Why is this modded up? Persistent spreading means high memetic fitness. It is a description, not an explanation. If you wanted to explain this phenomenon, you would need to point to the general characteristics of the meme-spreaders and what about this makes them want to repurpose their resources toward its spreading.
While your point is valid, (and I’ve voted your comment up) I voted up tim’s remark because he is implicitly pointing out that memetic fitness is not strongly correlated with truth.
Why is this modded up? Persistent spreading means high memetic fitness. It is a description, not an explanation. If you wanted to explain this phenomenon, you would need to point to the general characteristics of the meme-spreaders and what about this makes them want to repurpose their resources toward its spreading.
While your point is valid, (and I’ve voted your comment up) I voted up tim’s remark because he is implicitly pointing out that memetic fitness is not strongly correlated with truth.
Ah, good point. I hastily neglected that part of his post.