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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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i.e. A worse version of "have your people call my people"

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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I am sorry, but our AIs are just not compatible.

I would like to go out, but I need to brush my AIs hair.

Sorry, I already have an AI friend.

You are like an AI to me.

[–] Maiq@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The AI you are trying to reach has been disconnected or is no longer in service. Please fuck off, don't try again.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

She's still running AIBot 372.31, I don't allow SpiffyBot 4723.13 to interact with those sorts of bots.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This isn't the future any of us wanted.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

Speak for yourself, i am terrified of phone calls.

Don’t like many parts of how ai is killing social contact but this one very specific part, yes please.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

it's the future we allowed to happen.

I'm still fighting against it. I'll slow down and sabotage anything I can with AI.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The end game of all this is we sit at home living on our universal basic income and and AI runs our lives, it's all AI talking to AI. Except I'm not sure how we will eat, maybe a series of feeding tubes could be installed to each house to dispense the appropriate amount of food based on BMI and social status.

Lol no it's not is going to be fucking Elysium. And that's only if they actually figure out how to do AGI not LLM bs

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 8 points 2 days ago

Would be great. Never going to happen in a capitalist society though. No private company is going to allow it to happen. So governments would have to make their own and outcompete the private companies.

Not even European countries, or for that matter my own country, Denmark, is going to do that, because competing against private companies is seen as a bad thing for some stupid fucking reason.

[–] balgruuf@nord.pub 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“have your people call my people"

Do you have people?

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 4 points 2 days ago

Do you not?