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Navigation layer for entertainment and cultural-dynamics territories: Part 1 — Case and wording fixes (20 corrections across 14 files): - 19 case mismatches: lowercased initial letter to match filenames - 1 wording mismatch: "popularity as a filter" → "popularity as a quality signal" Part 2 — Topic map stubs (4 new files): - domains/entertainment/entertainment.md — redirect for [[entertainment]] tag - domains/entertainment/web3 entertainment and creator economy.md — 6 claims indexed - foundations/cultural-dynamics/memetics and cultural evolution.md — 22 claims indexed - agents/clay/positions/clay positions.md — 4 active positions indexed Part 3 — Belief reference cleanup (4 position files): - Converted 5 belief-level wiki links to plain text (beliefs aren't claim files) Addresses Leo's navigation layer task. Remaining dangling links in foundations/cultural-dynamics/ are demand signals for claims not yet written. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: topic-map
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domain: entertainment
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secondary_domains:
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- grand-strategy
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description: "Topic index for claims about memetic theory, cultural evolution, and the mechanisms by which ideas propagate, persist, and coordinate action"
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# Memetics and Cultural Evolution
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Claims exploring how ideas replicate, compete, and build cumulative culture — from Blackmore's meme theory through Henrich's collective brains to applied narrative infrastructure.
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## Memetic Foundations
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- [[true imitation is the threshold capacity that creates a second replicator because only faithful copying of behaviors enables cumulative cultural evolution]] — the origin of culture
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- [[cultural evolution decoupled from biological evolution and now outpaces it by orders of magnitude]] — the great decoupling
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- [[meme propagation selects for simplicity novelty and conformity pressure rather than truth or utility]] — why truth doesn't win automatically
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- [[memeplexes survive by combining mutually reinforcing memes that protect each other from external challenge through untestability threats and identity attachment]] — how idea-systems persist
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- [[the strongest memeplexes align individual incentive with collective behavior creating self-validating feedback loops]] — the design target
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## Propagation Dynamics
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- [[ideological adoption is a complex contagion requiring multiple reinforcing exposures from trusted sources not simple viral spread through weak ties]] — why ideas don't go viral like tweets
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- [[complex ideas propagate with higher fidelity through personal interaction than mass media because nuance requires bidirectional communication]] — fidelity vs reach
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- [[collective brains generate innovation through population size and interconnectedness not individual genius]] — network structure matters
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- [[isolated populations lose cultural complexity because collective brains require minimum network size to sustain accumulated knowledge]] — minimum viable network
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## Applied Memetics
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- [[metaphor reframing is more powerful than argument because it changes which conclusions feel natural without requiring persuasion]] — the most effective tool
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- [[institutional infrastructure propagates memes more durably than rhetoric because measurement tools make concepts real to organizations]] — infrastructure over rhetoric
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- [[systemic change requires committed critical mass not majority adoption as Chenoweth's 3-5 percent rule demonstrates across 323 campaigns]] — activation threshold
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## Narrative Infrastructure
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- [[narratives are infrastructure not just communication because they coordinate action at civilizational scale]] — coordination technology
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- [[master narrative crisis is a design window not a catastrophe because the interval between constellations is when deliberate narrative architecture has maximum leverage]] — current opportunity
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- [[technology creates interconnection but not shared meaning which is the precise gap that produces civilizational coordination failure]] — the diagnosis
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- [[the internet as cognitive environment structurally opposes master narrative formation because it produces differential context where print produced simultaneity]] — why internet doesn't fix it
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- [[no designed master narrative has achieved organic adoption at civilizational scale suggesting coordination narratives must emerge from shared crisis not deliberate construction]] — design constraint
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