How Blockchains mirror Nature
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How Blockchains mirror Nature
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#2Betteridge's law.
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#3NASA would define life as "A self-sustaining series of chemical reactions capable of extracting energy from its environment and capable of Darwinian evolution.
Self-sustaining?
Nope.
Chemical reactions?
Definitely not.
Capable of extracting energy from its environment?
Unless you count people plugging in GPUs as the Blockchain's doing, no.
Darwinian evolution?
Hell no.
Overall conclusion: No.
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#4Betteridge's law.
Yes, and flagged.
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#5Some replies are responding to the title as if the author literally meant "living organisms".
Instead, I think it's clear that the author is speaking of an interesting metaphor.
It's similar to how we might talk about all the various Javscript libraries and framework flavor-of-the-month as a sort of "Darwinism" and "natural selection". E.g. it's a marketplace of coding ideas and the ones with staying power demonstrate "survival of the fittest".
Or to write about all the worldwide computers executing high frequency trades on the stock exchanges as an emergent "super-organism".
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#7Some replies are responding to the title as if the author literally meant "living organisms". Instead, I think it's clear that the author is speaking of an interesting metaphor . It's similar to how we might talk about all the various Javscript libraries and framework flavor-of-the-month as a sort of "Darwinism" and "natural selection". E.g. it's a marketplace of coding ideas and the ones with staying power demonstra…
He describes phenomena that apply to every market ever (not to mention simple control loops). How are blockchains any different?
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#8Some replies are responding to the title as if the author literally meant "living organisms". Instead, I think it's clear that the author is speaking of an interesting metaphor . It's similar to how we might talk about all the various Javscript libraries and framework flavor-of-the-month as a sort of "Darwinism" and "natural selection". E.g. it's a marketplace of coding ideas and the ones with staying power demonstra…
He describes phenomena that apply to every market ever (not to mention simple control loops). How are blockchains any different?
Is there something wrong with engaging in the mental exercise of mapping these phenomena in one context? In this case: Blockchains?
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#9NASA would define life as "A self-sustaining series of chemical reactions capable of extracting energy from its environment and capable of Darwinian evolution. Self-sustaining? Nope. Chemical reactions? Definitely not. Capable of extracting energy from its environment? Unless you count people plugging in GPUs as the Blockchain's doing, no. Darwinian evolution? Hell no. Overall conclusion: No.
It looks like HN doesn't like metaphors :) Since it's flagged, I will repost with a different title.
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#10NASA would define life as "A self-sustaining series of chemical reactions capable of extracting energy from its environment and capable of Darwinian evolution. Self-sustaining? Nope. Chemical reactions? Definitely not. Capable of extracting energy from its environment? Unless you count people plugging in GPUs as the Blockchain's doing, no. Darwinian evolution? Hell no. Overall conclusion: No.
It looks like HN doesn't like metaphors :) Since it's flagged, I will repost with a different title.
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