A meme that significantly inhibits reproduction and spreads horizontally (indoctrination) rather than vertically (upbringing) inevitably works like a parasite.pic.twitter.com/E3eHRVftXp
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A meme that significantly inhibits reproduction and spreads horizontally (indoctrination) rather than vertically (upbringing) inevitably works like a parasite.pic.twitter.com/E3eHRVftXp
@danieldennett got it wrong:
(most) religion spreads vertically so is symbiotic - people teach it to their kids, meaning that the religion has to increase people's fitness to survive.
The real mind-parasites are the memes that spread horizontally and take over your life...
... since they don't need you to reproduce to make copies of themselves, their interests are misaligned with yours. People's happiness is strongly correlated with reproductive fitness (duh) so the big, all-encompassing horizontal memes make people miserable as well.
It does self-correct after a few generations... but you do not want to live in the times of the correction generations.
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