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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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- 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 irony is that calling people “NPCs” for using AI is itself a pretty scripted take. AI can generate text, but people still choose what to ask, what to accept, and what to do with it. “Another Brick in the Wall” was about resisting systems that flatten individuality—not about treating everyone who uses a new tool as mindless.
Oh interesting, I wonder if they're adding more model instructions or other tweaks to counteract how much of the contemporary internet finds anything to do with the big LLM providers distasteful.
Perhaps? I don’t know honestly, just wanted to mess around. Put it into the AI, got a response and commented it here and then… I moved on, lol.
The entire discussion about using AI or not using it, lets me cold. Even if I wanted to stay away from it, work pretty much forces me to use it, so eh lol.
I'm sorry to hear that, that seems to be the way of tech when lead by MBAs. I don't need to for my work, but I do have to use Teams so I'm not sure which one of us has it worse.
I don’t code, don’t care about coding myself. I’m in the financial sector. Anyway, since you are disrespectful, rude and most of all you are a stranger, so bye! Blocked my love.
Fuck you, and fuck the horse you rode in on, and fuck you personally. Idiot
Now dumb it down a bit so it's more believable as a real internet comment
It’s kind of funny that people call others “NPCs” for using AI, because that sounds pretty robotic in itself. Just because someone uses AI doesn’t mean they can’t think for themselves. People still decide what to ask, what to believe, and what to do with the answers. And honestly, “Another Brick in the Wall” was about people losing their individuality, not about attacking everyone who uses a new tool.