Decentralized incentives for resilient public goods after global catastrophic risk
Recovery from Catastrophe
Using cryptoeconomics to bootstrap the incentivization of a resilient grid via which further cryptoeconomic incentives induce the bottom-up production of survival bunkers and other post-catastrophe public goods that could survive GCRs such as nuclear war. Figuring out how to reward people for preparing themselves, moreso if they help others or build critical infrastructure that lasts.
A Facebook comment I wrote that I am copy-pasting, I will likely edit it down in a bit: “Generally speaking, a collection of resources that are useful in the post-apocalypse will become some orders of magnitude more valuable than they currently are, since they will be more scarce and useful when one’s life is at stake. These could be directly consumed, financialized using whatever monetary systems still exist, or otherwise used as a bargaining chip. I posit that buying things like food/water/coal mines/gold/land/solar panels/guns/???/etc now, either individually or collectively, will go up in value 100x-1000x from their current usefulness, broadly speaking, making it an extremely cost-effective hedge in one’s financial portfolio.
The meaning I had in mind for a vault would be something like a millions-of-dollars vault meant to restart as some kind of oasis after a collapse. Something that’s been an idea kicking in my head for a decade, so somewhat surprised no one’s gone for it unless they’re keeping it antimemetically cloaked. I recall a figure of ‘$100 million’ on the EA Forum as the price tag of such a thing; personally I believe that individuals could start by digging a hole in the ground to start a survival cache or little underground house, and we can scale from there bottom-up. I envision perhaps something like a distributed network of such bunkers, directed more towards being public goods than the standard individualist ethos of preppers. I have a strong intuition that cryptocurrency incentives would make this more valuable/interesting, perhaps via making the financializability of survival goods persist past armageddon, or using impact certificates or other public goods funding mechanisms to incentivize the altruistic component, though I haven’t formalized this into anything concrete beyond creative speculation and an impulse to make survival more economically attractive. I think there is a strong moral imperative for people to have an easier time making public goods investments that will pay off if a major global catastrophic risk happens.”
Decentralized incentives for resilient public goods after global catastrophic risk
Recovery from Catastrophe
Using cryptoeconomics to bootstrap the incentivization of a resilient grid via which further cryptoeconomic incentives induce the bottom-up production of survival bunkers and other post-catastrophe public goods that could survive GCRs such as nuclear war. Figuring out how to reward people for preparing themselves, moreso if they help others or build critical infrastructure that lasts.
A Facebook comment I wrote that I am copy-pasting, I will likely edit it down in a bit: “Generally speaking, a collection of resources that are useful in the post-apocalypse will become some orders of magnitude more valuable than they currently are, since they will be more scarce and useful when one’s life is at stake. These could be directly consumed, financialized using whatever monetary systems still exist, or otherwise used as a bargaining chip. I posit that buying things like food/water/coal mines/gold/land/solar panels/guns/???/etc now, either individually or collectively, will go up in value 100x-1000x from their current usefulness, broadly speaking, making it an extremely cost-effective hedge in one’s financial portfolio.
The meaning I had in mind for a vault would be something like a millions-of-dollars vault meant to restart as some kind of oasis after a collapse. Something that’s been an idea kicking in my head for a decade, so somewhat surprised no one’s gone for it unless they’re keeping it antimemetically cloaked. I recall a figure of ‘$100 million’ on the EA Forum as the price tag of such a thing; personally I believe that individuals could start by digging a hole in the ground to start a survival cache or little underground house, and we can scale from there bottom-up. I envision perhaps something like a distributed network of such bunkers, directed more towards being public goods than the standard individualist ethos of preppers. I have a strong intuition that cryptocurrency incentives would make this more valuable/interesting, perhaps via making the financializability of survival goods persist past armageddon, or using impact certificates or other public goods funding mechanisms to incentivize the altruistic component, though I haven’t formalized this into anything concrete beyond creative speculation and an impulse to make survival more economically attractive. I think there is a strong moral imperative for people to have an easier time making public goods investments that will pay off if a major global catastrophic risk happens.”