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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We used to think some people aren't capable of human intellect. Had a whole science to prove it too.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If modern computers can reproduce sentience, then so can older computers. Thats just how general computing is. You really gonna claim magnetic tape can think? That punch-cards and piston transistors can produce the same phenomenon as tens of billions of living brain cells?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That in general seems more plausible than doing it specifically with an LLM.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

Slightly yeah, but I'm still overall pretty skeptical. We still don't really understand consciousness. It'd certainly be convenient if the calculating machines we understand and have everywhere could also "do" whatever it is that causes consciousness... but it doesn't seem particularly likely.