1-2g2k1 Replication of knowledge is what matters. Not replication per se.
1-2g2q1 Science is about independent replication. Only trust as scientific truth what can be independently verified-replicated.
10-2g3d Behaviors can be replicators even when its meanings are not (properly) understood, because we can guess the meaning of memes. For rational memes, knowledge is THE replicator.
Societies benefit by passing down scientific and technological knowledge without distortion
What matters is whether the content is replicated; how it’s replicated matters less - there’s space for creativity here! (2-1b2e2 Knowledge doesn’t care how it’s replicated and its impact on the knowledge bearing entities. What matters is whether the content is replicated, and there’s space for creativity and variation here.)
2-1b2e1 Understanding comes from copying the information-knowledge as information-knowledge medium; not from copying the substrate
But remember: 1-1c2a There is no escape we are and will be shaped by anti-rational memes
A technical truth is true even if no human believes it to be true (Constructor Theory)
1-2g2b1 Constructor Theory defines knowledge independent of people
A political truth is not
9-1a You don’t have to be convincing per se, because convincing and true will become identical
You have to be ‘convincing’ (or often coercing) in the political realm
9-4a Writing is fighting, and good writing can fuel technological progress