the optimal strategy to survival
maybe isn’t the best advice anymore ”good artists borrow, great artists steal”
Going into the study, the researchers thought the optimal strategy would be some kind of mixture of copying and innovating, Laland says, both of which have drawbacks. An unknown berry might turn out to be a great food source for the person who first discovers it, or the berry might be poisonous. On the other hand, copying others might be safer, but not if the information is outdated or wrong. To the researchers’ surprise, the best method relied almost exclusively on copying.
There is a caveat to the winning program’s success, though. It works only when there are other agents around to copy. “They’re effectively kind of parasitic,” Laland says. “You can think of social learners as information scroungers — they’re stealing the information produced by others.”
how about this then?
“good artists borrow, great artists steal (and innovate)
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Bookmarks for March 7th [Google Reader]
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Bookmarks for March 7th [Google Reader]
- Automatic Speech Recognition Class – very cool class taught by my friend joe tepperman
- U B U W E B – Film & Video: Peter Greenaway – FTW!
- Alan Lomax in Haiti | By Will Friedwald – WSJ.com – “Decades before last month’s tragic earthquake, Haiti was in the news because of an upheaval of an entirely different kind. The republic had been occupied by American troops for 19 years. But after a series of bloody massacres and insurrections, the U.S. Marines were withdrawn in 1934. Two years later, an American named Alan Lomax landed in Haiti not with weapons but with a portable recording device. He’d been commissioned by the Library of Congress to document Haiti’s ethnomusic traditions.”
- Sam Lipsyte’s The Ask. – By Michael Agger – Slate Magazine -looking forward to reading this. heard good things. also on kindle
- Guest Post: With Mixtapes & Social Media, Is The Album So Far Gone? – very interesting look at social media and marketing in music as a case study based on one artist (drake)
- The David Foster Wallace Audio Project – Interviews, readings, and more, “lovingly collected by Ryan Walsh in early 2009”. It’s a gold mine.
- How The Internet Didn’t Fail As Predicted – a look back at a famous newsweek article trashing the internet as a flash in the pan
- Keeping the Score – kyle gann’s take on the different art music cultures of publishing
