Can you point out to me where Jaan Tallinn mentions Bitland? I can see where Bitland is quoted talking about Bitland. I can see where the author of the article expresses interest in Bitland in relation to what Jaan Tallinn is talking about. However there seems to be nowhere in this article that Jaan Tallinn expresses endorsement, or even awareness, of Bitland. I could be wrong, let me know!
"Tallinn then pointed to blockchains and incentive schemes, just like Bitcoin employs, as a way to break that equilibrium and solve the problem. “Shaming people into being virtuous doesn’t change behaviour,” claims Tallinn.
“Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.”
- Jaan Tallinn
Of course, in order to incentivize anyone, you must first track their progress and identify them, and those are all resources that blockchains excel at tracking.
One specific example of this is Ghana's Bitland registry, already being used to make blockchain-based records of the ownership of the local real estate. “Like many other African countries,” Bitland's website explains, “the Ghanian Land Title Administration has been proven to be ineffective and problematic. The poor state of the land registry has been causing a problem for many years to millions of Ghanians.”
The local government is not removed from their new land titleship model, but it is held more accountable because blockchain-based evidence is so strong. In some cases, the local courts won't even be needed to resolve disputes with such solid proof. “Should later on a legal land dispute arise then this conflict can be settled (outside of court) quick and easy,” the website concludes. Such a scheme would be a great match for one of Tallinn's incentivization schemes."
In the context of the article, it is talking about the research he is doing for his book.
"The Estonian native spends his days dreaming up ways to save humanity from itself from many different, scary scenarios, from resource management problems all the way up to the destruction of the entire planet. As part of these efforts, Tallinn has donated considerable time and funding to both the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, (CSER) which he helped establish, and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute as well. He even helped pioneer the Effective Altruism movement, a social movement that uses a distinctively scientific approach to determine the most effective ways to improve the world.
As a co-founder of CSER, where Stephen Hawking is a member, Tallinn regularly tours and gives lectures about the worst of the future dangers to mankind's very existence. Far more dangerous to our survival than a mere asteroid impact or World War III, Tallinn and CSER worry about the unnatural problems that threaten all life on the planet, such as hostile artificial intelligence, unstoppable pandemics, biotech weaponry gone awry, self-replicating nanobots that won't shut down, and other humanity-ending scenarios. Therefore, the CSER was created to research them and act like a sort of fire insurance against each of these possible threats."
I will say it like this: In the next two weeks, I will be meeting with people from this list -
http://lesrencontreseconomiques.fr/2016/intervenants/People are paying attention to Bitland. I was given the opportunity to request meetings with anyone from that list, so here is the list of people that I requested:
Jyotsua PuriChristopher PottsPier Carlo PadoanMuriel PénicaudMthuli NcubeAlberto NadalMario MarcelMonique LerouxLucas LlachEmmanuel MacronChristian KamayouAbdoulie JannehJacques KabaleEduardo Gouvea VieraKemal DervisMarie-Anne Barbat-LayaniAna AguadoNicole AndersonSo, I won't meet with all of them, but I got to pick from a list of people and THOSE were the ones I picked. If you peruse that list...yeah...the Skype/Kazaa Founder is relatively small potatoes compared to just about anyone on that list.
Seriously.
Chris
