Re: [s-d] Some thought about Inflationary Measures

["Charles Schaefer" <chuckles11489@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/10/4, Jamie Dallaire bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx:
>
>
> Can we model something like that? (No, I don't want to have B modeling the
> world economy --- what I mean is something with similar pressures for
> cooperation which would favour many individuals, perhaps even everyone in
> the game, rather than the game putting pressure on individuals to compete).


Problem is, we have no tangible assets to gain by cooperating. In a nomic, I
think (and maybe someone can prove me wrong) there needs to be some
competition. Maybe if not with ourselves then with our archenemies over at
Agora (or maybe that new startup C Nomic).

I don't know what form this could take, but if anyone has any ideas I think
> it would be quite interesting:
>
> Some challenges/requirements:
>
> - make it something we can't or at least won't just legislate out of
> existence if we fail.


But trying to legislate away failure is what "real" nomics do. Hopefully it
will work better for us than it did for the US Congress.

- make it non-zero-sum
>
> Maybe something modeled roughly on a prisoner's dilemma-type situation?


Sounds good.
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