Libertarian Municipalism and Transferics
Libertarian municipalism is an evolution of Murray Bookchin’s left-libertarian theory, a social theory which is not only the end, but also the means to achieve it. While the basic idea […]
Category Archives: VIAAC Theory
Transition Structure #2: The Crowdfunding Bank, or “Knab”
A recent article by Charles Hugh Smith describes how banks have become obsolete, and how they might be replaced in today’s high-tech world. It has gotten me thinking the last […]
The capability of renewables and the importance of decentralization
This entry is based on the study, “Cost-minimized combinations of wind, solar, and electrochemical storage, powering the grid up to 99.9% of the time“. Description To summarize, it is a […]
Priority levels defined more rigorously
As I’ve covered before, a computational economy uses preemption and priority levels for its allocation schemes. Priority levels are used to determine, when demand exceeds constraints, which demands to fulfill […]
Little Allocation for an M/M/c queue
In queuing theory, an M/M/c queue is one where arrivals (λ) happen by a Markov (Poisson) process, average time spent in the queue (μ) is also a Markov/Poisson process, and […]
Rethinking our Priorities.
The job I held before my current one was working as a server (among other things) in a high-end bakery. My boss, the sous chef, loved to bake; she also […]
Functional processes
A functional process is something that maps a set of inputs to a set of outputs. This can include production processes, which turn inputs into different outputs, construction processes, which […]
Specializations Revisited
The networking of intentional communities, once established, would allow a specialization scheme for greater efficiency and robustness of the network. Due to the four-color theorem we know that 4 or […]
Fundamentals of Natural Economics
If you are unfamiliar with the basics of calculus, you can get a brief lesson here. Scarcity and Abundance The way we currently (at least supposedly) deal with scarcity is […]
Decision-making in realtime
How do we make effective decisions quickly enough to keep up with a large number of simultaneous problems in the same system? Decisions are not always single actions, they are […]
Transferics 