Ecosystems are not optimised for diversity, they produce it incidentally
Ecosystems do not cross-breed distant members
Ecosystems have no one overlooking the transmissions being made and deciding whether they’re good or not. Memeplexes have all humans all doing that all of the time
I do share an intuition that there are relevant insights to be found by studying ecosystems, but I think you’d have to go really deep to get it and extract it.
Ecosystems do not have a goal
Ecosystems are not optimised for diversity, they produce it incidentally
Ecosystems do not cross-breed distant members
Ecosystems have no one overlooking the transmissions being made and deciding whether they’re good or not. Memeplexes have all humans all doing that all of the time
I do share an intuition that there are relevant insights to be found by studying ecosystems, but I think you’d have to go really deep to get it and extract it.