On 09/12/2010 07:14 PM, Ruth Catlow wrote:
>
> Now we just need to work out what we think we have to trade.

I'm reminded of Cory Doctorow's whuffie 
(https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Whuffie), which models a 
reputation economy. If art's an attention economy, we could trade 
attention Possibly I'm just saying this as my reviews would make me an 
attention capitalist. ;-)

> Part of me feels that the energy that it takes to separate out the
> potential value of any action (in the kinds of things we all do and
> value) for transaction will be more than that the energy it takes to
> produce the value (like Maxwell's Daemon fighting entropy).

I like that comparison. Neoliberalism (a la Marc's mention the other 
day) is daemon farming...

- Rob.
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