Tuesday, 27 August 2024

Part Primate, Part Pig

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In 1976, Richard Dawkins wrote: "Most of what is unusual about man can be summed up in one word: 'culture'." Genetic diff...
Saturday, 24 August 2024

Memetic strategies

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Here are a few lists of meme-related strategies. The first list was inspired bt an Alex Mesoudi paper that laid out a fairly conventional vi...
Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Robin Hanson - Beware cultural drift

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Robin Hanson has become interested in cultural evolution in 2024. He read Not By Genes Alone , The Secret of our Success , Cognitive Gadget...

Rob Boyd & Pete Richerson - Cultural Evolution, Human Brain Increases, AGI, & Fertility Declines

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A new Boyd & Richerson interview:
Thursday, 11 April 2024

Are AIs really our descendants?

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While I'm criticising the positions of Robin Hanson , I reviewed his 2023 article titled: " AIs Will Be Our Mind Children " - ...

The demographic transition revisited

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I have an existing article about " Memes and the demographic transition ". It has a number of pointers and references, but I revie...
Thursday, 21 March 2024

Rob Boyd - A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species

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I read through some of the the reviews of Rob Boyd's 2017 book "A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species...

Meme adjectives

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A recent "Know Your Meme" editorial reminded me that I had never seen a list of meme categories or meme adjectives. I thought I w...
Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Dan Dennett: From Genes To Memes:The Evolution of Language and AI

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One notable part is around 25 minutes in. Dennett complains about intelligent machines creating counterfeit people - and then proposes maki...
Monday, 27 November 2023

Ryan Chapman - Why Do We Believe Things That Aren't True?

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