Submitted 1 day ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Alt universe Showerthought:
[I really want to live in the Universe where I didn’t commit murder to get this “What If” Machine… I can already hear the police sirens getting louder…]
Reminds me of the black mirror episode where someone has the power to change reality, whatever she says happened in the past retroactively comes true. Probably inspired by the Mandela effect
You’ve already got one :
LLM’s!
Simply ask them “what if…”
& see all the consequences you didn’t foresee.
LLM’s are the ultimate brainstorming help.
Idiots & fools allow them to do their work for them, & wonder why “their” work is no-longer up to their standards,
… but just because idiots & fools use technologies wrong, doesn’t mean WE have to do that too, right?
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I think the heart of the OP’s sentiment is to see all of the true results from the question, whereas an LLM could only provide imaginary possibilities. There’s nothing inherently more accurate about AI output than human imagination, since it is trained on it.
Nice try Gemini
Eh… I asked a LLM what if I arrived in the US when I was 6 instead of 8 and it predicted I’d probably totally forget my knowledge of Chinese and be more American… and it said I’d be responding in English instead of Cantonese… and that I would not feel so sentinental towards my Chinese name and constantly write those Characters on my assignments in school next to the Pinyin Name…
Like…
I don’t know about that… seems like it got a lot of data from just stereotyping…
I want like a superpowerful computer that can predict the movement of every particle in the universe…
Laplace’s Demon sort of thing…
How much data do I need to even feed it to get it to make an accurate prediction? A full brain scan?
But then that runs into a privacy issue.
I want an OFF GRID what if machine that I can destroy so nobody has a map of my brain…
Have you seen Devs (2020) series? From Hulu if I recall it correctly. The story rhymes with what you want.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
You could just create a Fing Longer and the rest would fall into place for you.