It lets enthusiastic people express their enthusiasm without overriding the crowd's preference.
Someone who is very knowledgeable or passionate can keep upvoting, but as their voting power dampens new voters will quickly overwhelm their vote. So it strikes a nice balance between leveraging people's passion and the wisdom of crowds.
I'm working on a bookmarking tool/web clipper that let's you organize sites you save by the search you used to find it. No tags or folders.
knovigator.com
It makes perfect sense that state of the art technological paradigms would inspire explanations of other areas of inquiry like human biology.
Creativity is the ability to apply patterns and abstractions learned in one context to another. Concepts learned at the cutting edge of one field of research quickly resonate in another.
We often see the information flowing the other way. Genetic algorithms, neural networks, robotic motion, and insect decision-making are some of the ways biology has influenced technology.
We are being farmed. We are given toys and distractions, in exchange we give up our time and consciousness to be propagandized to be a certain way and to buy certain things.
It's a system whose lifeblood is money around which our entire society is incentivized at the expense of happiness, human connection, and intellectual honesty.
I use to think that these are just symptoms of a system necessary for the sustenance of our fragile civilization. That we are victims of deprecated ideals, and that we will learn new ones and eventually correct course.
Now I understand that a minority of people in the world cynically manipulate the vast majority for their own personal gain, and until we realize this and organize we will never reach our human potential.