<which allele do we expect to be fitter, generally? It's the high cladogenesis one, right? It gets more chance at being associated with>
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<other successful mutations? So here's a question: >
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Should we expect, on average, to find ourselves born into cultures with relatively high tolerance for heresy?
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@A_P_Mason what counts as "successful" is in part sweeping the world with yourself, destroying diversity (&/or long-term stable stuff)
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@sarahdoingthing @A_P_Mason But once you've swept the world, you rediversify...or you all get wiped out by the same weakness.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing @A_P_Mason A specificity emerges from a generality, it flourishes and becomes a new generality, from which a specificity...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@380kmh@sarahdoingthing Ah yes I see. A culture which loses the heresy-tolerant meme can make a memetic killing in the short term, but>1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@380kmh@sarahdoingthing <evolves towards extinction http://lesswrong.com/lw/l5/evolving_to_extinction/ …3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@380kmh and/or gets stuck in lameness with no way out, less dramatically1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing @A_P_Mason He said a culture that *loses* the heresy tolerant meme. You thinking of the right situation here?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@sarahdoingthing "Stuck" turns into "extinct" pretty fucking fast, no?1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - 6 more replies
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