The ideal currency (new)

This does not replace my previous ideal currency article that talks about a p2p coin that depends on "reputation" as the coin itself. I want to connect the lowering of physical entropy on Earth to currency.

Previously I described how all characteristics of an ideal currency such as Nick Szabo's list (scarcity, fungibility, divisibility, durability, and transferability) can be derived from the desire to have constant value in space and time. The best measure of "value" results in a more specific definition: ideal constant value currency is proportional to the net work energy available per person. A legal system creates the relevance of the currency and guides system-wide goals. Otherwise it is an anarchy-type asset where individuals are not necessarily cooperating for a larger goal such as survival and promotion of a society. I'm not talking about that type of currency. The assumed legal system dictates how the energy may be used, which includes enforcing the concept of ownership of "the work energy assets" and enforcing law (settling disputes, collecting taxes, etc) in that particular currency (unless the transfer of other "work energy assets" in certain cases is more appropriate). Intellectual property does not have a visible net work energy that is proportional to its numerical value, but it ostensibly increases the net work energy available in other assets by making the use of them more efficient, even if only by entertaining people which may enable them to work better. Assets have a real net physical work energy, but in calculating how much more currency should be in the system due to those assets, the costs of anything such as intellectual property needed in its conversion to work should be first subtracted out.

There is waste energy as heat when work energy is expended, and the amount depends on the form of the original energy. There is also wasted energy when work energy is expended to get other work energy where it is needed. These and other forms of waste are not included in the "net total work in the system per person" that I'm talking about. So, I can't say this work is exactly based on Gibbs free energy ( E = U + pV - ST) of a set of atoms in some system because that is measured before these wastes. Gibbs free energy is the precise definition of "available work energy". So what I'm talking about is the Gibbs free energy minus the waste which includes cost of the intellectual property. Gibbs free energy includes a subtraction from the total that is due to the energy having an amount of disorder (entropy) at a given temperature (S*T). In a sense, the waste and I.P. expense is like a pre-existing "disorder" (or inefficiency) in the assets. If the size of the system under a common legal and currency control is stable, the new total net work energy coming into the system in a given time is equal to the waste energy going out. The infrastructure that acquires the input energy is a potential energy that will be depleted over time as the infrastructure depreciates. Every asset is similarly a potential energy. So the net work energy I've defined is probably better viewed as a potential energy and new energy coming in and going out in a stable system keep that potential energy constant. If the incoming energy coming is greater than the waste going out, the potential energy of the system is increasing, which should be accompanied by an increase in currency. Also, if the I.P. costs in the system decreases, it is like the S*T part of Gibbs free energy decreasing, enabling more of the potential energy to be converted into work energy. This also demands more currency creation.

The currency is proportional to the net work energy in the system, but not equal to it. All assets in a legal system should have a reference such as a document that defines the owner. The currency gains control of a portion of those assets (say, 10%) by owners having debts as well as assets which places a lien on their assets, so they do not exactly have full ownership of the assets they own. The debts may be expressible in other assets, but the legal system typically allows settlement in the currency. So not all debt is currency, but all currency is based on a debt. An immediate question I have is "Should the total debt-currency (as a percentage of the assets in the system) be constant?" My first guess is "yes" to keep things simple and therefore more measurable and predictable.

The rest is highly suspect that I need to investigate further. I have it here for my future reference.

coins = bytes = DNA = synapses => used to create economically beneficial arrangements of atoms and potential energy

The usefulness of energy depends on the form it is in as well as the pre-existing order of the matter it needs to move. For example, oil in the ground is not as valuable as oil in a tanker. Gold in an vein is not as useful as gold in sea water. So the order in the mass of commodities has value like energy commodities due to making itself more amenable for energy to move. A.I. systems like evolution and economies use energy to move mass to make copies of themselves to repeat the process. More precisely, the historical position of mass and potential energy gradients cause matter to form self-replicating way. Genes, brains, and A.I. are not forces that do anything of their own free will, but they are the result of forces from pre-existing potential energy gradients that created them. They are enzymes that allow energy and mass to move in an efficient direction, not forces. The following is mathematically exactly true: Intelligence = efficient prediction = compression = science. I am referring to the "density" of each of these, not the total abilities. For example, science seeks to predict the most in the least number of bytes. The least number of bytes is known as Occam's razor in science and is the 2nd of two fundamental tenants of science. The first is that observations should have the potential to prove a theory wrong (falsifiability), and that those observations always support the theory (reproducible observations). So the 1st science tenant is prediction and the 2nd is compression or efficiency. Total currency in an A.I. system = bytes / time that are destroyed in CPU computations and memory writes. Every computation in a CPU and memory write to RAM or a hard drive generates heat and entropy. The theoretical minimal entropy per byte destroyed is S =kb * ln(2). kb is boltzmann's constant. The minimal heat energy created (the energy lost) is Q = Temperature * S. In economics, the "bytes" are "dollars" that represent energy spent like a CPU computation to create a mass of a commodity (like the storage of a byte). When we write to memory in A.I. we are creating value that can be used in the future. Typically the writes are assigning weights to the connections in neural nets or the probabilities to a Bayesian net or making copies of a gene in genetic algorithms. Bytes in evolution are DNA. The bytes in our bodies are cellular energy like glucose and energy stored in the crystals of DNA. Energy-based commodities are spent to create mass-based commodities that are used for an economic system to replicate (expand), just like evolution and A.I. Total currency is the total available commodities per economic cycle. Approximating a constant number of economizing agents like people or neurons in a brain or nodes in a neural net means that the currency is also a bytes per economic cycle per economizing agent. Agents compete for the limited number of bytes in order to increase the number of bytes per agent per cycle. Coins are bytes that represent a percent ownership of the total commodities available per economic cycle per person.