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Argues ideas replicate better than children

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Memetic vs. genetic replication as your legacy

Relaying a Naval/Scott Adams debate, Shaan describes Adams's view that ideas are a more efficient form of reproduction than children: a child is one copy, but an idea spread through blogs, comics, and livestreams can replicate into thousands and live forever.

“He goes, I put out ideas into the world through my blog, through this, you know, livestreams, through my comics with Dilbert. If my ideas go live on, uh, they'll live on far longer than any child of mine will. Like, they an idea can live forever. An idea can get into like thousands of people where I'm only going to be able to have a couple of kids. So like for me, my replication is what I'll call memetic and not genetic.”
EP 144 · 29:16 · SHAAN
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Scott Adams called Trump's win by reading 'linguistic kill shots'

Shaan recounts how Dilbert creator Scott Adams, an early student of persuasion, predicted Trump would win by spotting tactics like 'low energy Jeb' as linguistic kill shots and painting vivid mental pictures instead of discussing policy.

“Scott Adams called it. He goes, this guy's gonna win. And people were like, what? He goes, I've been studying persuasion for 20 years. I've been studying hypnosis. I've been a communicator through cartoon. I know an effective communicator when I see one. This guy is a master.”
EP 62 · 35:33 · SHAAN
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