memetic pandemic

I started through cryptocurrency and realized that the cultural aspects are much more difficult at this point than the technical. So CryptoTown is the exploration of how to rapidly adapt ourselves to the new possibilities of internet and blockchain technologies in society.

If you explore the site you will find Open Memetics and some interesting dichotomies which help to illustrate the scope. I strain to remain un-anchored to certainties or polarization, but its not easy to get a message through.

Voluntary cooperation among peers: Peer production is goal-driven people cooperate in order to reach a shared goal. Participants decide for themselves whether and how to get involved; nobody can order others around. Cooperation is stigmergic: people leave hints about what there is to do and others decide voluntarily which hints (if any) to follow. link

Decentralizing science: Local Biohacking [...] Stigmergic Science

The magnitude of creative productivity is most strongly correlated with the number of researchers, and less with the talent of the individuals involved, and fortunately the positive feedback loop (or virtuous cycle) of technology continues to lower the cost of instrumentation. That is, happy accident probability is proportional to time invested rather than just skill.

Establishment science institutions are somewhat impeded from developing groundbreaking, disruptive or revolutionary technologies, for three reasons:

First, they need to be able to monopolize them. Anything that lends itself to decentralization (solar power, self-replicating 3D printers) threatens the established order and will be resisted to the end. If a modern-day Nikola Tesla were to invent a disruptive energy technology, s/he would likely be suppressed, just as J.P. Morgan and Edison suppressed [1] Tesla.

“Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has, as its ultimate goal, the betterment of humanity.” - Nikola Tesla

My immediate goal is to make sure that this project is able to continue on even if I am no longer available, meaning it has to replicate smoothly on a p2p basis. So far the project has carried on as I guided the project and left hints for others to join. I have been trying to better express what it is. If anyone knows, let me know.

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