The Need and Feasibility of the UN to Lead the Human Community in Creating a Digital Planet(026)
— An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Guterres and Global Sages
5.3.4 The “Belief” Method Can Be Improved Today
The self-saving of the United Nations and humanity is imminent. In particular, the global climate issue, if we cannot fundamentally curb the trend of rising temperatures before a shorter time node. Missing this last node, it will be too late for any subsequent remediation. Therefore, the self-saving plans for the United Nations and humanity need to race against time. We need to achieve success in the witnessing system of “belief” in a shorter period.
How short is a shorter period, 5–10 years? No, not 5–10 years, but 3–5 years. If we have full confidence, act quickly, and promote effectively, we may even make the vast majority of people in the world believe, and trust sufficiently, within 2–3 years. This is the design goal of the “Famland Metaverse Digital Earth” witnessing system we will introduce in the next section. How could this be possible? Yes, everything stated in the open letter, when perceived and understood according to traditional thinking, is absolutely impossible. However, when perceived and understood according to the metaverse thinking, perhaps everything can be transformed into possibilities. Of course, it can also create an extremely fast and efficient better witnessing system.
But how could such a huge global system be built within 3–5 years, or even 2–3 years, and make the vast majority of people in the world believe in it? The specific implementation path will be detailed in the following section. Here, we will only discuss its basic principles. We have talked about the three core principles of building a distributed system: sharing, timeliness, and reliability. By comparing the old capitalist economic model and the human-centered new economic model on the digital Earth with these three principles, everyone can understand where the crux lies in building a fast and efficient witnessing system.
The essence of the three core principles is the flow of information. The faster the speed, the larger the volume, and the higher the quality (more reliable) of the information flow, the greater the value. This means that the faster the information flow under the premise of large information volume and reliable information, the faster the wealth creation value.
5.3.4.1 Sharing
Strictly speaking, the capitalist economic system does not have value sharing. Although the development of the capitalist economy has led to an overall increase in the wealth value of human society, this increase is not brought about by sharing, but by the constant globalization and expansion of capitalism. Capital, in its pursuit of profit, tends to constantly expand its production and market scale. This expansion requires a continuous increase in labor and labor tools, leading to the growth of social employment. Therefore, the poor and the proletariat share part of the value gains by participating as labor or labor tools in the process of helping capital pursue profits. Capitalism has no intention or need for value sharing. If there is cheaper labor or labor tools, such as robots, capital will not hesitate to abandon the poor and proletariat as labor or labor tools.
In such a system, the vast majority of ordinary people in society have no motivation or incentive to share information. Capitalism obtains information mainly through the market, and the amount of information generated by the market is obviously limited. This leads to the fact that although capitalism is a distributed economic system, it cannot generate “emergence” or creative consensus due to insufficient information, and can only generate selective consensus through judgments on information. Creative consensus can greatly improve the speed of information flow, while selective consensus increases the speed of information flow very slowly.
In the digital Earth’s human-centered new economic model, value is fully shared. The rise of the entire economic value is closely related to every participant. Therefore, all participants, out of consideration for their own interests, will actively, positively, and responsibly share all the information they believe to be valuable. This will generate a huge amount of information, more “emergence,” and more creative consensus, thus greatly improving the speed of information flow.
5.3.4.2 Timeliness
Capitalism is a market economy, and we generally believe that the speed of market information feedback is very timely. Therefore, it seems that there is no problem with timeliness. In fact, this is not the case. A product, from the extraction and transportation of raw materials to production and manufacturing, packaging, warehousing, logistics, and finally entering the market, often presents information from a few days, months, or even years ago. The market’s feedback on the product also requires such a long time cycle to be digested. Of course, this lag in information is not unique to capitalism. It objectively exists in the entire economic system of the material Earth, which is determined by the material nature of the Earth.
The human-centered new economy is completely different. Taking the previously fictional novel NFT as an example, after consumers get the novel NFT, they can provide feedback within a few minutes at the fastest. This feedback is transmitted to the author in a matter of seconds. If the author deems it necessary, they can immediately make corrections or adjustments. The entire information flow completes a closed loop in seconds or minutes. For physical goods to be delivered to consumers, it may take one day or even longer. By the time the feedback comes back and updates are necessary, new products need to be produced, which would take at least several days or months. The entire information flow completes a closed loop in days, months, or even years.
5.3.4.3 Reliability
Capitalism has been operating for hundreds of years and seems quite reliable. However, this only refers to the reliability of its economic system. Information, on the other hand, is often the least reliable aspect and one of the biggest drawbacks of the capitalist system. Due to the possessiveness of wealth, people will maximize their own interests by using false and misleading information to mislead competitors, markets, and the general public whenever possible. Taking the stock market in the capitalist economy as an example, listed companies may deceive the market and the public through fraud, market makers and brokers may mislead the market and the public by manipulating prices, and stock speculation institutions may mislead the market and the public through false public opinion. Ordinary people cannot possibly identify this false information. The root cause of economic crises in capitalism lies here. False information not only endangers the entire economic system but also greatly hinders the flow of information.
In such a system, any piece of information in the market cannot be immediately trusted and needs to be corroborated or verified by other means. Even if waiting means missing opportunities, there is no choice. Only when information from multiple channels is consistent, or when it is corroborated and verified by multiple channels without any problems, can we believe that the information is true. This greatly hinders the timeliness of information and the speed of capital circulation.
In the human-centered new economic system, these problems do not exist. After being filtered through the blockchain’s trust machine, we can immediately trust every piece of information without wasting a second. Such speed of information flow is unimaginable in the capitalist economic system. Since there is no misleading false information, all data reflected in the market is true and accurate, and the economic crises that human society cannot avoid today will disappear.
In summary, the human-centered new economic system is at least 10 times faster, or even dozens of times faster, in terms of information flow speed than capitalism. This also means that the speed of wealth creation in the new economic system is at least 10 times higher than that of the old capitalist economic system. This is why the United Nations’ self-rescue and humanity’s self-rescue must come to the metaverse. After understanding these basic principles, let’s take another look at the famous Madison World Economic Evolution curve.
As can be seen from the above diagram, the intersection of the red and blue lines represents a parallel line where human GDP has grown 2,000 times. This means that it took humanity 2,000 years to achieve a 2,000-fold increase in per capita GDP. The intersection of the red and black lines is approximately 1971. Since then, humanity has increased its GDP by at least 4,000 times in just under 50 years. This means that even today’s capitalism, with its discounted information flow speed, can create wealth growth much faster than at any point in history. If the new economic system can create wealth 10 times faster, then, in theory, humanity can increase per capita GDP by another 4,000 times in just 3–5 years.
Whether it’s the capitalist system or the human-centered system, they both serve as a witness system for “trust” and need to be verified by people. The most direct verification is their ability to create wealth. More bluntly, it’s about whether people can make money in this system. The faster people make money, the faster they will believe and trust in the system. In the subsequent Famland witness system, we can see that the speed and ease of making money are incomparable to any previous economic model, including capitalism. It is entirely possible to make more people believe and trust in a shorter amount of time.
To be honest, in order to accomplish the United Nations’ self-rescue and humanity’s self-rescue in the shortest possible time, apart from the metaverse and digital Earth solutions we have discussed, no other solutions can even be conceived, let alone implemented, with a possibility of being realized within 2–3 years.
(To be continued)
The English translation is mainly done by AI and is inevitably not accurate enough. Please refer to the original Chinese text below for a more accurate understanding.
联合国引领人类社会打造数字地球的必要性和可行性（026）
— — 致联合国秘书长古特雷斯及全球贤达的公开信
5.3.4 “信”的方法今天已经可以更好了
联合国自救、人类自救已经迫在眉睫。尤其是全球气候问题，如果不能在一个更短的时间节点之前，从根本上遏制气温上涨趋势。错过了这个最后节点，后面即使再弥补，也都来不及了。所以，联合国自救、人类自救方案，还需要与时间赛跑。我们需要在更短时间内，让“信”的见证体系获得成功。
更短时间是多短，5–10年吗？
不，不是5–10年，而是3–5年。如果我们信心具足、行动迅速、推进有效，甚至可能在2–3年内让全球绝大部分人相信，而且信得足。这就是我们下篇推介的“Famland元宇宙数字地球”见证体系的设计目标。这怎么可能。是的，整个公开信中所表述的一切，按照传统思维来认知和理解，都是绝无可能的。但是，按照元宇宙思维来认知和理解，或许都能转变为可能。当然，也能创造出一个无比迅捷、无比高效的更好见证体系。
可这样庞大的一个全球性系统，怎么可能在3–5年内、甚至2–3年内构建起来，并且，让全球绝大部分人相信呢。具体的实现路径，后面的下篇中会有详细介绍。这里只说说它的基本原理。上面，我们谈过构建分布式系统的核心三原则，共享性、及时性和可靠性。我们用这三原则来对照资本主义旧经济模式和数字地球上的人本主义新经济模式，大家就能理解，构建一个迅捷、高效的见证体系，症结在哪里了。
核心三原则的本质是信息流转，信息流转速度越快、量越大、质量越高（越可靠），价值越大。也就意味着在信息量大、信息可靠的前提下，信息流转的速度越快，创造财富价值的速度越快。
5.3.4.1 共享性
严格来说，资本主义经济体系并不具备价值共享性。虽然资本主义经济发展带来了人类社会财富价值的整体上升。但这种上升不是共享带来的，而是资本主义不断全球化的扩张带来的。资本在不断追求利润的过程中，总倾向于不断扩大其生产规模和市场规模。这种规模的扩大需要劳动力和劳动工具不断扩大，从而带动社会就业的增长。所以，贫民和无产者是将自己作为劳动力或劳动工具，在帮助资本追逐利润过程中，分享到部分价值收益的。资本主义完全没有价值共享的意图或需求。如果有价格更便宜的劳动力或劳动工具，比如机器人。资本就会毫不犹豫的放弃作为劳动力或劳动工具的贫民和无产者。
在这样的体系中，占社会人口绝大多数的平民百姓，丝毫没有分享信息的动力和动机。资本主义获得信息，主要靠市场。而市场所产生的信息量，显然是有限的。这就导致资本主义虽然是一个分布式经济体系，可是，因为信息量不足，无法产生“涌现”，无法产生创造性共识。而只能通过对信息的判断，产生选择性共识。创造性共识能极大地提高信息流转速度，选择性共识提高信息流转速度非常缓慢。
而在数字地球人本主义新经济模式中，价值被完全共享。整个经济体价值的上升，都与每一个参与者息息相关。因此，全体参与者出于对自身利益的考量，都会主动地、积极地、负责任地分享所有他认为有价值的信息。这就会产生巨大的信息量，也就会发生更多“涌现”，发生更多创造性共识。从而极大地提高信息流转速度。
5.3.4.2 及时性
资本主义是市场经济，我们一般认为，市场的信息反馈速度是很及时的。因此，及时性似乎不存在问题。其实不然。一件商品，从原材料开采、运输，到生产制作，到包装入库，再到物流。最后进入市场所呈现的信息，往往是几天前、几个月前，甚至几年前的。而市场对商品的反馈，也同样需要这样长的一个时间周期才能得到消化。当然，这种信息的滞后性，并不是资本主义特有的。在整个物质地球的经济系统中都客观存在，这是由物质地球的物质性决定的。
而人本主义新经济就完全不一样了。以前面虚构的小说NFT为例，消费者拿到小说NFT后，最快可以在几分钟内产生反馈。这种反馈，几秒钟就传递给了作者。作者如果认为有必要，可以立即修正或调整。整个信息流走完一个闭环，是以秒、分钟计。而物质商品仅仅运到消费者手中，可能都需要1天，甚至更长时间。等信息反馈回来，假设有必要更新，则需要重新生产商品。那少说也要几天、几月了。整个信息流走完一个闭环，是以日、月，甚至以年计。
5.3.4.3 可靠性
资本主义运行了几百年，似乎很可靠了。但只是说它的经济体系可靠。而信息，偏偏是最不可靠的，这也是资本主义体制最大弊端之一。由于财富的占有性，人们为了自身利益最大化，会在一切可能前提下，用虚假信息、不实信息来误导竞争对手、市场和社会大众。以资本主义经济中的股市为例，上市公司有可能通过造假来误导市场和大众，做市商、券商有可能通过操控价格来误导市场和大众，股票投机机构有可能通过虚假舆论误导市场和大众。普通民众根本不可能识别这些虚假信息。资本主义为什么会出现经济危机，根源也就在这里。虚假信息不但会危及整个经济系统的安危，还极大地阻碍了信息的流转。
在这样的体系中，对市场上的任何一条信息，都不可立即采信，而需要等待其它途径的佐证或验证。即使这种等待会错失良机，那也没办法。只有当多条渠道传递过来的信息都相同，或者多渠道佐证和验证没问题时，才可以相信这条信息是真实的。这就极大阻碍了信息及时性，也阻碍了资本的流转速度。
而在人本主义新经济体系中，这些问题都不存在。经过区块链这部信任机器过滤后的每条信息，我们都可以立即采信，一秒钟都不耽误。这样的信息流转速度，在资本主义经济体系中，是不可想象的。由于没有虚假信息的误导，市场上体现的所有数据都是真实、准确的，当今人类社会无法避免的经济危机也从此消失了。
综上所述，人本主义的新经济系统，在信息流转速度上，至少比资本主义要快10多倍，甚至几十倍。这也就意味着，新经济系统创造财富的速度，比资本主义旧经济系统，也至少要高出10多倍。这就是为什么联合国自救、人类自救，必须到元宇宙中来。了解到以上这些基本原理后，我们再来看看那张著名的麦迪逊世界经济演变曲线。
从上图可知。红线与蓝线交汇处，是人类GDP增长2000倍的一个平行线。意思是，人类用了2000年时间，才让人均GDP增长了2000倍。红线与黑线的交汇处大约为1971年。而从那时开始，人类仅仅用了不到50年时间，就又增加了至少4000倍。这就是说，即使是今天信息流转速度大打折扣的资本主义，也能创造比历史上任何时期都快得多的财富增长速度。如果新经济创造财富的速度，还要比它快10倍，那么，理论上，人类是完全可以用3–5年，让人均GDP再增加4000倍的。
资本主义体系也好，人本主义体系也好，它们作为一种“信”的见证体系，是需要人们去验证的。最直接的验证就是能否创造出财富。更直白地说，就是在这个体系中能否赚到钱。赚钱的速度越快，人们相信、信得足的时间也会越快。在随后的Famland见证系统中，我们可以看到，人们赚钱的速度和赚钱的轻松，都是包括资本主义在内以往任何经济模式无法相比的。在更短时间内让更多人相信，在更短时间内，让更多人信得足，是完全有可能的。
说实在话，要在尽可能短的时间内，完成联合国自救、人类自救。除了我们所说的元宇宙、数字地球方案，其他任何解决方案。别说实施了，即使仅仅是设想，都设想不出在2–3年实现的可能性在哪里。
（未完待续）
