Azathoth123 comments on November 2014 Media Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Azathoth123 06 November 2014 07:00:54AM 5 points [-]

you need to experiment, be willing to discard ideas, formulate wildly new theories.

Memetic evolution does just that.

Comment author: MrMind 06 November 2014 08:59:59AM -1 points [-]

Yes, but not in an orderly, cumulative, feedback driven fashion.

If memetics is like genetics, you should observe very often useless memes become fixed in a population.