17-10-17 Interesting Facts in Memetics

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1. Tools exist to create computational memetics through machine learning / NLP 2. Transmission is a function of emotion / simplicity, not truth 3. The only ideas you see are the ones that can propagate 4. Memes are antifragile (grow stronger from attack, generally through increased exposure) 5. Replicators

1. Transmission by moving from one mind to another
2. Differential Selection based on longevity, fecundity / virality, copying-fidelity
3. There are many truths that can not or fail to propagate that are lying around to be collected
4. Competing memes buttress one another
   1. Opposed memes generate controversy, leading to arguments that ensure that many are exposed to the meta-meme
      1. Ex. Toxoplasma of rage
   2. Memes are replicators that ideologies cooperate to spread
5. Memetic drift
   1. Due to negative connotation
   2. Colored -> Negro -> African American / Black
   3. Artificial Intelligence -> Machine Intelligence
6. Memetics as organismic analogy for ideas
7. Sources on “memes” within an evolutionary framework
8. Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Chapter 11 Memes: The New Replicators
9. Vaccination / Immunization to ideas
10. Meme design
11. Meme components
12. Emotional / Attentional
13. Value Add
14. Genealogy of ideas

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