Shareful (was: Viral free barter auction)

Posted on April 28, 2011 by coco

This is the story of a something that was trapped for a time by the fact that Barter could not be two things coming to 2 different places at an exact physical same time.

There is always a second or less while you give something and get something in exchange for that in a barter,.. so i was whistling about what could be the barter’s bad thing that i was missing….

i found the fairness trolling issue in ethics, and tried applying it to the good’s “exchange”.. and it was working quite well for a time……

I refused to accept (aparently) critical bugs coming to mind like: ‘barter is primitive’, ‘barter is buggy’, ‘Barter is cocky’….

there was something left missing for sure, so i kept whistling….

While in a boredom i started to play with adjectives: “We will call ”Free” barter for the things we want to leave on the table (like we do with the free shop) for people taking them away ”without negotiating” in our Barter market”

Uah! So useful! we have barter’s first official module, it is its consistent adjective: Free(dom)!

{..and by the way barter definition should be extended with the inclusion of ‘free negotiation’ for being ‘fair’, for being a barter(and not a another trade way).. }

Second module was the opposite need, the case for when “i get something from you in advance and then i give you something else that i choosed for you.. and suddenly you love it!!” (so it’s fair in the end and it’s been also freely negotiated previously ‘without the full’ awareness of the tacited…)

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Tacit! Eureka! tacit barter, barter or free barter.

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I felt from the begining that “Tacit” was the one. I still and will always feed it. I imagined what can be making that rare and brilliant thing to happen, “being tacit and being freely negotiated??”..

i was lucky in a day when i asked someone’s in the street for a direction. She replied me extensively happy cuting me lots and her face when after the bye could not socialize all the strong and good emotions she was possesed by specially those 2-3 seconds after… why?…… that happen??

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= Altruism has to flow out, we have to believe in something to vow something to. With barter, altruism could go flowing.. With $, it can’t that better flow and then people misplace their altruisms flow outs and-or….. “Park” them for some later barter. !.

So, Tacit Barter happened because there was a “Parked Barter” before. That woman had lot of “Parked emotions for freely barter”.
lol.

I know well i helped much much more that woman in our trade than her helped me, and it was me the very poor one asking for something there!.

Definetely people need to give all the time!, probably more than getting!!

That was a funny bit..

And after that playground, i wanted to get more serious in more ‘practical’ realms….

Thanks a lot to have found the common public private property provocation during the designing of currencies’ and other communities’ organizing models, i can thereafter scream now: “”Favours’ chain” is same viral and better than ‘Free software’, we just need to auction the competition resolutions for shareful goods”

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<blockquote>
“Users could require NOT concurrent Uses while they Use the Good if they increase more Sharefulness than other Interested Public”
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Refused phrasing: Users should allow Good’s concurrent Use

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an american english’s short sharing manifestroll

Posted on April 26, 2011 by coco

Sharing kicks ass!

….

you know whar i mean?!

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Boutique Trash-Chic

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Kasper Souren

Since we moved into our big house I wanted to make a give-away shop. We did. It’s a great use of space (we have lots of it in our house), fun at parties, and just convenient for travelers or people who visit and forgot to take a rain jacket.

I actually think that everyone should have a give-away shop in their house – or well, even just a box, a “take and leave box”. So I just started a website to promote the idea: boutique.trash-chic.org. I want to turn it into a social network where people can describe their own “boutiques” and to promote the concept to people who don’t have a boutique yet.

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Post Scarcity Blog now has dofollow comments

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Kasper Souren

Good comments should be rewarded with link juice. So I turned off rel=nofollow on links in comments. This will probably increase the number of spam but it might also increase the number of comments. Beware that I will remove anything that’s not attempting to stay on-topic.

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What will the economy of the future look like? – freely downloadable book

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Kasper Souren

The Lights in the Tunnel is a book about the future: advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization. Plus, it’s freely downloadable. Which is a great move for both marketing and reach.

Making the book available for free download will lead to a lot more incoming links and blog posts like this one. It would have been even better if the author would have opted for a Creative Commons license though. Anway, next book buying round at Amazon I will probably add it to my shopping card, since whenever I’m looking at a screen that’s connected to the net I’m always tempted to work, or edit a wiki page, or write a blog post instead. So the review will have to wait a bit, but feel free to go ahead and beat me to it!

Is it possible that accelerating computer technology was a primary cause of the current global economic crisis—and that even more disruptive impacts lie ahead?

This groundbreaking book by a Silicon Valley computer engineer and entrepreneur explores these questions and shows how accelerating technology is likely to have a highly disruptive influence on our economy in the near future—and may well already be a significant factor in the current global crisis.

THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL employs a powerful thought experiment to explore the economy of the future. An imaginary “tunnel of lights” is used to visualize the economic implications of the new technologies that are likely to appear in the coming years and decades.

The book directly challenges nearly all conventional views of the future and illuminates the danger that lies ahead if we do not plan for the impact of rapidly advancing technology. It also offers unique insights into how technology will intertwine with globalization to shape the twenty-first century and explores ways in which the economic realities of the future might be leveraged to drive prosperity and to address global challenges such as poverty and climate change.

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Post Scarcity in the GNU Manifesto

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Kasper Souren

I don’t want to spend too much time thinking about post scarcity. I prefer sticking to shorter blurbs. That should not withhold you from from joining this blog and writing down your more extended thoughts. I want to collect interesting links and ideas that have shaped me personally. So naturally I come to RMS, probably both the smartest and weirdest person I’ve ever met. I first came across his writings in 1998 when a friend helped me set up my first Linux GNU/Linux box. Reading back, the GNU Manifesto…

In the long run, making programs free is a step toward the postscarcity world, where nobody will have to work very hard just to make a living. People will be free to devote themselves to activities that are fun, such as programming, after spending the necessary ten hours a week on required tasks such as legislation, family counseling, robot repair and asteroid prospecting. There will be no need to be able to make a living from programming.

We have already greatly reduced the amount of work that the whole society must do for its actual productivity, but only a little of this has translated itself into leisure for workers because much nonproductive activity is required to accompany productive activity. The main causes of this are bureaucracy and isometric struggles against competition. Free software will greatly reduce these drains in the area of software production. We must do this, in order for technical gains in productivity to translate into less work for us.

Personally, yes, I agree. I’ve chosen the path of free software and it has made it extremely comfortable for me to make a living: I don’t have to sit in an office 40+ hours a week. It also has allowed me to start many projects (some of them even worked out) without paying or asking anyone for permission. On the wider scale of things, I’m not sure. Giant IT corporations have almost forcefully adopted free software, most other structures are following along. Even the Whitehouse is running the same software I use for most of the websites I build and that everyone with an internet connection has access to.

Thinking from the GNU Manifesto’s perspective, how can we eradicate bureaucracy and these struggles against competition? And is it enough?

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OpenID enabled

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Kasper Souren

I enabled OpenID on this blog. So you don’t have to remember any passwords if you want to log and create posts or leave comments.

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The Whuffie Bank

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Kasper Souren

In a world where reputation is wealth, only those who do good and well unto others are the richest. Welcome to The Whuffie Bank.

Sounds good, right? Especially if you’ve read Doctorow’s Down and Out.
Accounts are based on Twitter, so I quickly created my account from my Twitter account, found out that my whuffie value is 32 and started reading the FAQ.

Why is The Whuffie Bank a non-profit organization?
To achieve the purpose of granting a reputation-based economy, we felt that commercial incentives should not guide The Whuffie Bank. We want to build an organization exclusively focused on building efficient reputation algorithms that’s capable of bringing credibility and trust on them. In the same spirit Creative Commons pursues to change the relation of us with our ideas by changing copyright, The Whuffie Bank aims to change the relation we have with our values by changing money.

I like this and this:

What’s the vision and statement of this organization?
We want to be very clear of our goals, that’s why instead of seeing our logo in our home page, you will see our mission statement: “In a world where reputation is wealth, only those who do good and well unto others are the richest”. That’s the social change we want to achieve through the use of a new kind of currency as the whuffie.

What I don’t like is this, emphasis by me:

Why does my Whuffie Salary go down?
A big number of whuffie gets distributed among all the members of The Whuffie Bank. When you receive WHF+ or get retweeted on Twitter, your whuffie value will increase, and someone else’s whuffie value will decrease. If you stop being active on Twitter or other supported social networks, then your whuffie value will decrease and someone else will get a bigger share. Keep a close look to your whuffie daily and try to see what did you do that day that made it go up or down.

So with the Whuffie Bank you’re Whuffie will be higher if you spend more time on twitter. I don’t think this is right.

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Post scarcity hospitality exchange

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Kasper Souren

A to me unknown person raises the issue ofthe sustainability of hospitality exchange (at OpenCouchSurfing). I’m going to analyze the main points.

So far hotels and hostels were a economical model that worked well for centuries, not just because there is money involved, but also because there is something in exchange, and this makes it sustainable.

Hotels and hostels will probably keep on working for a while to come, but it’s not very efficient in terms of housing. Most rooms and spaces in hotels and hostels are more than 50% unoccupied most of the time. I don’t think it’s a very ecological solution to housing travelers. This could be resolved by an efficient matching system, but part of the business model of hotels is the scarcity of places to sleep.

There are of course lots of intrinsic costs in having guests

Of course. But that’s not stopping people who care to host random strangers in their house. I would personally almost be offended if a guest offered to pay for drinking tea or using a shower. I just hope that my guests will pay it forward by having guests in the future and not even considering asking their guests to pay for mundane things like these. I do encourage guests to go out and dumpster dive in order to participate in the meals – most don’t and some do, and some keep on diving happily ever after.

I think that a normal person with a full life, work/study, friends, boy/girlfriend/husband/wife, doing some sports and hobbies, maybe volunteering, … can’t find time for hosting people.

Possibly true. It’d be hard to find time to host people with all these activities. But thinking from a post-scarcity perspective, it’s not needed to work 40 (or more) hours a week and still have an income covering all necessary expenses. It’s when a brand new TV, a bigger car and other luxury expenses come into play.

And what about those members who joined CS just before a big trip, mostly to save money in accommodation, …they payed without problem the verification because it was a little money compared to all the money potentially saved in hotels, they never hosted anyone when at home and they are not planning to host people when back home, despite how great was their experience as guest, usually they arrive to the host place empty handed, they care just of the free couch and maybe other free benefits, they behave very politely till the last night of their stay and after they show their real being, of course they don’t even think for a moment to become friends with their host and to keep in touch… Are these members SUSTAINABLE for the community?

What does “become friends” mean? CS friends? In that case, I don’t really care. And from my own experience traveling, I have been a guest to too many great hosts to stay in touch with all of them. Sorry. Not enough time.

Have you ever saw those travelers who are traveling since years without stop and they even dare to tell you, who are working to make this society works, that they are living on 200$ a month or less?

Maybe those travelers have been volunteering or spending a lot of time on editing Wikipedia, Hitchwiki or writing free software for free? If not, we should encourage them! That was my idea while volunteering for CS, not only was I giving back to CS enormously (without pay, silly me), if I wouldn’t have been stopped by the lack of transparency and way of working, I would have pushed for more focus on volunteering. (Also within CS itself, there would be plenty of room for that if the organization wouldn’t be so silly.) I was planning to set up a system where people could have a list of stuff they don’t need, and a way for travelers to move this stuff around. So that if the next host is looking for specific books, and the current host happens to have these books, the traveler can transport these books!

When I have guests I’m showing my way of life and my hope is that people will take some elements, think about it, and possibly act differently in the future. And if they don’t, that’s fine too. If you feel you have genuine “hostel” guests, it could be good to challenge them a little bit. Or to be more picky with lame couch requests next time. After a while it becomes easy to make an estimate about who would be a “hostel” guest and who not, and you can make a case-by-case estimation (it helps if you live with other people who judge requests as well). That way the lame members will have to improve, or just not use these systems anymore. That’s perfectly fine, and it will make sure that hotels and hostels won’t go out of business. Just that they will loose out on many sociable, interesting, fascinating or just plain vanilla nice people.

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