Richard Dawkins: Memes | AI Podcast Clips

[@Tymon0000]

Up Next: Meme review with Richard Dawkins

[@MrPhatties]

Please... Just please make this happen @lex

[@yakked]

This is what I was hoping for when I clicked.

[@DrTryloByte]

He is the ultimate authority on the subject after all...

[@ryanjohn2116]

I was waiting for Lex to show Richard different memes that were made about him. 😂

[@rajunaidu7751]

I have a PhD in memes aswell

[@KOCu122]

Probably some sort of science about memes will occur sooner or later if it's not already here

[@ZinxTheSlayer]

0:27 memes, the DNA of the soul

[@sangwoohan1177]

Can you get Peter Thiel on the podcast?

[@willbuthead7538]

I love Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens.

[@si_monster7365]

Why the late Christopher Hitchens? Just wondering

[@chrslb]

I assume you're atheist right? Because that's the only way you would like these guys

[@ShaneyElderberry]

@@chrslb Hitchens made lots of theist friends during his book tours, and those friends reciprocated that friendship. He also had religious friends in his hometown of D.C. Douglas Wilson and another heftier pastor were friends for the last few years. He also made numerous muslim friends while writing critical pieces about Iran's theocracy, which has weakened in the present by the younger population.

[@chrslb]

ShaneyElderberry that's good to hear. I wonder if they they just agreed to disagree or if they found some common ground. I'm sure Hitchens moderated his tone around them though.

[@chiropra1]

There is information in the genes and there is information in culture. Biological or social, information is nonetheless fundamental to them. Memes, as Dawkins coined the term, is useful in comprehending life and reality...ourselves.

[@johncamero4254]

Well yes. but he needs to tell the postmodernists (50 % of liberal arts professors) to not use meme-THEORY as justification for their speculative paranoia about "speech" and semantics in general (this way of thinking is the core of todays censorship-force since they are worried about fictional constructs like "newspeak"). It is just a selection-process and transportation of information but not the enactment of "harmfull action"

[@jordanvargas6860]

If an idea allows one to shift responsibility from their own hands and put it into the hands of another it's very likely to spread. That's probably the most powerful criteria imo

[@JoaoRaiden]

Dawkins' books were such a important pillar of my development as a defender of scientificism, , thanks for having him in the podcast

[@Tom-cc6qo]

Just say science lol

[@DeconvertedMan]

Dawkings invented memes man, before then, it was - it was a dark place man.

[@shaunpriddle3404]

Great interview as always! Thank you. Just thinking about the characteristics of memes in a Darwinian framework reminded me of an idea introduced to me by Dawkins that through the evolution of our psychology we have a strong tendency to associate agency with inanimate objects, a fundamental core of our psychology that has kept us alive, this idea went on to play a large role in where I believe religion and other similar behaviours stems from. In consideration of memes I think there are certain characteristics that could be ascribed to predict successful propagation. A trusted sense of agency. Ability to predict physical or psychological danger. Short cut to a desired outcome.

[@pangeaforever]

On that last point about sexual attraction, i can see it coming about from what was once an attraction to a useful feature, which once selected for, woule be reinforced in future generations. Once you have some act or physical feature which is being selected for, it can fetach from the original purpose and start acting as an isolated feature for attraction. i.e. this large tail used to mean i was healthy and proof that i was good at evading prey, but these days, the tail itself is the thing that attracts, rather than the thing it once represented being the object of attraction

[@slikclips2966]

I love how lex calls it a beautiful modern idea at around 3:40. I was thinking the same thought.

[@matthe1972]

Richard is my biggest hero!

[@Jojikiba]

Was this recorded in Professor Dawkins' home? Good interview, but interviewer seemed very tired, I thought.

[@luisgehrmann]

Dawkins can really be proud of his meme of the meme!

[@Howdilydoodely]

Love you Alex!!

[@Howdilydoodely]

I’m not ashamed of the auto correct, that’s very ironic I think. But Lex, you’re the shit.

[@PaulSmith-wz2xv]

A brilliant mind and I crossed one ambition off my bucket list by shaking his hand and it didn’t cost much because he visited a venue hundred metres from my abode. Hallelujah

[@jamesmiller2521]

God of memes

[@demej00]

Dawkins thinks that anyone who doesn't think like him is an idiot. He wears his arrogance with snide pride.

[@chrslb]

Jimmy Demello, thanks! I agree. Let's continue to speak up against bigotry and intolerance.

[@AviChetriArtwork]

I disagree with you.

[@AviChetriArtwork]

@@chrslb I think you're wrong.

[@chrslb]

@@AviChetriArtwork I'm happy to elaborate if you have specific objections. What I would argue is that Dawkins has a really limited view of religion. He basically views religion as a set of very rigid dogmas that make little sense. In reality religion is a collection of people who over the course of millennia have attempted to discover what lies beyond what we can understand with our limited minds.

[@AviChetriArtwork]

@@chrslb Yeah, and most of what has been in the discourse in the various religions are kind of outdated. Be done with it, chrslb.

[@erinvader9257]

Starting the morning off with a fantastic Lex clip. While mixing ingredients of lion's mane, moringa, maitake, spirulina and resishi. Wait! Let's add few turkey tails and king trumpets in the mix, and my first thought........ I prefer the latter theory. Lex, how tall are you?

[@werwars1190]

Memes are the pearls lined on (gaias) planets fertile soil circulating the seeds to dignify our heritage.

[@Timo-dh4ud]

art of memetics

[@Cu-Co]

Why is the soy sauce moving?

[@lehatikhonov]

It's a glitch in the simulation

[@H3llHoundd]

how da fuck do you notice that stuff

[@tomburns5231]

Not you're fault, Lex, but you did seem a bit out of your depth here. What's great, though, is that you weren't afraid to keep asking questions! Probably I would suggest not bringing up pop sci articles unless you really understand them and remember them.

[@TrillionaireStudioX3]

How you manege AI skillfull video every day???

[@13enwarner]

Memes are real, religions are memes, therefore religions are real. QED atheists.

I wish he also had the same kind of enthusiasm for social sciences. He would not discover America again.

[@sampathkumar1010]

The end of history. The meme died.

[@MLB9000]

So, the internet has done for the meme what the bicycle did for the gene.

[@fbonde]

One of the best "podcast" so far - Thanks Lex.

[@cansomer6433]

Richard Dawkins is an intellectual. That is enough to describe him.

[@chrslb]

Can Somer Richard Dawkins is an intolerant SOB. He hates the guts of all religious people. He does not respect your right to have your own ideas.

[@chrslb]

@Suraj Nayak I read the God Delusion a long time ago. From Wikipedia: "In The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator, God, almost certainly does not exist, and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion." This amounts to claiming that being religious is a mental illness that presumably should be "cured". If this is not intolerance I don't know what is.

[@jan-martinulvag1953]

Why do people that dont believe in God talk about him all the time?

[@g.egziabher1522]

I am Russian so .....

[@anastasiaonyan4867]

❤

[@linus1594]

Meme Pool me pool e pool pool ool ol l...

[@Xamufam]

LoL

[@biologyonline99]

In the loggerheads of unproven Darwinian theory. . Hahaha. Only genetics interpretation of culture and may be religion... Largely, a myopic interpretation of the biosocial world.

[@telecorpse1957]

Scientific theories cannot be proven. One cannot logically deduce whether there is an unknown exception to a rule in a universe one lives in. Where in the video is it said that culture or religion can be fully described only in terms of genetics?

[@biologyonline99]

Thank you sir, Of course, theories can't be proven, but the lack of solid evidences in favour of this theory do confirm that it is largely a mere materialistic and stearically fixed idea than a typical flexible and grossly fluid biological species. Macroevolution largely and microevolution to a greater extent do not confirm the Darwinian approach of looking at the panorama of biodiversity, including humans.

[@simonsuh1733]

yay

[@burkebaby]

I was waiting for Lex to show Richard different memes that were made about him. 😂