one last thing, I’m 80% convinced evolutionary biology is a better framework for understanding markets than economics.
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now you’re going to force me to actually think about something that has been idly kicking around in the back of my mind
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there is a school of thought. looked into it, was disappointed w/ lack of predictive power en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
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Early attempt: ribbonfarm.com/2007/11/25/clo am now trying attack #2 using generative pluralism idea, "value genetics"
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I was thinking somewhat of DNA but mostly of competition and niche exploitation. Arguably ecology as much as evo
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There is no true evolution model w/o DNA-type mechanism proposal. That type of "model" existed pre-Darwin :)
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Nope. Observations !=theory without a mechanism. Tycho Brahe !=Kepler!=Newton.
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how about this instead? Evolutionary biology frames the problem of markets better than economics.
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how would we tweetstorm this? idea 1: parasitism in organizations/organisms and ecosystems.
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wait, you’re going to impose rigor on our evolutionary theory of markets? This is all theory w/o mechanism.
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when one of us joins the Santa Fe Institute and does something empirical we can talk rigor.



