What is your favorite EA meme?
By Aaron Gertler 🔸 @ 2021-09-21T09:28 (+13)
Just one per person, please. Choose carefully. (If you can't choose, here's a random number generator.)
This thread follows in the footsteps of the creative writing contest — I'm not sure any individual meme qualifies, but we can celebrate all forms of EA art here. And maybe the best memes could themselves be the seeds of short stories?
Aaron Gertler @ 2021-09-21T09:31 (+14)
My favorite is elegant, emotionally weighty, and intensely relatable:
Writer @ 2021-09-21T10:20 (+6)
I know how to turn this into a cool story. I'm going to try. If I end up giving up, I will post the idea as a reply to this comment.
Writer @ 2021-10-04T07:11 (+1)
I'm still not entirely sure if I'm going to write this. I didn't do it when I was freer, and now work is piling up fast. If someone wants to write something inspired from this meme and is curious about what I had in mind PM me.
BrianTan @ 2021-09-21T15:38 (+11)
I'm not sure if this counts as a meme, but the satirical Centre for Applied Eschatology website is amazingly clever and funny.
I saw this when it was shared (to much laughter and reactions) here on the Dank EA Memes FB group.
JuanGarcia @ 2021-09-21T10:29 (+9)
Credit: Fernando Moreno (see also version 2 in post)
Zach Stein-Perlman @ 2021-09-21T14:40 (+11)
I like the idea, but I think this would be better without specific assertions of effectiveness. Very few people will agree that MIRI is 180% and ALLFED is 240% as effective as GiveDirectly, for example (many people would say much higher; many people would say much lower), and this assertion is totally unnecessary for the value of this image.
JuanGarcia @ 2021-09-21T18:02 (+6)
Good point, but I don't see how you can produce a version of this meme without specific assertions of effectiveness of each of the interventions (without killing the funny) . Alas, it did not pass peer review.
Andy_Schultz @ 2021-10-03T03:19 (+3)
