I don't believe in Meme Magic

The rise of online rationalist and post-rationalist discourse renewed interest in Dawkins' theory of memes, but those who claim to have "cognitive weapons" are almost always shooting blanks.

First off, I don’t want people to immediately assume this is a hit-piece on Defender, and others in the space carefully researching the flows of information across the internet (and its niche communities) using opt-in quantifiable methods, publishing regular research and interesting things to GitHub, etc. I recommending subscribing to them to understand what I’…