Cognitive Revolutions

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Knowledge expands in a fractal manner. All the new knowledge is found in the cracks that are on the edge of the ever-expanding plane.
To study in crystallized fields, seek out institutions. Communities of practice in new fields.
for an idea to shape society it must be communicated. There are many technical challenges to communicating ideas, and one of the more important ones is applying a gears-level understanding of how people evaluate ideas.
Samo Burja • Intellectual Legitimacy | Samo Burja
Language is our way of giving legibility to ideas.
Only legible ideas survive.
An idea risks signal loss each time it is transmitted. A great idea survives the distance, becoming more legible the further it gets from the source. They survive the common sense test.
Great ideas also retain (or attain) legibility the longer they remain still. An idea at
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