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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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- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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The danger isn't just bad art, and only thinking of genAI is naive. It's about how it's being woven into the systems that manage us. It can already analyze years of a person's digital activity to make automated judgments on employment or detect "wrongthink" in political contexts. We’re essentially building an invisible bureaucracy that can categorize and penalize people at a scale no human could ever audit. And do so at speed an efficiency that not even a whole department of humans could ever compete with. That's the atom bomb.
Algorithmic internet is already a horrible problem and AI can make it worse.
Yeah I'm worried about them
a) creating botnets that simulate grassroots political movements
b) as this user said, the joke about everybody having their own government agent was absurd because that level of attention given to an individuals activity was impossible. That's about to be a lot less impossible.