This old slatestarcodex post is fascinating to revisit in the context of everything that has happened in the 7 years since it was written:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/07/25/how-the-west-was-won/

Since the first time I read the post, I've probably become somewhat less confident in the idea that high-entropy cultures are almost always better.

And I feel like that's a common update coming out of recent trends: trumpism and wokeness have both proven themselves high-entropy, and it's kinda hard to approve of both.

Isn‘t the high entropy Coke example misleading?

„Dalai Lama bans Coke (high-e) over milk (low-e)“

To me that makes it sound like Coke is such a great drink that it establishes itself. But this is false. 
In Tibet, milk is (high-e) through tradition and Coke needs marketing energy https://i.imgur.com/DoPlblW.jpg

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I feel like this whole take has a pretty narrow vision with bad anecdotal examples 😅