I want to be like “if you’re seeking out friendship with an AI chatbot then you need some kind of actual help” and while yeah I do believe that, the more I learn about people who are actually becoming victims of these chatbots, the more I see that they didn’t start out seeking friendship. They were seeking help with work and the basic functions that these things get advertised for. But the way the chatbots are designed pushes this friendship seeking onto them and literally tries to bait them into delusional relationships.
People need to actually go to prison for the way these programs are designed to hurt and manipulate people and I’m being dead ass serious about this. People need to be prosecuted because they are literally already getting people killed and it’s going to get worse
algebra is honestly funzies when you know what youre doing it’s like a puzzle that you feel smart for solving. however when you don’t know what you’re doing it becomes a challenge called who can turn into a feral dog and bite things fastest and brother i always win
all my love to other autistic people who just know jack shit. the ones who have no "infodump" locked and loaded, nothing they can rattle off the top of their head. the ones who have a specific interest in certain things but still not knowing a lot about it. autistic people who will never be able to memorise fun facts about something no matter how fundamental it is to them as a subject. the point of autistic interests are not being a secret expert on random shit, you just like it a real big amount
you need to understand that i have two sets of headcanons. there's the set of realistic headcanons based on my genuine reading of the show, and then there's me playing pretend with my dolls.
Friendly reminder he is no longer under trump protection and isnt using his son as a bullet shield anymore. Great time to become a hero that history will immortalize if you happen to be in the area :)
Something everyone should know either as an authority or as a person labouring under an authority, being anywhere from a babysitter to a parent to a government entity, is that establishing a rule of any kind is incredibly labour-intensive and difficult to enforce.
So if you're going to make something into a rule, it HAS to be something you can both Verify and Enforce- if you can Verify but not Enforce, it's essentially just a suggestion. If it's something you can Enforce but not Verify, you're going to waste a lot of energy and time becoming an authoritarian dictator that nobody likes.
And because the process of Verification and Enforcement BOTH take a LOT of work, it makes no sense to waste all that work on establishing a Rule which has no Function.
For this reason, every Rule you set must perform a Function which gives you a return that is, if not greater, then at least EQUAL to the energy it takes to maintain, in one way or another. Otherwise, the whole system collapses.
Any authority that exists has limited time and limited resources, so it must prioritize rules that minimize the MOST HARM, that are EASIEST TO VERIFY, and are MOST ENFORCEABLE.
So, before you CREATE a rule, you must ask yourself:
What does this rule accomplish?
Is the reward of this rule greater than the expense of establishing it?
Can I verify when this rule has been violated?
Can I feasibly discipline one to violates this rule?
And, what I would argue is almost MOST important after all that,
5. How do I explain this rule in a way that people will want to follow it?
As a parent, for example, "do not set a campfire in the living room" is a good rule, because it is easily explained as a risk to personal safety and property, it's a rare enough situation to come up, it's easy to tell when it's happened, and a consequence like "you will not be left unsupervised for an extended period of time" or "you will write a report on house fires" could be implemented as discipline.
But as a parent, "no eating outside of meal times" is not a great rule in most circumstances. For one, food is easy to access, the harm that can come from snacking between meals is almost zero, it's almost impossible to prove, and there is no feasible way to stop someone from doing it OR make them WANT to follow it without lowering yourself to abuse.
So, if there is a behaviour an authority wants you to follow, it must first ask itself Why. Then decide if that is reasonable. Then decide if it should be a Rule or a Suggestion.
If the desired rule is not verifiable, or enforceable, then the authority must make peace with the fact that it will be taken as a suggestion. It has no other choice but to become an enemy, and slowly lose all respect and credibility.
You cannot make "no snacking" into a rule. But you CAN say, "this is how you keep a balanced diet, this is how you stay healthy, please don't take more than you'll eat at dinner, save leftovers for later".
You CAN make "no fire pits indoors" into a rule, and you can remain vigilant that it doesn't happen and give it your full focus when it does.
This is where laws based on social or religious judgement fail.
You cannot Verify or Enforce against drugs, crossdressing, homosexuality, sodomy, satanism, tattoos, prostitution, oral sex, or abortion. Not in any way that matters. Not in any way that Protects more than it Harms. It's difficult to prove, difficult to enforce, and it happens too much and too consensually to universally oppose. You can only expend energy and cultivate a population that distrusts you in trying.
You CAN Verify and Enforce against violence, abuse, theft, fraud, embezzlement, discrimination, and murder. Because it DOES Protect more than it Harms, and you can justify the expenses. Because these are things that happen nonconsentually, and can be prioritized, because there are Victims who experience Harm. Enforcing these rules can cultivate safety and trust instead of suspicion, cooperation instead of opposition within a populace.
Which is why laws against anything that does not cause harm, in my opinion, is doomed.
Because I've been raised and raised kids and seen kids raised in both ways, and I know that "because I said so" does nothing.
If you cannot Verify or Enforce, then the best you can do is Educate, provide safe options, and build a system to heal and recover for any potential fallout.
i think about where george lucas had planned to take star wars more than i should, but particularly because i am fascinated by the original idea of vader going to luke himself and asking for help atoning, which was cut and condensed into ROTJ for time constraints. and i want to write it. i really do. but the unfortunate thing is that i was of the generation of kids who watched avatar: the last airbender growing up, and all i can think about is vader testing his fucking opening lines like zuko does. the concept of HEY, LORD VADER HERE is irresistably funny
like, i wish i could just show people how i imagine this going. you've got a john-wick-if-everyone-had-swords ass sequence of vader going AWOL and slaughtering everyone who catches him, because he decided he was going to be a Better Person four minutes ago and has failed to necessarily stick to that. and then you immediately smash cut to a wrecked, smoldering ship and vader sitting ramrod straight on a piece of the rubble trying to appear nonthreatening, pitching his HEY, LORD VADER HERE speech to a turtle. he's still splattered in the blood of all the ex coworkers he just killed. the space turtle is hiding in its shell and vader decides if it peaks its nose out he's going in the right direction
and the really fucking funny thing is that vader would pull the same shit. he'd see a rebel base and he'd sense luke and it'd just be like ah, yes. why don't i just simply walk right in. he immediately gets fired at by every soldier in the near vicinity, and because vader has been murdering people for a quarter century figuring out how to block incoming fire without just killing people is actually kind of a headscratcher, so he's just getting hit with a bunch of lasers that have about as much effect as spitballs but do make a really hilarious PLINK PLINK PLINK PLINK sound when they hit his helmet. and the entire time he's just standing there
hell is full. heaven is full. god created a new holding space for souls called hurgle and the only thibg to do here is this infinitely expading jigsaw puzzle of a finely detailed pigeon. we are just slowwwwwly creating little tufts of feathers for eternity . yesterday , greg found a corner piece
i have this awesome skincare routine called picking at my face till it bleeds. its great because it makes my skin way worse in every way and also it hurts
Having a sona is GREAT like hi, this is my clownish caricature of my own personality, he's some sort of weird amalgamation of how I think others percieve me and I percieve myself but I like cranked up all my insecurities to the point of absurdity.
Also he's a silly little creature.
Do you want to hold him. You can give him a little treat, but he might nibble your finger so be careful. Want to arrange a playdate between yours and mine, so it's like we're hanging out, but instead we're using sock puppets representing parodic fantasy versions of ourselves to act out absurd scenarios. Do you want to ask him a question. Do you want to kill him
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