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Re:Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution by mbil on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:02PM (#28951367)
Interesting that anti-vax is a "bad" meme that actually benefits real viruses. If there were a virus that could induce susceptibility to memes that promote the virus, that would really be something.
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Re:Genetic Evolution Was a Prelude to Mimetic Evolution by keithwhor on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:31PM (#28951625)
I think you may have just inadvertently invented the concept of Meme drive [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_drive

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