[ExI] Social Credit versus Labor-based currency (was: Re: Using Time Based Currency?)

Bryan Bishop kanzure at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 01:36:20 UTC 2008


On Sunday 06 July 2008, Joseph Bloch wrote:
> Would it not make much more sense to figure out how to achieve the
> goals of Transhumanism with the systems that we're got, rather than
> engaging in endless pie-in-the-sky debates about alternate
> politico-economic systems that will never come into being?

The discussion was taking place on the virgle mailing list.

http://google.com/virgle

> For thousands of years,
> the human race has spread out across the Earth, scaling mountains and
> plying the oceans, planting crops and building highways, raising
> skyscrapers and atmospheric CO2 levels, and observing, with
> tremendous and unflagging enthusiasm, the Biblical injunction to be
> fruitful and multiply across our world's every last nook, cranny and
> subdivision.
>
> An invitation. 
>
> Earth has issues, and it's time humanity got started on a Plan B. So,
> starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google
> co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be leading hundreds of
> users on one of the grandest adventures in human history: Project
> Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.


- Bryan
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