Larks comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Larks 05 April 2011 01:19:13PM 7 points [-]

No, hopefully they were re-discovered. We can improve our publicity skills, but we can't make ideas easier to independantly re-invent.

Comment author: Vaniver 05 April 2011 05:00:02PM 2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Larks 05 April 2011 05:11:14PM 1 point [-]

Yes - by 'independently' I mean 'unaffected by any publicity work we might do'.

Comment author: David_Gerard 05 April 2011 04:53:18PM *  -1 points [-]

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).

Comment author: Larks 05 April 2011 05:10:34PM 4 points [-]

Oh yeah, both are good, but like good evidential decision theorists we should hope for re-invention.