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EP 25: LIFE GO BRRR (Venkatesh Rao)

New Models

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The Power of Language in Shaping Reality

I would be careful with using agency language for memes. Because they are these dumb, non-fenty things that just have the Darwinian variation and natural selection things. So there's no meaningful way to talk about what memes want or what genes want. It's a question of how much variation is possible and how much agency over the evolution do institutions have.

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