Re: Meta guix: making money with GNU Guix: slightly off topic

[ilmu <ilmu@rishi.is>]

Hi guys,

A bit crazy maybe but how about we completely redefine what money is?

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).

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).

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 am also very interested in making a "nixos-infect" type thing for Guix and asked about that in the past on the mailing lists.

Let me know how you decide to proceed, I'm sure we can cooperate.

Kind regards,
- Ilmu

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On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 6:15 PM, Joshua Branson <jbranso@dismail.de> wrote:

> Leo Famulari leo@famulari.name writes:
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> > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:05:00PM -0400, Joshua Branson wrote:
> >
> > > Aloha you lovely people! I personally believe that people should make
> > > business out of free software. Here are some of my business ideas
> > > involving GNU Guix. I invite you all to beat me to market!
> >
> > VPS service that accepts a config.scm and returns a running virtual
> > machine, accessible with a web-based console (SSH, HTTPS and other
> > services would be enabled by the user as desired, in config.scm).
>
> I'm all game to do something like this! We could be a serious contender
> for linode or digital ocean! Guix already has a VPS like service...one
> would just need to write the web interface...and potentially buy some
> hardware.
>
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