"Argues novelty is not creativity but distance from the category mean — the same claim decays as the audience learns to recognize its shape, and must be re-encoded, not reinvented."
Novelty as Relative, Not Intrinsic
Argues novelty is not creativity but distance from the category mean -- the same claim decays as the audience learns to recognize its shape, and must be re-encoded, not reinvented.
Where This Idea Comes From
Argued in "The Attention Equation" as the N term of the Primitive x Delta x Novelty model: novelty isn't creativity, it's distance from what an audience already expects, which means the exact same true claim decays every time it's repeated and has to be re-encoded, not reinvented from scratch.