From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 03:12:14 MST
That's a point...why not have an Extropian 'LETS' system (Local
Employment Trading Systems)? Everybody makes a list of skills they have
to offer and we pay each other with our own currency. It really annoys
the tax office but it's workable. I've been a part of two such systems
in two different countries so far. The last one's currency was called
'favors' ('I owe you two favors'). Anything can be worth a 'favor', from
solving someone's math problem to buildung them a garden fence. Check it
out.
...I wonder if the guy who does haircuts carefully avoids reading the
posts of people with heavy-metal hairdos? : )
AR
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>Fun! A great idea. I'll see if I can dig up something similar from my
>computer.
>
>It seems that this might a more easily doable way of reputation
>management than having "like/not like" buttons in emails and so on.
>Might be developed into something interesting.
>
>I noted that the distribution of the numbers looked like a power-law,
>but the discreteness in this sample makes it hard to do real statistics
>on it. But I think we are seeing support for the idea that whuffie
>follows Zipf's law.
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