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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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Tradeoffs like not understanding time and always giving an answer even when there isn't one.
They're getting a little better about that as time goes on, but yeah, last year the time blindless was a major handicap at times.
On questions like geometrically constrained requirements, they're pretty good at telling you when a problem is overconstrained such that there is no answer, but... in the fuzzier world of underspecified questions, they'll stretch pretty far to make up an answer. In the world of computer programming, sometimes that's a brilliant move - they "make up" some code, compile it, test it, and it works - it's actually a functional solution.
The other day I challenged Gemini to find a person that I had a vague description of, Gemini went out and made up a name, job title, vague description of their publication history. When I pressed for actual evidence, its answers were evasive, and when I finally cornered it with a demand for anything concrete proving this person actually exists it came clean with "I hallucinated that."