Now some new rules are being proposed which seem to say things like:

- People who tag land or food can, as a voluntary action, taken under particular circumstances, announce that the pointer should change to point to somebody else instead.
- You can announce today that some of the food your land produces later will, when it appears, get tagged with a pointer to somebody else instead.
- There's a social construct whereby multiple 'atomic' actions and conditions of this kind can be packaged together into a single bound 'molecule' (he's using the same words as in chemistry) that only gets socially respected as a single piece after everybody involved has made the necessary announcements.  You can 'trade' a lot of food for a bit of land, but not in a way where you announce that the food-tag points to somebody else now, and then they can say haha and refuse to announce the change on their land-tag.  You say 'Change the ownership pointer on this food to them and that land to me' and the other says 'Change the ownership pointer on this land to them and that food to me' and the joint declaration only gets socially respected after all tagged parties have announced the same molecule-arrangement of the same atoms.  The Taldane word for this would probably be contract, or something like that.  There's a single-syllable word 'contract' in Baseline but the more technical term would be 'multi-signature transaction'.

These new rules unlock potential actions like 'trade some of your land's future food for food you can eat right now' if something went wrong with this year's labor, as sometimes happens.

Though, you know, you could also see how that sort of thing could potentially go wrong?  Especially if any of the people involved were reasoning less than perfectly?  Still, let's ignore that part for now and plunge ahead.

Now some new rules are being proposed which seem to say things like:

- People who tag land or food can, as a voluntary action, taken under particular circumstances, announce that the pointer should change to point to somebody else instead.
- You can announce today that some of the food your land produces later will, when it appears, get tagged with a pointer to somebody else instead.
- There's a social construct whereby multiple 'atomic' actions and conditions of this kind can be packaged together into a single bound 'molecule' (he's using the same words as in chemistry) that only gets socially respected as a single piece after everybody involved has made the necessary announcements.  You can 'trade' a lot of food for a bit of land, but not in a way where you announce that the food-tag points to somebody else now, and then they can say haha and refuse to announce the change on their land-tag.  You say 'Change the ownership pointer on this food to them and that land to me' and the other says 'Change the ownership pointer on this land to them and that food to me' and the joint declaration only gets socially respected after all tagged parties have announced the same molecule-arrangement of the same atoms.  The Taldane word for this would probably be contract, or something like that.  There's a single-syllable word 'contract' in Baseline but the more technical term would be 'multi-signature transaction'.

These new rules unlock potential actions like 'trade some of your land's future food for food you can eat right now' - as might be a good thing, if something went wrong with this year's labor, as sometimes happens.

Though, you know, you could also see how that sort of thing could potentially go wrong?  Especially if any of the people involved were reasoning less than perfectly?  Still, let's ignore that part for now and plunge ahead.

Now some new rules are being proposed which seem to say things like:

- People who tag land or food can, as a voluntary action, taken under particular circumstances, announce that the 'pointer' should change to point to somebody else instead.
- You can announce today that some of the food your land produces later will, when it appears, get tagged with a 'pointer' to somebody else instead.
- There's a social construct whereby multiple 'atomic' actions and conditions of this kind can be packaged together into a single bound 'molecule' (he's using the same words as in chemistry) that only gets socially respected as a single piece after everybody involved has made the necessary announcements.  You can 'trade' a lot of food for a bit of land, but not in a way where you announce that the food-tag points to somebody else now, and then they can say haha and refuse to announce the change on their land-tag.  You say 'Change the ownership pointer on this food to them and that land to me' and the other says 'Change the ownership pointer on this land to them and that food to me' and the joint declaration only gets socially respected after all tagged parties have announced the same molecule-arrangement of the same 'atomic' actions.

The Taldane word for this would probably be contract, or something like that.  There's a single-syllable word 'contract' in Baseline but the more technical term would be 'multi-signature transaction'.

These new rules unlock potential actions like 'trade some of your land's future food for food you can eat right now' - as might be a good thing, if something went wrong with this year's labor, as sometimes happens.

Though, you know, you could also see how that sort of thing could potentially go wrong?  Especially if any of the people involved were reasoning less than perfectly?  Still, let's ignore that part for now and plunge ahead.