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   "text": "The unifying interest of DAO token holders in raising token value means they will voluntarily perform optimization tasks, because doing so is directly in their own interest.",
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   "text": "Because DAO performance assessment is based on optimizing fungible token value rather than on hierarchical or political processes, the focus on token value enhancement can lead to short termism and may cause ethical and governance issues to be ignored.",
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   "text": "Because annotating large datasets is labor intensive and expensive, smart contracts that reward community members with tokens for annotation are needed to sustain a steady flow of high quality labeled data for deep learning.",
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