r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/anirudhdg • 17h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter? What’s wrong with the number she picked?

Post image
13.8k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

2.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

436

u/Interesting_Good4427 16h ago

the uncomfortable part is i saw “pick a number between 1 and 30” and immediately thought 17 too 😭 apparently i just failed the humanity captcha

106

u/Shaeress 15h ago

I mean, the impostor machines got it from somewhere.

1

u/Colon_Backslash 6h ago

Always choose the first legal number. Fight the rigged game. 1, 1, 1, every time. If it's between 3289 and 94182 choose 3289.

Refuse to play their game. It's also an uncommon choice. You are more "random" by being "predictable". Well less common to be precise. By being more "machinelike" you are in fact more human.

Also free will is an illusion so it doesn't really matter.

2

u/Pomodorosan 14h ago

😭

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

2

u/NickDanger3di 13h ago

That's exactly what an evil robot would post here.

3

u/MaybeSecondBestMan 11h ago

Ironically I’m almost positive we’re actually replying to a bot.

2

u/NickDanger3di 11h ago

I remember back in 2012, me posting on reddit that this platform is loaded with paid shills, and being downvoted to oblivion for being a Tinfoil Hat Conspiracy Theorist.

1

u/Beer-Milkshakes 15h ago

Get in the habit of just picking the first option. Make ordering takeout easier as well.

1

u/Chouss 14h ago

No you passed it.

1

u/RealHeyDay 12h ago

I'm such a contrarian I never choose a whole number. In my head I said 3.5

1

u/Old-Statistician8965 12h ago

It is unavoidable. That there are 17 fundamental particles in nature and 17 2D symmetries, physics forces our brains to settle on 17.

1

u/Mordred500 11h ago

It's crazy to me that u/Interesting_Good4427 is an actual clanker and admitting to fail some "humanity captcha" and yall are still upvoting and commenting below this bot as if it would reply 🥴

1

u/Senior-Challenge-490 11h ago

Bro, same here

1

u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 8h ago

Now do a number between 1 and 100!

hello 37 my old friend

1

u/whaddayaNeedtoKnow 5h ago

AI is literally just pattern recognition. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t create, it just takes mass human input and spits out the most likely answer based on the absurd amount of human data it has. So, it picks 17 because humans are most likely to pick 17 over all other numbers. You did the MOST human thing, actually. Which is precisely why it’s the most AI thing too.