Proof of planing (pop): the consensus mechanism for an anarchic system

Consensus mechanisms always existed, they were not invented by blockchain technology or by cryptocurrencies. In reality, the social contract is ultimately a protocol of consensus among the members of a community. The individual who goes to a supermarket in a big city is giving consensus to a distribution chain made up of several corporations that planned consumption, habits, the lexicon to be used, the forms of payment, the forms of financing, the codes of communication, forms of government and even the city itself for all its inhabitants. That tacit consensus that the individual who buys a plastic bottle in a supermarket gives that corporate metasystem an incentive, in the same way, that a hodler who buys a cryptocurrency gives an incentive to the miners or the stakers that support that blockchain.

Now, game theory, a branch of mathematics that deals with the interaction between incentive structures, helping to understand human decision-making, broadly conceives two types of games: competitive games and cooperative games. In competitive games, there is a winner, in the sense that there is a person or reduced group of people (team) who receive a prize that their opponents lost. In cooperative games, however, "all" players work together to achieve a goal so that they either win or lose as a group. The system is sustainable and is stabilized by the decisions made by the "mutual", that is, the individual is a constitutive part of something in the group, without losing his/her individuality, and his/her existence, and therefore, his/her individuality depends totally on the decisions he/she makes to “cooperate” as a group.

Although capitalism was born in Europe after the Renaissance, encouraged by the dramatic cultural change produced in society by the end of feudalism and the Protestant reform, it would be more accurate to say that the system that sustains the corporate chain that ends in a supermarket, was born at the end of the 19th century with the industrial revolution. During the twentieth century, financial elites, also born in those times, made all kinds of financial experiments on the planet, leading the world to collapse on several occasions, such as the remembered episode of subprime mortgages of 2008, which took even in its crashing fall to various bigwigs in finance.

There is no longer any discussion anywhere on the planet that this is the "winning" system. It is the system that governs each and every one of the countries on the planet, to a greater or lesser extent, with the same infrastructure, with the same mode of operation. For this reason, the "right" or "left" conflict has lost all kinds of value, because both extremes end up being two sides of the same coin, which is called the "capitalist system". The misnamed “neoliberalism” (which, as Noah Chomsky once said, is neither “new” nor “liberal”), and at the opposite extreme, “socialism”, depends absolutely on the same infrastructure, especially on a Central Bank (controlled by higher-level international organizations) that prints fiat money according to corporate requirements. Both liberal and socialist governments do exactly the same. There is no difference. The result is that today in the world the difference between the rich and the poor is the greatest in the entire history of mankind.

Where the right governs, the beneficiaries are the stockholders of the corporations. Where the left rules, the beneficiaries are the state bureaucrats. Both systems create enormous inequalities, although the political discourse in both cases is that of freedom, the welfare of the people, the greatness of the Nation, and blah, blah, blah ...

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This loudly suggests that what needs to be changed is the system, and not the puppet that will govern the country, whose only function will be to satisfy the large corporations and international organizations that are the ones that truly give the orders, so that the capitalist system remains in force and is not distorted in any way.

The revolution was started by Satoshi Nakamoto in late 2008, out of the global financial debacle organized by the elites who control the world's money.

History books 500 years from now will explain the invention of Bitcoin as historians today explain the Renaissance.

Both neoliberalism and socialism create elites, as faces of the same coin in a zero-sum game. Only the anarchy model proposes an environment of pure collaboration, without elites, because there is no power, only the coordination that leads to the Nash equilibrium, in which no player is incentivized to change the status quo because it would go against him/her, and nobody wants to go against himself/herself. Anarchy is a collaborative game, in which the "mutual" is more important than each individual separately, although the individual cannot live isolated in a bubble, since he/she needs others to "be", that is, he/she needs the "mutual". That is why, in anarchy, each individual "is" thanks to the "mutual" and that is why the "mutual" is what must be taken care of. Anarchy does not conceive of the accumulation of capital, and therefore of power, since in anarchy there is no struggle for power, as the capitalist system instilled in us for centuries with its zero-sum model.

The economics that is still taught in universities is based on the capitalist system, and business decisions are made on the basis of maximizing the profit of stockholders, whether private or state. However, the model that is showing preference in the new generations is that of anarchy based on P2P decisions, especially through a creation model based on gaming. The new economy is gaming and making money today has more to do with gaming and the NFTs that are created in this model, than with massive industrial production in the hands of private or state corporations. That is the revolution that totally disarms an obsolete system based on the fact that what some win is what others lose.

However, the freedom and non-dependence on authorities and intermediaries that anarchy proposes, require a high degree of responsibility. It's not that just anyone can do whatever they want. Each individual has a role in the sustainability of the "mutual" since without the "mutual" he/she cannot fulfill himself/herself as an individual. This role and this responsibility are achieved based on planning. The anarchy model is much more mathematically based than the predatory capitalist system.

The consensus protocol of anarchy is the "Proof of Planning". The individual has to be able to plan his production capacity in a given period for the mutual to achieve Nash equilibrium in that period.

A carpenter does not have to know how to harvest corn. However, he/she has to plan the production of furniture for the corn harvester, at the same time that he/she plans the production of furniture for everyone else who asked for it and is going to ask for it. For this, he/she will have to take into account the availability of tools and wood necessary for his/her work in the period in question, which meant prior planning for the wood producer and for the tool producer. For his/her part, the corn harvester will have to take into account the amount of fertilizer and seeds needed to obtain the necessary amount of corn to feed the carpenter, the toolmaker, and the wood producer, and plan accordingly, especially respecting the times of nature for the correct growth of each corn plant.

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By doing this, the individual contributes to the "mutual", while he/she enjoys the job that he/she chose during his/her workday. The Proof of Planning should consider that the individual plan involves having time for leisure and rest. If this is not possible, it is a sign that the population is growing and then more carpenters, more tool makers, more lumber producers, and more corn harvesters will be needed.

Any Proof of Planning must be calculated with a margin of tolerance, but the real need must never be exceeded too much because resources will always be scarce and the possibility of accumulation does not exist for any good or service in the model of anarchy. This does not mean that natural disasters or "long winters" should not be anticipated, it simply means that they must be taken into account in planning. What must be avoided is production for the purpose of accumulation because in anarchy there is no marginal or secondary market. And please, do not tell me that the individual is "naturally" competitive and that it is in his/her DNA to accumulate and "grow". The individual is part of a system. If the system demands you all day through the means of disinformation that you strive for since meritocracy pays working hard, then you have no choice but to fall apart 24/7 to get everything they show you as symbols of "success" in TV commercials, magazines, social media and in the movies of the 3 corporations that run the world of cinema and entertainment, dreaming that one day you will have your yacht and your private plane. None of these things is part of the ethos of anarchy, since "growing" in the model of anarchy means growing intellectually, not materially, and coordinating with the "mutual" as closely as possible to perfection.

I am working on the PoP consensus protocol for some time, with the aim of designing a game that allows the development of a planetary experiment. Next, I show some templates that must be considered to prepare a PoP in a certain period of time.

A single-player PoP consists of four sections and a spreadsheet for planning consumption and production that is derived from those four sections.

A) FOOD SECTION OF THE FAMILY GROUP

B) FAMILY GROUP NEEDS SECTION

C) PROFESSIONAL NEEDS SECTION

D) ACTIVITIES SECTION

Let's follow Bob and Alice, a TAR couple who have two children under the age of 18. Bob is a fisherman, and Alice is a bovine veterinarian. Here we show the sequence of their Proof of Planning.

One of the fundamental tasks of Bob and Alice when making their PoP will be to investigate the quantities consumed by the mutual in previous periods, in order to estimate as precisely as possible the possibilities that the “mutual” has of fulfilling the order that they are setting.

But, in addition, for this to be possible, all the inhabitants of the TAR island where they live should see all the orders that are being made for the same period, since they are not the only ones asking for materials and tools, even if they are unique in their professions on the island. There is no downside to this because all the information is available to all the inhabitants of the island at all times and saved forever with blockchain technology.

But things are even more complicated, since it is to be expected that there will be available stock of the items produced by Bob and Alice, in all or in some of the family units on the island, and then there is no need to produce in this period. It is also to be expected that there are twin professional PoPs that are still in force (not expired) and that will contribute to the needs of the “mutual” in the same period that is being planned. The inverse also has a probability other than zero, since there may be unmet needs from previous PoPs, whether from Bob and Alice or from other professionals.

Therefore, when planning future production, all factors must be considered from a general perspective of the island. This is the worksheet that Bob and Alice must think of to present at the “mutual” and get to work:

Bob is not the only fisherman on the island and Alice is not the only veterinarian either. They contribute with their work to the “mutual” with a certain quota. By looking at the "real need for the current period" column and knowing their quota, they can plan how much to produce. Many times they will not have to produce anything, because there is enough stock because there is production on the way because there is no unsatisfied production, or because the demand for their products is not great for the current period. Let us remember that each inhabitant of the island makes his/her request with the forms of Sections A, B, and C and that the "real need for the current period" is determined with the aggregate demands of each inhabitant of the island.

In any distributed system, the nodes that support the system have some type of incentive to keep the system running and in sustainable conditions. What is the incentive for Bob and Alice to do their job with excellence?

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Remember that there is no money in TAR. Goods and services are obtained "free". If any inhabitant planned to eat fish in the period, all he/she has to do is go to Bob's refrigerator and have it. If any cattle producer planned Alice's services on his/her forms for a calf birth, Alice will show up to do her job.

The fulfillment of the work has a tolerance in more and in less with respect to what was planned. The idea of ??the sustainability of the "island" system built on the basis of an anarchic system is based on the fact that nothing is "lacking", but also that nothing is with "surplus." If you plan with a surplus, the system suffers as much as if you plan with missing. And that is the great challenge and the great incentive for Bob, Alice, and all the inhabitants of the island: to plan in such a way that everything works adjusted to the Nash equilibrium. The retribution is not monetary as the capitalist system teaches, but in terms of sustainability, with the knowledge that tasks are being done so that many generations could enjoy the infrastructure that they have to manage today. Each and everyone is responsible for ensuring that the “mutual” always works in a natural order.

Everything that is needed is at hand, in "free" terms, if measured with the tools of the capitalist system. The result is that each inhabitant of the island works if necessary and to produce what is necessary, if not, enjoy life and take advantage of the entertainment that the corresponding players were in charge of making available to the system, because that is the job that they chose and for which they are responsible.

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The Proof of Planning is neatly presented at the beginning of each period and the island's algorithm is in charge of controlling its compliance by presenting daily updates of the work by each inhabitant. If the accepted tolerance for error is not met, the system will produce material for discussion among the inhabitants, without any hierarchy, in order to make decisions in terms of calling new professionals to the island, or changing production systems, or promote inventions to improve the production of goods and services.

Can a system like this be achieved? How much time is left for humanity to realize that the capitalist system is a predatory zero-sum game and a generator of horrific inequalities?

As I always say in this series of posts dedicated to anarchy, it is not about waiting for a revolution that is going to happen 1,000 years from now. It is about living in anarchy from today, creating the "own TAR island" and making it sustainable. We do not want to enter into any relationship with the enemy, not even a conflict relationship. Better to forget that there are the hidden mandates of capitalism and/or socialism and start today to enjoy the fact of being alive. Start right now, for example, not buying plastic bottles, or not going to the supermarket to stock up on groceries. You will see that it is simpler than you think.

Do you realize the enormous responsibility that an individual has in anarchy?

As usual, none of the things written in this post are financial advice and are not intended to replace personal research.

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