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Memetics - A Master Meme Lord from /bmw/ Explains The Nature of Memes And Trump Bias on /pol/

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Anonymous 12/15/15(Tue) 03:04:29 ID: 125337 No. 4270278224270821 224271076 224271488 File (hide): 1450148669311.png (1.02 MB, 2580x1592, 320:199, 3.ong) You need t o know why this is happening MEME Assuming that people have any ability to reason, then given equal emotional appeal for two competing ideas, the idea that is more reflective of reality will win out and be adopted by the one judging them Therefore, given a sufficient length of time, a sufficiently large group of people engaged in mass distributed communication (i.e. shitposting) will refine its ideas and values by adopting best fit ideas determined by competition across the medium What this means in practice is that if a sufficiently large group of people are allowed to freely share ideas over a sufficient period if time, we will literally enter a cultural Golden Age that will continue to refine and correct itself indefinitely so long as the dialogue continues and so is not vulnerable to decay The variables that matter are - Emotional bias towards a given idea (which can be worn down overtime) - Speed of communication -Number of participants in the dialogue (which largely sets the number of competing ideas in the market) And the most important Institutional Control over the dissemination of information (which controls which ideas are allowed to compete i.e. censorship, or in the past control over media conglomerates (which the internet has rendered obsolete)). This control can allow those that operate the dissemination apparatus to control outright the information available to all involved in the dialogue and in so doing, the development of the entire culture Anonymity (The ability to bring an idea to market without facing social repercussions which would otherwise dissuade the idea being brought up and/or adopted and so slow or stop entirely the spread of the idea i.e. the fear of being called a racist) What this means is that under no circumstance should online anonymity ever be undermined nor should government be given power to control the dissemination of information - even if we assume complete altruism on behalf of the government, censorship will almost certainly create an inefficiency in the adoption of best fit ideas in order for the government to weed out unft ideas without distributed processing would require government agents to be smarter than the entire distributed brainpower of those involved in the dialogue - which they most certainly are not Freedom of speech is the keystone right that will ensure the ascendance of humanity - even as the pendulum swings back to the right - BEAR THIS IN MIND No other concern trumps the danger of institutional control of information If we hold the course and meme on, Trump is only the beginning

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