memes - Rhys Lindmark

Rhys Lindmark

memes

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cultural evolution

Rewriting Genes Before DNA

I am currently writing a book titled What Information Wants [https://www.roote.co/what-information-wants]. It looks at how information flows have changed over history. It starts by looking at the past: how the big bang led to planet earth, how genetic DNA led to the tree of life, and

Native Spaced Repetition

The medium is the message. Right now, the internet medium enables short-term viral memes as a message, but not much else. Think about TikTok. Every day, users spend an hour in the app, scrolling through the FYP. But if you ask me what I watched last week on TikTok, I

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

Three Alphabets, Three Trees

The universe's complexity can be understood by three trees: the tree of molecules, the tree of life, and the tree of ideas. These trees are created by three building block alphabets: elements, genes, and memes (language). Let's look at each. I. Elements Create The Tree of

The Remixability of Hashtags

The Remixability of Hashtags

Disclaimer: I know this article touches on some possibly triggering topics (identity-based memes). I'm primarily trying to explore it from a meta/positivist POV, rather than a normative POV. I'm always open for feedback, but please assume my good intentions! :) As I've written about

Memes as an Institutional Vehicle

The goal of this article is to further define #ETHCommons, show how the Ethereum ecosystem is expressing the meme, and explain future plans. In summary: the #ETHCommons mindset has spread widely in the last couple months (which is awesome!). The “Deep Why” Behind #ETHCommons No offense to #ETHCommons, but the

GameB & ETHCommons

The goal of this article is to outline my upcoming crowdfunding experiment to be a Co-Steward of the Open-Source Ethereum Commons Co-op. Essentially: various people/projects will support me to facilitate cross-project collaboration. Why is that needed? We’ll get there by starting super abstract (with the macro system context)