Economy no worky so goodie anymore. To clarify the above technical jargon, the economy is still awesome. It’s still the most cutting edge element of our civilizational operating system (COS for short). And yet, the “economy upgrade” has been part of our COS for long enough that we can now see, and feel, room for improvement. That means another upgrade is on the horizon. Enter the post-economic era.
I loved the disconnection between the exchange of money from value creation, its intended purpose. What happens if there's a UBI and value could, in theory, be totally uncoupled from money. What sort of existential crisis does our society devolve into? Money is a progress incentive with ebbs & flows on its direct correlation.
Value can def be unrelated to money. After all, humans created value before we created money. We just traded value (sheep) for value (corn). The upcoming posts will probs explore how symbolizing value could change.
Re: a UBI...assuming life's basics (food, water, shelter) are made so cheaply by machines that we don't need human labor, then a UBI could be a good plan to "ration out" those basics.
But even in that world, it's likely there will still be value creation for humans to partake in. So as long as we have a COS that is capable of recognizing that value, we can probs avoid "existential crisis" mode :).
I preferred this blog to the former because I found a developing understanding on my part. That being said I keep thinking about concrete examples as to how they might fit into the schema. If someone finds growing lettuce meaningful as it feeds civilization and is generally a benign activity then how does that fit in the several categories? If someone else wants to create an elixir to remedy all sorts of ills and then sells it door to door without any oversight if it works that is meaningful in a good way; if it poisons people well not so good. Then economy backs away from support which is how things work. What is our way around this - AI evaluating a priori? Maybe that's the answer.
I loved the disconnection between the exchange of money from value creation, its intended purpose. What happens if there's a UBI and value could, in theory, be totally uncoupled from money. What sort of existential crisis does our society devolve into? Money is a progress incentive with ebbs & flows on its direct correlation.
Glad you dug it :).
Value can def be unrelated to money. After all, humans created value before we created money. We just traded value (sheep) for value (corn). The upcoming posts will probs explore how symbolizing value could change.
Re: a UBI...assuming life's basics (food, water, shelter) are made so cheaply by machines that we don't need human labor, then a UBI could be a good plan to "ration out" those basics.
But even in that world, it's likely there will still be value creation for humans to partake in. So as long as we have a COS that is capable of recognizing that value, we can probs avoid "existential crisis" mode :).
I preferred this blog to the former because I found a developing understanding on my part. That being said I keep thinking about concrete examples as to how they might fit into the schema. If someone finds growing lettuce meaningful as it feeds civilization and is generally a benign activity then how does that fit in the several categories? If someone else wants to create an elixir to remedy all sorts of ills and then sells it door to door without any oversight if it works that is meaningful in a good way; if it poisons people well not so good. Then economy backs away from support which is how things work. What is our way around this - AI evaluating a priori? Maybe that's the answer.
Not sure of the answer yet :). The next few posts will explore the "how could it work" question.