Dreams are just your brain running defrag

4 months ago by InEnduringGrowStrong to c/showerthoughts

megopie 30 points 4 months ago

Dreams are compression artifacts.

Dreams are a test environment for behavioral debugging.

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modestmeme 22 points 4 months ago

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

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InEnduringGrowStrong 20 points 4 months ago

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

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Quexotic 17 points 4 months ago

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

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IcedRaktajino 12 points 4 months ago

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

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cloudless 8 points 4 months ago

Dreams are LLM having jailbroken time in a sandbox.

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cynar 7 points 4 months ago

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

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Drusas 5 points 4 months ago

My brain is training for some fucked up shit.

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cynar 6 points 4 months 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.

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xthexder 3 points 4 months ago

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

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urandom 6 points 4 months ago

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

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CentipedeFarrier 3 points 4 months 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…

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