cultural evolution Rewriting Genes Before DNA I am currently writing a book titled 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
podcast #92 Tamim Ansary: Understanding The US Exit from Afghanistan from an Islamic Worldview Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Rhys Lindmark: Hello, listeners. Today, I'm excited to chat with Tamim Ansary. Tamim is an Afghanistan-American author and public speaker. He's the author of the excellent books, Destiny
memes 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,
podcast #91 Susan Blackmore: How Memes Gave Rise To The Third Replicator Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify Rhys Lindmark: Hello listeners. Today, I'm excited to chat with Susan Blackmore. Susan is a visiting professor at the University of Plymouth who researches consciousness, memes, and anomalous
evolution 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
big history 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,
memes The Remixability of Hashtags, #_____LivesMatter, and #FutureLivesMatter 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
memes What Actually Is #ETHCommons? An Overview of Memes as an “Institutional Vehicle” + An ETH Ecosystem Analysis 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
paradigms Co-evolving the Phase Shift to GameB by Founding The Ethereum Commons 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.
