Re: I considered presenting

Mark, thanks for the link. I'll keep it in mind. Early on I thought about
visualization in layers to keep to make things a bit easier spatially (if I
can recall correctly), I also thought about various hypergraphs and topic
maps at one point. In addition, I'll admit that I am very interested in
neuroscience.

<1> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraph
<2> http://topicmaps.org/


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 12:49 AM, Brent Shambaugh
<brent.shambaugh@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>



-- 
Brent Shambaugh

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