Summary
ΛCORS refers to multiple phenomena: a smartphone app, a computer network, a planning algorithm, a voting system, a marketplace clearinghouse...
ΛCORS proper is a small piece of open-source software hosted on the peer-to-peer Git-SSB network, free for anyone to download. The code compiles to a smartphone app which establishes a communication network between all running instances of the software. The app presents the user with a series of proposed economic plans to which the user may choose to support with volunteer labor. In return, a volunteer may be entitled to benefits such as services provided by other volunteers as prescribed by the proposed plan.
Purpose
Productive uses
ΛCORS is primarily designed as a decentralized, peer-to-peer economic voting algorithm which allows participants to run an economy and conduct trade automatically, without money, in a fundamentally democratic manner. It is a digital clearinghouse for labor auctions.
At an operational level, ΛCORS is designed to rapidly converge upon consensus among the maximum amount of participants in the minimum amount of time.
Adversarial uses
It is technically feasible to propose an economic plan which prescribes selective
withdrawal of labor from various global economic sectors. In other words, is is possible to execute labor strike actions using ΛCORS. In fact, a labor strike of this sort (
Indo-Pacific Dockworkers' Strike), targeting key chokepoints in global supply chains, is precisely what led to the establishment of the
Pacificus Logistico-Industrius in 2021. This selective planning of labor shortages at key chokepoints in global supply chains is still, to this day, the primary means by which PLI wages economic warfare on its adversaries.
History
Creation
It is believed that ΛCORS was written in late 2010 and early 2011 by research fellows affiliated with the
Merriman Consortium . The manner in which ΛCORS parses economic plans adheres strictly to the .iop ("Input-Output Plan") file format standard originally developed and promulgated by the Merriman Consortium in 2010.
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