You're assuming that I can identify a system that *would* work in the
midst of large concentrations of power. I haven't been able to design
one that I can convince myself is viable. Saying "cooperation" is
easy. Doing it without creating centralizations of power is a lot trickier.
For that matter, most people don't understand what money is. Money is a
promise, backed by coercive force. The promise is "if you give the
government as much money as it demands from you, it won't abuse you
excessively". If you have a house, one form of abuse is denying you
access to it. Etc.
So "changing how money works" is met with the full force of the
government, if it takes you seriously. Bitcoin will be an interesting
test. So far it isn't being taken seriously, but I, personally,
wouldn't want to get involved in that process. It strikes me as quite
dangerous, if it's much more successful than it's been so far.
No, I have an agenda that I'm trying to follow. A sort of pseudo AI
program that will be designed to reduce tensions, both personal and
interpersonal. I don't give myself very high odds of being successful,
but it seems better than any other approach that I see.
N.B.: It's not pretending to be a real AI program. It's a sort of
personal conversational chatbot, with a large store of knowledge. To do
what I intend it needs to be able to run on ordinary personal computers,
and not to interfere with other uses of the machines It will, however,
clearly need more resources than are available on current home
computers, much less phones. But then the program isn't ready yet
either. Perhaps in 5 years or a decade.
On 12/31/2012 01:16 AM, just camel wrote:
Then become active and help some organisations out there to change the
incentives from monetary profit to common weal by changing how money
works in our society ... talk to people, explain how cooperation is
the key to solve all socioeconomic problems and how a non competitive
monetary system is quite feasible especially with our today's
technology. Unless you think that we will have friendly AGI within the
next few years ... then of course focus on AGI ;-)
On 01/10/2013 12:22 PM, Charles Hixson wrote:
I don't trust any human, or group of humans, to have both the ability
to exercise power without consequences and to have integrity. But
corporation management is amount the most corrupt groups in current
society, and is a major corrupter of the political system. (Not that
it wasn't pretty corrupt already...politicians are a major input that
caused me to formulate "exercise of power without consequences" as
the key element.)
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