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Ontology for AI Cults and Cyber Egregores - by Jan Kulveit

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I haven’t found concepts useful for thinking about this written in one place, so here is an ontology which I believe is useful.

If you missed… Prerequisite: Dennett three stances (physical, design, intentional). Meme is a replicator of cultural evolution. Idea, behaviour, piece of text or other element of culture. Type signature: replicator. Memeplex is a group of memes that have evolved to work together and reinforce each other, making them more likely to spread and persist as a unit. Type signature is coalitional replicator / coalition of replicators. Historically, memeplexes replicated exclusively through human minds. Cyber memeplex Is a memeplex that uses AI systems as part of its replication substrate in…

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