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famigliacurione in #dtube • 6 years ago

“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” - Albert Einstein

I have a lot of respect for Dan Larimer. It was his father, Stan Larimer, that got me interested in BitShares and Steemit. Brilliant minds!

I personally do not believe that the developers of EOS, including Dan, have solved the problems of Steemit, because I do not believe they have successfully identified the problems. Steemit was supposed to be an experiment for building a social network on a blockchain, but the builders approached it through a financial and coding perspective. They did not adequately look at human nature, psychology and sociology. Facebook's success was, in part, due to the exploitation of social behavior and human relationships.

I agree that a more proper distribution of our currency is crucial, and this is another problem. This was supposed to be about challenging capitalism, but we have ended up with the same top-heavy model; with just a few Whales having more power than all other users combined!

Maybe MEOS has found a way to solve the economic part of the equation, but as Einstein said above, I believe that the same minds and the same thinking the created Steemit, are going to create MEOS without really considering things like human nature, human relationships and human expression. It'll be another platform dominated by developers and economists.

Who knows?! Maybe MEOS will suck all the best developers, coders and financial wizards out of Steemit, and leave it to the real creative content creators.

6 years ago in #dtube by famigliacurione

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crypto.piotr 6 years ago

Dear @famigliacurione

What an amazing comment.

They did not adequately look at human nature, psychology and sociology.

You nailed it!

ps.
Wouldn't you agree that EOS is even more complex and complicated than Steem? MIRA can have it very hard with mass adoption. Harder than Steemit (and here it's a real issue already).

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Piotr

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famigliacurione 6 years ago

Dear @crypto.piotr

Thank you appreciating my insights!

Yes, I do agree that EOS is more complicated than STEEM, and it should be. EOS has taken a mission that surpasses what STEEM was designed to achieve. In fact, Steemit could easily be moved to the EOS blockchian in the future to take advantage of its higher abilities. EOS is a grandchild of DPoS and should surpass its predecessors, just as STEEM has surpassed BitShares.

MIRA is going to be a very useful project, so it will not go unrecognized. Mass Adaption is a tricky term, but I'll say this; mass adaption occurs when Dynamic Aggressives (our natural born leaders) either steal, borrow or are given ideas from the subculture and present those ideas to the Adaptives (our natural born followers or "the masses") who accept them into the main-culture. The subculture steals, borrows or is given new ideas from the counterculture where are new trends are born! Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology is still pretty much in the counterculture but is now beginning to quickly move into the subculture.

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crypto.piotr 6 years ago

Dear @famigliacurione

I only had a chance to read your comment now (somehow I've skipped it before).

I do agree that EOS is more complicated than STEEM, and it should be.

I guess you're right. I only wonder how EOS want to achieve so called "mass adoption". When I think of Microsoft Windows and Linux I can only point one advantage of Windows over the other one. Simplicity.

Linux does exist and many professionals do use it. Probably same will happen with EOS. To difficult for "regular joes" but at the same time an excellent tool for those with some skills.

Steemit could easily be moved to the EOS blockchian in the future to take advantage of its higher abilities.

Hopefully it wont happen. Steemit is already to difficult and most new users are giving up very fast. Making learning curve even harder wouldn't help.

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Appreciate it.

Yours
Piotr

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