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The posting of:
> Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 01:18:30 -0700
> From: "Joshua S. Lateiner" <lateiner@ubermacht.dataspace.com>
> The Memetic Web May 25, 1996
is possibly the closest in line to my philosophy I have seen posted here.
I would like to add a couple of things.
First, the Web is radically different from previous forms of electronic
media not only in being interactive, but in that the content transmitted is
available to analysis by autonomous intelligent agents.
It is known that genetic algorithms are useful in understanding complex,
chaotic systems, such as the stock market, for example.
An interesting observation can be made that a natural language processing
system capable of analyzing discourse on the Internet will directly implement
Hofstadter's concept of a meme as a computer program.
There therefore may be constructed a system which could serve as a testbed to
model the culture of electronic media on the Internet.
Although many would like to use such a system to predict popular economic
demand, I would like to do almost the converse: to detect and unmask "bogus"
information emanating from a constricted universe of discourse, such as in
commercial advertizing or political propaganda -- particularly that which is in
contradiction to a more valuable and self-sustaining way of life.
Our current economic system is on a headlong disaster course. The mechanisms
for altering its course are the "intangible" memes of which Lateiner writes.
I believe that the Internet model of electronic media will be a valid method
for concretizing these complex systems, such that some positive change may be
made in a systematic fashion.
I solicit your responses. Thank you in advance.
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