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Tired: Someone is wrong on the internet!Wired: Someone is spreading a meme with the signature of [detested outgroup] and must be stopped!https://t.co/D66St7VwGY
We have a germ theory;we invented penicillin to fight off infectious disease. We have a meme theory; we don't have penicillin to fight off infectious ideas.So we burn ourselves alive, self-quarantining, splitting into tribes to avoid the plague. Just like we did in the past.
Inspired: Epistemic Immune system as a decentralized lazy updating Bayesian prior.https://t.co/yVk7XoSZsR
Derping considered harmful?https://t.co/7oCgp7c0x2https://t.co/KUXMrSOwO6
Serious talk: eye disorders like this are unfairly used to symbolize mental illness when creating characters that are meant to be 'derpy'. Terms for it: Strabismus, and Amblyopia.It's also something westerners adore, to the point where Pugs and Boston Terriers iconic for it. https://t.co/YzplbLASWq
I'm in your OODA loop, manipulating your defense mechanisms into poisoning your ideas against themselves. Auto-Epistemic-Immune Disorder.https://t.co/pqY3OLa2Cq
What would make people more susceptible to memetic infection?https://t.co/QQsxtveaqN
Memes control behavior.https://t.co/pB2H7UFPC7