Re: Spreading better memes

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 02:02:30 MST

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    On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 04:15:47PM +1000, Damien Broderick quoted:
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    > "Most of what people could find there [on the Internet] was not information
    > at all, but processed information product--Velveeta of the mind--more
    > convincing than the real thing."

    True. A lot of the "isms" we see are preprocessed beliefs known to fit
    each other and a lifestyle neatly. Much simpler and faster to adhere to
    than make a DIY belief system. There are also simplified belief modules
    for sale for those who want to do some home-thinking but want to avoid
    the hassle of going all the way from the axioms.

    The problem with selling transhumanism using the urge pyramid (Maslow's
    stair wasn't cool enough? :-) is that the competition about the base is
    so fierce - while we can point out the lovely sexual and culinary
    visions of transhumanism, they have to compete with right here and right
    now sex and food. We are far better att attracting people near the apex.
    Which is another reason why I prefer to go for the intellectual jugular
    :-)

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