Re: So who's counting?

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 09:14:02 MST

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    On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:12:14AM +0000, Alex Ramonsky wrote:
    > 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 did a writeup of a version of this for a game (see
    http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/InfoWar/economics.html, after the intro
    vignette). Actually implementing something like that would be more
    tricky, especially for non-netbased services. Fortunately we humans seem
    to have a fairly good built in model of owing services to each other,
    probably an evolved reciprocity system. That helps systems like this
    work better.

    Right now our most important service to each other is to act as mental
    amplification. 

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