Re: So who's counting?

From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 03:12:14 MST

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    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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