Metamorphoses of DAC Economy
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The goal of DAC economy is to achieve non-trivial complexity[19], that’s why we modeled DAC economy to mimic an ecosystem teeming with life – who else can compete with patterns of life for complexity? Maybe artificial life¹⁰⁵? Since the 20th century, the greatest hallmark of technology has been the capability of electronic-circuits based computing machinery to achieve life-like complexity. The holy grail of the electronic computing age is artificial intelligence¹⁰⁶. Consider that human intelligence is the outcome of millions of years of evolution and the bio- complexity of brain is still magnitude more complex than computer circuitry¹⁰⁷, we are probably not going to be able to reach human brain level artificial intelligence anytime soon¹⁰⁸. However, what we can do now is creating systems that include human actors (minds), and as a whole could have a semblance of artificial life or even collective sentience (consciousness + intelligence). Such system, as we imagine it, could be a form of DAC economy. Why DAC economy? Because DAC economy is a blockchain system that has adaptive liveness[18], a
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¹⁰⁵ See , and a .
¹⁰⁶ See , and .
¹⁰⁷ See , which is based on this; It is that by a decade (2020) the world’s total computing power will increase by 1000 fold – impressive, but not quite enough.
¹⁰⁸ See – this is a highly contested idea, with AI’s predicted arrival by . Nevertheless, since we don’t understand how singularity is just hyperbole.
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human-machine system that is self-contained, self-governed, and most importantly, self-sustained.
In the blockchain realm, complexity of life takes the form of algorithms, programs and applications. As mentioned in earlier discussion, we can take a page from software engineering[20] to manage complexity – by replicating structures through increasing levels of abstraction – a dimensional approach. Patterns can be expanded by multiplying additional parameters (such as templating¹⁰⁹ or OOP[20]) or even other patterns (such as functional programming¹¹⁰) – it is called metaprogramming¹¹¹ in software engineering parlance. In this section we are interested in building meta-patterns with fundamental blockchain mechanisms and decentralization devices we developed for DAC[35]. These meta-patterns are different forms of DAC economy – they all spawn from metamorphoses of DAC economy.