Book · 2025 · Fiction
There Is No Antimemetics Division
A Novel
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There is no Antimemetics Division by QNTM, which is this this book about a government agency that is dealing with anti-memes, ideas that erase themselves from your memory after you've dealt with them, but are themselves important.
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Why people recommend it
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm is a science fiction work centered around a secretive government agency tasked with managing dangerous concepts that inherently erase themselves from human memory. On an episode of The Ezra Klein Show, Jack Clark recommended the book to listeners, explaining that it deals directly with information hazards where simply thinking about the subject matter can pose a threat, making it especially relevant for individuals monitoring artificial intelligence safety. Clark previously mentioned the book on Conversations with Tyler to illustrate the immense bureaucratic hurdles involved in establishing organizations to handle volatile, self-erasing ideas and complex policy challenges. Additionally, Alex Wilhelm brought up the book on This Week in Startups while discussing his off-duty reading habits, strongly encouraging anyone interested in technology, start-ups, artificial intelligence, and future forecasting to dive into the story. Across multiple podcast appearances, the book has been consistently praised for its imaginative exploration of dangerous information, conceptual hazards, and the structural difficulties of managing knowledge that actively resists being remembered or documented by society.
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Jack Clark There is no Antimemetics Division by QNTM, which is this this book about a government agency that is dealin… 2
“And finally, a book called "There Is No Antimemetics Division" by a writer with the name qntm, which is about concepts that are in themselves information hazards where even thinking about them can be dangerous. And I always recommend it to people working on A.I. risk as a book adjacent to the things they worry about.”
“There is no Antimemetics Division by QNTM, which is this this book about a government agency that is dealing with anti-memes, ideas that erase themselves from your memory after you've dealt with them, but are themselves important.”
Alex Wilhelm I'm going to bring up a book that I'm just finishing that I think is so interesting that everyone who appre… 1
“I'm going to bring up a book that I'm just finishing that I think is so interesting that everyone who appreciates startups, technology, AI, and thinking about the future should absolutely get into.”
