If you are not familiar to what the Alpha Zemerge project will be about please read the project proposition post. The project is coming along slowly with the front end presentation being developed. As discussed in the earlier post the project at first will visually display how wealth in our current monetary system paradigm gets transferred between parties and how wealth creation and inequality develops, and most importantly how unsustainable the whole setup in the long term.
Further specs of the project
One cycle of the simulation will last one second which will represent one hour in simulated time. Thus 24 seconds will represent a day, and 2.5hrs of simulated time will represent a year. If someone will be brave enough to run the simulation for about 11 days (and assuming the simulation doesn’t crash the flash environment) then they will simulate in retrospect a 100 years of economic activity giving an interesting long term outcome of the simulation.
The user interface (UI) will comprise of 8 elements which include:
- The households represented by icons of a home
- The employers represented by icons of a business building
- The bank represented by an official building with the label bank on it
- The government represented by an official building with the label government on it
- The physical resources represented by a series of crates
- An information section on the current status of the simulation
- Some sort of gauge of how the environment is doing, ie. if the background is more green it is healthier and if its more grey/brown it is in trouble.
- User input section where the user can alter simulation settings during the simulation
As the simulation will be running lines will be drawn between the home/employer/bank/government icons representing transfer of wealth, the thicker the lines the more transfer they will represent. All of these icons will shrink/grow according to the inequality developing from their starting conditions, thus if all the icons are the same size it could mean they are all wealthy or all poor since it is the inequality they are measuring. As employers produce products/services for the population they will be using resources, hence the resources icons and lines connecting them to the employers will represent an usage of resources. There will be various resources represented, ones which are renewable and ones which are not, for simplicity a set of dozen or so will be chosen with different parameters and used through out the simulation. The user will be able to set government and bank policies as well as population and employer behaviors to alter economic conditions through out the simulation.
Some of these settings currently in the works include:
- Government taxation
- Government public spending on services, infrastructure, health, education, security, etc.
- Government incentives
- Bank interest rates
- Bank wealth creation, loan, risk adverse settings
- Household spending habits
- Employer efficiency
- Employer employment rates
- Employer competition habits
- Employer advertising habits
- Investment rates
- Loans and debt rates
- Currency inflation
- Bankruptcy rates
- Corruption rates
- Infrastructure inefficiency
- Population wellness/satisfaction/approval rates
- Population pensions/unemployment/social security or public safety nets
- Discrimination/False ideologies rates that disturb and affect the model
- Demand and supply rates
- Natural and artificial disasters that affect the model
- Pollution and degradation of the environment effects
Screenshot of the latest UI can be seen here:
Stayed tuned for next monthly update on the project.
When engineers set about to build a bridge, a building or a car they look at what was done in the past, they evaluate what worked and what didn’t and construct a propositional schematic using a non-interpretive language of engineering. They can then evaluate this schematic in a virtual model environment for its effectiveness, physical constraints, and risk management of edge cases. When they are ready to build they are confident in the outcome and they have a plan to follow. There are no opinions, no personal agendas or majority votes how things are constructed, the scientific method of observation – hypothesis – deduction – experimenting is the standard process followed. This iterative process continues to progress human technological advancement.
So why does our society still operate by a plague of outdated ideologies, opinions and beliefs – majority rules is democracy we are told – but the establishment never question its effectiveness and never thinks about advancing to the next stage of progress. Why won’t we use the scientific method to give us the society that is long overdue? A vibrant evolving socially-optimal advancing diverse society where all the relevant factors are taken into consideration for the benefit of all peoples of the present and future as well as life itself. Making profit at the expense of morality will never again clash together as morality and human dignity will be one of the evaluations done during the scientific method process. Just like a skyscraper is evaluated for its ability to withstand high speed winds – a social model will be evaluated for its inhabitant’s standard of living and overall social approval.
Now suppose if instead of creating virtual models of bridges, buildings or cars to verify their validity and steer design direction – we created a virtual model of society for the same purpose? Now suppose the social parameters that make each model what it is would go about the same natural processes as natural evolution does through genetic algorithms – to bring about an evolving optimal social schema for all humanity to come. A world where the scientific method of social modeling steers our social direction is a world where our social values would realign with the relevance of nature, relevance of human empathy, and relevance of long term sustainability. We cannot even conceive how this world would look like as we are stuck in the current human psychosis of old memes and ideologies that limit our perceptions and potentials. So how can we achieve this society? For one support The Zeitgeist Movement, as it is currently the world’s largest grass roots movement advocating these ideas, and support projects like the Zemerge project – the more ideas are out there the more options we will have and the faster we will get there!
“The Zeitgeist Movement intends to restore the fundamental necessities and environmental awareness of the species through the advocation of the most current understandings of who and what we truly are, coupled with how science, nature and technology (rather than religion, politics and money) hold the keys to our personal growth, not only as individual human beings, but as a civilization, both structurally and spiritually. The central insights of this awareness is the recognition of the Emergent and Symbiotic elements of natural law and how aligning with these understandings as the bedrock of our personal and social institutions, life on earth can and will flourish into a system which will continuously grow in a positive way, where negative social consequences, such as social stratification, war, biases, elitism and criminal activity will be constantly reduced and, idealistically, eventually become nonexistent within the spectrum of human behaviour itself.” – TZM Website
Brought to you by The Zemerge Project – a Zeitgeist Movement inspired project.
