(either cognitive scientist or artist would be nearer the mark)
With respect to curating the Beecoin “community chest” ... as a cognitive scientist who has had a career of being paid to think *very* clearly, I take careful note of the results of research into “thinking” because of the implications for my own cognition:
Money Priming Can Change People’s Thoughts, Feelings, Motivations, and Behaviors: An Update on 10 Years of Experiments, Kathleen D. Vohs (2015), Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(4), e86–e93.
Caruso, Vohs, Baxter, and Waytz (2013) posited that because money is used in free market exchanges, cues of money would lead people to justify and support the systems that allow those exchanges to take place. Hence, the authors predicted that money primes would boost system justification, social dominance, belief in a just world, and free market ideology, and found supportive evidence. Rohrer, Pashler, and Harris (2015) failed to replicate those effects. This article discusses the factors that predict priming effects, and particularly those pertinent to differences between Caruso et al. and Rohrer et al. Variations in a prime’s meaning, the ease with which primed content comes to mind, the prime’s motivational importance, and the ambiguity of the outcome situation influence the impact of the prime. Money priming experiments (totaling 165 to date, from 18 countries) point to at least 2 major effects. First, compared to neutral primes, people reminded of money are less interpersonally attuned. They are not prosocial, caring, or warm. They eschew interdependence. Second, people reminded of money shift into professional, business, and work mentality. They exert effort on challenging tasks, demonstrate good performance, and feel efficacious. Money priming is not the same as priming another popular means of exchange, credit cards, and can have bigger effects when there is an implied connection between the self and having money. The practical benefits of money have been studied by other disciplines for decades, and the time is now for psychologists to study the effects of merely being reminded of money.
From my perspective, a
lot of
Vohs' work is both pertinent and significant in the context of building a broad understanding of how an altcoin community functions across the board. It's why I'm comfortable with the responsibility of curating the “community chest” and also why it is that I
won’t be holding any Beecoin personally.
It's not that this research can give a precise vector for the wind of change (degrees, minutes, seconds, strength) but it can fairly reliably indicate the originating quadrant and that
is useful if one's task is to construct a windbreak to protect the fire (to take the analogy rather too far).
The windbreak? Well, it's complicated (as is
always the case when groups of people are involved) but you might get some hints from the explanatory blog post in my standalone web “app“ (in that it uses javascript) that I'm using as example content for a “publishing by OP_RETURN” investigation that I'm pursuing (more of which, later).
The web app is just a page of HTML/CSS/JS with the page-specific resources embedded as base64-encoded strings. It's currently parked on my server but in principle, it can be served from anywhere, e.g. torrent and the magnet id inscribed in the OP_RETURN data (a la
web2web) or, in my other approach, a semantic web RDF graph. But that's not important right now, it's the content of the post which might throw some light on my understanding of how to remediate the inhibiting effect of money priming on prosocial behaviour and attitudes because it's strength in the latter that underpins a successful altcoin SIG.
A different perspective on cryptocurrencyCheers
Graham
