Psy-Kosh comments on Reason as memetic immune disorder - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 20 September 2009 10:18:15PM 2 points [-]

Interesting. So I guess the idea is we have immunities that 'wrap' memes so toxic that our incomplete rationality might be subverted by them and instead ensure that those ideas simply don't interact with the rest of it? So that neither is rational thinking allowed to attack them, but neither are they 'allowed' to extend their influence?