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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.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, they aren't trained to make "correct" responses, but reasonably looking responses; they aren't truth systems. However, I'm not sure what a truth system would even look like. At a certain point truth/fact become subjective, meaning that we probably have a fundamental problem with how we think about and evaluate these systems.

I mean, it's the whole reason programming languages were created, natural language is ambiguous.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, solipsism existing drives the point about truth home. Thing is, LLMs outright lie without knowing they're lying, because there's no understanding there. It's statistics at the character level.

AI is not my field, so I don't know, either.