Accelerating Deception and Memetic Evolution


	Accelerating Deception and Memetic Evolution

wildcat

6-16-2008 9:59 AM

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memetics, evolution, decepticon, fake news

wildcat says:

One might call this “accelerating deception”, which seems like a logical counterpart to the exponential information growth.

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Participatory Decepticon</A>, the yang to the yin that is the
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Panopticon</A>. The general idea is that we’re beginning to see
instances of modified/corrupted video content that can greatly
benefit the deceiver via a spike of monetizable attention.
<IMG alt="" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com:/memebox/uploads/1014/deception_300.jpg" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://memebox.com/futureblogger/show/606-accelerating-deception-and-memetic-evolution"><P>“Such a deception wouldn’t stand for very long, but would almost
certainly last long enough set off a wave of furious blog posts and
mainstream media attention,” argues Cascio, citing political videos
as an example.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://memebox.com/futureblogger/show/606-accelerating-deception-and-memetic-evolution">Having been burned by fake news like the <A href="http://memebox.com/futureblogger/show/593-here-comes-video-to-video-mobile-chat-update-or-does-it" target="_blank" linkindex="150" set="yes">
iphone face-to-face talk photos</A> and having seen many a critical
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