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drethelin comments on Open Thread, September 23-29, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 24 September 2013 04:40:13PM *  3 points [-]

I know of a few former-theists whose atheist tipping point was reading Susan Blackmore's The Meme Machine. I recall being fairly heavily influenced by this myself when I first read it (about twelve years ago, when it was one of only a small handful of popular books on memetics), but suspect I might find it a bit tiresome and erroneous if I were to re-read it.

Comment author: drethelin 24 September 2013 06:44:20PM 1 point [-]

I tried to read it a few years after reading a bunch of dawkins and found it hard to get through