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Assume the existence of artificial general intelligence and the prevalence of personal assistant androids, or an equivalent thereof. Basically this is the use of personal AI assistants to achieve incredibly efficient crowd sourcing while an also artificially intelligent management system ensures supply & demand are appropriately accounted for and ideally optimised.
Imagine you're on a city street, you tell your assistant that you need to be <somewhere> by <such time> and about thirty seconds later a random car that was passing by pulls over and the driver offers you a lift because he's heading that way too.
That is the power of efficiency.
The driver is offering you a lift because his own assistant informed him of his opportunity to help you, which is an opportunity because the management system to which all these assistants answer to will make a note of it, meaning that in the future when he requires help it will be swiftly provided to him as well. Indeed if he, you, or anyone who is a part of this system accrues enough proverbial good karma they can make really cool requests, for example you say you want a custom motorcycle and describe it to your assistant, that description then gets forwarded to engineers and artists who design it, machinists and mechanics who build it, and a month or so after mentioning it to your assistant a brand new custom built motorcycle seems to magically appear on your driveway, keys in and fuel tank full.
It's not magic, you're not getting any more value out of the system than you give to it, but because of the inherent efficiency by having it managed by artificial intelligences you firstly receive plenty of opportunities to assist your community, secondly the assistance you provide is the most efficient use of your time, skills and resources, and thirdly/finally this applies to everyone else as well. So in effect everyone seems to be getting more out of it than what they're putting in (at least in comparison to today's inefficient processes) which encourages people to work harder for even greater benefits, which increases the wealth of society as a whole.
Taken further this could cover money in a sort of grants management system crossed with a communal bank account, so rather than having our savings all sitting in separate bank accounts where the moneys of no immediate use to anyone we could have all our distributed wealth consolidated into a single account whereby grants can be awarded to anyone who has an idea for the use of that wealth that will benefit everyone (or at least be beneficial in some way) and whenever you need money your assistant handles the transaction electronically. Of course there's restrictions so no one person can misuse the entirety of society's wealth, or use more resources than they're worth, unless the use of those resources is something you would expect the majority of people would agree to, for example if someone's terminally I'll with cancer sending them on an overseas holiday isn't a sound investment, but it's a ethical one.
Imagine you're on a city street, you tell your assistant that you need to be <somewhere> by <such time> and about thirty seconds later a random car that was passing by pulls over and the driver offers you a lift because he's heading that way too.
That is the power of efficiency.
The driver is offering you a lift because his own assistant informed him of his opportunity to help you, which is an opportunity because the management system to which all these assistants answer to will make a note of it, meaning that in the future when he requires help it will be swiftly provided to him as well. Indeed if he, you, or anyone who is a part of this system accrues enough proverbial good karma they can make really cool requests, for example you say you want a custom motorcycle and describe it to your assistant, that description then gets forwarded to engineers and artists who design it, machinists and mechanics who build it, and a month or so after mentioning it to your assistant a brand new custom built motorcycle seems to magically appear on your driveway, keys in and fuel tank full.
It's not magic, you're not getting any more value out of the system than you give to it, but because of the inherent efficiency by having it managed by artificial intelligences you firstly receive plenty of opportunities to assist your community, secondly the assistance you provide is the most efficient use of your time, skills and resources, and thirdly/finally this applies to everyone else as well. So in effect everyone seems to be getting more out of it than what they're putting in (at least in comparison to today's inefficient processes) which encourages people to work harder for even greater benefits, which increases the wealth of society as a whole.
Taken further this could cover money in a sort of grants management system crossed with a communal bank account, so rather than having our savings all sitting in separate bank accounts where the moneys of no immediate use to anyone we could have all our distributed wealth consolidated into a single account whereby grants can be awarded to anyone who has an idea for the use of that wealth that will benefit everyone (or at least be beneficial in some way) and whenever you need money your assistant handles the transaction electronically. Of course there's restrictions so no one person can misuse the entirety of society's wealth, or use more resources than they're worth, unless the use of those resources is something you would expect the majority of people would agree to, for example if someone's terminally I'll with cancer sending them on an overseas holiday isn't a sound investment, but it's a ethical one.
