In a world where AI does the heavy lifting, evolutionary progress is driven by Darwinian selection of ideas, not genes. As the Solow model shows, new ideas fuel exponential growth. The best ideas win—and drive cutting-edge progress.

Been thinking about Spengler's civilizational incommunicability thesis. Samo Burja 'Intellectual Dark Matter' concept explains the mechanism: most cultural knowledge is tacit, experiential - it dies when civilizations die, making true cross-cultural understanding impossible