1/ there is a golden age SF story, maybe by Heinlein, maybe not, about a little joke memetic replicator - I forget the details, maybe it's a funny word, or a social club, or a ponzi scheme ...and the replicator escapes the small town and pops up in another town nearbyhttps://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1483925859622965249 …
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3/ so in this classic SF story, the two guys who set up the joke replicator learn this, and one thinks "oh, that's cute!" and the other one gets pale because he's already wondering...what happens when this paperclip maximizer covers the entire world & hits the limits to growth?
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