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At 07:43 PM 12/02/02 -0900, Philip wrote:
snip
>True. Memes that can persuade the host to adopt will outdo the ones who are
>less adept in that. The nobility of the meme at hand, good/symbiotic or
>bad/parasitic, is rather unimportant. If the memes were generally too bad
>in the sense of killing off a large part of the human population for a long
>enough period the people with high skeptical barriers would flourish. This
>has
>not happened yet,
How do you know this? Keith
>so people have low enough skeptical barriers for (evil)
>memes to overcome and the nature of those memes are that they are not too
>damaging to humanity.
>
>Philip.
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