21, voting deadline is 12/31. Good luck!

I really like this idea, but for it to be useful I think it needs some structure. A few ideas:

1. Instead of everybody blowing up the sub with vague intros, have a master thread where synopses and outlines can be submitted and voted on. Full synopses, beginning middle and end. The idea with the most votes is the next "project", and only one project is active at a time.

2. The active project will have a master thread with an outline, each component of which could be linked to the thread where people submit their writing for that particular scene. Once every piece of the outline is plugged in, the votes decide and the winners are collected.

3. The editing and rewriting process is where things get difficult. We could repost each individual winning entry and leave it open to rewriting and debate. Here it would be at the OP's discretion, I suppose, as to what to consider good vs bad criticism.

4. Once the winners are collected, dissected, written again, we collect the finished product and "publish" it in some form or another, most likely e-publishing.

5. Meanwhile, another master thread of outlines has been in the wing, and we take that winner and do the whole thing over again.

Any thoughts?