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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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You've already got one :
LLM's!
Simply ask them "what if.."
& see all the consequences you didn't foresee.
LLM's are the ultimate brainstorming help.
Idiots & fools allow them to do their work for them, & wonder why "their" work is no-longer up to their standards,
.. but just because idiots & fools use technologies wrong, doesn't mean WE have to do that too, right?
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Nice try Gemini
Eh... I asked a LLM what if I arrived in the US when I was 6 instead of 8 and it predicted I'd probably totally forget my knowledge of Chinese and be more American... and it said I'd be responding in English instead of Cantonese... and that I would not feel so sentinental towards my Chinese name and constantly write those Characters on my assignments in school next to the Pinyin Name...
Like...
I don't know about that... seems like it got a lot of data from just stereotyping...
I want like a superpowerful computer that can predict the movement of every particle in the universe...
Laplace's Demon sort of thing...
How much data do I need to even feed it to get it to make an accurate prediction? A full brain scan?
But then that runs into a privacy issue.
I want an OFF GRID what if machine that I can destroy so nobody has a map of my brain...
Have you seen Devs (2020) series? From Hulu if I recall it correctly. The story rhymes with what you want.