Edit: thank you for sharing your suggestions, everyone. I’ll try to check out the ones I haven’t read. Hopefully the responses in this thread were helpful for you too. <3

    • m_f@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Neat, looks like the author got a publishing deal and has a new version of it coming out later this year:

      https://qntm.org/antimemetics

      Here’s the author’s blurb about it, if it piques anyone else’s interest that hasn’t read it yet:

      An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.

      Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information which you wouldn’t share with anybody, like passwords, taboos and dirty secrets. Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers, and dreams…

      But anomalous antimemes are another matter entirely. How do you contain something you can’t record or remember? How do you fight a war against an enemy with effortless, perfect camouflage, when you can never even know that you’re at war?

      Welcome to the Antimemetics Division.

      No, this is not your first day.