Systems For Immortal Impact
Yesterday, I stumbled upon this blog post:
https://blog.jcharistech.com/2020/06/10/systems-for-immortal-impact/
By Jesse E.Agbe(JCharis)
Picture by ChatGPT + Dall-E
Prompt:
"draw me an explosion diagram style piece of the idea of "Systems For Immortal Impact", please"
System Design
I have explored system-design for a while now.
My introduction was this youtube video by Gaurav Sen.
I can hack together code quite quickly now, but to tie it all together into larger systems is a different beast; In programming there seem to be infinite ways to solve problems and I am having trouble, which one to choose, when.
I can't help to think about it in the context of Bitcoin and Hive.
They are monetary systems, or even governance systems, right?
Game-theory
Game theory seems to approach the same thing from a different perspective.
It also brakes everything down into systems, but introduces competition.
Competition seems like a key to design self-healing systems, or even systems that can improve themselves.
Bitcoin would be such a thing, as the original designer, Nakamoto, abandoned it, and it has improved since. Now different forks of Bitcoin are competing against each other on the market, like different mutations in some evolutionary race...
This whole stake-based governance thing seems to work ok.
Conscious Design
The post by JCharis assumes conscious design, and I think Hive should be consciously designed.
I feel like what I am missing on Hive is a body to talk to.
Hive can be used as a forum alright and I don't understand why it is frowned upon to talk about Hive on Hive. I think we were on a good track; We had a system that facilitated the competition of ideas in a very innovative way. We can debate, test and reward - all in one system, one game.
...
I feel like right now we are just cruising until someone finds an exploit and only act when it becomes too painful. Makes it seem like consense can only be achieved through punishment.
Crabs in a bucket, for the last time...
I let ChatGPT help me and ask it to me find some game-theory priciples that would apply to the analogy.
[...]
In summary, game theory provides a framework for understanding the "crabs in a bucket" metaphor, highlighting the complex interplay between cooperative and competitive behaviors, individual rationality, and collective outcomes.
It suggests 6 different principles.
Somewhere I had read about the Prisoner's Dilemma in the context of Hive, and it made enough sense to me, that I just stuck with it.
ChatGPT mentions it, too:
Prisoner's Dilemma
The situation can be likened to the classic game theory model known as the Prisoner's Dilemma. If all crabs cooperated (e.g., forming a ladder for each to escape), they could all potentially benefit. However, the dominant strategy in a non-cooperative environment leads each crab to betray the others (pull them down), resulting in a worse outcome for the group as a whole.
But all the other 5 make sense, too.
Non-Cooperative Behavior
The crabs' attempts to pull each other down to prevent any single crab from escaping is a form of non-cooperative behavior. In game theory, this is akin to a situation where players (crabs) choose strategies that are individually rational but collectively inefficient.
[...] collectively inefficient.
We should perhaps better strive to find a system (within the system), that rewards:
Evolutionary Stable Strategy (ESS)
This is a strategy which, if adopted by a population in a contest, cannot be invaded by any alternative strategy. The "pulling down" behavior could be seen as an ESS in the crabs' environment if it somehow contributes to their overall fitness, even though it seems counterintuitive.
I wish we had a designer...
Designer
I would like to talk to the designer, please. 😅
I prompt ChatGPT to draw someone looking at that piece(1) and saying: "I would like to talk to the designer, please."
(1)referring to the first image in this post
I can't believe it spelled 'IMMORAL IMIPACT'. 😂
It should be titled: 'Karen wants to see the supervisor'
In lack of a single person to take responsibility for this, I am looking forward to some form of llm, trained just for the purpose of helping me explore this stuff further.
ChatGPT can take endless abuse, it won't get mad it you.
Maybe I should make it my mission to introduce NPCs to the game of Hive.
The blockchain itself could make an interesting dataset to train an 'AI' with...
It would take me a very long time.
Then again, I expected this would have been done by now, already years ago...
Conclusion
I guess I should conclude this somehow:
I conclude, that I would like to see more discussion about the design of Hive in a broader sense.
That's what I should tackle next; Discussing the whitepaper.
I would also like to explore this more through lense of Regulation Technology, which basically deals with vibrating systems, waves. I think Tesla said something like 'The key to everything is waves. Think about frequency and resonance'...
I dump this into ChatGPT:
I would like to explore the idea of Systems For Immortal Impact through the lense of Regulation Technology. How things vibrate...
Can you draw a picture to express this?
There are only so many parameters we can try to tune with.
Maybe this whole piece is just an over-complicated way of expressing, that I don't like the vibe.
What a trip.
I'll do some real work now, but I'll come back to this...