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Super Awesome Co-Op for Rationality, Organic Farming, Programming, Meditation, and Other Cool Stuff!
To be honest it'd be pretty awesome... we could live in yerts somewhere in Northern California and get by on self-sufficient power generation via solar panels and farming, and make additional money by giving seminars about rationality, meditation, programming, anything we were good at. We'd have tons of time to teach each other things and read text books and stuff. Sooooo cultish but so awesome. But I think the cultishness factor means it would be damaging to the rationality and Singularity memes, even if we never overtly discussed the Singularity.
I am all for a co-op, but a physical space requires many many things to go right.
We should look for the simplest plan that could work.
What is the simplest plan? I can't think of anything very simple.
Make a product and sell it.
Simpler than a physical space is collaborating online. We already have an online community so we get that for low complexity cost, all we have to do is filter out the people who are interested.
The simplest legal structure (I think) is each of us being in business for ourselves, and just cooperatiing with information of some kind. This might not work well with some businesses, or it might be cheaper/safer to incorporate.
Single programmers can make profitable projects in a weekend, we just need to find something we can systematically win at.
Also, a small group of people should be able to follow any of the suggestions in this thread with substantially more force and reliability than all individually. Bidding on writing or programming jobs, even networking.
How does a group bid on a writing or programming job more effectively than one? Or at all?
Start a company.
Oh, right. I had forgotten how grownups do this stuff.
If we work together effectively, we can bid on bigger jobs with tighter deadlines, or small jobs with confidence that life interference won't mess with the account's reputation. We can specialize so we are each contributing to jobs that we don't know how to complete alone.
That makes sense. Hmm. I'd be interested in participating in such a system, but I'm not sure in what capacity I could.