Package: distributed_wellbeing
distributed wellbeingIt can’t be bargained with; it can’t be reasoned with; it doesn’t feel
pity, or remorse, or fear, and it absolutely will not stop, ever, until
wellbeing is distributed.introductiondistributed wellbeingImagine a mechanism of voting that does not involve placing a pictogram
on paper into a secure box for scrutiny by a single government. Imagine
one that involves running the government software of your choice.
Imagine concurrent governments and distributed nations.analysis of individualsThere exist useful metrics for analysis of individuals. These metrics
can include measures of psychological and financial wellbeing. For the
former, a simple measure could be sentiment analysis of social media
expressions; for the latter, a simple measure could be somewhat similar
to measurements of benefits needs. Proxy-trust networks can reduce
uncertainties.distributed wellbeingThe metrics for description of individuals can be used to distribute
wellbeing in various forms. One form could be alerts for and
prioritisation of psychological treatment, be that for everything from
treatment of depression to treatment of religious fundamentalism.
Another form could be distribution of wealth via Bitcoin using a donated
fund owned by the distributed wellbeing system.precidentsThere exist multiple decentralized, distributed systems running on the
internet. There is distributed currency in the form of Bitcoin, there is
distributed communications in the form of Tox, there is distributed data
in the form of BitTorrent and there is distributed information and
interaction in the form of Tor and onion routing. Analysis of
individuals and wellbeing can be distributed in a decentralized way.evolution of governmentRevolution is hard and often unsuccessful. Evolution is easier and is
more amenable to change and optimisation. Consider distributed wellbeing
as the possible beginnings of an automated system of government that can
run (to varying extents) concurrently with existing government and other
distributed wellbeing systems.project goalsA goal of this project is to collate thoughts and methods of describing
individuals in terms of wellbeing needs, with two possible metrics being
psychological wellbeing and financial wellbeing. Another goal of this
project is to create free, open software that is decentralized and
capable of analysis of individuals and automated flagging and
prioritisation of psychological wellbeing needs and automated receipt of
and distribution of wealth.setuphttps://github.com/wdbm/abstractionsudopipinstalldistributed_wellbeinggitclonehttps://github.com/wdbm/distributed_wellbeing.gitcddistributed_wellbeingusagesentiment analysis of tweets./sentiment_tweets.py--help./sentiment_tweets.pydistributed wellbeing prototype./distributed_wellbeing.py--verbosedecentralizationIn peer-to-peer decentralization, push technologies like UDP broadcasts
can be used, whereby each client sends a heartbeat packet every so often
on the network for others to receive. The module socket is useful for
this.Bitcoin clients use several methods to locate other clients. A primary
method is to use a list of nodes from a previous connection to the
network. This works well generally for all connections except for the
first connection and a connection that follows a long time of
disconnection. With no local list of nodes, DNS seeds, maintained hosts,
can be queried. A hardcoded list of nodes can be considered also. An old
method was to use an IRC server that worked in a way similar to that of
BitTorrent trackers.