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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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- 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 perceived danger of AI in 20th century science fiction was never really about the level of intelligence and only rarely about it being sentient.
It was more about ruthless efficiency being done without intelligence or compassion.
This theme goes even further back to the first movies like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times, or later in Pink Floyd's The Wall, where the same danger originates from man made procedures, rather than AI. This theme is often made as a reference to the Nazi regime which operated with rigid and efficient procedures.
Anyway, current AI is neither intelligent or efficient.
Computers are fast though, and that itself could be a sort of danger, especially when operated by Nazis.