“Paul once said to me 'the immune competition between all kinds of pathogens is what shapes us'. What is free will- the in-between of all our biological drives?” -@rivatez
Practice alone is defeated by Practice + Knowledge. When you have both knowledge and practice design rather than repetition becomes possible.
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When you have enough theoretical knowledge and enough practice and a clean economic niche design can even mature into engineering.
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Almost all critics of social engineering or attempted social engineering are right in object level claims. They are deulded because they don't believe in social design.
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You guys might be interested in this piece I wrote on loss and preservation of knowledge. (Lays out my theory of tradition as well.)https://medium.com/@samo.burja/on-the-loss-and-preservation-of-knowledge-66e4a6b4d27d …
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Yes. Germ theory is notable upgrade. But it confirms and extends old praxis, rather than overturns.
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Of course germ Theory is its own tradition of knowledge and practice. Can be lost.
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Arguably we can infer Romans had hygienic equivalent to germ theory just from the low army casualties due to infectious disease. Only matched by 19th century armies.
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Discussion on lineal vs lateral transfer is relevant here:http://yhwhmemorial.org/flood-resistant-lineages …
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Memes and meme complexes that win on group selection are quite different from ones that win on infectiousness (i.e. in the so-called Marketplace of Ideas).
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do you mean group selection literally, or just prosaically to mean "the group that survived"? because there is no such thing as group selection
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Group selection usually doesn't work at the gene level, but with engineered memeplexes that are able to exert approximate ownership of genetic lineages, it can work at the meme level.
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But even on the gene level, multi-cellular organisms are the result of group selection. Though it requires rare circumstances: shared-fate and enforcable conformity.
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