Examples: you wait to show respect for social superior, social superiors can be late (use others' time). Favors are repaid after time delays
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I suspect usury taboos and proscription against charging interest are because it legibilizes the personal sacredness of individualized time.
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A prince waiting a minute for you is worth more than a pauper waiting a minute for you. Yet a prince/pauper's dollar earn the same interest
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How do we make a feature out of this: delays. Depending on your (unknown) credit, you may have to wait 0.1s or 10s between likes.
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Shadowbanning is actually a clumsy, too-coarse version of this. General idea, use time to tune a user's agency and reach.
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Things like klout fail by being too legible, lack of auto-feedback into ux. I have to *decide* to ignore you because you're a klout loser
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Time as backend currency also helps subcultures differentiate. Mutual follow = less mutual time delay. Fully ignored 1 way = high delays
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With enough inbound, trolls end up auto-muted/blocked at back of oversubscribed queue that more trusted people keep jumping: infinite delay
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Time as a general flow-pacing mechanism is very powerful idea. Musician-gamer has explored a bit:
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Now how do you *create* time here? If it is the backend currency, it must be minted right? Idea: make leisure economy literal!
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Not sure how to operationalize this sufficiently illegibly (i.e. no paying/earning $ via "delay credits" instrument).
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But if this could be done you could make trickle-down literally true, and reimagine UBI as Gemeinschaft rather than Gesellschaft.
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you end up with farming of the time-rich. In essence, this is what breitbart etc do with brigading - launch time wasters at people
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. yup, and that force can be made way more valuable. Lots of good tech ideas start with problematic first use cases.
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