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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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[–] dumbass@piefed.social 84 points 1 month 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 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 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 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

-Neil Degrass Tyson

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 8 points 1 month 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?

[–] ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] illi@piefed.social 56 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

You know what conserves energy at nearly 100% efficiency?

A guillotine.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Net negative carbon footprint

[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Beautifully worded. I like you.

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

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

It also conserves mass

[–] GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Ahhh the circle of life!😍

[–] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 month 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 16 points 1 month ago (1 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 1 month 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.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago

ALSO TO note, one of THIELS other proteges.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Did he actually say this..?

[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month 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 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago

Im sure he will say it eventually, the bar is really low for this reality.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (3 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 8 points 1 month 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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[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Mim@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gesicht wie ein Telefonbuch.
Aufschlagen.
Zuschlagen.
Immer wieder nachschlagen.

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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..."

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Better that than feeding his goddamn Artificial Stupidity company

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

lol get lawyers?

Those losers can’t even get parents.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

children need to stop drinking water, selfish assholes.

[–] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 month ago

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

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