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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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I have no idea what you're getting at, but it's a fact that every minute - if not every second - AI-generated content is being published that you could never read in your entire lifetime.
That's the scale we're talking about.
Try to imagine what that might mean for people who make a living doing anything that could even remotely be called creative work.
Like I said, when the world falls apart, I'll give you all the credit for being right. Just let me know when it happens.
Its not the world falling apart, just what we understand to be culture.
We thought the machines would take over the jobs to give us time enough to create great works of art of all sorts, and then we find out right at the last minute that actually the machines will be taking care of art because we're too busy working multiple jobs.
What we understand to be culture changes every fifty years or so. Have you waltzed to a harpsichord or taken the family to a public execution lately? Now, THAT was culture.
I havent seen a harpsichord or lion-fight lately, but even then it was humans doing it. Humans invented something, other humans participated.
Even CGI had humans doing it just with increasingly easy/powerful tools. Even dubstep had a human composer.
Yesterday we used the machines to create. Today we ask the machines to create. Tomorrow the machines just create for us.