Re: meme notation (was Re: The Unfathomable)

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Nov 05 1999 - 15:13:41 MST


David McFadzean <david@kumo.com> writes:

> At 10:33 AM 11/3/99 -0800, M. E. Smith wrote:
>
> >I don't know. But some people's conceptions of "God"
> >(I'm tired of saying meme so much) seem to refer to
>
> On one of my mailing lists we have adopted the convention
> of using angle brackets to denote "meme for" something.
> So the God meme would be written as <God>. It has proven
> to be a very useful shorthand.

Excellent idea. I better get it into my abbreviations page.

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