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Gardens of the Soul — Laura Deming

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A reflection on defensive memetic engineering, and what lies beyond.

Gardens of the Soul A reflection on defensive memetic engineering, and what lies beyond Laura Deming · Feb 2026 Since I was 12, I've worked in the field of longevity. Fear of death motivated most of my work in the first decade of my career. It was effective, but had a cost I did not see - I was unable to see the technology I was involved with in all of its complexity. I was closed to the view of it that went out to the horizon, to the ways in which it might grow and mutate away from my original intention. Instead, I focused on what needed to happen for it to exist as quickly as possible to ful

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