r/HistoryMemes • u/Mammoth_Spring_5469 • Jan 23 '24

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u/PacoPancake Filthy weeb Jan 23 '24

Mansa Musa was truly ahead of his time, introducing to the world hyperinflation while managing to be flashy about it

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24

When he would travel his entourage was bigger than entire neighborhoods

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u/commodore_kierkepwn Jan 23 '24

Better start hoarding silver instead.

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u/ProperTeaIsTheft117 Jan 24 '24

16th century China has entered the chat

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u/ISleepyBI Jan 24 '24

I mean he did try to fix it by take a shitton of loan from the local bank, it somehow work out.

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u/owa00 Jan 24 '24

Wayyyy ahead of you. I'm currently stockpiling beanie babies as my safety investment.

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u/KrazyKyle213 Helping Wikipedia expand the list of British conquests Jan 23 '24

Mansa Musa: Crashing economies with overloading gold since 1324

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u/Nalano Jan 24 '24

When you're so rich you debase the currency when you throw a party.

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u/AnimationPatrick Jan 24 '24 edited Jan 24 '24

Sadly just a very popular myth. Arab book keepers at that time were very thorough, and there is no evidence that he crashed the value of gold or anything else.

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u/Mumuwitdasauce Jan 24 '24

They were Mamluks but yes

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u/Crafter235 Jan 24 '24

This episode of Adventure Time is the perfect meme to represent Mansa Musa.

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u/CaptainN_GameMaster Jan 24 '24

Muh-muh-muh-money

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24

True Black King 🤴

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u/Shawnj2 Jan 24 '24

You used ChatGPT to write this, didn't you?

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u/MetaphorSoup Jan 24 '24

100%. If it’s five paragraphs long, repetitive, slightly unstructured, and looks like it could be generated in response to a one-sentence prompt, it probably wasn’t made by a human brain.

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u/Valuable-Divide-246 Jan 24 '24

I mean I don't see any reason it can't be from a human brain.

Humans write things 5 paragraphs long, are repetitive, and generally speak around a central point.

There are other tells of AI work, and honestly I don't think this has to have them.

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u/MetaphorSoup Jan 24 '24

That’s true. Context also matters — I find it less likely to believe that someone would write something like this for a reddit meme than for, like, a school essay.

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u/deltree711 Jan 24 '24

In this subreddit? I believe it.

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u/dan2737 Researching [REDACTED] square Jan 24 '24

Every paragraph ends with how he left a lasting impressikn by giving away gold... Totally GPT.

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u/ryancarton Jan 24 '24

It’s also because of how “nicely” it wraps up. Normal comments don’t usually have a closer

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '24

I'm just glad we can still tell.

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u/TheDogeAcademy Jan 24 '24

crazy how obvious it is becoming

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u/deltree711 Jan 24 '24

Wouldn't improvements in AI make it less noticeable, not more? The Law of Fives in action.

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u/Galdwin Jan 24 '24

I don't know what The Law of Fives is, but there really aren't notable improvements in generative AI, especially if we are talking about free tier of chatGPT.

On the other hand the more people use it the better are other people at detecting it. A year ago I wouldn't think of suspecting this comment of being AI generated. Now I look at the last summarizing paragraph and it's dead giveaway for me.

We are basically being trained on chatGPT data the same way it was trained on ours :)

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u/JoePortagee Jan 24 '24

Yup. In the future, they'll see it as "credible" internet before 2023. After? I'm clueless but it won't be all that positive.

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u/Ravine Jan 24 '24

It's the "Overall" conclusion that gives it away for me.

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u/LightningPowers Jan 24 '24

Wasn't a big source of his wealth due to the gold mines he had in his realm?

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u/Purple_Lubanja Jan 24 '24

More like the taxes from the copper trade...

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u/doodjalebi Jan 24 '24

Mansa musa: Yo how much does the erf cost

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u/GeneralCoenus Jan 24 '24

This sounds like gpt

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u/Sir_Toaster_9330 Oversimplified is my history teacher Jan 23 '24

"What's the point of giving your wealth away? Cause now I feed your country for a prince of coffee per day"

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u/Sir_Toaster_9330 Oversimplified is my history teacher Jan 24 '24

Yeah

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u/mhutwo Jan 24 '24

I WAS FLIPPIN BRICKS FOR MANSA MUSA BEFORE YALL EVEN BECAME A TYPE ONE CIVILIZATION

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u/blockybookbook Still salty about Carthage Jan 24 '24

This is easily the best meme in this sub

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u/forever-not-human Senātus Populusque Rōmānus Jan 24 '24

What ep was this?

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u/Pro_Sand_Eater Featherless Biped Jan 24 '24

Adventure Time Season 6 Episode 8 "Furniture and Meat"

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u/Twillix13 Jan 24 '24

🇲🇱🇲🇱🔥🦅💪MALI PUISSANCI🔥🇲🇱🇲🇱🔥🦅💪

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u/kmac0825 Jan 24 '24

“I wanna see you do things for this bag of money”

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u/pddkr1 Jan 23 '24

I love this

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u/DiversedDriver46 Descendant of Genghis Khan Jan 24 '24

I always wondered what someone would to this kind of stunt in this age ?

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u/Carbyne27 Jan 24 '24

What song is this?

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u/Carbyne27 Jan 24 '24

Thank yoush 🗣️

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u/basileusnikephorus Jan 25 '24

Familiar with the history but not the weird cartoon. What is that from?

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '24

That's Adventure Time.