Mechanism
Lossy re-encoding at each stage of an abstraction pipeline. Each hop is a sender re-encoding for a new receiver; cumulative compression bounds how much complexity can survive transit. The telephone-game intuition.
Connections
- Defined in: Virality Trade-off, The Information Landscape, Transport vs. Selection
- Discussed in: Virality Trade-off, Ch 1 — The Information Landscape
- Pressure-tested by: The Misinformation Age
- Evidenced by: Amusing Ourselves to Death, An epidemiological approach to model viral propagation of memes, Information Evolution in Social Media
- Derived from by: Constitutive transmission, Interpretive latitude, Want as the prime mover
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