To focus your point: we fear that with ideas having easier replication that the noise in the signal will increase. But this is what people said about the print

To focus your point: we fear that with ideas having easier replication that the noise in the signal will increase. But this is what people said about the printing press. And the internet. Less effort to spread the memes. Has it been a net negative? Maybe in some respects. Can you stop it? Probably not.