What’s an example of an open question in memetics?
(1) What’s longest “unbroken information pipe” that can exist in our current memetic environment?
We know from our live memetic monitoring that no group on planet earth has zero blindspots.
Poor people / low status folks have little visibility into what happens at the levels above them, & their clarity gets fuzzier the higher up you go. At some point there is a “hard break”1.
What’s the bottleneck in the field right now?
There are two categories: people who don’t understand why memetics
(2) Another is safety mechanisms
Are there safety mechanisms for open memetics?
How does an Open Memetics Institute get the attention of dark memetics?
A predictive model for the “cost” of information
Would you take information from a dark memetics institute, if it released information that
Wait, how would they “see” your lightcone change?
How can another entity see “your attention”? By watching what you react to.
The only way to prove that you are not paying attention to something (aka that you do not have a piece of information) is to allow it to hurt you.
How to find “footsteps” of dark memetics
Go to any information environment. Find a conflict. Find the root of this conflict (the full story, by talking to everyone you can access).
If a solution exists, and the leadership/those with decision power aren’t enacting it, then you have a HAZARDOUS 🔴 information environment. It means there’s a shadow government / deep state or something, OR your coordination is just bad.
What is the frontier of knowledge in dark memetics?
Footnotes
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a “hard break” in information connectivity is defined as ↩