[p2p-research] Donation Networks

[Samuel Rose]

What I am proposing is no currency at all.

It is a way of measuring the health of a system that is recognized as a
"Commons".

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On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:15 PM, marc fawzi <marc.fawzi at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> <<
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Ps. an important question: what happened to p2paid? Why did the site
>> activity seem to stop after a while? I beleive it is important to know why
>> some projects like this succeed and some seem to lose momentum. It looks
>> like a very noble effort.
>>
> >>
>
> Hey Sam,
>
> 1. I had actually casually suggested that tokenizing emotional energy using
> "thank you" notes as currency is the ultimate un-money, but I have found out
> after 3 months of thinking <http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Energy_Economy>that such currency would work best (or most realistically) with goods and
> services that can be produced and delivered in abundance and on sustainable
> basis. More exactly, those that can be produced and delivered on continuous,
> scalable, distributed basis. For example, digital content, peer-manufactured
> goods made entirely from renewable resources (and that are produced
> independently by many peers, certain distributed digital services (think
> Mechanical Turk) etc.
>


I am actually doing this on a small scale with real people in the near
future, and seeing what emerges.  I have people currently interested in
doing it.


>
>
> 2. It is not sufficient to construct a nobel model based on high ideals.
> People are driven by two continuous subconscious needs: survival and/or
> discovery. Both of these needs need to be met, IMO, for a lasting dynamic to
> emerge.
>

People have been giving things to one another for hundreds of thousands of
years.

People have even created systems for giving to each other ("potlatch" is one
example).

Giving and sharing have been a basic part of human survival since the very
first humans.

The model that I operate with is explicitly not based on high ideals. In
fact, it is based on mostly on actual agent-based models. Particularly, it
is based on an Altruism model descended from the work of R. Axelrod, which
shows success thresholds even when pressure from all factors is high,
provided that cost of "altruism" is low.



>
> You can say that life itself provides the survival and discovery plots, but
> that's why it's hard to bring people into a new place where opportunities
> for survival and discovery are very limited.
>

The model that I am proposing will appeal to some specific world views. In
particular, those described by CW Graves as "Sacrifice Self for Reward
Later", and "Sacrifice Self So That All May Gain Now".

Human nature is not limited to physiological survival (I assume you are
referring to physiological survival), and "discovery". Bio-Psycho-Social
systems also reveal patterns related to psychological survival, social
sustainability, and prediction/foresight.

There is an unlimited, evolving, exponentially expanding spectrum of
fundamental assumptions of existence associated with human nature that go
beyond base needs, such as survival (as there are significant amounts of
people who are not totally focused on basic physiological survival).

What if people discover that they could meet some of their survival needs by
creating a systematic way to share surplus?



>
>
> That's actually where I am in the design of P2P Energy Economy<http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Energy_Economy>.
> Specifically, I've found out that the existing money creates a great
> opportunity for experiencing a survival game by enforcing scarcity, and if
> we come up with an epi-economy or "epiconomy" (a higher level economy that
> lays on top of the existing one) that is predicated on sustainable abundance
> then I think it needs to contain a discovery game within that
> counter-balances the survival game going on in the existing economy.
>
> 3. There are other issues to designing a new kind of economy that apply to
> what you're doing as well as what I'm working on, but I need to think about
> them some more.
>
> Marc
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Paolo, thanks for your response.
>>>
>>> Is there an existing place to download http://www.p2paid.org source
>>> code? If not, I can easily donate repository space for maintaining this, if
>>> you want (plus issue que, and API).
>>>
>>> This is similar to what I am currently doing with
>>>
>>> http://socialmediaclassroom.com/repo/hgwebdir.cgi/smc/
>>>
>>> for http://socialmediaclassroom.com/
>>>
>>> And we also have http://socialmediaclassroom.com/development which is
>>> issue que and API
>>>
>>> Let me know if you are interested in that, and I am interested in looking
>>> at a copy of your code, for sure. Thanks again!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 9:20 AM, <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Samuel
>>>>
>>>> I have recently become a member of freecycle
>>>> and what I see is fantastic
>>>>
>>>> http://www.freecycle.org/
>>>>
>>>> old things get used up by others, then passed on
>>>> from spare parts to furniture, books, household items to the oddest
>>>> thing around (offered /wanted)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> also, we have developed a drupal based tool
>>>> www.p2paid.org which is free to use, open source if you want to
>>>> install on your servers and change the config/GUI etc
>>>>
>>>> hope useful pointers
>>>>
>>>> best
>>>> PDM
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > Dear P2P Research,
>>>> >
>>>> > After some months working privately with agent based Altruism and
>>>> > Cooperation models, I am working towards initiating an experiment with
>>>> with
>>>> > a small number regional and continental participants in creating a
>>>> balanced
>>>> > donation and distribution system.
>>>> >
>>>> > The system is fairly simple:
>>>> >
>>>> > Participants list what they need, and fill mutual needs. Each person
>>>> > maintains a "reputation" that is based on a "thank you" that is
>>>> received
>>>> > from the person they have donated to.  A tracking system monitors the
>>>> > "carrying capacity" of donations. "thank you" assignments to
>>>> participants
>>>> > are monitored, and so too are receipts of donations. Optionally, each
>>>> > participant may also register their own satisfaction with the system
>>>> as a
>>>> > whole.
>>>> >
>>>> > Total satisfaction, plus a "thank you" (which is seen in the system as
>>>> > individual satisfaction with what is donated) compared against
>>>> satisfactory
>>>> > receipt of donations (where you "thank" the other person, and thus add
>>>> to
>>>> > their rating), and a certain base level of overall needs met,  would
>>>> then
>>>> > give feedback to each user, showing that they may need to donate more,
>>>> or
>>>> > improve the quality of what they are giving to others, in order to
>>>> maintain
>>>> > total "health" of the system.
>>>> >
>>>> > In the United States, this is my proposal as a route for people to
>>>> > distribute regulated goods like food items, fuel
>>>> production/ingredients, etc
>>>> > in way that is legal, and that avoids "market" exchanges (it is legal
>>>> to
>>>> > donate or give items to one another in the fashion proposed above).
>>>> >
>>>> > As local food systems, and open product design/fabrication activity is
>>>> > already increasing, myself and others are seeing the above as a
>>>> plausible
>>>> > way to pool and share resources. Your thoughts are appreciated.
>>>> > --
>>>> > Sam Rose
>>>> > Social Synergy
>>>> > Tel:+1(517) 639-1552
>>>> > Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451
>>>> > AIM: Str9960
>>>> > Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samrose
>>>> > skype: samuelrose
>>>> > email: samuel.rose at gmail.com
>>>> > http://socialsynergyweb.org/network/services
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > "When a distinguished elderly scientist states that something is
>>>> possible,
>>>> > he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is
>>>> impossible,
>>>> > he is very probably wrong."
>>>> >
>>>> >    Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Paola Di Maio
>>>> **********************************
>>>>
>>>> Forthcoming
>>>>
>>>> i-Semantics 2009, 2 - 4 September 2009, Graz, Austria.
>>>> www.i-semantics.tugraz.at
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sam Rose
>>> Social Synergy
>>> Tel:+1(517) 639-1552
>>> Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451
>>> AIM: Str9960
>>> Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samrose
>>> skype: samuelrose
>>> email: samuel.rose at gmail.com
>>> http://socialsynergyweb.org/network/services
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "When a distinguished elderly scientist states that something is
>>> possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is
>>> impossible, he is very probably wrong."
>>>
>>>    Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sam Rose
>> Social Synergy
>> Tel:+1(517) 639-1552
>> Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451
>> AIM: Str9960
>> Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samrose
>> skype: samuelrose
>> email: samuel.rose at gmail.com
>> http://socialsynergyweb.org/network/services
>>
>>
>>
>> "When a distinguished elderly scientist states that something is possible,
>> he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible,
>> he is very probably wrong."
>>
>>    Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
>>
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Sam Rose
Social Synergy
Tel:+1(517) 639-1552
Cel: +1-(517)-974-6451
AIM: Str9960
Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samrose
skype: samuelrose
email: samuel.rose at gmail.com
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"When a distinguished elderly scientist states that something is possible,
he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible,
he is very probably wrong."

   Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's first law
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