The domestication of DACs through the process of artificial selection"Plants domesticated primarily for aesthetic enjoyment in and around the home are usually called house plants or ornamentals, while those domesticated for large-scale food production are generally called crops."
If we follow the metaphor that DACs are like "crops" then these "crops" must produce "yield". It's up to the reader to decide where to take these metaphors. The central word for describing all this action "evolutionary". DACs in my opinion can evolve and we don't know what they'll evolve into once they become more autonomous so we'll want to influence that evolution through feedback mechanisms.
Artificial Selection Algorithms
In order to initiate the process of DAC domestication we would need artificial selection algorithms. This would determine the process by which we rank the fitness level of DACs. At the moment the closest thing we have to this would be Coinmarketcap and the DACIndex.
"Plant breeding is the art and science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics.[1] Plant breeding can be accomplished through many different techniques ranging from simply selecting plants with desirable characteristics for propagation, to more complex molecular techniques (see cultigen and cultivar)."
Different communities will get to decide for themselves on what fitness algorithm best suits them but for most of us who live in capitalist countries the fitness criteria will have to include profitability. One of the reasons I think Bitshares was ahead of the curve compared to Mastercoin is the fact that Bytemaster was wise enough to understand that Bitshares has to be self sustaining in a capitalist environment because most of the users exist in those environments.
Discuss? Be sure to let me know when these ideas become too crazy.
References
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/algorithms-humans-bffs/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_breeding
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