Marc Andreessen
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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And he actually, I believe I believe this to be true.
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I think he also trained it on like the complete like philosophical works of Nick Land, who's this like this the philosopher of the singularity.
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And then he trained it on, I think, like Baudrillard and McLuhan and like the you know the great like media theorists and you know simul, you know, this is a simulation of simulecrum, and and you know, kind of all of these uh, you know, theoreticians, you know, the f you know, the French, you know, the I I don't know exactly what was in it, but like the you know, the French deconstructionists and and kind of you know the sem semioticians, you know, all this stuff.
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This is like critical theory, postmodernism, you know, philosophy.
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So it started, you know, training it on all these ideas.
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And and but at the sort of center of it is sort of this idea of the meme.
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And you know, so the and the idea of the meme, right?
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There's sort of two definitions of meme.
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Number one, meme can just be like a funny image that spreads virally.
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And that's like its colloquial usage today.
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And that's and by the way, that's that is what the goatsee meme is.
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It's a funny image that spreads virally or a horrifying image that spreads virally as people send it around.
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And then uh underneath that though is like a deeper idea.
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The term meme was originally actually invented by Richard Dawkins, who's one of the you know, main evolutionary biologists of our generation.
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And basically what Richard Dawkins said was the their sort of physical transmission of information through living things is the gene.
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And then conceptual intellectual transmission of ideas through basically people is, you know, networks of people, societies is called the meme.
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And he basically he he talked about this in his books where, you know, you you spread your genes through reproduction and and and and basically evolution, selective pressure, you know, successful genes win, unsuccessful genes die out.
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And he basically said I ideas spread the same way through society.
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Successful ideas propagate like a gene does, and they spread from person to person and they flourish and they they may you know be and you know by the way, like memes.
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democracy, right?
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