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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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Dreams are just your brain running defrag (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Dreams are compression artifacts.

Dreams are a test environment for behavioral debugging.

[–] modestmeme@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

I loved defragging computers. Cool simple graphics, that sound, and the sense I was doing great and necessary work.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Screenshot from https://defrag98.com/ for the nostalgics.

[–] Quexotic@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago

I remember this and I loved it because it would make my computer run significantly faster.

[–] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 12 points 4 days ago

fstrim needs a fancy TUI version of this since TRIM is the modern analogue of degragging.

[–] cloudless@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Dreams are LLM having jailbroken time in a sandbox.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not far off. It's the brain in training mode.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My brain is training for some fucked up shit.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Given it's designed to protect us from some SERIOUSLY fucked up shit... (E.g. a leopard jumps on our back intend on eating you)

Half the time it's just playing what if games with the most fucked up inputs. If you're ever in a similar situation, that "training" will come in VERY useful.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Dreams are 100% hallucinations, so maybe if the LLM could dream it would understand reality better by learning the difference.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Dreams are just you temporarily taking over another you in another dimension

[–] CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

The dull process of defragging, cleaning, and optimizing computers was very zen. I kinda miss the ritual. Fixing computers today is a much bigger to-do than debloating and optimizing back in the day that I got paid for while babysitting.

Problems now just seem bigger and are built in. Like the laptop that mapped c to d instead for some reason. Bug of the hardware/software pairing. Cool…