Re: I considered presenting

I'm feeling strongly about this. I also know some people who might be able
to help with this.


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Brent Shambaugh
<brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>wrote:

> I have a hunch a lot lies in things like Payswarm and Ripple. I mean it
> certainly is emotional for me. Payswarm can keep track of intentions, and
> Ripple allows of decentralized payment and may keep track of intentions.
> Something (experience and otherwise) is telling me to focus more on web
> payments.
>
> I've had a lot of problems with trying to look at everything to see
> patterns, try to avoid reinventing the wheel. Eventually, I concluded that
> to implement stuff I just needed to study more languages (but more, so it
> is looking like JavaScript) and if I was bothered by the theory or wanted
> help understanding how it would work best than CS stuff. It was all very
> confusing.
>
> Can I safely ditch https://www.coursera.org/course/hci (Human-Computer
> Interaction), https://www.coursera.org/course/pgm (Probabilistic
> Graphical Models), https://www.coursera.org/course/bigdata (Web
> Intelligence and Big Data), https://www.coursera.org/course/gamification(Gamification) and put it on the shelf for now? Clearly building a
> distributed economy is a massive undertaking, and these things could
> certainly come into play. Money, or at least some record of exchange,
> appears to be a very important part. Knowing this to build something may
> not be necessary.
>
> I'd like to commit more time to this, and obviously I have to focus in
> order to do that.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Creating a usable barter system also requires actions be accompolished
>> *early* in time.
>>
>> Here is my vision of such a system:
>>
>> First of all, this requires something I call either a "Production Arena",
>> or (less often) a "Vertically Integrated Permaculture Mosaic".
>>
>> The Production Arena (or VIPM) is the interlocking Physical Sources such
>> as land and water rights and plants and animals and tools and other things
>> needed to create a "Basic Outcome" for all the participants.
>>
>> And so we attract middle-to-upper-income investors to supply the money to
>> buy these Physical Sources for an advertised return of organic goods and
>> services in the future - though they will actually be receiving
>> co-ownership in the Production Arena, and receiving the goods and services
>> as a 'side-effect' of that co-ownership.  In this way we eliminate the
>> buying and selling of those goods and services.
>>
>> And we must also attract middle-to-lower-income investors to cross-commit
>> their *future* labor in return for co-ownership in the Production Arena.
>>
>> By "cross-commit" I mean each worker will promise to work in a specific
>> part of the Production Arena (say milking cows) in return for receiving
>> co-ownership in many other parts of the Production Arena needed to supply
>> him with all of his basic needs.
>>
>> I need to refine how I explain this, because there is a bit more to it
>> that I did not include in the above...
>>
>> Each investors (whether committing money or future labor) will usually
>> receive a 'bundle' of property-rights *and* commitments from others to
>> perform the future labor necessary to accomplish that production.
>>
>> For example, the cow-milker would usually receive both ownership in the
>> dentist office *and* commitments from the dentist to fix his teeth in the
>> future when necessary.
>>
>> When used in conjunction these commitments create the kind of security
>> that insurance pretends to deliver.  I sometimes call it "life assurance".
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Brent Shambaugh
>
> I've worked with polymers, I teach chemistry, I'm currently researching
> how to build better economies.
> Website: http://adistributedeconomy.blogspot.com
>



-- 
Brent Shambaugh

I've worked with polymers, I teach chemistry, I'm currently researching how
to build better economies.
Website: http://adistributedeconomy.blogspot.com