From: Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de>
To: ilmu <ilmu@rishi.is>
Cc: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>,
"guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Meta guix: making money with GNU Guix: slightly off topic
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:10:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7kcby4x.fsf@dismail.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3pHQHXgNvCHHoVfQNOdr0Uk19ugqGi-38Jz45M5qtPq3GZxbRFYl8vRWafIjSQCjHR_dmO71q62ToLX_M9lQ0LfBjjMGTOzCKhNjA9plmN4=@rishi.is> (ilmu@rishi.is's message of "Thu, 08 Apr 2021 20:39:30 +0000")
ilmu <ilmu@rishi.is> writes:
> Hi guys,
>
> A bit crazy maybe but how about we completely redefine what money is?
Sure, why not? That's what guix is all about. Let's dare new things!
>
> I wrote "this" (the attachment or http://datalisp.is) over the weekend
> (in one sitting! very raw, sorry if it's hard to understand, feel free
> to ask me any questions).
Raw? perhaps. Attention grabbing introduction? YES!
>
> Actually from seeing this:
>
>> Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix)
>> Sent from Emacs and Gnus
>> https://gnucode.me
>> https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels
>> https://propernaming.org
>> "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help
>> enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
>
> It looks like you basically have the right idea about the economics,
> the paper describes something similar (get paid by helping others find
> the proper names for things).
That's what Earl Nightinggale said too! Something like "Money going
into your wallet is directly proportional to your service or
contribution."
>
> The document basically explains how to make a "cryptocurrency" that uses something like "automated science" as proof of work.
>
> Please leave preconceived notions at the door, this is not like any
> other cryptocurrency you are familiar with and the bit about automatic
> science is also slightly inaccurate, really it is hard to classify
> this idea (if it even works).
>
> However! I have access to funding and some other people and this pdf
> serves as a general overview for this (admittedly very ambitious)
> project. The first step (that I have in mind) is to make an education
> startup that teaches programming to children and teenagers, by using
> the ideas in the paper this can be automated and the network
> self-perpetuating.
I honestly have a hard time grasping the concepts you present. My good
friend happens to be a retired CEO of several global companies. He's
got an engineering mind. I'll show him the paper and see if he
understands it! :) My jabber ID is the same as my email address. Feel
free to communicate with me directly that way!
>
> I am also very interested in making a "nixos-infect" type thing for Guix and asked about that in the past on the mailing lists.
Yes please!
>
> Let me know how you decide to proceed, I'm sure we can cooperate.
>
> Kind regards,
> - Ilmu
>
--
Joshua Branson (joshuaBPMan in #guix)
Sent from Emacs and Gnus
https://gnucode.me
https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels
https://propernaming.org
"You can have whatever you want, as long as you help
enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-11 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-06 16:05 Meta guix: making money with GNU Guix: slightly off topic Joshua Branson
2021-04-06 17:49 ` Leo Famulari
2021-04-07 16:15 ` Joshua Branson
2021-04-08 20:39 ` ilmu
2021-04-11 16:10 ` Joshua Branson [this message]
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2021-04-11 16:42 jgart
2021-04-11 17:26 ` Ryan Prior
2021-04-11 18:10 ` jgart
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