Re: Suggested Change to the PPD System
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:11 pm
That is a perception,
Removing the exponential growth assoicated with increasing PPD due to technological performance improvements removes the inflation, but it does not induce deflation - that would only occur if you decreased PPD at a higher rate than relative technological improvement.
The relative value of past contributions are maintained at constant. That is, above average contributions in the past remains equal to above average contributions in the present, Unlike the current system where above average contributions in the past are considered less worthy than even below average contributions in the present.
As to the carrot and the stick - because the point-in-time PPD curve does not change all it is doing is normalising the PPD at a given level. There is just as much carrot under the current system as there is in the old system, and there is just as much stick as there is in the old system, it just requires people to think of PPD in terms of relative computing power. This proposal does require people to make the mind-shift.
I understand you are fundamentally opposed to the QRB scheme and see it as a primary source of inflation. But I do not know of any theoretical change to the current system other than mine that will encourage people to invest in fewer faster machines without resulting in someone (read fast folders) facing decreasing PPD because of the removal of that source of point inflation.
Removing the exponential growth assoicated with increasing PPD due to technological performance improvements removes the inflation, but it does not induce deflation - that would only occur if you decreased PPD at a higher rate than relative technological improvement.
The relative value of past contributions are maintained at constant. That is, above average contributions in the past remains equal to above average contributions in the present, Unlike the current system where above average contributions in the past are considered less worthy than even below average contributions in the present.
As to the carrot and the stick - because the point-in-time PPD curve does not change all it is doing is normalising the PPD at a given level. There is just as much carrot under the current system as there is in the old system, and there is just as much stick as there is in the old system, it just requires people to think of PPD in terms of relative computing power. This proposal does require people to make the mind-shift.
I understand you are fundamentally opposed to the QRB scheme and see it as a primary source of inflation. But I do not know of any theoretical change to the current system other than mine that will encourage people to invest in fewer faster machines without resulting in someone (read fast folders) facing decreasing PPD because of the removal of that source of point inflation.