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(this is in reference to the amazing novel/series by qntm: https://qntm.org/scp)

Great ideas but a huge shit-mess. IIRC it’s a lightly-edited compilation of his SCP writings? I enjoyed Ra and Fine Structure much more.

Yeah. Here's the review I wrote when I read it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3687038034

Haven't read any of his other stuff, thanks for the recommendation.

Isn't the entire point of it to be a mess, and to be hard to parse, because the topic is hard? I found it to be one of the most deeply engaging things I've read for ages, precisely because I had to put it down after each chapter and process it.

Yes, I misread the title as anti-memetic, but it is anti-mimetic which is very different.

Hm, I had thought it was two different spellings of the same word. It does seem the ideas were created independently but are quite similar (I'm reading https://marketingmemetics.com/essays/mimetics-vs-memetics )