CRYPTO GAME SOCIETY

Essay: Pin balls or cues line up - Effective society to engineer (a) (b) : Assets distribution game - Play and earn on cross-platforms: Critical endnotes on reading materials and supportive conclusion

Onto a pinball table, name-balls are thrown for the theme. I can be a hitter. You may be bettors. Players are celebrities. Alternatively unknown people. Either is the same. It comes to no meaning. The game-wise clock is on and off. No rule has yet been written. For fun for the sake of trilling fun. What is the game? You name it. There is though one word, too crucial to be dismissed. That is “earn”. Play and earn. Earn to play. See my random-chosen cues¹ below to begin with.

Gaming - coding - Discord - FTX - BDs on smartphones - Elden Ring - Crypto king - Xenoblade - Sam Bankman-Fried - Jason Citron - 30 - 37 - Axie Infinity - Delitoon - Web3 - Green Satoshi - cross platforms - Fates Forever - digital currencies exchange - Kimchi gap - vegan - animal rights - mega donor - measurable effectiveness;

and (finally)

Effective Altruism

Effective society to engineer (a)

In his “Elon Musk’s Inner Circle Rocked by Fight Over His $230 Billion Fortunes” (The Wall Street Journal; 7/16/22), Rob Copeland introduces Igor Kurganov as a porker player who became a millionnaire by his winning games in his 20’s. From Copland, readers positively get a sense that Kurganov (now in his 30’s) and Jared Birchall (in his 40’s, financial overseer of the Musk assets) are not in very good terms in their relationship. Copland’s article would be able to intrigue some or many people, because it is interesting. It may be so even for those who have zero interest in Elon Musk and his inner circle calamity or the ongoing Twitter battle. After reading the article, my curiosity led me to youtube on which videos of Igor Kurganov porker games are found. He then looked like actively a post-Vietnam war bohemian. Now, he looks like a French scientist in the 17th century. I mention Kurganov not for these changer-aspects to note on, but because, according to Copeland, Kurganov gave advice for effective altruism to Elon Musk.

Let me depart from the inner circle in question here and now. Typically and generally speaking of it, a porker game is categorically a gamble. The world top players can earn or lose millions of dollars over the deck in one game. I used to think the porker talent must rely on memory skills, combined with speculative analysis, and venturous and cool mind able to keep itself calm even in the midst of very distractive environments such as flashy, flushing lights, music, noises and visual attractions caught by the corners of eyes. Yes, something like a game ambiance in Las Vegas, I am thinking of. In addition, intuition must be counted on. Besides, luck, of course.

A game over million dollars is not, if one loses, a loss in an easy mood regardless of situational differences. There may be a suppositional case to raise for an argument. How effectively one can lose, if not able to win? This is not psychology by a smart-game wisely turning over to push the topic forward into an intended direction. How the flow of money can be most effectively directed into an effectively engineerable society is an idea. This is a jump over a deck in my part.

Effective society to engineer (b)

“ ‘Effective Altruism’ Is Neither” (The Wall Street Journal; 7/25/22) is a crisp and economical title made by Andy Kessler. With no hidden implication, it means Effective Altruism is neither effective nor altruism. Kessler discusses the effective altruism movement thoroughly to build up to say of the ineffectiveness of it. He above of all explains:

[…] what is effective altruism? In 1972 philosopher Peter Singer suggested using metrics rather than emotion to direct charitable giving. On the surface it makes perfect sense. There is even a framework to be effective: Giving must scale, be aimed at causes neglected by mainstream philanthropy, be directed at solvable problems, and be a good personal fit for the giver. Sounds great so far.

However:

[…] like everything else, high thoughts often devolve to personal biases. While claiming that effective altruism is a worldview and a way of life, Mr. Singer also said “there are glaring things wrong with the way people are living.” Effective altruism also seems to be related to the “work to give” movement. Workers will rationalize high-paying jobs by giving most of their income away. Actually, when you work, you already give to society, but that is too complex for some to understand. Animal rights and veganism are big in the movement as well.

Moreover:

For true believers, it must be hard to find worthy projects. No problem! An organization known as GiveWell will tell you what charities are effective. I did a little digging, and I’m not so sure they’re effective at all. Yes, they direct money toward malaria nets and treatments for parasitic worms, but they also supply supplements for vitamin A deficiency, though genetically modified “golden” rice already provides vitamin A more effectively. Hmmm, seems like a move backward. GiveWell also suggests direct cash transfers to solve extreme poverty, similar to universal basic income.

If you happen to be impressed by Kessler’s indication, we can stand together in a camaraderie manner under the “prove how you (to ‘effective altruism’) are effective” banner.

In essence, the movement and concept would be or can actually be close to socialism or communism as I understand. Otherwise, it could be politically biased. In order for such an altruism to work with reasonable adequacy, it must be systemized with codified purposes in details, that is however a contradiction of itself, because regulated giving is not a voluntary act, thus not altruism, but legalized deprivation of incomes or assets from and imposed upon individuals on the basis of distribution necessities judged by the government or public organizations. Or, new tax codes would be drastically made under the name of socialistic democracy.

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Assets distribution game

The above-cited article of Andy Kessler ends by stating economic high productivity, thus Capitalism, “is the most effective and altruistic system". Now, my imaginary gamers are in. Unorthodox and experimental. I deny their social-effective game, which however they live for. What is their assertive function?

Suppose an individual called Juliette Masch holds valuable intellectual assets. (Do not laugh so radically, this is just a self-indulgent example). Rational Entity on its platform, creates a game environment. The goal is to justify their distribution system that deprives all of Juliette Masch from all truths in her life, with neither moral nor legal objections raised by any part. The visual environment is made by a highly profiled gaming production and its distribution (literal distribution) is done by a cross-platform specialized firm. The programmer is at this point undisclosed for he or she can be in either side, which means not only for Juliette Masch or Rational Entity, but does also mean neither of political affinities to be — yet. Players buy an initial participation fee with crypto currencies, exchangeable, and each of them can produce characters for role plays to antagonize Juliette Masch. All earning points are cash worthy. Players for Juliette Masch, on the other hand, must find engineering deficiencies and defects in Rational Entity to eject their players, in order to prove their system as Over Rational Excessive. Very interesting. How does it unfold?

Let us peek into:

Rational Entity asserts the game’s aim as ‘effective altruism society to engineer’.

Oh, you have to know, how haughtily my players laugh at!

It is so funny!

It is pêle-mêle, a chaos!

Already so as it has been!

Ever! Ever!

Look at that corner, who’s there!

That’s the Accent Circonflexe* flapping his arms and legs, back and forth, left and right!

(* The character is old and familiar, having appeared often in my tweets to Twitter Support. His alterably descriptive name is ‘fake-confessional bot’)

What’s over there, look at that ghost!

That’s a spooky woman with her disfigured face! **

(** This is a sort of jpn culture ref., for the ghost story is very well known. The fictional event goes as that a woman killed by her lover (who cruelly killed her) for his promotional marriage with a young woman from a rich family, came out as a ghost to make him repent. Currently, the theme in twists is most favored by Rational Entity to play down Juliette Masch. As their visual reference to fabricate, my photo has been maximumly utilized in distortion by the means of parasitically anecdotal bot(s), Shiba Token, which diffuse(s) tirelessly fakes with bot-enthusiasm unknown to human sensitivity nor comprehension.)

I have to let my readers know. If you expect me to continue depicting the game like this in this space, be aware that grave disappointments will wait for you. Because, simply I will not continue like this. If anyone wants to settle anyway on something somewhat more into a direction of satisfaction, imagine please environments similar to Elden Ring or Stray (I learned about the former just yesterday; the latter, just days ago) in which Juliette Masch and her players fight against Rational Entity armies or consecutive narratives occur in a labyrinthine city. However anyway, I will not here dwell on as I said. Before I move on, I will give you one warning. Be careful of hackers who stole $540 million in crypto from Axie Infinity game. They may be around!

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Play and earn on cross-platforms

The newness of social media platform, Discord, is understood as in several ways. On it, users can chat (traditional). Users can zoom (traditional too). Users can share things in all existing ways as on other platforms (very cross roads). Games are included (oh, fun! element). Specified localizations (for topical selections as into selective counterparts). Above all for me however, the most striking factor I learned so far is its absence of algorithms. Which means users are in a new world, leash-free from data surveillance and controls. Although it sounds pretty good, I cannot see all algorithms to be completely out of users’ benefits. There are more questions ro raise crucially. Is this a signaled advent of social media on which all things can be encountered an combined, including ‘play and earn’ as a revival in the crypto market?

In my intuitive and moral convictions, many people are motivated by and act in good intentions, because they are good. Over-rationalizations and unintended or deliberate misguidance are often the causes for wrongness both in process and results in our days. My intent here is not to criticize Discord, but how it might develop further would carry noteworthy issues.

Cross-platform social media would rationalize ‘effective-giving’ in a game theory to promote philanthropic operations into ‘fun, earn, and give.’ The percentage of ‘give’ can be automatically deductible according to ‘earn’, which itself would increase as investments in the crypto market. It seems to be as simple as a super effective new system created as if a capitalistic socialism on digital currencies. No regulations yet. Free from centralized fixations. Companies would freeze cash out whenever a danger of bankruptcy arises. I am not implying a possibility of eternal recurrence in the crypto market’s acrimony. But, a crypto game society might come by dragging out of all good intentions.

How to prevent? I can assert with no fatigue the same thing. People can be aware of it to prevent such from happening. Simply by looking around to detect deceptions in the name of ‘fun’ of all kinds.

In these days very soon, if not already existing, a systemized ‘fun and learn and earn’ can also be launched for pseudo-educational purposes, cross-encountered with ‘effective learning, earning and giving’. The apparent goal would be described as effective engineering of an effective society with no waste of anything. Such is a mere theory, as it is a foundational stone for a creepy crypto game society in which kids associate help with help as it must be so, only when there are monetary returns; they regard learning as learning only when there are material rewards or winners’ gains in most concrete forms.² The term ‘altruism’ is recreated with a new definition. Win by giving is deceptive.

How to prevent? As simple as free birds flying in the sky in a summer day. Be natural. We will be able to see who earns money most by a crypto game society.

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1. Below is the list of the reading materials from which I was benefited very much. Many thanks to all the writers for their informative articles in excellence. I also add brief comments/notes of mine to each piece.

From The Wall Street Journal:

COPELAND, Rob; Elon Musk’s Inner Circle rocked by Right Over His $230 Billion Fortunes; 7/16/22; WSJ : This article will give to readers an overview of differences in Elon Musk and other mega rich Americans such as Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg regarding how to contribute their fortunes to the world. That could be a background for reading into.

JIN, Berber: Crypto Rout Deflates Some Startups Buoyed by Push Into Digital Tokens; 7/9/22; WSJ : The unprecedented, quick and rather surprising situations to insiders and outsiders alike are captured.

KESSLER, Andy: “Effective Altruism” is Neither; 7/22/22; WSJ : Kessler holds his stance as a counter-progressive/woke/or all in these lines with a solid consistency, which is apparent with no hidden implication if one reads his other opinion pieces. I do not agree with him on everything, but his insight is keen. One also can like his crisp, sharp, and witty writing style.

As for this article to back again on, the very last part cites a criticism of effective altruism from a different angle made by an economist. Let me paraphrase. Linear ways of earning are the ways for most people. Investors with million dollars funds available at anytime are not the same as those people. The conceptual differences have to be elucidated, which however would spoil the effective altruism movement.

POT, Justin: Tired of Instagram? Try Discord; 7/26/22; WSJ : Lots about Discord. Very interesting to read. This article led me to a quick online search on Jason Citron as an entrepreneur, programmer, and creator.

VASHISHTHA, Yashica: Jason Citron: A Video Game Lover and Founder of the Digital Distribution Platform Discord; 8/12/19; WSJ : More about Jason Citron I learned. In my vague view, Citron and Sam Bankman-Fried are most different from each other in their political views. I do not believe Citron would lean himself toward big conservative causes rapidly in a near future. But, I have an impression that he seems to believe a renovation of the society by rare reconciliations between big corporations and very ordinary people by technology.

VIGNA, Paul / NEEDLMAN, Sarah E: Hackers Steal $540 million in Crypto From “Axie Infinity”; 3/29/22; WSJ : The most hitting part in this article for me was that the hacking was not due to technical flaws [in the system], but because of the engineering. That was a passing reference, which in fact I want to know more about. The topic can be developed to a full-length book, I think.

From Le Monde fr:

CROQUET, Pauline; Pourquoi les webtoons les bandes dessinées sur smartphones enthousiasment autant; 26/7/22 : Les BDs in general spoken of are manga on smartphones, which have become popular and habitual in France despite the initial advent which had raised criticism as said by Croquet. Her analysis of BD maneuverability on phone screens has a precise nature, focusing on two aspects: technical and psychological. Those two are actually in one to produce an effect of BDs on screen as page turners with no page to turn. Instead of flipping pages, readers scroll vertically down to follow stories, typically with no chance to jump over the middle suddenly to the end. The hit elements in reading the BD are also explained. A long story is dissected into short episodes, each of which appears as regularly as hebdomadaire (par week).

LE BARRON, Julie: On a testé … “Stray”, virée féline dans la cité des robots perdus; 27/7/22 : The new game is introduced as on the narrative basis, in which users can participate as story tellers (or some sorts) The framework is thus much different from a binarily conflicting situation in which winners and losers are produced in a digital game. The protagonist is a light orange colored cat wandering in a city modeled from one used to be in Hongkong. Alleys, streets, buildings, moving sights according to what the cat sees are amazing and beautifully done.

MOISAN, Victor: “Xenoblade Chronicle 3”, capturant récit entre science fiction et fantasy poétique; 26/7/22 : The story of this role playing action game is a long series, which is the fact I did not know. Moisan is very obviously a connoisseur/expert of Japanese culture in this genre. He briefly points out many truths. In my modest contribution for here, I’d say the trend and tradition can be traced back to the Hayao Miyazaki production’s originality in cultural or civilizational eclecticism to be always rampant as never ceasing, that is just one example. Personally I recoil myself for two major characters walk among deaths while playing flutes.

2. My remark in emphasis is that, in such a game society, children would not be able to understand any other way rather than good acts with no reward as meaningless and useless. With this regard, heaven wise rewards would also be maximumly and most effectively trivialized to fit the social game practice.