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We should figure out a way to quantify and exchange tokens that represent our human virtues- fairness, goodness, and happiness. Maximizing utility and profit cu

by bawana 7y ago

We should figure out a way to quantify and exchange tokens that represent our human virtues- fairness, goodness, and happiness. Maximizing utility and profit currently only refer to money- the token for concrete things. Although money is a good approximation for utility in the ‘small’ regime, large amounts of money do not translate to large amounts of happiness. Perhaps I could write a neural net that would parse and analyze the input from my iPhone- the data captured by its sensors -audio, facial expression, facial blood flow (ir) - could be mapped to a happiness token. But even that is a fail. Just like systems we tried to make before- karma, kudos,upvoting,rep, etc

walterstucco 7y ago
money has ad advantage over other systems: it is fair. Fair not in the sense that flow towards people that deserve it more, but in the sense that it is neutral. Every system that relies on external inputs like fairness, goodness, happiness is inherently biased. Am I good? How much? Based on what standard? And if I am not, am I really not good or just surrounded by bad people? And how to monetize the virtues of neurotypical people? Take for example autistic people, they would be marginalized even more, now at least they can make money out of their perseverance. We need a way to globally tax those making too much money and use that money for public projects. Yes, of course project management is gonna be biased, of course politics is gonna take its share, of course there is gonna be corruption, but at least we will extract money from who have lots and use it for the good of general population. It is intolerable that Apple paid only the 0.005% of its profits in Europe[0] or that it "has a cash stockpile of more than $230bn, of which more than 90% is kept outside the US so that it does not attract US tax." [0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/30/eu-apple-ireland-tax-ruling-q-and-a https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/30/eu-apple-ir...

by bawana 7y ago

walterstucco 7y ago

money has ad advantage over other systems: it is fair. Fair not in the sense that flow towards people that deserve it more, but in the sense that it is neutral. Every system that relies on external inputs like fairness, goodness, happiness is inherently biased. Am I good? How much? Based on what standard? And if I am not, am I really not good or just surrounded by bad people? And how to monetize the virtues of neurotypical people? Take for example autistic people, they would be marginalized even more, now at least they can make money out of their perseverance. We need a way to globally tax those making too much money and use that money for public projects. Yes, of course project management is gonna be biased, of course politics is gonna take its share, of course there is gonna be corruption, but at least we will extract money from who have lots and use it for the good of general population. It is intolerable that Apple paid only the 0.005% of its profits in Europe[0] or that it "has a cash stockpile of more than $230bn, of which more than 90% is kept outside the US so that it does not attract US tax." [0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/30/eu-apple-ireland-tax-ruling-q-and-a https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/aug/30/eu-apple-ir...