Capability Triplet
What a person can do is never one number. It’s the product of three independent axes:
- Memes gate — do you know how? A praxis meme is a binary gate. See The Meme System.
- Skills measure — how well? Skills grow with practice; they set quality and speed.
- Traits modify — what bends the rates? Lua modifiers on learning rate, quality, decay, sensitivity.
They are kept separate because they move at different speeds and spread by different means:
| Axis | Speed of change | How it spreads |
|---|---|---|
| Meme | Fast (taught in an afternoon) | Transmission between people |
| Skill | Slow (years of practice) | Not transferable — earned individually |
| Trait | Barely moves | Genetics + slow life shaping |
This separation is what lets the meme system be the engine of civilizational change while skills and traits give each individual their own grain.