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The co-op model with which I am familiar is that there is a buy-in financial share purchase for each member, a monthly maintenance fee for each member, and a required weekly/monthly/annual work contribution from each member. I don't know if a co-op is the right structure. But there are far more adv...

IOW, just constructing the list/boundary of what the needful "chores" might be is towards Top-Down. It is top down if you approach it from top down. If constructing the list consists of "customers buying the service provided for the price bid", it instantly goes P2P. Mature adul...

In general, cognitive ability matters more tasks that involve analyzing, coordinating, and creating ... and less for tasks that are routine. My point wasn't that IQ doesn't matter. My point was that high and extremely high IQ are far more common than are the niches my culture provides, requiring hi...

I believe the primary, or at least first, issue to address is always "How much structure?" No. The first relevant question is "where are the boundaries of structure, and how does the default structure compare to the possible structures." One cannot even judge the value of the de...

Lets take a team of engineering majors and have them take a class in business administration and have a team of business majors take a class in engineering. The difference in how much each team will struggle learning new material is obvious to anyone who has ever tried this "experiment". ...

What did they do ? https://www.amazon.com/Days-Rage-Underground-Forgotten-Revolutionary/dp/0143107976 There was a time in America, before we coined the term "domestic terrorist", when political violence was just swept under the rug. Easier, when one only has to control a few newspapers an...

Certainly if you take the median IQ individual a drop of 10 points is going to leave them unable to handle a lot of modern work. Well, if they have their certifications, IQ isn't necessary. Or at least that was my corporate employment experience. If they don't have the certification, and the IQ dro...

the first people you will need will have to be largely in possession of legal intellectual resources and/or financial resources and/or have access to them through their social circles. I would also suggest that this is not necessarily an easy task even if you have other humans with theses resources...

@jacob Right. So your absolute highest category is Physics, at 133. 133 just isn't very rare. 130+ is about 1% of the population. or about 80 million people on the planet reach this threshold. How many niches are there for high IQ physicists are there, again? Conversely, 80M high IQ people in the wo...

On an individual level, 10 points is the difference between levels (engineer vs mechanic vs technician vs janitor), and 3--5 points may be the difference between promotion and stagnation. On a societal level even a few points of difference is a big deal because of the extreme tail effect. Shifting ...

Well, I see I have created confusion, again. So here is the super simplified chronological perspective. It feels merely repetitive, but maybe it will help: Work out legal/financial coordination for creating mods. Create the 1st mod: an alt building club as a means of testing those legal/financial co...

It seems like you are limiting your world to ERE people. I'm limiting my own efforts to ERE people. I wouldn't know how to limit my world (or project) to ERE people, if I wanted to. But I don't. Every ERE member has a network of friends and family. Few of us would make changes in our lives that wou...

@ daylen, Thanks for the suggestion. There seems to be a tension between big ambitions for mods of mods, etc. and staying small. Did you read Ostrom? Did you follow the link to Holocracy? Sociocracy? Prosocial?* There is no tension between small scale and big ambitions. There is nothing but small sc...

Thank you, I didn't mean to seem critical of your contributions. Rather, I am critical of corporate/industrial/scale in general. This ground is thoroughly worked by my culture. I have no reason to think I could compete on these terms. I have more experience with the corporate software environments t...

Since I have referenced both the Whidbey Institute and Holocracy in this thread, I would be remiss to not include this link:

https://whidbeyinstitute.org/deepening- ... more-36187

It seems they were incompatible.

I wouldn't even know where to start. Start here, on this forum. Perhaps making a deal with a staffing agency could get the ball rolling? The staffing industry has had a hard time matching supply to demand but software in this industry is maturing. Have you noticed that in every example I bring up i...

Let's talk a bit about wood markets. Before my camping club, the wood gets harvested commercially. Feller/bunchers (diesel), skylines (diesel), logging trucks (diesel), industrial studmill (steam), international logistics (diesel), local retailer (electricity), retail buyer. Every one of those steps...

I think it would be very helpful if you would summarize your idea in 200 words or less. One or two paragraphs and NO question marks. Me too. If only I could , we wouldn't be 8 pages deep. @Slevin, I'm not familiar with OAEC, but they seem very similar to the Whidbey Institute: https://whidbeyinstit...

If I understand you correctly, you're proposing a kind of camp site/RV park that functions as a test lab/school? (We talked about something very similar for the ERE RV Park back in 2012 or so, also the ERE Survival School or something to that effect) I can see how they resemble each other, superfic...

@jacob,

Any thoughts, so far?