Mechanism
Gates with local fitness criteria at each pipeline stage. What survives is whatever wins on emotional resonance, identity reinforcement, status, action affordance, novelty. Dominant constraint in modern digital networks where transport cost has collapsed.
Connections
- Defined in: The Information Landscape, Transport vs. Selection
- Discussed in: Ch 5b — Selection As The Other Engine, Ch 1 — The Information Landscape
- Supported by: Amusing Ourselves to Death, The Misinformation Age, Not Born Yesterday
- Pressure-tested by: Memetics — a critique, Not Born Yesterday
- Evidenced by: An epidemiological approach to model viral propagation of memes, Information Evolution in Social Media, Memetics — a critique, Not Born Yesterday, Psychology of Virality
- Derived from by: Engagement-maximization as a captured equilibrium, Myth dilution at scale, Want as the prime mover
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