cross-domain-metaphor

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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
Is Sewall Wright's 1932 adaptive landscape a genuinely cited conceptual ancestor of the deep-learning 'loss landscape,' or only a loose after-the-fact resemblance?

question answered 2026-07-12 · history-of-ml, evolutionary-biology, sewall-wright, adaptive-landscape, loss-landscape
The Red Queen hypothesis (Van Valen, 1973) names the evolutionary 'run to stay in place' dynamic — constant extinction probability regardless of a taxon's age

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · evolutionary-biology, red-queen, van-valen, coevolution, extinction