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network effects (the more good investment algorithms it holds, the more capital it will attract; the more capital it holds, the more algo traders it will attract),
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid,
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
the act of categorizing is one of cognitive economy.
Daniel Levitin • The Organized Mind
These semi-pseudonymous networks have strong enough network effects to fend off the competition because they’ve given their users a persistent online identity to which they commit. As social creatures, people are emotionally invested in creating, building, and maintaining their reputations — even if that reputation is semi-virtual.
James Currier • Does Real Identity Matter for Networks?
Second comes a global research ecosystem with its ingrained rituals rewarding open publication, curiosity, and the pursuit of new ideas at all costs.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
keep track of how information flows within the social network.
Alex Pentland • Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World (Bradford Books)
Evidence demonstrates neural plasticity in nature; for example, amputees experience cortical shifting such that their face receives extra attention in the brain after a limb is amputated.
Andrea Stevenson Won • Homuncular Flexibility: The Human Ability to Inhabit Nonhuman Avatars
Small data is big data in disguise.
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Additionally, there’s a whole class of applications based around the use of reputation to incentivize new forms of creation or contribution. Currently, it is difficult to decipher who is a subject-matter expert and to recognize and reward them. With decentralized identities that track contributions across the internet, we will be better able to gau... See more