Ostrum Systems

Saturday, October 29, 2011 The Ostrum Game. The Ostrum Game Andre Willers 30 Oct 2011 “One Game shall bind them all .” , ( with apologies to Tolkien) “This time , we know for sure the grass is greener somewhere” “A Revolution , any Revolution.” Synopsis : A Game for Grown-ups . The Eight Ostrum Design Principles are Meta-rules that generate self-consistent sets of rules that encompasses competition , co-operation , catastrophe , hierarchies and other systems undreamt of , all between discrete , interacting , self-organising systems . Your avatar can go from SecondLife to Simworld , to War Worlds , to any desired locale . Reality becomes a subset . Discussion : 1.An incredible amount of money can be made .While money still has some meaning . Without too much work . See Para 8 in Appendix A Each Game Company is a base nested institution . They bind easily together , releasing a lot of energy and money . Explosive Feedback Synergism . A run-up to the Singularity . 2.Feedback between Games and Reality : The Meta-rules make no differentiation between Game-characters and Real-characters . Indeed , many Real-characters have been spun into Game-characters , and vice-versa . Think Sherlock Holmes , MacGyver , Gauss , young Werther etc See “mirror-neuron networks” , any soap opera , etc . Real-life problems get treated the same way as Game problems . The more diverse and sophisticated the Game interactions become , the more effect on any real or Game system . Eventually , they become undistinguishable as technology progresses . 3.The Grass is provably greener somewhere . Long known as a wishful thinking fallacy , until Ostrum published the Design Principles in 1990 . This was the trigger event of under-the-surface knowledge about Ostrum Rules building up . Suddenly , it became possible . A Phase-change in the noosphere occurred . It meant that a Disaster of the Commons or an Empire was not inevitable . Grandchildren could survive . WE CAN MAKE THE GRASS GREENER , EVEN IF WE HAVE TO PAINT IT ONE BLADE AT A TIME . Enormous tensions began surfacing . These effects are still playing out now . A really , really major Hysterical Focus started forming , and is still intensifying . Now , are you surprised that 1990 was the year of huge revolutions , when the USSR collapsed ? The Ostrum Game beat the Ring of Power . And you have not seen anything yet . The pace of Revolutions is intensifying . A good thing , if Homo wishes to escape extinction . 4.Automating Ostrum Rules : They might be Meta-rules , but they are still rules . We can certainly write programs that can serve to guide past most of the pitfalls and suggest alternatives . 5.Multicellular Bodies as Commons : We can certainly analyze bodies in terms of Commons . The Dear Reader will find many interesting things if he does that . Note the emphasis on communication . Talk to your body . Aloud . And listen in the silences in between . Create a virtual body and note the interactions . Use the Ostrum Design principles . 6.Singularity : It is immediately obvious that humans are then not limited to Real biochemical definitions of personality . The emphasis on communication means that personalities are distributed across Real and Game spaces . The Game space personality segments are only limited by internal non-contradictory rules . That can be done via Ostrum Design principles . Not exactly instantaneous , but I can intuit that the time can be calculated . It would be less than real time . The putative developing system would have ethical constraints on abandoning Real-part personalities under Ostrum Rules . Told you it would be kindler , gentler . 7.Phase Change : The system has already undergone an irrevocable phase change in 1990 . You can fast-forward the rest . 8.Did Ostrum know what she was unleashing ? The Revolutionary aspects , nearly certainly . In her quiet way , she is one of the greatest Revolutionaries in Homo Sapiens history . Worthy of being called a Matriarch . The Singularity aspect is more uncertain . She certainly knew that she unleashed major fairness , but the phase-change in the Noosphere I do not know . Still , a tour-de-force . How do feel like being a pet of your avatar ? Andre . xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Appendix A See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom To quote from Wiki : (comments in brackets are my own ). “ Ostrom identifies eight "design principles" of stable local common pool resource management:[10] 1. Clearly defined boundaries (effective exclusion of external un-entitled parties; 2. Rules regarding the appropriation and provision of common resources that are adapted to local conditions; (Equal sharing of debts and rewards) 3. Collective-choice arrangements that allow most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process; (Consensus decisions-no leveraged hierarchies) 4. Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to the appropriators; (Policing) 5. A scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate community rules; (Opportunity to learn from mistakes ) 6. Mechanisms of conflict resolution that are cheap and of easy access; (Fair and Fast Justice . See how Inquisitorial Justice systems like Chinese , French or Sharia does it.) 7. Self-determination of the community recognized by higher-level authorities; (Autonomy within clearly defined levels . Something like a Federation.) 8. In the case of larger common-pool resources,organization in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level. (Clear and quick relations with others. A potential sticky point with states.) Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action Ostrom, Elinor, Cambridge University Press, 1990 “ The most important book in the Twentieth Century . 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