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Find friends that challenge you(r ideas)."But he has approached them all at a different angle. He has read all the right books but has got the wrong thing out of every one. It is as if he spoke your language but mispronounced it." — C.S. Lewis, 1955https://t.co/Xdycx7T7Ej https://t.co/JcC4fvrp41
The best frenemy you can make is a mimetic rival where you both piss each other off, but enjoy every moment of ithttps://t.co/mr9UrzBphg
For the lucky few, this is actually their spouse, where arguments are productive & lead to make up sex.Your memetic children might out do both of you.https://t.co/dKlNsN2Hp6
As example:I often imagine @eigenrobot and @selentelechia as arguing over a topic, finding it to be stimulating + interesting, thus generating interesting content on their feeds.Spreading memetic progeny.https://t.co/XOzAvG9nHN
Tired: Inferential distance;- Ability to understand another by shared analogies.Wired: Infernal distance;- Barriers keeping demons from leaking into another brain.Idea birthing, but it's mind parasites."your meme babies to hatch in my metacortex"https://t.co/K0pgG8zSXb
Sow'ing contagious idea germs, like the spreading of wheat germ into a field. Germinating as sneezing.https://t.co/eIGjzjFe6bhttps://t.co/bRBFjm0eHl
Gregor Mendel, but for watching idea genotypes grow and spread like a how bacteria (and brain cells) use viruses to communicate.I seek to create a mind-virus that eats bacteria wholesale.https://t.co/jJRT2EvlBV
Infernal Distance of thought... demon seeding.Ideas that only take root after a memetic fire burns them like some kind of Pyrophytes.Pyro-fights. get it?I'm talking about (re)productive flame-wars.https://t.co/u2D9oIsGrn
I think (perhaps too much) on how ideas have lifecycles.Like baby-names that are chosen when they go out of the zeitgeist and enter vogue.One of many successful mating strategies of name-memes existing within a culture's fertile soil. Fashion trends.https://t.co/jANkmYHzj9
Convergent name'ing schemes bubbling up, acting as dopplegangers. Not because of name itself, but the symbolism embedded in storytelling. Both cultures value end up being at the root. A snow-clone resonating the same space of ideas under a different tone.
Using a culture's naming patterns—channeling their culture's stories about names and their meaning—to identify candidates for someone being your evil twin. And then figuring out if you're compatible.Writing love letters to Sobekneferu.https://t.co/C8ts4y7DAE
My ideas possesses me, like spooks.https://t.co/VOKuuU5udw
Speaking in tongues. Encrypted mythemes.https://t.co/UQySXcCJIN