More mutation doesn't equal more evolution, you need the right selection pressures.
The internet allowed a much higher rate of memetic evolution.
Our selection pressures haven't caught up.
The result is metastasizing memes dominating everything.
From other episodes
- Fascinating take from Steve Yegge a couple of months ago: Software Survival 3.0.2026-03-02
- In a cacophonous environment, the selection pressure is for superficial optics.2026-02-23
- Skills.md are a security disaster waiting to happen.2026-02-09
- One-ply ideas can be discovered by a swarm.2025-09-29
- In assembly theory, two numbers matter: assembly index and copy number.2025-08-25
- We live in an era of Hyper.2025-08-04
- Pockets in a system have different properties than the main system.2025-02-10
- Extremely simple, massively used protocols exist.2025-02-10