Weirdest thing in crypto rn: Just.game
An "autodecentric" (self-decentralizing) game that "aims to showcase a futuristic reality, in which clever software can use money to keep itself alive"
How much? Currently $2.1M for 100 ppl to win
⚠️ THIS IS RISKY
An "autodecentric" (self-decentralizing) game that "aims to showcase a futuristic reality, in which clever software can use money to keep itself alive"
How much? Currently $2.1M for 100 ppl to win
⚠️ THIS IS RISKY
Team JUST (the developers behind the project) call it an "an experiment in psychology and economics, one that is as much educational as it is entertaining."
It is a system designed to employ "humans to fulfill its own needs, goals and desires by paying them..."
"A precursor to a self-sustaining Artificial Intelligence, autodecentric software takes the first steps necessary to secure its own existence through external interaction.”
"A precursor to a self-sustaining Artificial Intelligence, autodecentric software takes the first steps necessary to secure its own existence through external interaction.”
The game features a prize pool that’s tied to the expiration of a timer that lasts 12 hours after participants stop interacting with it .
If the timer reaches zero, the the slowly- accumulating prize pool is split equally among the last 100 to play.
If the timer reaches zero, the the slowly- accumulating prize pool is split equally among the last 100 to play.
The game is rife with all kinds of paradoxical choices that test the limits of player's rational economic behavior—many of the mechanisms have the implicit goal of keeping the game running.
I'm not suggesting anyone should play this game, but the mechanism design is interesting!
If you want to read more, check out the paper here:
just.team/portfolios/jus…
If you want to read more, check out the paper here:
just.team/portfolios/jus…
