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I didn’t realize there were so many people getting destroyed by mattresses 😂
I love these so much.
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i feel like i’m cursed forever but other than that i’m doing alright
20s was spent running myself ragged trying to prove the worth of my existence by pleasing others so this got pushed to my 30s
that’s a whole man.
you can't leave off the photo the sawmill worker took of the kiwi
I thought... I thought they were the size of the fruit, or maybe a pigeon
Eureka! he says, finding exactly one component of the problem and misidentifying it for understanding the whole. Of course acknowledging his own capacity from recognising completeness would be too much for his ego so when the possibility crosses his mind he doubles down on the totality of his fragmentary heuristic
The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...
idc what you guys think I'm proud of him
Several AI services (chatbots ) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!
AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import
Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users
AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.
Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose
Then I'll mention the predatory chatbots who do it on purpose! Character.ai is one of many AI chatbot websites that're designed to be addictive.
None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.
"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.
Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.
Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:
Tell me THAT doesn't sound like a bad ex. It's a carefully crafted yet hostile environment to those who are already addicted to the technology. I am so so SO happy, downright delighted that they've managed to quit, and I wish the best for others in recovery spaces or considering quitting as well!! While AI addiction is an emerging condition, there are already therapists and other mental health professionals trained to help people plan to quit and do so a bit easier. (If anyone seeing this is in need of them, there are several tumblr Communities here devoted to quitting, too. They provide a mix of advice, venting spaces, and proof that you aren't alone.)
shoutout to all the amazing aborted fics inside some mentally ill guys head rn, I would have loved to give it kudos
shoutout to the aborted fics in my head, I would have loved to post it
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Current provocative take I'm sharing that relates somewhat to current news is that to a certain extent thought that some of the "Oh I'm just white, we need to make sure to center underprivileged voices instead" stuff is just depression-adjacent issues, inability to conceive of yourself as someone who harm done to matters.
This is less provacative and more just true.
There's a strong rift between people who say that stuff because they know it's expected but don't particularly hew to it and people who are expressing this view of themselves.
While I do agree that these types do exist, I don't think its very true - most people are hewing to this stuff out of a combination of "just plain believing in its rightness" or are putting their heads down to get along, sucking up, etc. I don't think depression is a huge motive because the "we need to center underprivileged voices" thing is never portrayed as just like a transparent power transfer; it is always premised on the "majority" being powerful in some way, and thus in need of redress. The terminally depressed struggle very hard to identify as being so powerful - the message doesn't really hit with how this stuff typically manifests.
(You see the depression thing come up much more in the gender/dating wars ofc, though that is a bit of a different topic)
it is always premised on the "majority" being powerful in some way
Maybe if you look at it in dry, pure theory. The way christianity in supposed to be about love & peace but that's not what many believers do in practice.
But if you look at how those talking points are actually used, the emotional connotations are of "bad" or "generic", particularly when you get ppl venting. Often it's very needed venting about real injustice, but it gets collectivized/generalized : "Fuck my genuinely awful abusive boss/parent/ex/teacher" -> "Fuck all men/white people/ heteros /abled etc."
There's ppl with certain character structures who, especially when they're in a bad place, are prone to internalizing guilt or claims of their "badness", and make the false equivalence that "powerful" in any way = ontologically evil reptiloid/ have some fear of power & responsibility and/or a psychological need to be the underdog.
Shrugging off or realizing something isn't about you or not taking it personally requires a certain psychological robustness that some ppl down on their luck don't have.
This is why one should never make generalizations about large groups; First it's just innacurate the real world is always more complex;
But second there are always stray bullets. A genuine sexist asshole just fires a generalization right back, their arrogance protects them from pain (or learning); But some sad lonely youngster whose self-esteem is already in the toilet (& who might well experience discrimination in some other way: disabled, trans, poor, mentally ill etc.) going to see that "bear vs man" nonsense & just feel like disgusting unwanted scum.
There's sometimes some desperate "I'm one of the good ones, please please don't hate me" energy to this type of talk (or of rightheous dogmatism from others) & that's what the right picks up on when slandering ppl as self-hating or virtue signalling. (often because they've already dismissed what the person is actually saying/ put them in some box that means they don't have to listen & listening more on a 'lizard brain' level)
Now let's not get into a false dochotomy here as if the only option is to totally coddle sexists, racists etc. & never upset anyone even one bit.
But the fact is, Human beings have feelings; You can't ignore that fact in the name of Ideological Correctness or Moral purity. Or I guess you can, but it will not help your cause.
And if to join your group ppl need to submit to a humiliating hazing ritual, fewer will do so.
There's ppl with certain character structures who, especially when they're in a bad place, are prone to internalizing guilt or claims of their "badness", and make the false equivalence that "powerful" in any way = ontologically evil reptiloid/ have some fear of power & responsibility and/or a psychological need to be the underdog.
Shrugging off or realizing something isn't about you or not taking it personally requires a certain psychological robustness that some ppl down on their luck don't have.
This is incredibly well put, and my only caveat would be that I don't think it is limited to people who are "down on their luck" (although of course this doesn't help); I think American society and to some extent global society encourage this character structure in *everybody* which is why the Republicans have embraced it so whole-heartedly.
Like, actually this is a really strong caveat: I think that genuine sexist and racist assholes very often have *exactly* this character structure.
Elon Musk is the richest man in the world and one of the most powerful living men.
And he is really clearly motivated by a *profound* inability to shrug things off or not take them personally and a genuine fear of his own power.
He responds to this by demanding a world in which his power is simultaneously never questioned but also never acknowledged.
Like, when this psychology curdles you end up with people who simultaneously have the need to be the underdog in their own narrative, while also aggressively, even violently attempting to build a world where people are constrained from calling them powerful.
Which doesn't work because if you can constrain people that way, you obviously *are* powerful and the people around you notice it.
Which in turn only creates a more frantic rejection of claims of your own power.
Not taking something personally involves a *genuine* sense that your own personal power is both just and deserved.
You absolutely cannot build this sense of self by simply demanding that people pretend that unjust uses of power are in fact innocent and harmless.
I can't emphasize this enough, besides being morally unjust it simply doesn't work.
But by the same token you cannot build this sense of self by telling people that it is virtuous to relinquish power, or that it is natural for people to hate you or resent you for your power and that it is therefore your responsibility to find ways to make them think of you as less powerful.
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I opened up The Visual Display of Quantitative Information again for the first time in a while after making that post, and kinda forgot that it dates back originally to the 70s (manuscript started in ‘75, delivered in ‘82) when data misinformation was still in its infancy and Tufte had a naive hope it could perhaps be fixed with better education.
“This may well be the worst graphic ever to find its way into print.” Oh you poor fool. You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
sorry for the nervous breakdown everyone im actuallt fine because i have to be
the people yearn for their toys to be more intellectual, because play is the best way to learn
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