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…]

  • 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…

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      6 days ago

      Have you seen Devs (2020) series? From Hulu if I recall it correctly. The story rhymes with what you want.