Memes of error (was: universal languages)

At 08:24 PM 2/6/01 +0000, Miles Sabin wrote:
> > Jim, I think you've just described a whole new area of
> > meme-viruses (virii?) where crackers try to poison systems'
> > abilities to reason...
>
>What's new?

Not a lot.  Murray Gell-Mann talked at the ACM 97 conference about "memes 
of error" -- though that wasn't specifically with reference to computer 
systems.  (As I recall the context wasn't so much poisoning our ability to 
reason, but poisoning the mechanisms --or heuristics-- that bypass tortuous 
routes of reasoning.)

#g

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Graham Klyne
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