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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

VHS was chosen over Betamax because of porn.

Bluray was chosen over HD-DVD because of porn.

Streaming video got figured out because of porn.

Porn drives technology forward.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

🎶 The internet is for porn

🎵 The internet is for porn

🎶 So grab your dick and double-click

🎵 PORN PORN PORN

[–] ilikecoffee 4 points 1 year ago

Risky click of the day (kinda)..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm... could a substantial percentage of the population develop a fetish for curing cancer during our lifetime? That would be awesome.

[–] meliaesc 4 points 1 year ago

We usually call them scientists or researchers, but yes...

[–] Aggravationstation 2 points 1 year ago

Can't track it down now but I remember reading that the adoption of the printing press happened so quickly because demand for a certain collection of erotic stories was super high and it made printing ridiculously profitable. Porn again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i've heard the first one but not the second two. you wouldn't by any chance have sources for those would you?

[–] Stamets 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will never cease being amazed that the only reason Blender (and other 3D rendering stuff) got as good as they did on average PCs is because so many people found Overwatch characters hot and wanted porn of them.

I will also never cease being grateful that they did so in order to let me enjoy some awful stuff of Chris Redfield and Mr. X.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any good blender tutorials specifically covering such topics?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/playlist?list=PLBP0lUzAp5if-Mo5-0KwspreeYGHkWvjn

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a very naive view on the capability of AI. AI is very good at recognizing and recreating patterns. It can help to detect cancer but cure it not so much

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't we also use AI to fold proteins and make new medicines such as antibiotics? If not, then we should probably see if we could.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True. I have heard of AI protein folding and that's used as a tool for understanding metabolism and making new medicine. Antibiotics not such much I think but I would happily stand corrected.

My point is, it's not the one solution that fixes everything but a tool that's already applied where it can be. I'm not even sure that's a point at all since OP's post is obviously a hyperbole and more about "we use this very potent technology for porn". Don't take my first comment as a disagreement but rather as a FYI or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a very pessimistic view on the capability of AI. It is already assisting in creating vaccines and other medicine. It can certainly help find the cure for cancer.

Edit: I saw this right after commenting

https://lemmy.world/post/9798191

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

¿Porque no los dos?

[–] RIP_Cheems 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

CAT VIDEOS

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If it's good enough for porn, it's good enough for curing diseases 👍... but first 🍆 😁.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe it will drive privacy forward... (Likely not)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] LwL 4 points 1 year ago

Image AI is being used to generate tons of porn.

Human horniness can be a great driver for innovation, really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Creating new porn images by teaching an AI/learning model what existing ones look like, or swapping faces on video as an example.

[–] dog_ -4 points 1 year ago

AI is not the future.