Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 19:03:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Lawrence H. de Bivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: RE: Memetic engineering challenge
In-Reply-To: <19990707221250.AAA20302@camail2.harvard.edu@[204.96.32.162]>
On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Wade T.Smith wrote:
de Bivort:
>>Perhaps I'm just an optimist, and believe in human
>>progress.
Smith:
>Well, I wish there were more of you then. I have rather come to more of a
>misanthropy in my outlook.
We sometimes think that cynicism is more 'realistic' than optimism. But I
think there are some things that are worth doing that are hard to do if
one is personally pessimistic.
>>We have constructed a
>>couple of memes and released them, mostly to test how the spread of a meme
>>can be limited. The memes accomplished beneficial results for those it was
>>intended, and produced no negative side-effects.
>
>- who guarded the guards in this? And who are 'we'?
their architecture, and the way the work in society. We have constructed a
couple of memes and...."
Lawrence de Bivort
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