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Hi, thanks for linking to your post here. It seems relevant to what I tweeted. But please help me understand what you are saying here. I think I'm having trouble at "Subgroups form that may value intentional suppression of their former values". Why would they value suppression of former values?
I'm guessing you're trying to say that subgroups will find their aesthetic more interesting because they experience their aesthetic as providing greater improvement in compressibility given preexisting inculcation in that aesthetic?
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.