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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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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It wouldn't work. No LLM could come up with-

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.

It would blow up the server even attempting it.

[–] NoisyFlake@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait, this is a real speech? Jesus Christ.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Chatgpt does an alright job:

Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you, nuclear power, it's tremendous. You know, it's like golf—you've got these reactors, they're hitting a hole in one every time. And I've hit a lot of hole-in-ones in my time, believe me, nobody hits them better than me.

Now, speaking of holes, we're going to dig deep, deep into the ground for these reactors. I mean, really deep. It's like digging for treasure, and let me tell you, we're going to find the best energy treasure ever. It's going to be huge, folks, huge.

And you've got these particles, these nuclear particles, they're like the best little workers. They're working around the clock, 24/7. I don't even work that hard, and I work hard, believe me. These particles, they're like the employees of the future, always on the job.

Now, let's talk about radiation. People say, "Oh, radiation, it's bad." But you know what? We're going to have the best, the cleanest radiation. It's going to be like a spa treatment, I guarantee it. People will go into our nuclear plants and come out feeling better than ever. It's going to be like a Trump-branded spa, only with radiation.

And the technology, oh boy, it's going to be out of this world. We'll have reactors that are smarter than anyone. I've always said, surround yourself with smart things, and these reactors, they're going to be geniuses. We're talking about genius reactors, folks.

Now, let's talk about energy independence. We're going to be so independent, you won't believe it. We won't need anyone else's energy. We'll be like the cool kid on the block with the best toys, and our toy is nuclear power. It's going to be the envy of the world, believe me.

And you know, I've been to a lot of countries, met a lot of leaders. They all want our nuclear technology. They'll be calling me, saying, "Trump, we need your reactors." And I'll say, "Sure, let's make a deal." Because that's what I do, I make the best deals, nobody makes deals like me.

So, in conclusion, nuclear power, it's fantastic, it's tremendous, it's going to make America great again. We're going to have the best reactors, the best energy, and it's going to be beautiful. Thank you, thank you very much.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sticks to a single line of thought too easily. You need 2-3 separate trains of thought all colliding in one sentence to sound authentic.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just needs a couple hours of fine tuning on every public statement he's ever made. And honestly, it doesn't even need to be a very advanced model, it doesn't need to know anything but screed.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The advanced models don't hallucinate enough to emulate his dementia riddled brain.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Simply generate 7 separate speeches and feed all of them back to GPT. This time, tell it to interlace the speeches. It’s sort if like basket weaving, but with sentences.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

It’s going to be like a Trump-branded spa, only with radiation.

I'm not a big ChatGPT fan, but it's starting to win me over.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

"It's going to be huge, folks, huge...These particles, they're like the employees of the future, always on the job...So, in conclusion, nuclear power, it's fantastic, it's tremendous, it's going to make America great again." Gold!

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I disagree. An infinite number of AIs, given an infinite amount of time, would almost surely generate all text, including the complete word salads of Donald Trump.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, the nukes were prisoners or something?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Don't expect me to parse Donald Trump's ramblings for you. That's beyond my abilities.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if we significantly reduce number of neurons and add lots of randomness?

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Would be really curious to find out what’s the minimum number of neurons required to generate authentic Trump speak.

[–] statist43@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Tell me this is chat gpt!

Please

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And a lot of sentences containing the words tremendous and fake news.

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But it would be the greatest chatbot, tremendous, the best...

[–] dwalin@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a totally unfair and incorrect statement, believe me. If you trained a chatbot with his statements, it would be the most accurate and successful chatbot ever, probably the best in history. We're talking about statements from a very successful President, someone who knows what he's talking about. This chatbot would be tremendous, it would have the best words, the best facts. People would be amazed at how great it is. You'd see a chatbot that's not only factual but also very, very smart, just like him. /s

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

Haha the best facts

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Since when do you get factual statements from normal chatbots?

[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends on the data they are trained on.

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Chatbots aren't designed to return correct answers. They're designed to return answers that sound correct.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 2 years ago

Which is already a step up from Donald Trump.

[–] kubica@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

For once the hallucinations wouldn't stand out.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 years ago

although it would turn racist faster than Tay

[–] Rottcodd@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I doubt you'd even get a coherent sentence. Just random strings of emotive nouns and adjectives with irrelevant verbs sprinkled in here and there.

[–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

You'd have the best answer, you'd have lots of them. In fact, no one would ever give a better answer than me. In the entire world. That's how good my answers are. And people love them. They're crazy about my answers.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Someone should do this. It reminds me of those old translators for Beeker-speak and other "dialects".

ETA: Swedish Chef Translator: https://funtranslations.com/chef

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Duneld Truomp is zee-a feenest President zee-a US hed ifer hed! Bork Bork Bork!

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Frankly, you can just use the auto-suggest option on your phone and end up with some trump-esqe stuff...

Nuclear, I think, I can get it to you in a few minutes and then you have a good day and the same to be honest.

Only thing it's missing is some repetition/double back, which trump does a lot.

[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I have asked for the price of the academy that you have prior knowledge of and I would like the opportunity to discuss with you the best possible way to change it .

I have not listened to him enough to know how good my phone did, but I did like the results.

[–] mydude@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

"We're keeping the oil, we have the oil, the oil is secure, we left troops behind only for the oil." they hate him mostly because, sometimes, he blurts out the inconvenient truth.

[–] SirStumps@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Him particularly being a narcissistic lier I wouldn't doubt it but I believe that most politicians bend the truth or omit it.

[–] oDDmON@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

But they’d all be laced with insults.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

In other news water is wet and space is big.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Please, don't!

[–] Zorque@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

I think it'd be great at identifying objects on sight.