Re:MEME: Leaderless Resistance

From: alexboko@umich.edu
Date: Sun Mar 16 2003 - 19:46:01 MST

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    From: "Alex Future Bokov" <alexboko@umich.edu>
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    At the risk of oversimplyfying, the challenge >H memes face is the opposite--

    Our memes are subtle, complicated, and lacking in populist appeal. Failure of
    these memes to spread rapidly enough means an increased risk of world culture
    falling into...

    1) A temporary local minimum, which nevertheless outlasts the lifespans made
    possible to us by technology that is currently available or will become
    available within said lifespans.

    or

    2) A permanent local minimum that is simply 1) that lasts long enough for us
    to exhaust our reserves (easily extractable resources, arable land, etc.) on
    maintenance tasks without acchieving a breakout event. Breakout events are any
    of the following three: self-sufficient non-terrestrial permanent settlement
    and/or seed AI and/or widely available general-purpose nanoassemblers.

    So, I ask the question I've been asking in one form or another on this forum
    over and over for years, but never as concisely as now:

    What do we do?

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