biology - Rhys Lindmark

Rhys Lindmark

biology

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Ears And Mouths Are Optimized For Speech

In Medium-Message Fit, we showed how a given medium (like brains or text) determines the kinds of messages that can live on it. But the medium is not fixed. Memes can change their information layer. As an example, early sapiens made two changes to increase our memetic bandwidth for verbal

cultural evolution

Biology-Culture Fit

Biology-culture fit is the extent to which cultural adaptations fit onto our biological anchors. For example, we can't make biological ants believe in a Sun God. Ants' simple biology isn't a good anchor a complex culture. For another example, let's look at how

3D Fitness Landscapes

A fitness landscape [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_landscape] is a helpful tool for thinking about biological and memetic evolution—which information will be successful in a given environment. Unfortunately, most fitness landscapes neglect the environmental dimension. This stops us from thinking clearly about how information flows. We should