Feels like Twitter's ability to be ahead of the news / precautionary curve on Coronavirus is like an information infection imitating disease infection, network effects mirroring network effects. Matching the disease at its own game, although IRL culture is so slow to respond.
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Replying to @Meta_Aesthetic
There's definitely some kind of evolutionary symmetry between viral and social dynamics. The quirks of COVID (incubation period etc) might be there because they work so well against our social topologies
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Replying to @maxkriegers @Meta_Aesthetic
Antibiotic/antiviral resistance <<< Socially imposed resistance (quarantine, symptom checking)
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