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What is the origin of cultural and technological collapses?
Loss of cultural knowledge has enormous social and economic consequences. Can we predict cultural collapses? What can we do to avoid them?

Find more in our last preprint with @SDuranNebreda:
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We study three contemporary cases of cultural collapses in sociotechnical systems: @atari 2600 videogames, #cryptocurrency whitepapers and @Reddit posts. All three show a boom-and-bust in artifact diversity driven by collective dynamics. #ETdidntKillAtari @ibogost @NolanBushnell Image
We explore a purely endogenous origin of cultural collapses, driven by an imitation-innovation imbalance. Too much imitation leads to premature convergence and cultural uniformity. These emergent collapses display universal linguistic and complexity signatures. Image
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