This isn't compatible with the idea that the ecosystem has little free energy.
This "digital life" would loose to classic coorporations.
Existing companies use computers. Computation on a block chain is really expensive. Evolution is dumb, half the things it attempts will be idiotic wastes of money, (even more so than for existing companies). There are plenty of places where an informed human judgement is really useful. Evolution + currentish AI is still too stupid to be competitive.
The blockchain is public. A company can easily copy the code on public blockchain of any digital life that does reliably make money. A company can run the same algorithms on private servers, keeping all their valuable results to themselves, and saving the blockchain overhead.
This isn't compatible with the idea that the ecosystem has little free energy.
This "digital life" would loose to classic coorporations.
Existing companies use computers. Computation on a block chain is really expensive. Evolution is dumb, half the things it attempts will be idiotic wastes of money, (even more so than for existing companies). There are plenty of places where an informed human judgement is really useful. Evolution + currentish AI is still too stupid to be competitive.
The blockchain is public. A company can easily copy the code on public blockchain of any digital life that does reliably make money. A company can run the same algorithms on private servers, keeping all their valuable results to themselves, and saving the blockchain overhead.