Re: Them memes, they be ariding.

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Sep 29 1999 - 17:01:46 MDT

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Ken Clements wrote:
>
> You may think you are working to be uploaded someday to preserve
> yourself, but actually, the memes are working
> to be uploaded, and in doing so will be able to escape the slow
> biological genes they have had to deal with over the last few hundred
> thousand years.

No, it's not the memes - it's actually the laws of physics.

The truth is, the mind just happened. Even memes just happened. Learn
enough about how they work, and you can seize control - they aren't
tuned to deal with reflexivity.

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