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That Time I Became A Dictator Of A Small Asian Communist Nation

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HeroCooky said:
that would soon rise in the morning atop the ashes of the greatest revolution of economic modeling since the discovery of money. (The Communists may say what they want, but they couldn't deny that money as a medium of exchanging resources was convenient and straightforward. Not everyone wanted shitty beer for their metals, but people could agree to trade a third medium both believed held value, also known as money.)
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...Why do I get the feeling Guangchou economists may become an interesting bunch?

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/50k7w1/oc_it_floats/
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We might see a story like this pop up as a representation of the nature of money. After all, all it is, is something that a bunch of people can agree holds some concrete form of value to assign to other objects...
 
CyberEnby said:
Point of order: I don't think we're actually using money here? I think it's in-kind accounting.
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"The key point about money isn't wealth. It's a somewhat standardized representation of value, or as close as one can get to such.":V

I mean, abolishing money just creates a sort of barter economy, until someone tired of it decides to try and simplify it, incidentally creating currency again. Since by it's nature, currency merely represents value, which tends to rely on the belief of it's value to work in the first place. Which...

Is Coincidentally part why the tourism we got is going to be real useful. Because it gives us the standard 'world currency' that most of the world recognize as holding value.:D
 
Themarineguy said:
"The key point about money isn't wealth. It's a somewhat standardized representation of value, or as close as one can get to such.":V

I mean, abolishing money just creates a sort of barter economy, until someone tired of it decides to try and simplify it, incidentally creating currency again. Since by it's nature, currency merely represents value, which tends to rely on the belief of it's value to work in the first place. Which...

Is Coincidentally part why the tourism we got is going to be real useful. Because it gives us the standard 'world currency' that most of the world recognize as holding value.:D
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You know I'm not actually familiar with how the OG Cyberstride worked - I know more about Cockshutt's followup work that used labour time as a basic unit of account.
 
Everyone.
Let's think this through a bit more alright(in regards to priorities)?

In the cyber security field there is an acronym called CIA.
It stands for:

1-Confidentiality: Stuff that should not be accessed/infered/leaked does not get accessed/inferred/leaked.
Think encrypting data at rest, securing valuable intel/IP, or just making sure that nobody can see the porn stash.
Encryption, ACLs(access control lists), and other measures are ways to implement this.

2-Integrity: Stuff will remain untampered with and you can audit what has been done to it.
Think being able to make sure that your super secret blueprint for your new weapon doesn't break because someone accidentally changed some variables in the design or someone decides to decieve others(eg hi, I'm your dictator, do X for me please).
Cryptographic signatures, ACLs, and other measures are ways to achieve this.

3-Availbility: Stuff will remain usable even when the situation is fucked up.
Think being able to use 911 when everything is burning, getting vital information ASAP to others, and accessing vital services/components in the system.
Careful design and provisioning among other measures is how you achieve this.

Decide your specific threat model(eg what threats/problems will you handle, which ones will you not handle, and how you are gonna handle things), then select your priorities.
 
CyberEnby said:
In this timeline, Ultron is written as the secret leader of Guangchou. Naturally this leads to a Commiewood version of Age of Ultron where he's the good guy.

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And for some reason I am thinking of the webcomic FreeFall...
I mean, I love how that webcomic explores Cultures, AI, and other such topics in a sci-fi backdrop. Including things like logical failings of the three laws of robotics...
Honestly, that could be a topic that could help differentiate Commiewood AI interpetations.
 
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    • Man, deep in exams so I couldn't participate in the vote, but if I could, I'd have proposed this:

    Plan @Magoose:
    1. Get Magoose to keep rolling dice till we get some nice enough results
    2. Ignore chaos.
    3. Repeat for each stat.

    Success (and failure) is inevitable! :V:V:V
     
    abominable said:
    Man, deep in exams so I couldn't participate in the vote, but if I could, I'd have proposed this:

    Plan @Magoose:
    1. Get Magoose to keep rolling dice till we get some nice enough results
    2. Ignore chaos.
    3. Repeat for each stat.
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    Why the hell does everyone want me to roll the dice for them.

    Do you have any idea how chaotic it would be?
     
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