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 loved Coke as a kid too. I haven‘t had it in years now. Unhealthy and too sweet. Don‘t like taste
- You assume perfect distribution of Coke equal to milk. But Tibetans have yaks and no source of Coke. So you have to expense energy for Coke to be there. The yaks are just gonna reproduce and give milk.

Take 10 Tibetan kids. Let them choose a cup of milk or Coke. You'll be left with 9-10 cups of milk.

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