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Decius comments on The military value of shortening copyright - Less Wrong Discussion

-7 Post author: DataPacRat 09 March 2013 09:38PM

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Comment author: Decius 10 March 2013 05:44:37AM 1 point [-]

this also begs the question, if that's what things will look like later, why don't they look that way already?

Take that argument to genetic evolution via natural selection:

if you want to predict what future [organisms] will look like, a viable approach could be to examine this present-day [organisms] which do the [best adaptation to the current environment], and figuring out what lets them do that.

It's that memes are slow to change and cannot be forced to change much faster by active effort.