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Don't know if this goes here or maybe in politics, but, given that a few of the philosophy regulars I know have some background interest in the topic:
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/future-of-information-warfare/
https://www.cbinsights.com/research/future-of-information-warfare/
Interesting article for a lot of reasons. Not least of which is the fairly high expected utility of using the meme concept and the obvious failure of that approach once others get in the game and the landscape becomes overrun. Sort of a twisted version of a tragedy of the commons.In internet-speak the word “meme” often refers to an amusing picture that goes viral on social media. More broadly, however, a meme is any idea that spreads, whether that idea is true or false.
It is this broader definition of meme that Finklestein had in mind when he proposed the Meme Control Center and his idea of “memetic warfare.”
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Basically, Dr. Finklestein’s Meme Control Center would pump the internet full of “memes” that would benefit the national security of the United States.
Finkelstein saw a future in which guns and bombs are replaced by rumor, digital fakery, and social engineering.