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How is a new social network analogous to an ICO?
Each new social network issues a new form of social capital, a token.
You must show proof of work to earn the token.
Over time it becomes harder and harder to mine new tokens on each social network, creating built-in scarcity.
Many people, especially older folks, scoff at both social networks and cryptocurrencies.
Status as a Service
Eugene Wei
An increasingly common answer within the field of psychology, especially evolutionary psychology, is that the mind is “modular.” In this view, your mind is composed of lots of specialized modules—modules for sizing up situations and reacting to them—and it’s the interplay among these modules that shapes your behavior. And much of this interplay happens without conscious awareness on your part.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
SOMETIME AROUND SIX hundred million years ago, green algae began to move out of shallow fresh waters and onto the land.
These were the ancestors of all land plants. The evolution of plants transformed the planet and its atmosphere and was one of the pivotal transitions in the history of life-a profound breakthrough in biological possibility. Today, plants make up eighty percent of the mass of all life on Earth and are the base of the food chains that support nearly all terrestrial organisms
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
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