New AI Twitter meme: every "X is conscious" now reads as "X is couscous"
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-10-10
A serious take on consciousness — "X is conscious if there is something it is like to be X; sentience and consciousness are not the same" — got derailed when a random poaster swapped "conscious" for "couscous." Investor Stewart Alsop III says he now reads every "[Y] is conscious" on the timeline as "[Y] is couscous," and the meme can't be undone.
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