There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
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It's weird. Some of these descriptors might even be defensible as technically correct... but why use a technically correct phrase which nevertheless gives readers an 80% incorrect impression of what actually happens, when you can just write what actually happens?
Using "decimate" to mean "kill 50%" as a universally agreeable compromise
The synopsis of There Is No Antimemetics Division is also just... not quite right.
* "Unknowns" should be capitalised
* not *all* of them erase themselves from memory
* I don't think the story has *repressed* memories, as such
* it's not a *conspiracy* really
* it doesn't threaten "all of reality"
Want to feel old? [YEAR NUMBER] was [CURRENT YEAR MINUS YEAR NUMBER] years ago
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Okay so who wrote the Wikipedia article for Ra and why is the plot summary about 85% wrong
* Magic in Ra is nothing to do with mathematical proofs
* The word "thaumaturgical" appears nowhere in the book, so what are you quoting?
* What pre-human intelligence?
* Exploitable code? What?
These are also false statements. I introduced the character Laura Ferno in some short story drafts I wrote in November 2010. November does coincidentally happen to be National Novel Writing Month but I have never participated in it. Also there was no "reworked", I completely started fresh
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*prototaxites
If only there was some way to make all these websites remember that I've clicked "Reject" on their tracking cookies
Would not be surprised to learn that some kind of LLM was used here. I've seen generative-AI-generated summaries of my stuff before and they're always wrong, in a manner similar to this. They get some key words in the correct order but the brass tacks are flatly incorrect
