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Whoah - just did the prompting as suggested - extremely useful. Thank you Stephen.

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Many thanks for the feedback a Buddy, if you are up for it, please can you tell me one way it was useful. Your feedback will guide me to a better understanding of how to fine tune the prompts. I have seen so much money, time and human endeavour repeatedly wasted by developers with a good idea to use some new type of capability (Web3, Blockchain, Holochain and now AI to solve the vexing human centric problems that have thwarted the large scale use of any mutual credit system, because they did not explore if the tech solution would solve the human condition problem. I suspect that the core problem of a system based on debt, that is wicked in nature (not fixable). Imagine what, a mutual credit system would loom like if was based on the value captured through human mutuality ! That is what I am working on being that I have a system to measure, validate and capture the value impact of human endeavour. More. on that on a new post coming. Cheers, Stephen

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I wonder if it's helpful to give you some context? I'm absolutely passionate (obsessed) with helping shine a light on Unyt for the rest of world to revel in. Have you been following such?

The team are about to launch a currency on it for folks to engage with (as well as test to the max) and so I put your prompts through with this in mind...

The long and short of it is:

It helped me realise that humans are the bottleneck. Through learned behaviours (not questioning our existence or doing any friggin inner work) we’ve built traps for our own existence - cycles of hoarding, handing over our trust, measuring growth through financial profit, living only within Stephen Karpman's drama triangle etc - leads largely to systems that stall, and then fail.

So, I then saw, if the design of the tech we’re building can create (on some level) an experience of play, creative freedom and autonomy - and we can make simply videos to show others experiencing such - then I believe the game of scarcity can change into a game of abundant flow.

So now I feel the first feedback (from the currency that is about to be released) won’t necessarily be to prove the brilliance/failings of its codebase (although that needs to have the shit tested out of it also) but prove that there's that real human use to:

1. Keep credits circulating (liquidity)

2. Keep people contributing (resist free-riding)

3. Deliver actual value people prefer over existing options

I reckon we can build in an entertaining layer by telling/showing a narrative around the importance of these things too... and if those conditions hold in small pockets first, only then does it make sense to scale into communities, businesses, and eventually regional networks.

So the long and the short of it is - it’s given me lots of clarity how to hold the first 100 core testers over the next month or so… iron out the bugs and get people excited about the potential for building their own currencies...

Would you like to be one of those 100 core testers? I'd value your feedback enormously.

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