Links:

• The game - archetypal example of possibly uncertain rules leading to collective, emergent outcomes? Or at least a good route into the conversation.
• Growing the collective social thing that makes money possible - the path from coins to notes to entirely digital, all impossible without what's going on between human minds?
• Is that the same thing as Bali Peru style magic? How is it different? What difference does it make when these kinds of #socialoperatingsystems get tangled with technology? For example, is digital money different from the external structure of the subaks and temples in Bali?

Ramble

Couple of starting points. Pick some bits from the List of writing questions.

• What do I actually want to say about this?
• Why? Where is it going, if anywhere? Does that matter?
• What am I curious about even if I have no idea where it's going?

I've had a slightly stoned series of connected thoughts about social operating systems for a while but haven't laid them down in order. Let's try and write them down clearly:

• Are humans the Swiss-army-knife of natural distributed systems? Cf. this old 2009 post about Balinese rice-growing and Peruvian potato cultivation.