Ok, one mundane example: The Game. It started off as an extremely virulent meme, but our cultural immune system eventually purged it entirely. No one even *acknowledges* it anymore; it’s too lame. Outbreaks (like this tweet) are ignored and forgotten in hours.
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One of them is Roko’s Basilisk, which is itself a modern restatement of Pascal’s Wager (although perhaps even more absurd due to the ‘virtual copy’ aspect)
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