timtyler comments on Recognizing memetic infections and forging resistance memes - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 27 April 2012 10:07:19PM *  4 points [-]

Natural organic viruses can be good for you. E.g. see the Seneca Valley Virus.

"Viral" isn't wrong - though there is a case that it is potentially misleading. I tend to use "cultural symbiont", "cultural parasite" and "cultural mutualist".