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David Lucifer
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Re:survival of humanity
« Reply #1 on: 2004-10-31 18:10:19 » |
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Quote from: cirdan on 2004-10-31 17:51:02 Why do you automatically assume that the survival of humanity is in our best interest? I find this very debatable.
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OK, if it is very debatable then let's debate it. Whose interest would it be in for humanity to die out?
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Re:survival of humanity
« Reply #5 on: 2005-01-26 22:29:23 » |
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I think an interesting component of this is a desire to have a surviving humanity that operates on positive memetic principles...
empathy, reason and vision
Actually, I would argue that a surviving humanity will only come as a result of these three things as survival memes - the opposites lead to closed-state thinking, which damps itself down towards entropy.
In fact, when I first went nuts on the things that led me to the word 'memetics', which led me to the Church of the Virus, it was because I could only see things in terms of information cascade.
Positive Information Cascade can be followed, encouraged, helped.
Negative Information Cascade (entropy, apathy, dogmatism, hypocrisy) can be hacked.
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Hijacking everything ever knew about anything.
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