cultural evolution
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January 14th, 2024
- cultural evolution — individual invention not needed. relevant to my "no H1" critiques of David Deutsch
- > That’s a common misconception. Culture can evolve and adapt to an unconscious process of errors, variation,retention and recombination. The secret of our success is full of examples, and this can be shown in the laboratory. t.co/pVdh3U9mnP
[🐦]() by Joe Henrich on October 2nd, 2023
October 13th, 2022
- relates to cultural evolution broadly
evolution includes WAY more than biological evolution
- very related to memetic evolution, but on a larger scale
- see integral stages, spiral dynamics, etc
December 28th, 2021
- cultural evolution - descriptions of political culture realignments - I collect these without actually reading them lol
- Meaningness has several
March 8th, 2021
- > But seriously if cultural evolution is so star-spangled awesome why is every Italian nonna wrong about how much water you need to cook pasta.
- > Le nonne will tell you you need a gallon per pound of pasta. Kenji says just enough to cover works fine
- > I think the explanation for grandmas being wrong is that they were using info extrapolated incorrectly from fresh pasta. Circumstances changed, a common reason for cultural knowledge to be wrong.