X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Fdont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes-or-why-i-dont-care-about-your-feelings.md;h=6afcca168c7b697dbc385e92aa6b7c52eedaa183;hp=5b33bb9fe4a4fb89db43dc67c7fff1fa1930088a;hb=1a304588255f6cd9ce3a0f1611285cfdb09d053d;hpb=a93e9da9e5de7b78c5a923fa00f47238a527f720 diff --git a/content/drafts/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes-or-why-i-dont-care-about-your-feelings.md b/content/drafts/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes-or-why-i-dont-care-about-your-feelings.md index 5b33bb9..6afcca1 100644 --- a/content/drafts/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes-or-why-i-dont-care-about-your-feelings.md +++ b/content/drafts/dont-negotiate-with-terrorist-memeplexes-or-why-i-dont-care-about-your-feelings.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ True or useful ideas certainly have a selective advantage insofar as humans care (at least, _I_ don't think they exist, because I am not a carrier of the religion-X meme) -—a human in the grips of the idea will still be genuinely terrified of the punishment. The forces of memetic evolution don't care about the human's fear and suffering, because _the forces of memetic evolution_ is just our name for the observation that ideas that are better at being replicated; it's not an agent that can care about _anything_. +—a human in the grips of the idea will still be genuinely terrified of the punishment. The forces of memetic evolution don't care about the human's fear and suffering, because _the forces of memetic evolution_ is just our name for the observation that ideas that are better at being replicated, are better at being replicated; it's not an agent that can care about _anything_. And of course, there are lots of other, subtler non-truth-tracking, non-usefulness-tracking features of an idea that could make it more memetically fit.