No, hopefully they were re-discovered. We can improve our publicity skills, but we can’t make ideas easier to independantly re-invent.
Really? If meme Z is the result of meme X and Y colliding, then it seems like spreading X and Y makes it easier to independently re-invent Z.
Yes—by ‘independently’ I mean ‘unaffected by any publicity work we might do’.
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Really? If meme Z is the result of meme X and Y colliding, then it seems like spreading X and Y makes it easier to independently re-invent Z.
Yes—by ‘independently’ I mean ‘unaffected by any publicity work we might do’.