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Most on-point post I’ve seen thus far describe why one (or more likely, a handful) of memes ripping toward 100B isn’t absurd, or even improbable. XRP and ADA had nothing going on re: delivering on adoption/tech, just a frothing community spreading the gospel
doug funniex.comI think that both those puzzles have the same solution: what replicates human memes is creativity; and creativity was used, while it was evolving, to replicate memes. In other words, it was used to acquire existing knowledge, not to create new knowledge.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Note by Gurwinder on Substack
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In 2004, I sat down in my boardroom with our strategy documents and started to dissect them. There were lots of familiar and comfortable terms. We had to be innovative, efficient, customer centric, web 2.0 and all that this entailed. Alas, I suspected these common “memes” were repeated in the strategy documents of other companies because I was pret... See more
Simon Wardley • Highlights From medium.com
Memes feel an appropriate medium for experimentation in this context, as any single meme maintains it’s vitality from its ability to be personalized and perpetually built upon. Memes are cultural embeddings, not dissimilar to the embeddings present within the latent space of a neural network.
OpenAI CLIP • Infinite Images and the latent camera
switch from genetics to memetics and think about various ways extinction vortices could form/get triggered in the context of global scale cultural (etc) phenomena driven by the injection of artificial minds
memetic detachment via synthetic RSI, polarizations, multiscale goodharting, collapses of narratives/strategies, p... See more
This approach is sometimes called memetics. It assumes that, just as organic evolution is based on the replication of organic information units called ‘genes’, so cultural evolution is based on the replication of cultural information units called ‘memes’.1 Successful cultures are those that excel in reproducing their memes, irrespective of the cost
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
