Since I don't own mining equipment, what is the difference between the costly signal of paying matterpool as a costly signal vs paying Baemail/the recipient as a costly signal?
Post by twetch#622
There's one subtle difference...
If you operate Baemail, you could game the system.
This gets more interesting under other circumstances, too...
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Let's say you pay a costly signal to draw attention to your content.
If that costly signal is paying the content producer, it's a false signal. No real cost was paid (or, the cost was small compared to the size of the signal.)
If, however, the signal requires mining, whether that's paid for or done for yourself (some subtle differences there, too,) then you can't reliably pay yourself that way.
However, if your costly signal is tied to content filtering (higher cost => higher attention,) but the profit is tied to attention rather than judgment of the value, you get into a situation where "aggressive mimicry" comes in...
In that case, it's the attention that is being rewarded, NOT the valuable content.
Instead of being like antlers, this is more like an anglerfish lure.