Not so long ago, in Bash and IM, mega-scholar hacker and Russian friend Joe schooled me on the concept of Pronoia:

 ”Sweet disambiguation…Pronoia could refer to a system of land grants in the Byzantine Empire, but in this case it was the sneaking feeling one has that others are conspiring behind your back to help you…to think I thought it was a Russian lunchmeat.”

Joe also introduced me to the concept of Whuffie…(which I think could be used and tested in Second Life)

From his latest: Pay attention to #6 and #8 and part of #3 which seems to me to be a throw-back to the concept Netiquette…correct me if I am off base Joe.

9. Numbers

There is a number out there already called price. Unfortunately it is pretty much 0 for everything good on the web. So, there’s a need for new numbers: Whuffie (global like Page rank) and Right-Handed Whuffie (personal like friends in LJ)

8. Material stocks and flows.

Artists, writers, hackers all need to eat something, so there has to be a flow of material stuff. Price 0.00$ is not sustainable.

7. Regulating negative feedback loops.

Non-zero price will keep supply/demand in check.

6. Driving positive feedback loops.

Being able to live off you creative work will inspire more people to create.

5. Information flows.

Whuffie will measure popularity and goodwill with precision not known before.

4. The rules of the system (incentives, punishment, constraints).

Self enforcing system will have mob like rules and punishment system. Code of honor is a better alternative, will come as consequence of #3.

3. The power of self-organization.

The mob will figure it out, there will be order in all this anarchy

2. The goals of the system.

Have more good stuff on the internet that is still almost free (and free of spam and scam as much as possible)

1. The mindset or paradigm out of which the goals, rules, feedback structure arise.

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