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When it was produces, this was probably inspiring and effective. Retrospectively, it's a bit creepy and ominous.

• lelandfe 2y ago
  And naive. "When everyone has a printing press, the ones with the best ideas are the ones people listen to" – in a room full of voices, uncommonly is the best idea heard.
  • lupire 2y ago
    Tomato, tomahto; Naive, cynical; potato, potahto. "Best" in a Darwinian memetic sense of "optimized for reproduction and dissemination", not "accurate" or "helpful".
    • Liftyee 2y ago
      I wonder how loudness factors into that. Maybe ideas which make their "host" express them loudly have a higher chance of "infecting" others?
      • disqard 2y ago
        If you haven't already, you should check out Daniel Dennett's "From Bacteria to Bach and Back". I think you'll be susceptible to "catching" a lot of the ideas in there :)
      • lelandfe 2y ago
        Or express them at all. Ideas which when heard are likely to be repeated, loudly. ...We're basically describing idea zombies, a la Pontypool