Hey @patio11 -- been noodling on this one, bear with: Do you think Bitcoin could be argued to be the first computer virus to successfully replicate via hijacking the human endocrine system (dopamine)? First bundle of algorithms to quite literally infect our thoughts and motives.
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Yes — sharing floppies is memetic replication of software via human medium. And speculative bubbles are not particularly unique in and of themselves. The intersection of software that doesn’t really do anything useful but waste electricity *and runs indefinitely*...
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... that replicates — efficiently — via a psychosocial flaw in human beings is what’s interesting to me. It’s like the perfect piece of “selfish” software, almost an organism on its own.
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