Perhaps they’re referring to memes like these
lol a meme is literally just an idea.
Free exchange of ideas is the core concept of democracy.
Exactly, and the report uses the term “memetic” to distinguish from its frequent use to mean “image macro”. Unfortunately the article headline chose to confuse things.
"Advanced memetic engineering attacks could progressively undermine trust in financial markets and institutions, causing a steady, incremental impact on market stability rather than a sudden breakdown“
RAND Corporation, Technological and Economic Threats to the US Financial System, July 2024The article body does a good job covering the topic, its a shame they chose such a clumsy headline.
Image memes were never the only memes in internet lingo, and the original Dawkins term is exactly how they’re using it, as the analogue for gene, but with ideas generally. That’s all fine.
But that makes their core concept “people might spread ideas we don’t like”.
Is this just trying to say ‘propaganda’ (latin participle for “things that should be disseminated”) with fancier words?
Therefore, may I say, the free exchange of ideas poses a threat to the US financial system. May I add “It always was”.
I made enough off my dogecoin to pay off my student loans, and it pleases me that the meme investing crowd actively took billions away from hedge funds.
It sucks having to pay for things like that, but it feels good that they’re gone. I only hope one day they all get abolished.
Wow. This guy figured out how to beat the system…quick! Everybody take financial advice from this guy! We all listen to this one guys stock advice, invest all our life savings, and there’s never ever any risk because this guy knows what he’s doing!
I mean, it’s not like there’s any precident set up of people being conned into financial advice, investing heavily and then intentionally crashed by it’s designers in order to scam an entire populace. What could POSSIBLY go wrong??? It IS the 20s after all!
The person you’re responding to just said what they did as a relevant example, not that everyone will get the same results or should do the same thing.
I just can’t believe it doesn’t happen more often. It’s like do we all want to make some money? Sure. Do we want to spend an hour a day doing it? not really
Like what is the barrier? We all just need to agree to something.
The fucked thing is we do it normally anyways. We’ve done it for decades. We all go on our phones and share shaq shaking his shoulders or huac tua jokes. But making ourselves rich, nope too fucking far man.
Lies. No one made anything off of shitcoins
when memes dank, banks sunk
Can I just say I’m so proud of this comments section
I mean, this is legit. They’re saying people use memes to sway public thought and behavior. It’s also how fascism has risen and been taken out, we just didn’t have the internet and call them memes then.
Behind the Bastards did a good episode on the use of comedy with imagery to bolster or destroy. I couldn’t find the exact episode for the life of me though. At least 5 years ago probably.
Leftists of the world, get together and make some more f***ng propaganda memes already
