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Youtube vidoes: Economics Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV-S87KroCk Economics Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGNKjQ4nzns

1 - Intro?

• Premise that cities are more important than civilizations. Heart of innovation. Bringing minds together
• HUman systems like biological structures. Many have sublinear growth at scale, but cities are exception
  • scaling model comes from ___
• Decouple cities so that people can live in more human-centric environments, while bringing minds together

7 - Network for cultures to coexist (meta-protocol between cultures)

Comment: So, the meta-protocol is reasonable? Every human mind/culture finds it reasonable and in that sense ideal, noble and at the bottom aesthetically pleasing. Meta-protocol is thus a logical structure or to put it simply, a kind of logic? Charles Peirce’s semiotics is a logical framework that I find to be apt for this task. It is a TRIADIC way of thinking contrary to dualistic and rivalrous way of thinking. Instead of exclusion it seeks to establish reasonable relations between phenomena that can be thought as SIGNS. It can be thought as a logical framework that shows RELATIONS (for example) between (1) possibilities, (2) actualities and (3) laws/habits/patterns. However, it leaves it to experience to fill the framework with content. We have to inquire what possibilities, actualities and patterns we really do experience, but we have now a framework where we know the logical relations between these things. For example: There are possibilities that never actualize or become patterns. But when something actualizes, it must have been possible. Actualization "requires" a possibility, an opening to happen. However, actualization can simply be a singular event without any reason, that is, without any pattern. But when we infer a pattern in our experience, it must necessarily contain actualities, that is, a pattern must have instances. So: Patterns involve actualities and possibilities Actualities involve possibilities, but are not necessarily part of a pattern Possibilities don’t have to be actualized or be part of a pattern, in order to have their being as possibilities. Another example with (1) feeling, (2) action and (3) thought: We may have only a feeling that is whole in itself. State of pure feeling. However, when we act, we act based on some feeling. When we think, our thought is a "mind-action" based on some feeling. So: Thought involves action and feeling. Action involves feelings, but not necessarily any thought. Feeling can be in itself without any action or thought. I think this framework would be really fruitful for this project. If you read all the way here, I have videos on my channel on Peirce’s worldview and semiotics.

Response: Check out Forrest Landry’s work (the Immanent Metaphysics).

9 - Economics part 1

• imaginine different games

  • monopoly

• return to not-denatured version of monopoly.

  • monopoly money devalued more; losing friends has real reprecussions

• The key move is you have to deeply, deeply, deeply restore the value of friendship, the value of being in a real community, that is composed of these whole relationships. And you have to return money to monopoly. You have to devalue or remove the degree to which one believes that one can, and the degree that one actually can, trade monopoly money for a simulacrum of real relationship. Once you have done this and if you can truly protect the interiority of this friendgroup where you’ve created something that has a boundary around it and where being inside it gives you access to well-being, gives you access to a wholesome life. A life where your aspirations and values are both supported and well-met by other people. Not a simulacrum, but the real thing. And its a boundary around it whereby that can’t be extracted by those playing a win-lose game on outside, people who are optimizing for some subset of the whole some narrow metric, specifically money. If oyu can establish that kind of dynamic, you can do the thing we’re trying to do.

9 - Economics Part 2

• membrane
  • separation between interior and exterior
  • 3 distinct modes
    • 1 - Unit of exchange
      • mode associated with the way the market works right now - has to do with some kind of token that is scarce in some fashion. allocation helps support the use of market forces. support effective allocation of resources, including attention
        • ubi - provides very soldi maslow’s base. people thoughftully deplying ubi should meet basic well-being just with that. everyhting else is upside
        • links first mode to second mode: on a monthly(/daily?) basis, a deposit from the thing that produces currency and it allocates 1 token (per minute)to people’s account. Cant do anything except move to wallet. There’s a agate. To move from account to wallet have to go through well-being survey. Assess well-being across large number of dimensions. Can then spend in the economy. Why is this key? - create a transformation between the fungible, narrow dimensional token (money) and actually connect that to a second mode of economy that is qualitative in nature. strict non-fungibility
      • last bit of first mode - medium of account
      • accounting system
        • Database that contains a bunch of information
        • Most complete supply chain management system
          • ability to track all the patterns available in the economy
          • historical flow of resources
          • current state

-2: store of value - serendipity engine - what twitter or facebook would be look if they were designed with human flourishing in mind - machine leraning system that takes the state of well-being of given individuals and uses that to suggest potential high-value encounters - civic obligation - engage in one encounter per ??. have some sort of conversation or encounter on the basis of an upgradient in well-being. Hope and intent is that the encounters becomes the heartbeat of the economy. - goal is for mode 2 to become the most important -3: innovation (replaces governance/?) - 3 components - proposal for a good new thing to happen in the world (ie fill a pothole to FTL travels - building out of proposal into a design-specification for what a good specification would look like and perhaps a pathway to move from one step to another - the way that we collectively put skin in the game in the way that we think are right and good designs. valubale proposals. looks like ubi of a token. have a ubi of a toekn that is only able to use to stake against a particular design specification - can stake at a high level or a more specific level - use interest and expertise to mark and put a stake - can proxy -two models - kickstarter vs expro? model - sometimes we encourage too much innovation. innovation without care - interaction between 2 and 3. connect people for a transaction for value and problem-solving. synergy value

• goal of civium is to migrate us from economy of quantity to economy of quality