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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

You know what conserves energy at nearly 100% efficiency?

A guillotine.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Net negative carbon footprint

[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Genghis Khan would be proud

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You know I am going to argue for the sake of it

It also conserves mass

It at least provides me with better returns than a data center.

[–] dumbass@piefed.social 74 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Think about how selfish marine life is, they live in water, water we could use to cool our AI data centers! Think about that!

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

In a way, this whole planet is a datacenter, with the oceans as it's cooling system. We are the data. -Neil Degrass Tyson

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In a mirror, you can kiss yourself only on the lips.

-Neil Degrass Tyson

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 8 points 2 days ago

Like, a thousand times over. Why does he keep reposting that same shower thought? Why is he so obsessed about that? Is there somewhere else he wants to kiss himself in the mirror?

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 10 points 2 days ago

This made me realize that it would be really hard to distinguish between a satirical NDT quote and something I have earnestly and profoundly thought to myself while 2 edibles into a nature documentary. And I'm not sure how to feel about that.

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

God I hate him so much... Well he used to just annoy me, but now I hate him

[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why do we need an orphanage in the first place? Is the Orphan Crushing Machine not working?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Spoiler alert: they need orphans to run the orphan crushing machine.

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[–] illi@piefed.social 45 points 2 days ago

I have no idea if things are real or satire anymore...

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago (8 children)

it's great that one of the main dicks in charge of AI uses pants-on-head stupid not-logic to justify taking water away from literally everything else for a thing that doesn't work, but still steals jobs

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If we restructured society in a way that makes increases in efficiency benefit everyone I'd be fine with such things. The difference here is, however, that we don't live in such a society and that LLMs aren't actually useful or better at work that people are, it's just that managers and CEOs think they are. They will realize this in a few years after most of their software is fucked over and they'll have to hire actual developers to fix it.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 13 points 2 days ago

The problem is we want increases in efficiency that benefit 99% of people but the 1% want the opposite and can override everyone else.

[–] Juice@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Taylorist production has been tried, yielded objectively better results than the old production methods, and they were still scrapped. Workers wouldn't adapt to more efficient production methods without more pay, and it necessitates worker-managers to train other workers. Since the owners of the factory refuse to pay workers more, so it's DOA.

Capitalism isn't rational, and can not become rational. "Increasing efficiency" means firing workers, not improving production. I know you maybe aren't arguing for more efficient capitalism, just saying it has been tried. Taylorism is the Esperanto of production. "Increasing efficiency," to the capitalists, means firing people, not making the system more rational.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It wasn't my goal at all to advocate for capitalism, an inherently abusive system :P

Increases in efficiency should lead to less work required and a better life for everyone

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

ALSO TO note, one of THIELS other proteges.

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Okay almost had me. I can't believe he would argue in favor of helping orphans.

You what saves water? Setting fires in orphanages. In today's Ted talk we're going to outline ways how orphans use up water that could be better used on chunguses. Big Chunguses. Chungodes. Hayden, what's the plural for Chungus and without that word were going to struggle grammatically and I'm not sure we can advance without it

There are words I want to say, but I won't say them.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I can't tell if this is real or not. It sounds ridiculous, but he does say some ridiculous things (like how millions of years of humanity have consumed more energy than four years of data centers...). But this just seems so comically ridiculous that I have trouble believing it.

This is why I hate when people fail to make it clear when something is satire. When people get used to doubting everything they see, then suddenly when someone really does say something comically ridiculous no one believes it.

I'll point it out from time to time and people will say "it's just a meme, don't take it so seriously." But we're supposed to be the rational and intellectually honest ones, no?

So why cultivate a meme culture where we can be just as misleading and deceitful as the fascists? This isn't a fire-with-fire situation. Their goal is to rob us of our humanity; if we stoop to their level, they win.

Even if he really did say this, my point stands, because of the simple fact that it's hard to believe at face value due to the prevalence of misleading memes. There's a line between disinformation and satire. Honest memes should make it clear which side of that line they fall on.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What he said was that training humans takes a lot of water too, in defense of AI. This is a shitpost take on that.

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[–] CXORA@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

We dont always know everything at first glance. Expecting to leads to and cultivates a lack of intellectual curiosity. Being able to consider and arrive and conclusions and then seek corroborating evidence is a useful life skill for you to try and learn.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Did he actually say this..?

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He did not say this, but all-in-all, he did say this

"Know What Else Used a Lot of Energy? Human Civilization"

https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-know-what-else-used-a-lot-of-energy-human-civilization-2000725167

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Thank you. This is exactly the answer I was hoping for ^

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 5 points 2 days ago

hold on i'll ask chat g pp (/s)

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Better that than feeding his goddamn Artificial Stupidity company

[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Me trying to figure out if the 5 year old orphan should be saved: "So the farmer must transport the wolf, goat, and cabbage across the river..."

[–] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 days ago

Actually had to make sure I wasn't on a NotTheOnion instance.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stupid orphans hogging all of that water, they should bring a lawsuit against them for endangering the supply needed for ai in having their place get on fire. It won't win but they can't pay for lawyers to defend it and they will go our of solvency and have to be dissoluted.

Now why do the courts let the rich file cases that have no merit to force people that haven't done wrong to pay millions of dollars indefinitely to defend themselves from bad faith allegations by shitty abusive rich people? Because fuck you, that's why. Any more questions? /s

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

lol get lawyers?

Those losers can’t even get parents.

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