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Inspired by economical lolcats, I guess we should have some rationality lolcats. Here are a few quick ideas:
Two big cats next to each other, a third smaller cat in front of them or hiding somewhere aside. "Consider the third alternative"
One cat standing on hind legs, other cat crouching. "If P(H|E) > P(H) ... then P(H|~E) < P(H)"
Cat examining a computer mouse. "Iz mouse 'by definishun' ... still can't eat"
Cat ripping apart paper boxes. "Stop compartmentalizing"
Cat ripping apart a map. "The map is not the territory"
Cat riding a vacuum cleaner ... something about Friendly AI.
Kittens riding a dog. "Burdensome details"
Cat looking suspiciously at a whirlpool in a bathtub. "Resist the affective spiral"
Or simply a picture of some smart cat (cat with glasses?) and some applause-light texts, like "All your Bayes are belong to us"
I am not sure what is the proper procedure for creating these; specifically whether there is some good source of legally available cat images. What is the correct font to use, and whether there are some tools for conveniently adding texts to pictures. Anyone has experience with this?
ROFL...
There are lots of lolcat builders out there, but this is the only one I've used: http://builder.cheezburger.com/Builder
You're on your own for legally available images, though. I think the community consensus is that it doesn't matter because parody or whatever, which is not a legitimate legal defense, but I don't think anybody's been sued yet.
The builder seems great. Thousands of cat pictures!
I don't know what lolcats are, although I have seen Internet memes, and in the few moments I spent looking at the cat pictures, I did get some ideas...
Edit: Added ones I couldn't earlier, because other site wasn't working.
I love the marshmallow maximizer!
Perhaps it could serve as an educational example about how an Unfriendly AI might exploit our psychological weaknesses to make us accept horrible outcomes. :D
I don't have a rationality point, but I like the grumpy cat "joy in the merely real" one.
In the US it is a legitimate legal defense.
YMMV in your jurisdiction.
Right, sorry, that wasn't clear: parody is a defense, but I doubt it would work in this case because you're not parodying the material you used, you're just creating a funny derived work.
This meme is at least a decade old. If we're going to do rationality memes, we should do something more relevant...
Does using lolcats actually impede understanding of the message or anything like that? 'Recency' is not a terminal value.