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this is my museum, where i curate other peoples posts to look at.
pony art? @taffydawn
percy jackson art/thoughts? @plumbingbabygoodbye
if newt gingrich replaced his "ging" with a "rient"... let's just say i'd be a lot more interested 🤤
a cat is a sort of machine that dispenses hair all over you and everything else in the room
if you've ever pet more than a few dogs you'd Know what dog residue is
Thank you all SO MUCH for coming down to see me perform at the Whinny City concert! Y'all were so warm and kind to me, and it was such a joy to perform for you all~✨
This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.
This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).
Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct
do you ever feel yourself fail a charisma check in real time
I often talk about reality checking and going along with it when helping someone deal with delusions, but I felt as if I didn’t really make it clear to what I meant when I said it.
Recently I saw a post similar to “how to sneakily give your delusional friend a reality check when they told you not to” and honestly, that’ll just make us lose trust for you. Because we can tell when you do that.
[Image IDs: Image #1: Flowchart titled “My friend is experiencing a delusion!”
First box: Have they asked you to give them reality checks when they have a delusion. Green “yes” leads to a green box reading: Reality Check. Pink “no” leads to a pink box reading: Let it be / Go Along With It. Black “no, but im still worried” leads to a box reading: Have you asked if you can give them reality checks and they said?
Green “yes” leads to a green box reading: Reality Check. Pink “no” leads to a pink box reading: Let it be / Go Along With It. Black “they said no but im still worried” leads to box reading: Have you asked if there is anything else you can do instead.
Green “yes” leads to green box reading: Do that instead. Pink “no” leads to a pink box reading: Let it be / Go Along With It.
Image #2: Pink box with text reading: What Letting it Be / Going Along With It Is Not: (red “X” bullet points)
adding new information to the delusion / trying to send your friend deeper into the delusion
“that must be scary to believe something that isn’t real”
“keep that to yourself, the more you talk about it the more you’ll encourage yourself”
dismissing your friend’s delusions, saying “everyone thinks like that once in awhile.”
trying to distract your friend from their delusion or act as if it’s a game
What Letting it Be / Going Along With It Is: (blue checkmark bullet points)
allowing your friend to vent or express themselves ( sometimes just talking about their delusions out loud can help them question it )
“I’m so sorry that you’re going through that”
encouraging your friend to express their delusions through poetry, song, art, or other non-harmful things they enjoy
“If that becomes too over whelming for you, you can call me and ask for comfort or a distraction”
allowing your delusional friend to feel safe around you, allowing them to healthily express themselves
Image #3: Green box with text reading: What Reality Checking Is Not: (red “X” bullet points)
“Snap out of it, it’s just a delusion.”
“That’s impossible.”
“Think about it for a second, then you’ll snap out of it”
forcing your friend into the hospital
calling the police on your friend
trying to fix or stop the delusion
What Reality Checking Is: (blue “checkmark” bullet points)
“Could you describe the evidence you have for your belief?”
“How firm are you with this belief? Would you be okay with other suggestions on what could be happening?”
“You’re going to be okay, what you’re fearing won’t hurt you.”
“Can we take a step back? Is what you’re going through effecting those around you?”
“Has what you believe happened to anyone else? What is the likeliness of this being real?”
Helping your friend question the delusion or become aware of how the delusion is affecting them.
/End IDs]
:/ good job me.
So I had a job interview today and there was a dude in the waiting room who was chatting up every AFAB person in the waiting room whether they responded or not, and kept going “Hey I’m real good at Origami Swans you want one?” and then writing his number on sticky notes before making paper cranes and handing them to his latest target before turning his attention to the next lady in his vicinity. A little sad, a lot annoying, but unlikely to be dangerous. Whatever.
Dude gets to me. We have half a conversation where he asks me personal questions and I don’t look up from my phone. I get my “Swan”. I’m the last AFAB person in the room so he’s kinda sitting there.
I get to a post about a friend needing moral and/or spiritual support before a medical procedeure, so my ADHD ass goes Oh hey, we have an animal effigy we could sacrifice to the relevant gods! So I take out my lighter and burn the swan roughly 23 seconds after the dude gave it to me, and crush the ashes in my hand because I belatedly realize there’s no sink for me to throw this in. Oh well. Purell the ashes off.
I look up. Dude, and everyone else in the waiting room is staring at me.
“You, uh. Smoke?” Dude tries.
What I Meant To Say: “No I just carry a lighter as a holdover from survival camp as a kid, and if I’m wearing synthetic fabrics that start to ravel, I can use the flame to melt them a bit so they stop.”
What I Actually Said: “No I just have one in case I need to set something on fire.”
I put the lighter away. The hiring manager comes out and calls my name. I go back and have what I think was a reasonably sucessful job interview. I come back out.
Dude, and half of the other candidates are GONE.
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being on this website as it gets worse really makes me understand what it feels like to be a highly specialized species suffering under habitat destruction
the bus is never going to come because im a bad person
what is happening. is it because the fish is naked
I want to put percy jackson in a jar and send him on fun adventures everyday but I know that's not what he would want so I have to sigh and let him go
Me (A time traveler visiting 20-year old Mozart): OK, so, this is called an electric guitar, basically instead of the body functioning as a resonance chamber, it produces music by harnessing the power of lightning. Do you have any other questions?
Mozart (Currently shredding Violin Concerto No. 1 on the guitar, having figured it out within 30 seconds): What other music can be made from harnessed lightning?
Me (Loading up some heavy dubstep): Oh, we're just getting started.
im just not attracted to anyone or anything ever. until i am.
big fan of the word tangentially