We don’t have to achieve perfect replication because knowledge is created in the differences and because such knowledge creates new frontiers and new markets.
- Related: 3-1d6e You can only progress within the context of your own specificity. You can’t progress objectively, although you can progress towards the objective knowledge.
- Example: BSM formula, whose formalism would’ve made option contracts redundant, instead created options market—the reality always ‘slips’ formalism, according to Elie AyacheAyache
Implications for memes and knowledge:
- 5-1b1a2c0 No theory can exhaust reality
- 9-1b1 Ideas are never replicated fully because each individual has different problem-situation. Meme variation (and mutation) is inevitable.
- 9-4b2f The most important source of variation in explanatory theories is creativity. More ‘jumps’ via creativity allows qualitatively different types of ‘mutations’.
- Memes are subject to conscious variation and selection, and can be rejected intentionally, whereas genes are random and can’t be rejected.
- 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.
Related:
- 1-2g2j1d Cantgotu environments - you will always be proven wrong because no program will render it; you can never prove that you were there
- 3-1a4b5 Anything can be priced in principle. But not everything will be.
- 4-1a4b3d The ‘ledger of record’ shifts the focus to adjacent layers
- 5-1b1a2c0.2 Analogue information (e.g., tones of voice, EQ) cannot be perfectly-exhaustively represented by digital systems (e.g., universal writing systems)
- 8-2b4 You don’t (and can’t) put everything on-chain, just as you don’t (and can’t) put everything online
- Imitation already involves icon (パロディア)develop