No, hopefully they were re-discovered. We can improve our publicity skills, but we can’t make ideas easier to independantly re-invent.
Really? If meme Z is the result of meme X and Y colliding, then it seems like spreading X and Y makes it easier to independently re-invent Z.
Yes—by ‘independently’ I mean ‘unaffected by any publicity work we might do’.
I think them surviving as spreading memes is pretty good, if the information is transmitted without important errors creeping in. Though yes, reinventability is good (and implies the successful spread of prerequisite memes).
Oh yeah, both are good, but like good evidential decision theorists we should hope for re-invention.
Current theme: default
Less Wrong (text)
Less Wrong (link)
Arrow keys: Next/previous image
Escape or click: Hide zoomed image
Space bar: Reset image size & position
Scroll to zoom in/out
(When zoomed in, drag to pan; double-click to close)
Keys shown in yellow (e.g., ]) are accesskeys, and require a browser-specific modifier key (or keys).
]
Keys shown in grey (e.g., ?) do not require any modifier keys.
?
Esc
h
f
a
m
v
c
r
q
t
u
o
,
.
/
s
n
e
;
Enter
[
\
k
i
l
=
-
0
′
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
→
↓
←
↑
Space
x
z
`
g
No, hopefully they were re-discovered. We can improve our publicity skills, but we can’t make ideas easier to independantly re-invent.
Really? If meme Z is the result of meme X and Y colliding, then it seems like spreading X and Y makes it easier to independently re-invent Z.
Yes—by ‘independently’ I mean ‘unaffected by any publicity work we might do’.
I think them surviving as spreading memes is pretty good, if the information is transmitted without important errors creeping in. Though yes, reinventability is good (and implies the successful spread of prerequisite memes).
Oh yeah, both are good, but like good evidential decision theorists we should hope for re-invention.