Very enjoyable but his short stories are great because they force him to focus on one idea instead of how his whole world view fits together.

Diaspora by Greg Egan

Anathem by Neal Stephenson (this one is a bit like doing homework but worth it imo)

If you vibe with short stories Exhalation by Ted Chiang Crystal Nights by Greg Egan isn't bad either

It's a bit off kilter but well worth it

Another candidate is the common usage of memory-holing, where important information is removed from public perception maliciously. The Dubai Chocolate thing technically falls into here, as does the whole "war in Iran to distract from the Epstein files" thing. Frankly the whole Epstein stuff is riddled with malicious memes and antimemes to deliberately muddy the waters. Similar to deliberate attempts to inject insane conspiracy beliefs "the moon controls our brains" into conspiracy theories that are too close to something real "mk-ultra".

Consciousness for an antimeme is more of a classification error in my mind, as consciousness as a concept is permanently warped. But you could describe a secret society/dark family secret as a form of living antimeme, hiding some information and preventing it from being shared using a variety of means.

In general a meme is specific to an entity-pair, with self-censoring information as a subset of antimeme that makes the information itself remove itself from the mind that learns it. In general though, information that is an antimeme is not the same thing as a category of information that describes an antimeme.

So, "your parents weird sextape" is generally antimemetic, you are unlikely to share that information yourself and I would not expect to see many examples where someone posted this. Your password is also antimemetic in most cases.

That said, information may contain both antimemetic and memetic components, such as "the game" (I just lost). The rules inherently are antimemetic and self-censoring, however the memetic component ensures this is still transmitted effectively to as many people as possible. A more entity-pair specific meme-antimeme relation is "where the good drug dealers hang out", which is information that is highly memetic or antimemetic under different conditions.

I think the key isn't to think of these things as strict categories, but labels we ascribe to a more continuous measure of memeablity.

https://rulehunt.org/?rulesetHex=000018000000001810c5d585dc5...

Plus some of them are pretty cool, I found one that looked like a rug.

The original argument was "the ones digit has permanent pattern in 2^n {2,4,8,6,2...}.

We made a system to generate digits for powers of two, although eventually we just made one that can take arbitrary bases, and found that you can decompose digit frequency and find a variety of NMR like resonances that vary based on where you terminate data collection.

It was really fun and this makes me want to get back into this so I could check the properties of those resonances across bases and stopping points for data collection.

Don’t cram too much in a single prompt though. Prompt structures like guard rails naturally carry high cognitive load for the LLM, which leads to biased outputs. I found the best practice is to alleviate it by using multiple prompts and using a guard rail as an end-step rather than one big prompt for the LLM. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01740)