[FRIAM] Smart-Contracts: was UBI

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Yes! I'd love it if someone more knowledgeable would deign to chip in. As I understand it, smart contracts would do the banal computation showing how various agreements intertwine. So, if I've signed 5 NDAs with 5 different companies, 2 of which were founded by the same yahoo, 1 of which is a deep pocketed hydra like SAIC, 2 of which are mid-sized startups, all of which have different terms, what are the implications of signing a 6th with a new one? Trying to "calculate" all the different domain crossover, especially given that I'm only called to participate in a handful of domains, is a PITA. I feel the same way when navigating OpenSecrets to, e.g., track the funding of the Reason Foundation. >8^D And/or when Renee' sold her house in Oregon, it turned out there was a (obsolete, it turned out) clause about adding "out buildings", the threat being we may have had to tear down the shed I had built in order to sell the house without some government waiver. The whole thing was manually handled by the pair of real estate people (buyer's and Renee's), at a great expense of time, attention, and hand-wringing.

But I haven't followed the smart contracts area at all. So I don't even know if the current meaning of "smart contracts" means what (I thought) it used to. I know nothing about Cardano.

A similar *feeling* project was GitLaw, where laws were written with explicitly detailed, traceable revisioning. The open government project back in Portland was great in the sense that they would hold hack-a-thons to assemble data from various Portland municipal data sources into a kind of dash board for citizens, all open source, of course. I only went to one, though, for logistics problems.

On 5/10/21 1:36 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> Glen (et al) -
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> I wonder if we (collectively) can discuss *how* smart contracts as being built on top of blockchain implementations can be independent of "money" as you properly (IMO) apprehend it (and it's limits).  
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> I've been studying the Cardano ecosystem (weakly by the standards of more astutely technical of you here) *because* it is not conceived or designed to (merely) be the vehicle for managing an aspiring cryptoCurrency Bubble as the others seem to be (with smart-contracts an afterthought or inner-machinery exposed for civilian use.  
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> As I understand it, cryptoCurrency (ADA in this case) is the "reference app" of choice on Cardano for lots of reasons (explicitly) other than creating and inflating a crypto¢bubble, though I can't articulate them well myself.   My NREL colleague and I are exploring how the Ouroborous <https://cardano.org/ouroboros/> (protocol/blockchain machinery) of Cardano and the Smart Contract language/environment (Plutus <https://developers.cardano.org/en/programming-languages/plutus/overview/>) and other fairly *technical* things about collaborative problem-solving environments. FWIW, his design/implementation environment of choice is Haskell.  His teenage son taps the family $$ resources via a webapp which implements a smart-contract that captures the family values around "allowance" or more aptly "allowable expenses".    I share this only for "flavor", not with an indication that it is anything more meaningful than a novelty reflecting his investment in understanding-by-application.
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> However... I'm fundamentally *more* interested in how the same concepts (and machinery ultimately) can help us move on past a post-capitalistic socio-Economy toward something closer to it's close cousin Ecology which I believe would have a much stronger flavor of reciprocity, gifting and gratitude vs the nearly *required*??? U-O-Me nature of Money (conceived as IOUs, but distorted to UOMes by ?greed?).
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> - Steve

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