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> CPA is an automatic process, motivated only by "a desire to be a live node on the network" ... CPA is motivated not by productivity but by connectivity. It's
by hirundo 7y ago
> CPA is an automatic process, motivated only by "a desire to be a live node on the network" ... CPA is motivated not by productivity but by connectivity.
It's about detecting predators before they eat you or prey before you starve or mates before your genes leave the pool. Modern networks are just a modern source of that data.
We're hard wired for CPA by a billion generations.
- foobarbecue 7y agoA billion? So since before the big bang... (I agree with your statement otherwise.)
- hirundo 7y agoThere are traces of life greater than 3 billion years old. If there averaged 1 generation every 3 years we're into the billions. Smaller organisms tend to reproduce faster than larger ones, and our ancestors, all inclusive, have mostly been microscopic.
- foobarbecue 7y agoGood point. I was thinking humans, which was silly.
- ALittleLight 7y agoThe further back you go in the evolutionary chain the shorter generations tend to be. I doubt a billion generations of bacteria would carry us back to the big bang. I also take this idea, that predator detection predates humanity and goes deep into our ancestral roots, to be the commenter's point.
- foobarbecue 7y agoGood point. I was thinking humans, which was silly.
- colechristensen 7y agoOne billion hours is about 100,000 years and plenty of bacteria reproduce faster. There was also probably at least 500 million years of only single cellular life. 1 billion seems in the neighborhood of the number of generations or maybe even a few orders of magnitude too low.
- foobarbecue 7y agoGood point. I was thinking humans, which was silly.