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they’re optimized for easy transmission to other people. the global brain is learning to think in a networked way. we are well on our way to becoming neurons

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@Interrobang_2

· Oct 10, 2021

“ubermensch and untermensch dog format” made me instantly crack up

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@QiaochuYuan

Oct 10, 2021

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oh i responded in text like an idiot please accept my apolology in meme form

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@QiaochuYuan

Oct 10, 2021

also i had to read it a few times before it occurred to me that the use of "their" is political but i don't actually understand who the two opposing groups involved are

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on our way? always has been 😜

indeed

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@visakanv

· Dec 15, 2019

watching the @fortelabs / @Conaw video and was reminded of this bit from lewis thomas's lives of a cell. he wrote this in the 70s!! "huge interliving coral shoals of thought" youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2kJF

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i mean, “optimized for transmission” is the literal definition of a meme

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@Interrobang_2

Oct 10, 2021

at least as Dawkins said it

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I’d embrace the popular memes much more if they were more aesthetically pleasing

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@QiaochuYuan

Oct 10, 2021

i like the way they look. there’s a kind of accessibility or democracy to it to me. “normal people made these in MS paint, nobody needed to be exceptionally good at art to do this”

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smooth ∞-groupoid ~datnut-pollen

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@drbeefsupreme

· Sep 30, 2021

@urbit's typed revision-controlled filesystem means that you can have image meme types, and pass around whole memeplexes with built in revision control at the filesystem level, and an abstraction on top of that to use the revision control as a backend for a crazy templating UX

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