1-1a2e3 Cultures are evolution’s ultimate solution to the problem of providing adaptive flexibility

Error-correction is essentially about finding solutions to a problem. There are efficient ways to correct errors. Error-correction is inherently about computation complexity problem. And culture provides one of the most efficient methods.

David Deutsch meets Scott Aaronson and Daniel Everett here.

Next:

• 1-1a2e4 Cultures precede languages
  • 3-1b1b1 No learning without doing; specifically, no learning without cultural doing
  • 10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society
  • 10-1b5 We enter the world of language-based learning once we have mastered a language
• 1-1a2e5 Cultures nurture minds
  • 2-1a4 ‘Language instinct’ - Language can’t exhaust mind
  • 1-1a2c Everett on Aristotle - He is responsible for the characterization of the mind as a blank slate (‘Mind is in a sense potentially whatever is thinkable, though actually it is nothing until it has thought’)
    • 1-1a2 Our mind is flexible

Related:

• 1-1a5b4.4 Real-time calibration (i.e., recalibration) lets you adapt to the changing landscape
  • <> 13-1a3a1d Money facilitates the maximum use of knowledge available, and accommodates error-corrections (the two are the same thing)
    • Meme stocks and coins are beneficial to the extent that they teach those who were involved some lessons
      • <> 1-2f1a Error-correction is the beginning of infinity. All jumps to universality occur in digital systems.
  • <> RUL3 - Love bad news. Always question to falsify your idea and theory. Invalidate ASAP. How fast you can invalidate matters as much as how fast you can build them. Rule out bad explanations.
• How do children learn?
  • 10-1b4 Children concentrically embody their ever-widening knowledge structures by testing the degree of its correspondence in comparison with other members of the society