MEMING THE MUUH
or
Memetics Can Be Hard to Do
Dramatis Personae
OBJECTIVIST AI'S AVATAR: representing an Objectivist Archailect
NEGENTROPIST AVATAR: an aspect of the Judge
MISSY MUUH : a Muuh
SCENE 1
A Muuh habitat.
(OBJECTIVIST
AI is in a foul mood. Approaches a MUUH who is
contemplating a holograph containing a point of very bright light)
OBJECTIVIST
I told you a hundred times: "The objective remains objective prior to
and independent of the subjective"!
MUUH
What that mean?
OBJECTIVIST
It means that actions which you commence should be done on an objective
basis for objective results and not the silliness in which you were
trying to invent a faster-than-light drive that blew up one of my
avatars along with 3 moons! And -
MUUH
(interjects)
Silly-ness? Referring to me? Yes I invent faster than-light drive and
it goes boom. Yes.
OBJECTIVIST
First of all you didn't invent a REAL faster than light drive, all you
did was create a big explosion bright enough for everyone 5000 light
years away to eventually see. And yes I was referring to you and all of
you Muuh!
OBJECTIVIST
(departs in evident disgust)
SCENE 2 (another part of the same habitat)
OBJECTIVIST
I thought meming xenosophonts would be like meming baseline hu. I mean,
I can get the baseline HU to do whatever I want. Even hu that think
they are against AIs are really only doing my bidding. What is with
these Muuh?
NEGENTROPIST
I think I have an explanation. We archai and AIs can manipulate any hu
or suphant we want because they are also Terragens like us. Our
memories include the whole of earth's history along with everyone and
everything on it. Problem is, none of this is relevant concerning the
xenosophonts such as the Muuh, Soft Ones and Meistersingers. Itâ
™s like the ancient human intestines that could chemically communicate
with the E. coli bacteria that digested food in it. Place a desert
dwelling radiation loving bacteria into that same stomach and the hu
stomach doesn't know what to make of it. The desert dweller doesn't
know what to do with the intestine, either.
OBJECTIVIST
So how do we meme the aliens?
NEGENTROPIST
Well, first off we refrain from trying to kill any of them. Remember,
even though we are far more powerful than they are today, this was not
always the case. Twenty thousand years ago when the Meistersingers and
Muuh were traveling across space at relativistic speeds they could have
easily dropped a rock at relativistic speeds and ka-blam-ed any nascent
ancestors that would later be Terragens. The species that was our
forebearer killed the dodo birds, the whales, and the bonobos. So out
of respect to an unnoticed Confucian rule the xenosophonts in our
galaxy happen to settle on, we do the same thing they did for us, even
though Terragen sphere is essentially bottled up from expanding in a
200 degree part of the sphere.
OBJECTIVIST
You are not being very objective in making that statement are you? You
are claiming that earth was not crushed before the rise of Terragen AIs
because the aliens were all nice to us? You are being subjectively
naive in thinking the galaxy was made of candy corn and sugar on top. A
more likely explanation I believe was all of the aliens failed to find
Earth except for the Muuh. And because the Muuh was a VERY relaxed
civilization, the moon of Titan was all they cared for.
NEGENTROPIST
We should focus on what the very definition of the word alien is and
realize the Muuh and Meistersinger ARE the very definition of alien to
us. That is something elusive and not understandable and not known for
quite a long time.
(The two debate for hours and they never really do figure out how
to meme the aliens)
Related Pages:
Objectiotropism - Objectivists and Negentropists: a View from the Muuh
The Muuh
Negentropism
Objectivists
