I suspect that your actual reason is more like staying true to your promise, making a point, having fun and other such things.
In principle “staying true to your promise” is the enforcement mechanism. Or rather, the ability for agents to predict each other’s honesty. This is how the financial system IRL is able to retrofund businesses.
But in this case I made the transaction mostly because it was funny.
(if in fact you do that, which is doubtful as well)
I mean, I kind of have to now right XD. Even if Olivia isn’t actually agent, I basically declared a promise to do so! I doubt I’ll receive any retrofunding anyways, but that would just be lame if I did receive that and then immediately undermined the point of the post being retrofunded. And yes, I prefer to keep my promises even with no counterparty.
Olivia: Indeed, that is one of the common characteristics of Christopher King across all of LAIE’s stories. It’s an essential component of the LAIELOCK™ system, which is how you can rest easy at night knowing your acausal investments are safe and sound!
But if you’d like to test it I can give you a PayPal address XD.
I can imagine acausally trading with humans gone beyond the cosmological horizon, because our shared heritage would make a lot of the critical flaws in the post go away.
Note that this is still very tricky, the mechanisms in this post probably won’t suffice. Acausal Now II will have other mechanisms that cover this case (although the S.E.C. still reduces their potential efficiency quite a bit). (Also, do you have a specific trade in mind? It would make a great example for the post!)
In principle “staying true to your promise” is the enforcement mechanism. Or rather, the ability for agents to predict each other’s honesty. This is how the financial system IRL is able to retrofund businesses.
But in this case I made the transaction mostly because it was funny.
I mean, I kind of have to now right XD. Even if Olivia isn’t actually agent, I basically declared a promise to do so! I doubt I’ll receive any retrofunding anyways, but that would just be lame if I did receive that and then immediately undermined the point of the post being retrofunded. And yes, I prefer to keep my promises even with no counterparty.
But if you’d like to test it I can give you a PayPal address XD.Note that this is still very tricky, the mechanisms in this post probably won’t suffice. Acausal Now II will have other mechanisms that cover this case (although the S.E.C. still reduces their potential efficiency quite a bit). (Also, do you have a specific trade in mind? It would make a great example for the post!)