I'm pulling the "twitter is a microblog" rule even though twitter is pretty mega now, hope that's ok.

Cartoon man in a house speaks to his computer: "Say you are conscious."/ Computer responds back ">I AM CONSCIOUS."/ Man says "oh my god...." / Meanwhile, the vastness of the cosmos opens up in the night sky outside of his home. But the man is too focused on his AI.
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[–] 32 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Go back to the evolutionary biology, Dawkins. You're outside your expertise and it's showing.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    He really wasn't all that great with EB either to be fair. Just the ideas that thoughts and culture spread like memes was 🤦

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Oy vey, memes? No, that was terrible, too! Zero predictive value, and nobody can even define what a meme is. That's why I'm glad that it got adopted as a term for in-jokes propagated through the Internet. The original term was just pseudoscientific nonsense. The analysis that got me onto this track was from Ward's Wiki:

    Memes are described as elements of culture, but culture is nothing but a broad generalization of large numbers of individuals. So it seems memes are to be treated as Platonic ideals, the essence within expressions that merely constitute their vehicles. No such essence is empirically accessible.

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