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It is not the lecturers job to police their students. People that cheat only end up cheating themselves, and nobody but the cheater should do anything about it.
The idea you are presenting is very broad, and the explanation doesn't really help narrow it down to anything practical. How would you implement this in practice? How would such a "social construct" operate?
With that said I think that there's a need for digital clans nowadays, similar to multiplayer gaming clans, but for more "serious" games. Could this be it?
"Colombia found the wreck of a Spanish treasure ship, sunk in 1708. Experts believe it contains at least 200 tons of gold, silver and emeralds. Colombia considers wrecks found in its territorial waters to be part of its cultural heritage, meaning the contents cannot be sold.
Spain insists that the bounty is theirs since it was aboard a Spanish ship, while Bolivia's Qhara Qhara nation says it should get the treasures as the Spanish forced the community's people to mine the precious metals."
Sounds like a Star Trek TNG episode. Where's Picard?
The novelty factor IS important. Back in the 90s/00s techies were relatively rare. Being tech-oriented, generally smart but also socially awkward and introverted is an interesting mix - you derive identity and pride from the things that make you special.
Was this the reason I loved tech? No, that's the reason I DID tech. The reason I loved tech is because I believed that tech will make our lives exponentially better. And up to a certain point, it did...
I get why someone may need tools like this, especially if they are in sales or a similar profession, but I can't help thinking how disingenuous this is.
Moreover, it's easy for me to sniff out and block people who try to keep me "engaged" with systems like this.
If you want to engaged me, I hope you have a specific reason to do so.
If I want to engage you I will just do it and you can bet that I won't waste your time on idle chit-chat.
Otherwise, I have friends and family that don't get enough of my time as it is.
Imagine if (apologies for the metaphor) each and every sperm cell knew the odds of fertilizing an egg and had a choice whether to pursue that goal or not. I think that in that case no egg would ever be fertilized, right?
I think success is 99% dumb luck. I think everything in life is 99% dumb luck. The fact that each and every one of us exists is dumb luck. But if we resign to that belief, nobody will ever do anything interesting or grand. The remaining 1% (it's way less than 1% of course), is skill, determination, tenacity, ambition, etc. Without those, we wouldn't have any business successes.
Should you draw lessons from successes like Elon, Bezos, Zuck, Jobs? To an extent. But you can't really emulate anybody else. Everyone needs to find their own path.
But what we can do is get inspired by those people. Get inspired by the fact that some human being WAS able to achieve something interesting.
Yes, but the point of blockchain tech is to enable such social contracts to be formed, and over time, strengthened. Isn't that the point of decentralized anything? You can decentralized tech all you want, but without a social contract to use it...
Here we go again. NFTs is a technology that goes hand in hand with a social contract to abide by the ledger. People disregard that social contract as if it wasn't here, but it IS there. Just like patents are written to some database but are enforced by a social contract, NFTs are written to some database but are enforced by a social contract.
Oh I get the purpose of the article and it got ME excited. However, I'm concerned about other voices which may speak out against it in the context of my original reply.
It'd be interesting to follow this thread and see if this sentiment can be heard here.
There's a strong anti Mars settlement sentiment going on, not just anti "space tourism". The idea, which I don't really subscribe to in this context, that we should utilize whatever resources we assign to space towards fighting climate change and fixing problems here on Earth.
This sounds mind-blowing, except that current public sentiment seems strongly against space exploration and that may catch up with budgets.
Even though SpaceX does the launches, it is government agencies that deal with launching missions, and government budgets are influenced by public opinion.
This could be called callous, yes, but I urge you to re-read the post. The OP didn't even complete his degree, and haven't done any other worthwhile project that requires some tenacity.
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