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Culture.md
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- Cultural innovation works better when it arises out of a collection of habits, attitudes and goals that are shared by a particular group, and adapted to the group's needs. Over-indexing on legibility and explicit ideology often leads to problems.
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- [Universal culture is the collection of the most competitive ideas and products](https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/07/25/how-the-west-was-won/). It's what spreads when barriers to communication fall. It's distinct from any traditional culture (including Western). Universal culture is high-entropy: it survives and spreads without protection. All other cultures are low-entropy: they survive only if someone keeps pushing energy into the system to protect them.
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- Universal culture has adapted to diverse environments through social atomization: everybody does their own thing, and the community exists to protect them and perform lowest common denominator functions everyone can agree on.
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- Culture is [made of shared framings—ontologies](https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronization-of-framings) of things that are taken to exist and play a role in mental models—that arose in those same arbitrary but self-reinforcing ways.
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Decentralized Protocols.md
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- Nature uses these same properties for resilience against catastrophes.
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- The internet's original decentralized design enabled permissionless innovation.
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- Even if systems recentralize (e.g., application layer), building on a decentralized substrate fosters evolvability and allows new innovations.
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- [The idea is to replace the useful functions of a system with locally controlled and owned ones](https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/02/09/the-problem-of-the-state.html).
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- [Redecentralization one layer up, is progress](https://newsletter.squishy.computer/p/redecentralization):
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- Content-addressing (CIDs) decouples data from origin, enabling fungible storage, redundancy, and credible exit.
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- UCANs (user-controlled authorization networks) decouple trust from origin via self-sovereign signatures.