Comments on: The Emerging Pattern https://www.isegoria.net/2014/07/the-emerging-pattern/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: ASDF https://www.isegoria.net/2014/07/the-emerging-pattern/comment-page-1/#comment-1372603 ASDF Fri, 25 Jul 2014 01:10:46 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=35348#comment-1372603 Perhaps it goes something like this:

1) Society comes up with a pro-social memeplex.

2) During the growth phase that entire memeplex is reinforced. People follow the memes, society expands, people are rewarded.

3) At some point the memeplex runs up against some limit and stagnates.

4) People in the society figure out ways to manipulate the memeplex (loopholes). Each generation gets better at this.

5) Eventually the loopholes get so big it starts to take down the system.

6) Even less cynical actors start to look out for themselves.

7) Collapse

8) New memeplex is discovered and pattern starts all over.

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