Emergent Systems as an alternative to anarchy and just about everything else

[Willie...@gmail.com]

Money is basically a number. Math types call it a scalar. Only its
size matters. If you have a bank account the only real thing you can
say about it is how big is the number in it? That's it.

How the number got that way, does that number reflect real
contributions by you? does anyone other than you have a claim on that
number? and so forth are considered questions not related to the
money itself. And generally people think you need a system of laws,
courts, police, government to support all that - for that number in
your bank account to mean anything.

But math types also know that there are different kinds of numbers
than just plain old scalars. There are lists of numbers - called
vectors. And tables of numbers called tensors.

What if by making money out of THOSE other kinds of numbers you could
do away with laws? and everything that implies? How would it work?

Well, each person prints their own money see. Just like each nation
does now. But this money is different, its a list of numbers, not
just one number. And that makes all the difference. Everyone prints
their own money and has a list of numbers that reflect their own
personal values. Then their money dances around with your money and
automatically creates an optimal relationship between you and that
person when you enter into a transaction of any kind.

So, if money could police itself, would we need police? Probably
not.

But we'd need a standards committee that would make sure all equipment
would work according to the same simple mathematical rules. And then
let anyone make hardware and software that would print this special
kind of money and cause it to be exchanged over a value net.

So, all the desires of individual people would be encoded in a list of
numbers and those numbers would be part their own personal currency.
The dance of money between people would naturally cause their desires
and goals to emerge across society from their money dancing around
with everyone else's money without any centralized systems of
control.

So, you'd have anarchy, sort of, probably a standards committee that
published public standards, for software to process the money
electronically - sort of like the way the internet has standards, and
computers software and hardware has standards - and stuff that didn't
comply with the standards wouldn't work. And anyone would be free to
make the equipment that made the money dance - as long as they met the
standard which was easily checked out automatically by complying
hardware and software.

Basically you'd have a number of people that would build little gizmos
or you could use the published design to build your own- in the end
you could trust the little gizmo that printed your vector money and
caused it to dance with everyone else's money.

Then my friend you would have what is known as an emergent system a
system without any need for a centralized control.

The device would be like a cell phone but YOU would own it. YOU would
own the information in it. YOU would own the information developed by
it. And YOU would control it 100%. It would be tuned to your
biometric signature. It would recognize you - your thumbprint, smell,
voice, eyes, heartbeat, breathing pattern - and it would not work for
anyone else. Its contents would be locked up tighter than secrets at
the CIA and would only be opened for you - and you alone.

When you got one of these gizmos it would imprint itself on you.
Instead of elections where you voted on propositions presented to you
by a complex committee process that itself is highly controlled and
limiting. You'd make declarative statements and basically produce
your own manifesto of what your political and economic goals were. If
you weren't used to thinking in such ways, you'd be asked a series of
general questions that would inspire further commentary. Ultimately
the minimum multi-dimensional measures needed for minimal transactions
would met - and the system would also have learned your biology
sufficiently to be ready to join the value net.

There are two things you can do basically with this little device on
the value net.

You can buy things.

You can sell things.

In order to do that you need money.

Where do you get the money?

You get the money the same place the United States and every other
nation get it.

You print it my friend.

Electronically

And then, you trade it for stuff you want

And when people want stuff from you...

They trade your money back to you

What happens when you have too much money? (Which can happen in this
system)

You take it out of circulation and 'burn' it.

Basically the value net is needed to implement free-market exchange of
the trading units. That is, just as money markets trade far more
currency between nations to support actual international trade than is
actually traded, there is an automated trading of currency in
circulation to support trade between individuals.

Now the thing that makes this all very special, is that the currency
has more than one dimension to it. Its a list of numbers that reflect
YOUR personal values. And any transaction with any one else has THEIR
personal values encoded as well, and this produces a table of numbers
- and by analyzing this table of numbers you can identify an optimal
trade for both parties - that both parties would agree is optimal.

Now that's a big statement. Is it true?

YES

There's a Nobel Prize winning economist who showed that a table of
numbers like this can be used to figure out optimal relationships in
any economic system. Its called the Leontieff Input Output Method of
Econometric Analysis. The only difference here is that each person
contributing to a transaction has a complete breakdown of how they
value things - so the analysis proceeds rather easily at that point.

So, you go to the mall and see a shirt you'd like to buy, and you buy
it. You print up the money on the spot, or use some of the money your
value net transactions have bought back using the money others have
printed for you. In any case this is YOUR money. And it has your
values imprinted on it. And the shirt's price tag has the values of
all the people who touched it imprinted on it - as a big list of
numbers. So, the guy who folded it and put it on the display case,
the lady who unpacked it in receiving, the woman who drove the truck,
all the way back to the cotton farmer - and it doesn't stop there ...
a network of relationships encoded in a list of numbers - that
basically includes everyone's relationship to the production and
purchase of that shirt.

And when your money enters the transaction? It flows automatically in
optimal ways back to the people who made that shirt possible - in ways
that you both consider fair and optimal.

What happens if someone doesn't create any value for you? Then they
can't redeem their portion of the contribution they made. And you
can't redeem theirs. That's all.

What about things that you want to have happen but cannot be supported
by transactions like buying a shirt? Well, you can allocate a portion
of your money, whether used by you directly, or used in the value net
trading system, to flow to causes you nominate. So you could support
your church or asram, you could support cancer research or space
travel, you could tell people to fix that pothole in front your house,
or give a buck or two to your old classmate Freddie who needs help
these days. Its up to you. And can be changed by you at any time.
You don't have to wait for elections or persuade anyone. And, you
don't have to fill out forms and pay taxes - its done automatically
with each transaction on the value net.

An offshore banking center - in a tax haven nation - with a small
amount of cash, and the software and hardware in place to implement a
secure valuenet protocol - could be the start of such a system.
People could back their valuenet with real cash - and then add their
values to it. They wouldn't HAVE to pay taxes, if structured right,
but most decent people WOULD pay taxes, automatically with the
valuenet. And as more money was created electronically - tax burdens
even when fully paid - wouldn't be a burden at all - tracing back to
the original depository amounts - especially if everyone paid their
fair share.

This could start out as a piece of software - on the internet - and
then, specialized PDAs would emerge - and ultimately, a valuenet
network specialized and separate would emerge as traffic grew to meet
global needs.

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In addition to a valuenet transfer protocol developed for a value
net, I also envision a robo-net to control robots remotely and receive
virtual presence signals from robots. That way people could drive
robots like this around - and live anywhere and work anywhere else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIMO

While this may seem like a bit of sci-fi, the complexity, cost and
more importantly, energy use, is far less than that to create and
operate an automobile. So, instead of spending $20,000 to buy a
honda, and another $1,000,000 per lane mile for roadways to connect
your home to wherever you might want to drive your Honda, you'd have a
robot at a place of work, and a wireless web connecting the two.
You'd have a data suit - a larger version of a wired glove - which is
a more immersive version of a Wii controller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_glove

The cool thing here is that people could live anywhere and work
anywhere else - and international borders would largely dissolve.

And if there was a trustworthy system to oversee global transactions
fairly, there would emerge a period of tremendous economic growth as
value flowed to those who contributed the most, and capital flowed to
those who created the most value and people responded rationally to
these flows of money and power.

[Willie...@gmail.com]

Some have asked me privately about the reality of this sort of thing.
Wouldn't the government stop it? Yes, if it perceived a threat, it
would stop it. However, the US government is opposed by many other
governments around the world. Some openly. Others more covertly.
The terrorists areound the world, and radicals around the world, are
the open opponents. Ones not considered a threat or threatening by
the US State department may also oppose us in less open, but equally
effective ways.

For example, did you know that the Chinese government owns about 80%
of the US mortgages? A change in Chinese policy could affect many
many homeowners in the US and the cost of their homes. Honda and
Toyota have similar power over the financing of most US automobiles -
no matter what the make or model.

Continued development of Honda's ASIMO technology, the resolution of a
number of open problems, will permit replacing your 1,000 kg car, with
a 100 kg robot with telepresence hardware and the 1 million dollar
per lane mile road system with $12 per month broadband internet
access.

Just as narrow gauge railroad continued to be used by Britain as the
US installed wide gauge railroad, it is likely this development will
have little impact on the US economy. However, remotely controlled
ASIMO technology will have a dramatic impact on the global economy.
It will be easily accessible by many who can afford only a motorbike,
and it will give them instant access to global markets.

And it will dissolve national boundaries and differences.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch - or rather - The Tawa Supermarket in
Taiwan - The Chinese and Taiwanese governments agree to create a tax
haven shared between that island and the adjacent community on the
mainland and extend it to Singapore. They move a good portion of
their international banking there, and begin to move major off-shore
tax-free transactions there. ANd into the fray enters a Chinese world
hero. An entrepreneur that creates an internet based micro-banking
system piggy backed to the increasing distribution of Honda Asimo
telerobotic systems - so that folks can earn a decent income and have
a place to save and so forth... the man makes billions in a matter of
weeks.

But this is unique because now

EVERYONE can have a tax-free offshore account and earn money overseas
and invest it and move it around secretly - and no one can touch it.

And its distributed and encoded and beyond the reach of anyone -
except their rightful owners of course - which is also doubly blind
secret even to the system itself.

So, a young lady in the Congo can work via internet and ASIMO at a
factory in Taipei. An old man in India can prepare curry dishes at a
restaurant in Paris. and both get going market rates - and when their
shift is done, others take the helm of the remotely controlled robot
and do their shft. The robots work nonstop - even while the people
report in and out to work - instantly from anywhere. ANd they get paid
on the spot electronically intot their off-shore accounts. Managers
and owners can monitor activity and communicate with active workers
through the internet from anywhere in the world.

A great boon for the world economy.

The US has ASIMOs too - everywhere. Notably the rich rent the
expensive machines for doing personal labor.

But mostly its big and middle tier businesses that rent the machines
and use them to make manufacturing mining agriculture more
efficient.

Honda is careful to make sure that there is a certain US content to
the labor force - which undercuts any political backlash. If
employment goes up along with productivity - they're in a win win
situation. So, they make sure that happens.

Mexicans who would much rather have our money and stay home while
getting it, cease to cross the border. That combined with improved
surveillance and effort by both the US and Mexican government
cooperating to end cross-border traffic in laborers (and new taxes on
cross border transactions) lead to an end of illegal immigration. As
a gesture of good will the US gives citizenship status to all existing
illegals. Honda makes sure ASIMO gets a good share of the credit.

Everyone is happy. Including the workers,and that's the American
workers too, who use off-shore accounts to book much of their labor
sold overseas. Mostly expert engineers, scientists, doctors, and
lawyers, who are in demand overseas - but this grows.

A growing number of people in America put a portion of their US income
in overseas tax havens using the software of the Chinese global hero.

Now the trap is set.

The US and other leading nations call for an emergency meeting to
discuss the internet and economic stability and its impact on tax
revenues.

Because when everyone has the option and the ability to accumulate
wealth tax free off-shore in a stable tax haven and work anywhere and
live anywhere else and earn an income that's greater than they can
make locally,and have access to that income.anytime anywhere... very
few will actually support their governments or their local strong men.

And that gives power to the Chinese in these new tax havens,and the
Japanese who are building and distributing the hardware.

There are a network of payments and relationships typical of any
international program. The Chinese are old hands at this with their
Singapore banking and trading experience. Ditto for the Japanese with
their Honda and Toyota franchises.

So, opposition wont' materialize quickly or easily. Look at the
treatment BCCI got in the US when their wrong doing was uncovered.
This will give you an idea of just how slowly opposition to this sort
of thing will happen.

No, the trap will have been set and everyone walk into it before
anyone realizes what has happened.

The economic and political power of all nations everywhere will have
been ceded to a Chinese controlled tax haven and the ability to go to
work in the morning and get paid will have been ceded to a Japanese
controlled industry.

And the fees charged by the off-shore bank can be set at any level -
in effect extracting a tax from everyone everywhere - without any
representation whatever.

At this point if the architecture is open,or if the architecture of a
competing product can be made to be open - then there is hope.
Because the standards committee concept can limit fees to direct costs
- and those can be demonstrated without compromising the security of
the system - and once the system is in place - its easy to run beyond
the control of those who might sieze on this as a means to gain global
domination.

And this might be okay for someone motivated merely by the goal of
breaking the US stranglehold on international banking.

And at that point we will have entered the post-national period.
Spear headed by robotics, internet and global communications.

Of course hackers and programmers will be getting rich selling
upgrades to Honda ASIMO and its competitors. To make things a little
more automatic and so forth. But if the Indian gentleman working in
the Paris hotel restaurant making authentic cuisine, is careful to
patent and copyright his recipies, and the Congolese woman is careful
to patent the special dance she carries out in her assembly operations
making her far more productive than her fellows - then, by the time
robots think for themselves - and that is predicted around 2030-2040
time frame - these people and billions like them,will actually benefit
from automation. And the free circulation of individual currency on
the value net - along with the big heartedness and creativity of
individual human beings - will take care of the rest.of us.

And we will be one happy family - sharing all the world.

And John Lennon will be raised to even more mythic proportions than he
is now.

haha..