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Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers
The report investigates the true decentralization of blockchains, highlighting various forms of centralization, vulnerabilities in consensus protocols, and the implications for security and immutability in networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
youtube.comNew post that I promise isn't about the pandemic at all!
"Life is made of unfair coin flips": a walkthrough of a cool paper that defines an "Individual", in the biology sense, in terms of information theory. It's really neat. Only a little bit of math.
https://t.co/YVs3F7FbQB
Alex Dancox.comThe neo-Darwinian perspective, which still dominates the popular understanding of biology, isolates individual organisms or genes from the context of the living matrix that sustains them. Scarcity, competition and individual success are seen as the main drivers of evolution. This is an outdated perspective, based on outdated metaphors like Richard
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"Nothing in biology makes sense without teleology" by Michael Levin
youtube.comPositive sum thinking is what grows the pie in a macro POV, but also in your own life. The more happy you are for others, the happier they’ll be for you.