GabrielDuquette comments on Compression progress, social niches, and culture - Less Wrong
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Sorry, didn't see you commented until just now.
Because a new niche -- even one based around subcultural ephemera -- means first dibs on resources for its members (especially the high status ones). This iteration increases as groups move away from subsistence level. If being contrary has no life-threatening consequences, what is to stop contrarians from acting like superstimuli pumps that spoof compression progress?
Ok got it, thanks.