Re: virus: Random thoughts & more poor analogies!

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 02:28:38 -0700


Richard wrote:

>Bob Hartwig wrote:
><<Continuing on the speciation analogy, I wonder if there is a danger of
>memetic inbreeding? Are the Amish the end result of memetic inbreeding?
>Comments?>>
>
>Academics are the end result of memetic inbreeding.

And computer programmers too. (Or any other specialized profession, for
that matter.)

-Prof. Tim

[And did ya' see the sig. file on that guy! My gawd--he's hung like a
horse!]

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