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Showerthoughts

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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.

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Cars turned us—one of the best species in long distance running into couch potatoes.

Now llms are attacking our brains and making us stupid and insane. A species of slopheads if you will.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 77 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

steve jobs famously called the personal computer "a bicycle for the mind", in that it's a tool that makes you more efficient. calling language models "an automobile for the mind" in that it gets you there very quickly, without any expended effort, locks you into specific intrastructure, and is bad for the environment, seems pretty apt.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

This would be the same Steve Jobs that thought an all-fruit diet both killed cancer and made it so he didn't have to shower? The one who died when Eliza was still state of the art?

[–] Prathas@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, you sorta have to be a little mad (crazy) to invent touchscreen phones, no?

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 5 days ago

PDA's were already everywhere, so that was only a small step, if he even had them invented.

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