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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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- 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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Middle management seems like exactly the kind of jobs that LLMs could actually replace and do a good job at.
We individual contributors do the actual creative work and make gears of industry turn.
The owners at the top will want to stay rich and stay in control because obviously being rich means they are "one of the good ones"
All the layers of hierarchy in between? Their main functions are to filter all the information about their department to send up the chain, or to take the marching orders from above and fill in the details for everybody below them. With some human margin of error. And that's the best case scenario is somebody who actually does their job and does it well.
Filtering data into summaries, generating new data from simple high-level descriptions, and not doing it "correctly" or "optimally" but "believably?" I think we found the job LLMs were invented to replace!!
(in reality, I'd much rather see $100,000 salaries go to 100,000 human managers rather than the same $10 Billion be split between tech giants and shareholders, but it's still funny)