This only works well if you’re really high status in the first place. Therefore what someone who reads Andy’s comment should try to do would be to bootstrap the memetic fitness of their idea via adoption by progressively higher status people until you snag a Dawkins. The way to do this isn’t obviously to try to appear especially high status oneself; I suspect a strong method would be to appear just high enough status so as to spam as many moderate-status people as possible with reasonably optimized memes and rely on a halfway decent infection rate. The disease would thus become endemic and hopefully reach fixation. One way to reach that stage would be to become high status oneself, but I’m guessing it’d be more effective to predict who will soon become high status and talk to them while they’re still approachable.
(The above may be obvious but it was useful for me to think through such a memetic strategy explicitly.)
One way to reach that stage would be to become high status oneself, but I’m guessing it’d be more effective to predict who will soon become high status and talk to them while they’re still approachable.
This ability is one that is rather useful for the goal of gaining status, too. (As well as being reflected in the mating strategy of young females.)
This only works well if you’re really high status in the first place. Therefore what someone who reads Andy’s comment should try to do would be to bootstrap the memetic fitness of their idea via adoption by progressively higher status people until you snag a Dawkins. The way to do this isn’t obviously to try to appear especially high status oneself; I suspect a strong method would be to appear just high enough status so as to spam as many moderate-status people as possible with reasonably optimized memes and rely on a halfway decent infection rate. The disease would thus become endemic and hopefully reach fixation. One way to reach that stage would be to become high status oneself, but I’m guessing it’d be more effective to predict who will soon become high status and talk to them while they’re still approachable.
(The above may be obvious but it was useful for me to think through such a memetic strategy explicitly.)
This ability is one that is rather useful for the goal of gaining status, too. (As well as being reflected in the mating strategy of young females.)