For Less Wrong karma to eventually be worth something as part of a reputational economy, there is no way around allowing wealth transfers between karma and real world currency/services. Doing this in a way that scales to the globalist level while not being subject to anything like the USA PATRIOT Act is an unsolved problem.
It’s kind of a vague statement acknowledging the limits of starting a new system that becomes more powerful than our existing global system while acknowledging that possibility. There’s a long way to go between karma transfers on Less Wrong and the Whuffie system from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.
Can you say more about this?
It’s kind of a vague statement acknowledging the limits of starting a new system that becomes more powerful than our existing global system while acknowledging that possibility. There’s a long way to go between karma transfers on Less Wrong and the Whuffie system from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.