Mimetic Traps §

Metadata §

• Author: Brian Timar
• Full Title: Mimetic Traps
• Category:#articles
• Date read: 2022-09-02
• URL: https://www.briantimar.com/notes/mimetic/mimetic/

Key takeaways §

• Be wary of niche competition that produces things that nobody finds valuable

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Highlights §

• This was my mistake — I swapped an absolute goal (figuring out how bits of nature work) with a relative one (scoring higher on tests than my classmates).
• you can spend years ascending ranks in a hierarchy without producing anything that the rest of humanity finds valuable.