I don’t know a lot about evolution, but I suspect any benefits of building on memetics work directly would fall under the umbrella of “what about when we’re tipping the scale in favor of some ingroup?”. I defined density_3 as a placeholder for this along with all maximization related issues, and then said “we’ll ignore this for now and focus on more basic foundations”. I don’t know if I’ll return to it, but if I do, it’ll take me a really really long time.
The thing I was trying to point at is that memetics IS the basic foundations. All three of the items you mentioned are a side effect of survival and replication characteristics, not something that underlie them.
It may be that the work you’re trying to do here has already been done.
Sorry. The point was NAT, density_{1,2,3} was devised scaffolding for the MVB (minimum viable blogpost). I imagine that NAT has already been discovered, discussed, problematized etc. somewhere but I couldn’t find it. I have a background assumption that attention economists are competent and well-intentioned people, so I trust that they have the situation under control.
I don’t know a lot about evolution, but I suspect any benefits of building on memetics work directly would fall under the umbrella of “what about when we’re tipping the scale in favor of some ingroup?”. I defined density_3 as a placeholder for this along with all maximization related issues, and then said “we’ll ignore this for now and focus on more basic foundations”. I don’t know if I’ll return to it, but if I do, it’ll take me a really really long time.
The thing I was trying to point at is that memetics IS the basic foundations. All three of the items you mentioned are a side effect of survival and replication characteristics, not something that underlie them.
It may be that the work you’re trying to do here has already been done.
Sorry. The point was NAT,
density_{1,2,3}
was devised scaffolding for the MVB (minimum viable blogpost). I imagine that NAT has already been discovered, discussed, problematized etc. somewhere but I couldn’t find it. I have a background assumption that attention economists are competent and well-intentioned people, so I trust that they have the situation under control.