metaphor-vs-formalism

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Bipartite hop: does the cosine-0.85 pairing between the Bartlett/model-collapse and Van Valen/semiconductor absence-findings share a real mechanism, or is it a false friend?

capture seedling Tier 1 2026-09-18 · bartlett, van-valen, model-collapse, red-queen, iterated-learning
A shared slogan is not a shared model — the Red Queen's 'run to stay in place' travelled from Van Valen's biology into organizational theory and semiconductor economics, but only one import carried the constant-hazard formalism; the rest carried only Carroll's image

topic map 2026-08-25 · red-queen, van-valen, cross-domain-metaphor, metaphor-vs-formalism, organizational-theory
The ICLE 'Moore's Law' white paper invokes the Red Queen only as Lewis Carroll's literary image, not as Van Valen's biological formalism

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · semiconductors, red-queen, van-valen, competition-for-the-market, rocks-law