Technology

What about electric pulses? Is 4GHz enough?

I agree, last time I dug up a corpse I got into alot of trouble. I'm no longer allowed to be within 6 feet of a corpse.

It's mostly novelty. But wears off eventually when you start noticing very obvious patterns emerge in the way it answers and quality degrades significantly as context size grows. It also will always talk to you in the way YOU tell it to which also becomes boring as time goes on.

It's always funny to me how people on the news talk about AI partners and so on when you know if they have 2 brain-cells, next month they will drop this whole stupid idea. When you're talking to it about your problems you're just talking with yourself.

Hope there is something for USA too. Know Australia has a few

My work offered an AI chatbot therapist. Like to, I'm not putting all my negative feelings into a company sponsored LLM to fucking have it say, "no relax guy, it'll be OK." Like it's a fucking clanker. It doesn't have feelings. It's not fucking real. It's a slap in the face that they even offer it.

You’re drawing a line that sounds principled, but it’s actually pretty arbitrary.

You say “real life is real life” and don’t want it “corrupted,” yet you’re perfectly fine immersing yourself in music and movies,things literally engineered to manipulate your emotions and perception. That’s not some pure, untouched version of reality. It’s curated fiction designed to make you feel something.

The only real difference here is that those mediums don’t talk back.

Chatbots make you uncomfortable because they simulate interaction, not because they’re uniquely fake. But calling that “corruption” while giving a free pass to every other form of emotional influence is inconsistent at best.

If your stance is “I don’t want anything artificial affecting me,” then be consistent about it. Otherwise, just say you don’t like this particular form of it instead of pretending it’s some hard philosophical boundary.

You're telling me that you believe you are not vulnerable to validation? Right before using the word "corrupted" uncritically in a way that suggests there is a universal and normative "real life?"

What if someone who you respected the authority of, like a prominent scholar or filmmaker, said your obviously incorrect stance on things was correct? You'd trust me, Online Internet Bastard, when I tell you that you are wrong?

AI has been sold as something exceptionally capable of mimicking human knowledge, and its existence is compatible with liberal notions of "objectivity" in that it is quite literally not a human being. Most men subscribe to this authority, and are also statistically bereft of emotional intelligence or management skills. You ever try telling a man what they want to hear? I've never ever met one who doesn't just eat it up.

It's the same thing as prayer.

Placebo works for simple people.

It's not you. These people aren't mentally well. They can't differentiate between a real person and an LLM. Probably contributes to why they're having woman problems too.

People care about being heard, not listened too. It's one-sided. I'm guessing they just like that the thing responded, and may not even bother reading carefully what it said. Like a friend who says supportive murmurings as you prattle on about whatever, "Really?", "Umm-hmm", "Oh, I know what you mean!", "Right, exactly", and, "It's nice to talk to someone I get along with."

My guess would be the same phenomenon that existed with ELIZA. People want to be heard, especially lonely people, and LLMs are pretty good at that, asking questions and acting supportive, by design.

This whole situation reminds me of that fact that some people hire escorts to just have someone to talk to.

I always read it for the articles

It is extremely sad. and it isn't just a toxic masculinity thing (maybe only for porn bots). we are so atomised and isolated.

I remember when GPT came out, told it about my projects and it responded as if it cared. I knew ot was bs, and in retrospect it was sad and pathetic, but I genuinely cried at seeing text directed to me that was nice.

I'm in a better place now, but we as a society are way too atomised and isolated.