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We have built an information environment that systematically selects for certain kinds of ideas - not because they are true, or useful, or good for us, but because they are well adapted to the environment itself.
Some of these ideas behave, in every meaningful sense, like malignant growths: spreading rapidly, resisting correction, adapting under pressure, and causing harm that scales with their reach.
Drawing on Richard Dawkins's foundational concept of the meme, industrial engineer and systems designer Jody Dyer builds a precise diagnostic framework for understanding how ideas go malignant - and what it would actually take to stop them.
Across twelve chapters and thirteen analytical exhibits, The Malignant Meme examines:
- Why the information environment selects for harmful ideas the same way biology selects for adaptive organisms
- How to identify a malignant meme using five diagnostic criteria
- The lifecycle of a malignant idea from initiation through entrenchment - and where intervention is still possible
- How cognitive biases make us systematically vulnerable - and what partial defences look like
- What artificial intelligence is doing to the speed, scale, and personalization of memetic spread
- What individuals, platforms, regulators, and educators can realistically do
Rigorous but accessible, analytical but urgent, The Malignant Meme is for anyone who has watched a false idea spread faster than the truth and wondered why - and whether anything can be done about it.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. We have built an information environment that systematically selects for certain kinds of ideas - not because they are true, or useful, or good for us, but because they are well adapted to the environment itself.Some of these ideas behave, in every meaningful sense, like malignant growths: spreading rapidly, resisting correction, adapting under pressure, and causing harm that scales with their reach.Drawing on Richard Dawkins's foundational concept of the meme, industrial engineer and systems designer Jody Dyer builds a precise diagnostic framework for understanding how ideas go malignant - and what it would actually take to stop them.Across twelve chapters and thirteen analytical exhibits, The Malignant Meme examines: Why the information environment selects for harmful ideas the same way biology selects for adaptive organismsHow to identify a malignant meme using five diagnostic criteriaThe lifecycle of a malignant idea from initiation through entrenchment - and where intervention is still possibleHow cognitive biases make us systematically vulnerable - and what partial defences look likeWhat artificial intelligence is doing to the speed, scale, and personalization of memetic spreadWhat individuals, platforms, regulators, and educators can realistically doRigorous but accessible, analytical but urgent, The Malignant Meme is for anyone who has watched a false idea spread faster than the truth and wondered why - and whether anything can be done about it. In an era of digital contagion, certain concepts spread like biological tumors, prioritizing survival over truth. This urgent study explores how our information landscape breeds toxic ideas and how we might finally halt their spread. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798996037612
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. We have built an information environment that systematically selects for certain kinds of ideas - not because they are true, or useful, or good for us, but because they are well adapted to the environment itself.Some of these ideas behave, in every meaningful sense, like malignant growths: spreading rapidly, resisting correction, adapting under pressure, and causing harm that scales with their reach.Drawing on Richard Dawkins's foundational concept of the meme, industrial engineer and systems designer Jody Dyer builds a precise diagnostic framework for understanding how ideas go malignant - and what it would actually take to stop them.Across twelve chapters and thirteen analytical exhibits, The Malignant Meme examines: Why the information environment selects for harmful ideas the same way biology selects for adaptive organismsHow to identify a malignant meme using five diagnostic criteriaThe lifecycle of a malignant idea from initiation through entrenchment - and where intervention is still possibleHow cognitive biases make us systematically vulnerable - and what partial defences look likeWhat artificial intelligence is doing to the speed, scale, and personalization of memetic spreadWhat individuals, platforms, regulators, and educators can realistically doRigorous but accessible, analytical but urgent, The Malignant Meme is for anyone who has watched a false idea spread faster than the truth and wondered why - and whether anything can be done about it. In an era of digital contagion, certain concepts spread like biological tumors, prioritizing survival over truth. This urgent study explores how our information landscape breeds toxic ideas and how we might finally halt their spread. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798996037612
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. We have built an information environment that systematically selects for certain kinds of ideas - not because they are true, or useful, or good for us, but because they are well adapted to the environment itself.Some of these ideas behave, in every meaningful sense, like malignant growths: spreading rapidly, resisting correction, adapting under pressure, and causing harm that scales with their reach.Drawing on Richard Dawkins's foundational concept of the meme, industrial engineer and systems designer Jody Dyer builds a precise diagnostic framework for understanding how ideas go malignant - and what it would actually take to stop them.Across twelve chapters and thirteen analytical exhibits, The Malignant Meme examines: Why the information environment selects for harmful ideas the same way biology selects for adaptive organismsHow to identify a malignant meme using five diagnostic criteriaThe lifecycle of a malignant idea from initiation through entrenchment - and where intervention is still possibleHow cognitive biases make us systematically vulnerable - and what partial defences look likeWhat artificial intelligence is doing to the speed, scale, and personalization of memetic spreadWhat individuals, platforms, regulators, and educators can realistically doRigorous but accessible, analytical but urgent, The Malignant Meme is for anyone who has watched a false idea spread faster than the truth and wondered why - and whether anything can be done about it. In an era of digital contagion, certain concepts spread like biological tumors, prioritizing survival over truth. This urgent study explores how our information landscape breeds toxic ideas and how we might finally halt their spread. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798996037612
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - We have built an information environment that systematically selects for certain kinds of ideas - not because they are true, or useful, or good for us, but because they are well adapted to the environment itself.Some of these ideas behave, in every meaningful sense, like malignant growths: spreading rapidly, resisting correction, adapting under pressure, and causing harm that scales with their reach.Drawing on Richard Dawkins's foundational concept of the meme, industrial engineer and systems designer Jody Dyer builds a precise diagnostic framework for understanding how ideas go malignant - and what it would actually take to stop them.Across twelve chapters and thirteen analytical exhibits, The Malignant Meme examines: - Why the information environment selects for harmful ideas the same way biology selects for adaptive organisms- How to identify a malignant meme using five diagnostic criteria- The lifecycle of a malignant idea from initiation through entrenchment - and where intervention is still possible- How cognitive biases make us systematically vulnerable - and what partial defences look like- What artificial intelligence is doing to the speed, scale, and personalization of memetic spread- What individuals, platforms, regulators, and educators can realistically doRigorous but accessible, analytical but urgent, The Malignant Meme is for anyone who has watched a false idea spread faster than the truth and wondered why - and whether anything can be done about it. Seller Inventory # 9798996037612