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   "text": "Smart contracts enabled by blockchain technology allow comprehensive, near error free, and zero transaction and agency cost coordination of agency relationships.",
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   "text": "Social media transfers knowledge from the edges of society into the mainstream by letting holders of marginalized views find kindred spirits, form groups, and incrementally grow influence until their perspective becomes mainstream, shifting the balance of power from a few to the masses.",
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   "text": "The combined Work and Availability Smart Contract system eliminates the single greatest barrier to private legal codification, namely funding and coordinating high-quality drafting, while aligning incentives toward rapid meritocratic expansion.",
   "abstract": "The combined WSC/ASC system thus eliminates the single greatest barrier to private legal codification, funding and coordinating high-quality drafting, while aligning all incentives toward rapid, meritocratic expansion.",
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   "text": "Contrary to the Hayekian account in which price is the summary statistic that coordinates dispersed knowledge, the coordinating signal in Computative Economics is not a single scalar price but a composite of price, reputation, and verified generative capacity.",
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   "text": "Coordination in computative settings runs through the interaction of generation functions rather than through a central coordinator, and this decentralization is structural rather than optional, since a central coordinator would itself be a computative agent generating an infinite regress.",
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