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[xpost] An Effective Grab Bag
The current premise is that, by locally monitoring factors, such as the MAC and IP address a user is connected to, we can prevent others signing onto the same device. Essentially, one account may be accessed via multiple devices, however, only one account may be accessed per device. In theory, this should minimise the incentive to create multiple accounts, as there is presently no explicit way to circumvent the issue.
So all I need is a bunch of cheap smartphones? This is already a thing (videogame) gold farmers do.
Further, I fail to see how this coin achieves significant value; especially value commensurate with its intended purpose as a source of universal basic income. The value of the network is equivalent to its computational value, and on gut feeling that seems orders of magnitude lower than what you’d need to fund even the tiniest of basic income schemes.
Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question, but I’m seeking to explore EA’s connection to Taiwan’s Digital Democracy movement—it doesn’t seem like there is one right now, which seems ineffective.
I’m specifically, personally, interested in talking to anyone directly involved with the movement in Taiwan who can help me develop a deeper understanding, and who can provide feedback on ideas I’m playing with about digital trust systems.
If anyone is doing anything re: Turkey Earthquake and could benefit from a few hours of researcher/generalist time I’m available.
I’m glad to see this being talked about; I’m glad to see non-western cultures exploring what they can make of EA.
For me, Filial Piety is the other ‘F word’ - I have seen it used to normalize a level of abusiveness towards children that, even in the context of typing a post from the comfort of my home, is making me furious.
And yet, I recognise it seems to be part of the recipe that empowers collectivism in Asian cultures, that has protected them from the Randian individualist race to the bottom that Western cultures are engaged in.
No good answers, no conclusion, no clear message; reality is messy, don’t romanticise ideals.
I’ve seen this Civ Reboot/recovery stuff proposed a few times, and it’s almost always engineers proposing it :p
Civ reboot is not an engineering problem. It is not a videogame tech-tree.
Knowledge without understanding is at best useless, at worst dangerous. Technology is one big infohazard that our current civilization is often incapable of utilising responsibly and/or without damaging consequences. The prime directive exists for a reason.
If you want to provide knowledge and resources that are valuable to survivors attempting to ‘reboot’ civilization—provide them with knowledge about healthcare, about agriculture, about education. These will be the only questions that matter for generations: Can you have kids, can you feed them, can you educate them, can you keep everyone alive.
...I could go on for quite some time but I want to keep this short. So I’ll just reiterate the massive importance of education, the similarly massive challenges involved and then gesture meaningfully toward the link between education > psychology, and the whole other bag of infohazards therein.
Another reply alluded to this also but I want to really really emphasize it: if you want to reboot civilization, you better have really good reasons for believing it’s a civilization you’d approve of.
There be a lot of skulls on this here path. Like, a lot. Like… we’re hip deep in skulls for as far as the eye can see—the history of civilization is largely, albeit not entirely, dystopian.
If your grand plan for saving the human race is A.) more likely to result in a 2nd Nazi Germany (sorry for the cliche) than it is any kind of society we’d want to live in and B.) very unlikely to succeed in the first place, how exactly does it fit under the umbrella of Effective Altruism? It seems to be neither.