What’s the difference between antimeme and just knowledge which is hard to attain? Why do we need a new definition “Antimemecy” when we already have “Complexity”? To prove it wrong it should be a meme that is complex and difficult to understand.
And for any useful knowledge when you start to use it you tend to remember it
To prove it wrong it should be a meme that is complex and difficult to understand.
I’d propose as examples “most stuff taught at university”. Even outside of teaching institutions, complex ideas commonly spread memetically if the incentives for acquiring them are sufficiently visible from the outset. Think Evolutionary Theory, Object-Oriented Programming, or Quantum Physics.
An antimeme is a meme that’s hard to find for reasons beyond its complexity. For example, Lisp isn’t complicated. Informatically-speaking, it’s simpler than popular programming languages.
So lots of people are taking up LISP, and abandoning it as soon as they hit the dreaded defmacro? But are lots of people aren’t taking up LISP. There are lot of reasons for not studying old, little-used languages. And it’s not as if programmers are low-openness people who hate fundamentally new paradigms—OO would never have spread if they were. For me, LISP pattern matches to “cult following” rather than “great thing that the sheeple can’t understand”.
What’s the difference between antimeme and just knowledge which is hard to attain? Why do we need a new definition “Antimemecy” when we already have “Complexity”? To prove it wrong it should be a meme that is complex and difficult to understand.
And for any useful knowledge when you start to use it you tend to remember it
I’d propose as examples “most stuff taught at university”. Even outside of teaching institutions, complex ideas commonly spread memetically if the incentives for acquiring them are sufficiently visible from the outset. Think Evolutionary Theory, Object-Oriented Programming, or Quantum Physics.
An antimeme is a meme that’s hard to find for reasons beyond its complexity. For example, Lisp isn’t complicated. Informatically-speaking, it’s simpler than popular programming languages.
So lots of people are taking up LISP, and abandoning it as soon as they hit the dreaded defmacro? But are lots of people aren’t taking up LISP. There are lot of reasons for not studying old, little-used languages. And it’s not as if programmers are low-openness people who hate fundamentally new paradigms—OO would never have spread if they were. For me, LISP pattern matches to “cult following” rather than “great thing that the sheeple can’t understand”.