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"content": "Money is not Caesar's.<br /><br />Money is the body of Caesar, abstracted.<br /><br />Thus with each transaction, one reincarnates the flesh of state.<br /><br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=cryptocurrency\" title=\"#cryptocurrency\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#cryptocurrency</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=money\" title=\"#money\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#money</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=evolution\" title=\"#evolution\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#evolution</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=economics\" title=\"#economics\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#economics</a>",
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"content": "Money is not Caesar's.\n\nMoney is the body of Caesar, abstracted.\n\nThus with each transaction, one reincarnates the flesh of state.\n\n\n#cryptocurrency #money #evolution #economics",
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"content": "Would you believe me if I told you that Bitcoin's Lightning Network and the concept of Gender Identity actually represent the same type of solution to the problem of networked growth within complex systems?<br /><br />If so, how can this lead to a more constructive conversation concerning the relationship between sex and gender?<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYV4hk9z6aA&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYV4hk9z6aA&feature=youtu.be</a><br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=bitcoin\" title=\"#bitcoin\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#bitcoin</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=cryptocurrency\" title=\"#cryptocurrency\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#cryptocurrency</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=gender\" title=\"#gender\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#gender</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=philosophy\" title=\"#philosophy\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#philosophy</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=politics\" title=\"#politics\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#politics</a>",
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"content": "Hey All,<br /><br />Just a reminder, please try to stay on topic. If you're going to share something, it should be relevant to the themes mentioned in the group's description, and you should spend at least a few sentences describing why you think the content may be of interest to the group, or of use when constructing \"A Philosophy of the Future\".<br /><br />I'd like to keep the group open, but will need to close it off from public participation if people just dump promotional content that isn't relevant to the concepts described above.<br /><br />With that said, I'd like to share a recent piece of writing I published exploring the capacity to more colloquially communicate humanity's need to reconcile top-down analytic and bottom up emergent perspectives on the world. It seems that finding modes of communication that allow representations of the world to flow between minds shaped by these two very different perspectives.<br /><br />An excerpt:<br /><br />\"And as it turns out, the application of analytic logic has become quite the Tyrannical King. Within the eyes of the logically programmed, the ramifications of Plato’s laws too frequently occlude the retinal surface, extending the human blind spot to all that lies within the excluded middle: namely, the majority of complex interactions between emergent processes.<br /><br />Logic and its laws gave humanity a hammer of unrivaled power, and our minds have slowly come to see a World of Nails. Yet the processes that give rise to experiential reality extend far beyond this metallic domain.\"<br /><br /><a href=\"https://medium.com/swlh/on-the-analytic-the-emergent-and-avocados-31fcf46cbe16\" target=\"_blank\">https://medium.com/swlh/on-the-analytic-the-emergent-and-avocados-31fcf46cbe16</a>",
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"content": "Hey All,\n\nJust a reminder, please try to stay on topic. If you're going to share something, it should be relevant to the themes mentioned in the group's description, and you should spend at least a few sentences describing why you think the content may be of interest to the group, or of use when constructing \"A Philosophy of the Future\".\n\nI'd like to keep the group open, but will need to close it off from public participation if people just dump promotional content that isn't relevant to the concepts described above.\n\nWith that said, I'd like to share a recent piece of writing I published exploring the capacity to more colloquially communicate humanity's need to reconcile top-down analytic and bottom up emergent perspectives on the world. It seems that finding modes of communication that allow representations of the world to flow between minds shaped by these two very different perspectives.\n\nAn excerpt:\n\n\"And as it turns out, the application of analytic logic has become quite the Tyrannical King. Within the eyes of the logically programmed, the ramifications of Plato’s laws too frequently occlude the retinal surface, extending the human blind spot to all that lies within the excluded middle: namely, the majority of complex interactions between emergent processes.\n\nLogic and its laws gave humanity a hammer of unrivaled power, and our minds have slowly come to see a World of Nails. Yet the processes that give rise to experiential reality extend far beyond this metallic domain.\"\n\nhttps://medium.com/swlh/on-the-analytic-the-emergent-and-avocados-31fcf46cbe16",
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"content": "Excerpt:<br /><br />\"...And as it turns out, the application of analytic logic has become quite the Tyrannical King. Within the eyes of the logically programmed, the ramifications of Plato’s laws too frequently occlude the retinal surface, extending the human blind spot to all that lies within the excluded middle: namely, the majority of complex interactions between emergent processes.<br /><br />Logic and its laws gave humanity a hammer of unrivaled power, and our minds have slowly come to see a World of Nails. Yet the processes that give rise to experiential reality extend far beyond this metallic domain.\"<br /><br /><a href=\"https://medium.com/swlh/on-the-analytic-the-emergent-and-avocados-31fcf46cbe16\" target=\"_blank\">https://medium.com/swlh/on-the-analytic-the-emergent-and-avocados-31fcf46cbe16</a><br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=philosophy\" title=\"#philosophy\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#philosophy</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=logic\" title=\"#logic\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#logic</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=math\" title=\"#math\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#math</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=nature\" title=\"#nature\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#nature</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=spirituality\" title=\"#spirituality\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#spirituality</a>",
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"content": "Excerpt:\n\n\"...And as it turns out, the application of analytic logic has become quite the Tyrannical King. Within the eyes of the logically programmed, the ramifications of Plato’s laws too frequently occlude the retinal surface, extending the human blind spot to all that lies within the excluded middle: namely, the majority of complex interactions between emergent processes.\n\nLogic and its laws gave humanity a hammer of unrivaled power, and our minds have slowly come to see a World of Nails. Yet the processes that give rise to experiential reality extend far beyond this metallic domain.\"\n\nhttps://medium.com/swlh/on-the-analytic-the-emergent-and-avocados-31fcf46cbe16\n\n#philosophy #logic #math #nature #spirituality",
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"content": "Wrote another stream of consciousness essay today:<br />On the Analytic, the Emergent, and Avocados.<br /><br />It's an experiment in writing simpler, faster-paced, slightly comical prose in an attempt to make philosophical concepts more...digestible.<br /><br />Submitted to the Medium publication The Startup for review.<br /><br />Will share more when it's published.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=philosophy\" title=\"#philosophy\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#philosophy</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=psychology\" title=\"#psychology\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#psychology</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=math\" title=\"#math\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#math</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=logic\" title=\"#logic\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#logic</a><br />",
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"content": "Wrote another stream of consciousness essay today:\nOn the Analytic, the Emergent, and Avocados.\n\nIt's an experiment in writing simpler, faster-paced, slightly comical prose in an attempt to make philosophical concepts more...digestible.\n\nSubmitted to the Medium publication The Startup for review.\n\nWill share more when it's published.\n\n#philosophy #psychology #math #logic\n",
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"content": "On the Limits of Archetypal Representation:<br /><br />We presently stand witness to a resurgence in the archetypal interpretation of our collective experience.<br /><br />This return to time-tested tools for managing our collective makes a great deal of sense. After all, those who understand archetypes also understand that they emerged out of humanity's need to carry with it - on its long journey across the evolutionary landscape - information pertaining to the past successes and failures of individual humans who attempted to solve specific problems, encoding these specific successes and failure into more generalized narratives across time.<br /><br />We may see, then, that the archetypes represent a form of emergent compression technology. Before we could write, humanity encoded its collective self-knowledge through a linguistic annealing process, by which we refined our most indispensable know-how within the crucible of our limited individual and collective memories. <br /><br />Thus from our behavior emerged stories, and from our stories emerged new behaviors, in a feedback loop spanning the entire lineage of our linguistically endowed ancestry. Within these stories were packed the knowledge and wisdom of an entire species, not as objective knowledge, but as a procedural relationship to our phenomenological landscape. <br /><br />One might wonder why humans remain so susceptible to compelling narrative. This is why. For nearly the entirety of human history, it was narrative that served as our collective operating system. It was narrative that encoded the particularities of the relationship between groups of humans and the paths they'd trodden together throughout time and space. <br /><br />It is impossible to map precisely the manner in which such narratives diverged from one another, giving rise to different perspectives concerning the nature of reality. After all, the Buddha and Jesus at first glance present as rather unique protagonists, and it's impossible to re-capture all the path-dependencies across historical time that gave rise to these idiosyncratic personifications of the Enlightened Being. <br /><br />But of course these narratives also share many of their insights. To the degree our human experiences mirror one another despite environmental factors, we find overlapping archetypal encodings throughout the many narratives humanity has generated across time. <br />Furthermore, in unconscious service to the cybernetic stewardship of our collective behavior, we've extended our narratives beyond the temporal limitations of individual lives, and distinct cultures. <br /><br />These transcendent encodings are the archetypes. And to their credit, they continue to resonate with hearts and minds despite the usurpation of speech's crucible at the hands of vastly cheaper modes of storing and transporting the written word. Thus while we may rightly heap praise upon the technology of writing, in addition to the many technological improvements that have enabled the written word to dominate our phenomenological landscape, we must also come to understand the way in which the capacity to transmit and store information without limitation also relaxes the very constraints by which humanity previously compressed the wisdom of its cumulative phenomenology.<br /><br />Here we may begin to understand the limits of applying archetypal concepts - birthed within a previous phenomenological context - to a world characterized perhaps most by the possibility of radically breaking with our evolutionary past along a growing number of developmental fronts. <br /><br />Why should we expect the bio-cultural encodings of our prior developmental inertia - compressed into archetypal representations across periods of linear adaptation - to resonate with the aspects of our human potential most capable of dealing with exponential change?<br /><br />Certainly, some features of humanity's prior adaptive landscapes remain deep enough to persist across this period of exponential change, but which are those? <br /><br />And are we so sure that many of the archetypes with which we may still resonate - the brain evolves slowly, after all - will actually call forth the elements of our being capable of navigating this transition to a world that must most likely include dynamics unseen across the entirety of biological evolution, let alone the vanishingly small thread of human evolution?<br /><br />It seems unlikely to me that the future with which we're confronted possesses as much symmetry with the past as it has when previous thinkers have contemplated similar questions concerning the degree to which past wisdom applied to their present - though perhaps this, too, is an archetype. <br /><br />And to further complicate this picture, the archetypal encodings that remain symmetric with our possible futures may reveal themselves as that much more important for us to - beyond mere acknowledgement - consciously incorporate within the dynamics of our social fabric.<br /><br />Thus, like a gardener tasked with maintaining a foreign garden - a garden containing many new and foreign species of plant and animal - we must begin to map the territory. We must begin to identify which of these archetypes still serve humanity as it undergoes rapid technological and cultural transformations across every scale, and which archetypes may simply compound our risk of self-immolation. <br /><br />In other words: what do we water, and what do we prune?<br /><br />This is the question with which 21st century humanity must come to terms.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=philosophy\" title=\"#philosophy\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#philosophy</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=technology\" title=\"#technology\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#technology</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=nature\" title=\"#nature\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#nature</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=archetypes\" title=\"#archetypes\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#archetypes</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=spirituality\" title=\"#spirituality\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#spirituality</a>",
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"content": "On the Limits of Archetypal Representation:\n\nWe presently stand witness to a resurgence in the archetypal interpretation of our collective experience.\n\nThis return to time-tested tools for managing our collective makes a great deal of sense. After all, those who understand archetypes also understand that they emerged out of humanity's need to carry with it - on its long journey across the evolutionary landscape - information pertaining to the past successes and failures of individual humans who attempted to solve specific problems, encoding these specific successes and failure into more generalized narratives across time.\n\nWe may see, then, that the archetypes represent a form of emergent compression technology. Before we could write, humanity encoded its collective self-knowledge through a linguistic annealing process, by which we refined our most indispensable know-how within the crucible of our limited individual and collective memories. \n\nThus from our behavior emerged stories, and from our stories emerged new behaviors, in a feedback loop spanning the entire lineage of our linguistically endowed ancestry. Within these stories were packed the knowledge and wisdom of an entire species, not as objective knowledge, but as a procedural relationship to our phenomenological landscape. \n\nOne might wonder why humans remain so susceptible to compelling narrative. This is why. For nearly the entirety of human history, it was narrative that served as our collective operating system. It was narrative that encoded the particularities of the relationship between groups of humans and the paths they'd trodden together throughout time and space. \n\nIt is impossible to map precisely the manner in which such narratives diverged from one another, giving rise to different perspectives concerning the nature of reality. After all, the Buddha and Jesus at first glance present as rather unique protagonists, and it's impossible to re-capture all the path-dependencies across historical time that gave rise to these idiosyncratic personifications of the Enlightened Being. \n\nBut of course these narratives also share many of their insights. To the degree our human experiences mirror one another despite environmental factors, we find overlapping archetypal encodings throughout the many narratives humanity has generated across time. \nFurthermore, in unconscious service to the cybernetic stewardship of our collective behavior, we've extended our narratives beyond the temporal limitations of individual lives, and distinct cultures. \n\nThese transcendent encodings are the archetypes. And to their credit, they continue to resonate with hearts and minds despite the usurpation of speech's crucible at the hands of vastly cheaper modes of storing and transporting the written word. Thus while we may rightly heap praise upon the technology of writing, in addition to the many technological improvements that have enabled the written word to dominate our phenomenological landscape, we must also come to understand the way in which the capacity to transmit and store information without limitation also relaxes the very constraints by which humanity previously compressed the wisdom of its cumulative phenomenology.\n\nHere we may begin to understand the limits of applying archetypal concepts - birthed within a previous phenomenological context - to a world characterized perhaps most by the possibility of radically breaking with our evolutionary past along a growing number of developmental fronts. \n\nWhy should we expect the bio-cultural encodings of our prior developmental inertia - compressed into archetypal representations across periods of linear adaptation - to resonate with the aspects of our human potential most capable of dealing with exponential change?\n\nCertainly, some features of humanity's prior adaptive landscapes remain deep enough to persist across this period of exponential change, but which are those? \n\nAnd are we so sure that many of the archetypes with which we may still resonate - the brain evolves slowly, after all - will actually call forth the elements of our being capable of navigating this transition to a world that must most likely include dynamics unseen across the entirety of biological evolution, let alone the vanishingly small thread of human evolution?\n\nIt seems unlikely to me that the future with which we're confronted possesses as much symmetry with the past as it has when previous thinkers have contemplated similar questions concerning the degree to which past wisdom applied to their present - though perhaps this, too, is an archetype. \n\nAnd to further complicate this picture, the archetypal encodings that remain symmetric with our possible futures may reveal themselves as that much more important for us to - beyond mere acknowledgement - consciously incorporate within the dynamics of our social fabric.\n\nThus, like a gardener tasked with maintaining a foreign garden - a garden containing many new and foreign species of plant and animal - we must begin to map the territory. We must begin to identify which of these archetypes still serve humanity as it undergoes rapid technological and cultural transformations across every scale, and which archetypes may simply compound our risk of self-immolation. \n\nIn other words: what do we water, and what do we prune?\n\nThis is the question with which 21st century humanity must come to terms.\n\n#philosophy #technology #nature #archetypes #spirituality",
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"content": "Time Traveling Tears<br />==============================<br /><br />The tears drop down like rain.<br />But when down is up,<br />and up is down:<br />where can they leave their stain?<br /><br />We concentrate the people,<br />a mirrored tendency to refract,<br />causes us to contract;<br />so works the precipitate of time.<br /><br />These tears also glisten.<br />An electric hum,<br />we switch it on,<br />and lose the need to listen.<br /><br />Seed the clouds of fortune,<br />concatenate intelligence,<br />understand Lorentz,<br />and just ignore the spoon.<br /><br />One’s perspective turns inverse,<br />while reaching toward the sky,<br />on wings of all kind,<br />and becomes a mere tear in the universe.<br /><br />So cry into the heavens,<br />and bring Water of the Human Mind.<br /><br /><br />",
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"content": "Time Traveling Tears\n==============================\n\nThe tears drop down like rain.\nBut when down is up,\nand up is down:\nwhere can they leave their stain?\n\nWe concentrate the people,\na mirrored tendency to refract,\ncauses us to contract;\nso works the precipitate of time.\n\nThese tears also glisten.\nAn electric hum,\nwe switch it on,\nand lose the need to listen.\n\nSeed the clouds of fortune,\nconcatenate intelligence,\nunderstand Lorentz,\nand just ignore the spoon.\n\nOne’s perspective turns inverse,\nwhile reaching toward the sky,\non wings of all kind,\nand becomes a mere tear in the universe.\n\nSo cry into the heavens,\nand bring Water of the Human Mind.\n\n\n",
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"content": "Regarding the emergent relationship between cooperation and competition, we may generate the toy schematic below to represent the manner in which competitive games may find stability within larger cooperative contexts. And how those competitive games set the stage for the discovery of new forms of cooperation.<br /><br />(cooperation<br /> (competition<br /> (cooperation<br /> (competition) -> Stable nested potential for a new cooperative domain.<br /> cooperation)<br /> competition)<br />cooperation)<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=emergence\" title=\"#emergence\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#emergence</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=philosophy\" title=\"#philosophy\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#philosophy</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=cooperation\" title=\"#cooperation\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#cooperation</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=gametheory\" title=\"#gametheory\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#gametheory</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=complexity\" title=\"#complexity\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#complexity</a>",
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"content": "Regarding the emergent relationship between cooperation and competition, we may generate the toy schematic below to represent the manner in which competitive games may find stability within larger cooperative contexts. And how those competitive games set the stage for the discovery of new forms of cooperation.\n\n(cooperation\n (competition\n (cooperation\n (competition) -> Stable nested potential for a new cooperative domain.\n cooperation)\n competition)\ncooperation)\n\n#emergence #philosophy #cooperation #gametheory #complexity",
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"content": "Hey <a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://www.minds.com/ottman\" target=\"_blank\">@ottman</a>, have you considered spinning up new accounts with a small amount of tokens pre-loaded?<br /><br />Effectively, this would take the form of a stimulus proposal in which a small amount of inflationary pressure would help to bootstrap user behaviors that support a healthy exchange of value here on Minds. The inflation would scale as a constant factor of the app's growth, for as long as this \"bootstrapping\" proposal remained in effect.<br /><br />You're attempting to train a new behavior that is very much *not* the norm online, aka \"paying\" for quality content rather than simply consuming piles of junk for free. There's already immense friction, and Minds requires a strategy for developing these \"good habits\" from the get-go.<br /><br />Perhaps from where you're sitting, with the benefit of analytics, this isn't an issue. But from what I can tell even the most popular members aren't getting very much in the way of rewards for their content.<br /><br />This likely boils down to a combination of two factors:<br />- The friction of buying Ether (even though it's far lower than it was even a year ago, you still can't enter a credit card here on Minds and have it auto-converted into a soft-wallet for those new to crypto).<br /><br />- The behavioral inertia of moving from a set of norms on Twitter / FB etc to Minds, and not *immediately seeing* that those in the community are *behaving differently here*.<br /><br />While the first will get better with time, and may itself help to solve the second, you're presently attempting to build a critical mass of *new online behavior that feels meaningfully different*.<br /><br />In this sense, I believe a certain amount of short-term inflation is justified in accelerating the development of good habits here on Minds.<br /><br />Happy to chat more if you'd like to discuss, and I'm pulling for you and <a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://www.minds.com/minds\" target=\"_blank\">@minds</a><br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=minds\" title=\"#minds\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#minds</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=cryptocurrency\" title=\"#cryptocurrency\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#cryptocurrency</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=growth\" title=\"#growth\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#growth</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=behavioralpsychology\" title=\"#behavioralpsychology\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#behavioralpsychology</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&t=all&q=uxdesign\" title=\"#uxdesign\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#uxdesign</a>",
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"content": "Hey @ottman, have you considered spinning up new accounts with a small amount of tokens pre-loaded?\n\nEffectively, this would take the form of a stimulus proposal in which a small amount of inflationary pressure would help to bootstrap user behaviors that support a healthy exchange of value here on Minds. The inflation would scale as a constant factor of the app's growth, for as long as this \"bootstrapping\" proposal remained in effect.\n\nYou're attempting to train a new behavior that is very much *not* the norm online, aka \"paying\" for quality content rather than simply consuming piles of junk for free. There's already immense friction, and Minds requires a strategy for developing these \"good habits\" from the get-go.\n\nPerhaps from where you're sitting, with the benefit of analytics, this isn't an issue. But from what I can tell even the most popular members aren't getting very much in the way of rewards for their content.\n\nThis likely boils down to a combination of two factors:\n- The friction of buying Ether (even though it's far lower than it was even a year ago, you still can't enter a credit card here on Minds and have it auto-converted into a soft-wallet for those new to crypto).\n\n- The behavioral inertia of moving from a set of norms on Twitter / FB etc to Minds, and not *immediately seeing* that those in the community are *behaving differently here*.\n\nWhile the first will get better with time, and may itself help to solve the second, you're presently attempting to build a critical mass of *new online behavior that feels meaningfully different*.\n\nIn this sense, I believe a certain amount of short-term inflation is justified in accelerating the development of good habits here on Minds.\n\nHappy to chat more if you'd like to discuss, and I'm pulling for you and @minds\n\n#minds #cryptocurrency #growth #behavioralpsychology #uxdesign",
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