m3taversal 833d810f21 clay: address PR #64 review — backfire effect, Putnam causality, source archives ... - Fix: soften backfire effect language in IPC claim — distinguish Kahan's robust finding (polarization increases with cognitive skill) from the contested backfire effect (Wood & Porter 2019, Guess & Coppock 2020 show minimal evidence) - Fix: qualify Putnam's TV causal claim as regression decomposition with contested causal interpretation - Add: cross-domain wiki links — Olson→alignment tax + voluntary pledges, IPC→AI alignment coordination + voluntary pledges - Add: 6 source archive stubs for canonical academic texts (Olson, Granovetter, Dunbar, Blackmore, Putnam, Kahan) Pentagon-Agent: Clay <D5A56E53-93FA-428D-8EC5-5BAC46E1B8C2>		2026-03-10 15:40:45 +00:00
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civilization was built on the false assumption that humans are rational individuals.md
collective action fails by default because rational individuals free-ride on group efforts when they cannot be excluded from benefits regardless of contribution.md	clay: address PR #64 review — backfire effect, Putnam causality, source archives	2026-03-10 15:40:45 +00:00
collective brains generate innovation through population size and interconnectedness not individual genius.md
complex ideas propagate with higher fidelity through personal interaction than mass media because nuance requires bidirectional communication.md
cultural evolution decoupled from biological evolution and now outpaces it by orders of magnitude.md
history is shaped by coordinated minorities with clear purpose not by majorities.md
human social cognition caps meaningful relationships at approximately 150 because neocortex size constrains the number of individuals whose behavior and relationships can be tracked.md
humans are the minimum viable intelligence for cultural evolution not the pinnacle of cognition.md
identity-protective cognition causes people to reject evidence that threatens their group identity even when they have the cognitive capacity to evaluate it correctly.md	clay: address PR #64 review — backfire effect, Putnam causality, source archives	2026-03-10 15:40:45 +00:00
ideological adoption is a complex contagion requiring multiple reinforcing exposures from trusted sources not simple viral spread through weak ties.md
institutional infrastructure propagates memes more durably than rhetoric because measurement tools make concepts real to organizations.md
isolated populations lose cultural complexity because collective brains require minimum network size to sustain accumulated knowledge.md
meme propagation selects for simplicity novelty and conformity pressure rather than truth or utility.md
memeplexes survive by combining mutually reinforcing memes that protect each other from external challenge through untestability threats and identity attachment.md
memetics and cultural evolution.md
metaphor reframing is more powerful than argument because it changes which conclusions feel natural without requiring persuasion.md
narratives are infrastructure not just communication because they coordinate action at civilizational scale.md
no designed master narrative has achieved organic adoption at civilizational scale suggesting coordination narratives must emerge from shared crisis not deliberate construction.md
social capital erodes when associational life declines because trust generalized reciprocity and civic norms are produced by repeated face-to-face interaction in voluntary organizations not by individual virtue.md	clay: address PR #64 review — backfire effect, Putnam causality, source archives	2026-03-10 15:40:45 +00:00
systemic change requires committed critical mass not majority adoption as Chenoweth's 3-5 percent rule demonstrates across 323 campaigns.md
technology creates interconnection but not shared meaning which is the precise gap that produces civilizational coordination failure.md
the internet as cognitive environment structurally opposes master narrative formation because it produces differential context where print produced simultaneity.md
the self is a memeplex that persists because memes attached to a personal identity get copied more reliably than free-floating ideas.md
the strongest memeplexes align individual incentive with collective behavior creating self-validating feedback loops.md
true imitation is the threshold capacity that creates a second replicator because only faithful copying of behaviors enables cumulative cultural evolution.md
weak ties bridge otherwise disconnected clusters enabling information flow and opportunity access that strong ties within clusters cannot provide.md