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This is actually a really cool concept -- the idea that you can "copy paste" cities and blocs of economic/social/cultural/technological activity

I think capitalism & today's global law is an example of how a concept can be "copy pasted", with regional variations. The idea of a restaurant, for example.

Technology and AI does expand what can be gamified - from the basic concept to a very fine-grained, activity-oriented tracking of what people do.

So I guess the question is: given this power, how do you design systems that are good to propagate?

ie, how do you design the education -> workforce pipeline? what incentives do people have? what kind of cultural activities are there? what norms are there?

Fascinating bc there's so much opportunity - a lot of people are blocked bc the systems they live in are not optimal (ie, regional lords, bad incentives, etc). But if we can fix that, imagine if we plopped down SF 2.0 in the middle of Africa, using a combination of technology + human intermediaries to enable a better system.

Unfortunately I think existing systems might not take kindly to this

Just outstanding reply!

The copy and paste method works better and better as we get more zones (automated manufacturing + automated game space) set up. Our chances are more and more likely of finding governments around the world that need one or more of the products/services needed from the autonomous zones. The draw for expansion is that as the zones start producing they simultaneously pull in residents to play on the game layer leading to more traction and interest in opening more local zones.

Great point! Technology is about to make complete gamification possible.

Imo, Good propagation comes from a mathematical scoring system based on Plato. He created a geometric dialectic system that categorized the Good, Happiness, and so on AND he designed a society that was completely self run that still maximized these values for the players.

Our scoring methodology maximizes a core set of mathematic virtues that leads to the most Good and Happy state for each and all.

Our education model uses these basic virtues as scoring mechanics for individual souls and social souls. So the game is literally level up yourself (get smarter, stronger, more friends, etc, have the most enjoyable experiences, and level up the civilization) a soul is something reasons, wills, and desires * this applies to both individual people and whole states! Very powerful.

Exactly! Compete economic overhaul is coming in the next 5 years. Having a model that acts like an Operating system to be deployed around the world will make this transition so smooth. Also, it is an economically viable open source model

That is a possibility that current systems won't like it, but.. how many will push back against a gamified world that removes all work and just maximizes their true happiness while providing the greatest economic output every created?

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