the unsolved problem of civilization is that of memetic hygiene. all previous attempts to develop a memetic immune system have themselves resulted in hostile takeovers by parasitic egregores.
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Replying to @danlistensto
& segues into a deep problem of anthroposemiosis, which is that effective veridical communication involves mastery of the same tools as effective deception. The options for memetic hygeine seem then to be 1) smthn like LangSec but for Nat Langs, or 2) CivWide semiotics education
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Replying to @poly_metis
1) is non-viable. any language so restricted as to be "safe" is also basically useless. 2) is the standard approach, the one that has mainly resulted in hostile takeovers by parasitic egregores. should we keep trying though? maybe we should keep trying.
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I suspect 2) keeps failing because civilized humans are like neutropenic patients. the environment we live in has stripped us of whatever natural defenses were present and now we are getting ravaged by opportunistic infections
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Replying to @danlistensto
And our technical systems now pump out more sign agglomerations than we can effectively parse. We’ve basically created the MRSA version of communication.
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which is why the Babel solution was great until we grew planetbusting technical civs
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