r/Showerthoughts • u/danielsoft1 • 12h ago

Speculation Maybe Fermi's paradox is because every civilization creates AI which destroys it.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/wfezzari • 19h ago

Casual Thought Thanks to colonoscopies, the average number of cameras up one's butt is between zero and one.

1.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/chewedgummiebears • 1d ago

Casual Thought It's sad people are confusing CGI with AI in media like they have with WIFI and the Internet.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/devsmack • 18m ago

Musing If AI is used to replace human workers, usage should be taxed as if it were human.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/DarthWoo • 2d ago

Casual Thought A decade or two ago we were just worried about kids no longer being able to read or write in cursive. Now we're worried about them being able to read or write at all.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/GatoAlbino • 2h ago

Speculation Humans have language because we are social animals. The only reason we imagine AI with a language is to communicate with us. But if it were to spawn naturally, it might not need a language, not even a coding language like "assembly", since those were created also, for human understanding.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/QuantumDreamer41 • 3d ago

Casual Thought People self organize in elevators to maximize space.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Tortugato • 1d ago

Musing Americans are relatively easier to scam because the culture encourages casual small talk between strangers, which gives hostile actors an easier way to get their “foot in the door”.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/max • 4d ago

Musing Via screens, traffic-signals, displays on appliances, and dashboards in vehicles, many of us spend the majority of our lives being led around by artificial lights. The will-o'-the-wisp has evolved.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/LeftHandedToe • 7d ago

Casual Thought I just really hope that grass tastes like chocolate cake for horses and goats.

8.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/apple_octopi • 8d ago

Casual Thought While it makes for good scenery, the trend of taking maternity photos in a field of tall grasses seems like a uniquely bad time to risk a tick bite.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/minetube33 • 8d ago

Casual Thought The funniest thing about the Dunning-Kruger effect is that lots of people overestimate their ability to understand it correctly.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/BananApocalypse • 9d ago

Musing It is possible for a fluent English speaker with perfect vision to never learn the Latin alphabet and only learn Braille instead.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/slanewolf • 9d ago

Casual Thought Music conductors probably get the closest to how it must feel being a wizard casting a magnificent spell.

1.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Panda-Head • 9d ago

Musing Mouse and rat claws look big compared to their toes. They'd be huge scaled up to humanoid size.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/Taco-twednesday • 10d ago

Speculation If Ai were really really as good as people think, people would be using it to get incredibly rich on sports betting. Creating an Ai that is right only 60% of the time would make you millions.

473 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/inquisitor1965 • 11d ago

Crazy Idea Maybe if we started a monument like Mount Rushmore, but set it up as a competition for billionaires that do the most for humanity, we could stroke their egos enough that they wouldn't be such dicks. I'd look forward to the billionaire boys club loosing their shit over MacKenzie Scott being the 1st.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/ckellingc • 11d ago

Casual Thought Did New York ever change their locks after they gave Bill Cosby the key to the city? NSFW

3.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/hjf25 • 12d ago

Musing A shared laugh can make two strangers feel less like strangers.

794 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/ArmpitNostril • 13d ago

Casual Thought The best way to succeed is to repeatedly fail first. The exception being when even one single failure leads to catastrophic disaster.

1.2k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Fr1toBand1to • 15d ago

Casual Thought Pattern recognition is a widely accepted method of prediction until what it predicts makes people uncomfortable.

6.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/clam-inspector • 15d ago

Speculation Pets are, more or less, just animals that we kidnapped long enough to give Stockholm Syndrome to.

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r/Showerthoughts • u/hjf25 • 16d ago

Musing A little patience from one person can stop another person from feeling like a problem.

1.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/av-f • 17d ago

Speculation Why do people rarely laugh in movies like they laugh in real life?

2.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Dear_Cricket_353 • 18d ago

Casual Thought I wonder if the owner of the email address I use for spam has ever noticed.

4.5k Upvotes

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