FourFire

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r/rationality•

In the interest of learning about things which I have not yet heard of.

In this thread, I would like people to list various thought experiments which require more than one person to conduct.

An example would be the AI-Box experiment; where in one instance you measure the ability of one person to subvert the precommitment of another in a roleplaying context, with real life stakes. However in another instance you are conducting a statistical experiment on the frequency of human precommitments being subverted.

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r/copypasta•

This is extremely important. Illegitimate governments will use basic income as a weapon to preserve their own regime continuity in the event of civil unrest.

I think the solution is universal basic income in the form of cryptocurrency, using decentralized p2p like Bitcoin's block chain technology. Once a critical mass of transactions start occurring in cryptocurrency, we can make the central banks and their fiat currencies obsolete, and their corporate governments will fall with them. Then we will be free.

Before we can think about that, however, we need everyone to start encrypting all of their communications by default.

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