Cognitive Revolutions

Broadcast > Dialog
This article helped me start to connect the dots on how the means of knowledge creation are intertwined with dissemination.
Failing to write down new recipes risks making that recipe short-lived. Why? A lot of the novelty can get lost in translation as people talk because they’re trying to relate the recipe to some existing cooking technique.
Writing it down enables everyone encountering the recipe to carefully compare the recipe against the existing recipes. The novelty is apparent, can be interrogated, and the true novelty in the technique can discovered and be used to update other recipes.
If you want your recipes credited to you (and to outlive you), you need to learn how to write them. Scientists don’t invite every interested scientist to their lab to explain their work, they publish papers with their methods.
Dialog allows people to learn in small communities. Broadcast allows knowledge to travel globally.

Memecoins as a measure of attention (+ popularity)

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.
The DuPont Company's Chart Room
hagley.org
It is easy to take for granted the abundance of organized information we now have access to on demand.
DuPont created this room in 1919 and didn't share details about how they used it in public until 1950.
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people who tell us how to think about a thing
people whose choices (resulting from their thinking) inspire us
Technology changed how we think and what we think about. But also what we remember and for how long. And perhaps, in the future, if we remember…
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

Coordinating parts of society that are prone to disagreement creates room for variance elsewhere