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Underground food sharing (trust). Make it "karma points" (not cash) ... important to be unregulated, like the "volunteer" payments with SideCar. Imagine tens o

Underground food sharing (trust). Make it "karma points" (not cash) ... important to be unregulated, like the "volunteer" payments with SideCar. Imagine tens of thousands of locations in each city, with most people's points netting to near-zero. In other words, you give as much as you take. Cooking vs eating - self-cancelling at nearly 50/50. Open trade in points, reputation scores, and trust. People without time to cook may barter other reputations. A vast cashless ecosystem. Cuisine and location both, discovery via online maps. Any home, any vehicle, anywhere that trust, reputation, and freedom may actually develop. Personally, I believe "regulation" leads to the unsafe (thinks McDonalds) food ecosystem we have now.

saraid216 13y ago
Why is it that people who come up with these thought experiments can never resist talking about their beliefs? Do you have a plan of implementation? A seed network to beat the cold start problem? An actual, non-exploitable prototype for aiding discovery? A way to demonstrate trustworthiness? Survey results to show enough people willing to cook in order to provide sufficient supply to meet demand? Or is this just a pipe dream?
- teawithcarl 13y ago
  It's called future prototyping. The Tommorow Project, by Intel. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/tomorrow-project/the-tomorrow-project.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/tomorrow-pro...
  - saraid216 13y ago
    It's called refusing to face reality. Preaching sermons doesn't change the world. Make. A. Prototype. You know what's awesome about Bitcoin? I'm not a Bitcoin fan. I think it's silly, though I admittedly don't have the chops to properly evaluate it. But you know what I can't help but respect about it? It exists. It's in the wild. It's real. No matter what wankery I choose to criticize it with, I have to square that with the actual effects it's producing. No plan survives contact with reality. You cannot anticipate everything. This is goddamn Hacker News. Make a prototype.
    - teawithcarl 13y ago
      I've built code and companies, and needn't a lecture from you on how to build, nor how to dream.
      - saraid216 13y ago
        Then don't provoke one. I'm not telling you how to build; I'm telling you to build.

saraid216 13y ago

Why is it that people who come up with these thought experiments can never resist talking about their beliefs? Do you have a plan of implementation? A seed network to beat the cold start problem? An actual, non-exploitable prototype for aiding discovery? A way to demonstrate trustworthiness? Survey results to show enough people willing to cook in order to provide sufficient supply to meet demand? Or is this just a pipe dream?

teawithcarl 13y ago
It's called future prototyping. The Tommorow Project, by Intel. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/tomorrow-project/the-tomorrow-project.html http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/tomorrow-pro...
- saraid216 13y ago
  It's called refusing to face reality. Preaching sermons doesn't change the world. Make. A. Prototype. You know what's awesome about Bitcoin? I'm not a Bitcoin fan. I think it's silly, though I admittedly don't have the chops to properly evaluate it. But you know what I can't help but respect about it? It exists. It's in the wild. It's real. No matter what wankery I choose to criticize it with, I have to square that with the actual effects it's producing. No plan survives contact with reality. You cannot anticipate everything. This is goddamn Hacker News. Make a prototype.
  - teawithcarl 13y ago
    I've built code and companies, and needn't a lecture from you on how to build, nor how to dream.
    - saraid216 13y ago
      Then don't provoke one. I'm not telling you how to build; I'm telling you to build.