Cybernetic non-transferable contribution credit
Prototype / conceptual Game position: Replace
Prototype: Integral Collective
Replaces transferable money with a non-transferable, decaying contribution score, so accumulated power becomes structurally impossible.
Structural profile
Topology view
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Architecture
- Game position
- Replaces the existing game; abolishes transferable money
- Value-signal richness
- Single contribution score with decay; non-transferable
- Accumulation regime
- Prohibits accumulation by design via non-transferability + decay
Medium-of-Exchange Properties
- Divisibility
- The contribution score isn't a divisible quantity in the usual sense — it decays as a whole.
- Uniformity (Fungibility)
- Non-fungible and non-transferable — the score is unique to each contributor, by design.
- Durability
- Deliberately low — the credit decays by design, the opposite of a store of value.
- Portability
- Not applicable — explicitly non-transferable by design.
- Acceptability
- Not applicable — it can't be transferred, so no counterparty accepts it; a personal score, not an exchange medium.
Operation
- Coordination / discovery
- Algorithmic-mechanism-design via central scoring system
- Governance & issuance
- Algorithmic issuance based on contribution metrics
- Scale & federation
- Global from inception in design; replaces other systems
Anthropological assumptions
- Default ethical orientation
- Rousseauian; assumes contribution as default motivation
- Accumulative drive
- Drive treated as artifact of transferability; designed out
- Status / recognition
- Status encoded as contribution score but non-transferable
- Time preference
- Short — decaying, non-transferable contribution credits with no intrinsic value, designed to force quick use.
In Practice
- Track record
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The Integral Collective's contribution-credit system remains a small-scale, internal experiment — no track record of use beyond its own originating community. - Governance requirements
- Requires a tightly bound collective willing to adopt non-transferable, decaying credit as its internal coordination tool — a cultural commitment, not just a technical one.
- Resource requirements
- A ledger system to track decaying contribution scores; otherwise minimal infrastructure.