15/ Maybe I'm over-reaching, but my question: is there something more mixed like bitcoin that **could** solve social info-env problems?
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4/ So, Bitcoin solves cryptographic problems by creating incentives that solve the collective action problem of resource allocation.
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The collective action problem solved is network transmission. Resources aren't allocated in a way that provides a public good.
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12/ The tragic irony: social networks (with social in name) create social problems and solve financial ones.
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13/ And bitcoin uses financial incentives to foster an environment which doesn't require central mediation for trust.
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8/ Meanwhile, social networks (i.e. websites) make great claims about the worlds they enable. And, they certainly change social structures.
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9/ But, what was the problem they set out to solve? Constant connectivity to people you wouldn't otherwise see? Is that a real problem?
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10/ More accurately, social networks set out to solve a profitability problem by creating a new medium for entertainment.
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11/ Which, okay fine. Except, the environment the medium facilitates is just garbage. Attention misallocated. Social cognition, misfiring.
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