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The Telepathy Tapes issued a copyright strike against Dave Farina (AKA Professor Dave Explains) debunking the podcast's claims about autistic children. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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The Telepathy Tapes (hosted by Ky Dickens) makes the false claim that, among others claims, nonverbal autistic children have telepathic abilities and that is revealed through a method called "spelling to communicate." "Spelling to communicate" is a rebrand of the now discredited therapy method known as Facilitated Communication.

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[–] 31 points 7 months ago*

I don't often watch a full Professor Dave video (they're usually pretty long) but I did watch all of that one. Autistic telepathy was so completely and utterly debunked, people trying to keep the grift going have no plausible claim about believing it themselves. They're just con artists taking advantage of desperate parents. It's They're disgusting.

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    [–] 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    From my AuDHD perspective it is neurotypicals that communicate with one another telepathically. 😤

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    They basically just assume what the other person means by something, and then proceed confidently with that assumption.

    Failing to consider that you could be wrong about something, could have interpreted it incorrectly or entirely missed something important, yes indeed that does make it seem like they know things they actually don't.

    Its just a thing you have to get used to with neurotypicals: They're usually not intentionally trying to construct their own specific version of a social reality... they just do it by default.

    Which is often aggrevating because the way this often works out is they will basically put words into peoples mouths that they didn't say, entirely invent context that did not actually exist, and also disregard extremely direct statements or invent a new meaning for them if it contradicts with their imaginary context.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    So... neurotypical people are like an LLM and I just fail at prompting them?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago*

    Eh... I don't think that is quite an accurate/fair analogy.

    Simply because it is dehumanizing, on the one hand, ... neurotypicals are people, they have agency, and emotions, LLMs do not...

    ...and also LLMs explcitly do just try to mirror or tailor their vocab / writing style to be 'correct' as per what you are saying.

    They're literally built/designed to do this, as essentially extremely fancy autocomplete machines.

    To me, that's actually much more like autistic masking.

    The hallucinations are thus arguably more akin to the kind of panic that occurs in an autistic person when they are trying to, on the fly, merge two different social masks... they say strange or awkward things or sometimes just fail completely and essentially make up some bullshit / contradictory / nonsensical or false concept.

    They also don't really actually have any real concept of ethics, as operating guidelines. They can discuss ethical theories, but they cannot really... employ them, in practice, unless you did a ton of work to try to command them to, basically.

    Also, they're fundamentally incapable of real learning. They can perhaps mimic this, in a single conversation, but all that's gone with a new instance of talking to them.

    Neurotypicals are obviously capable of learning.

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    • [–] 14 points 7 months ago*

    Oh wow, I never would have expected the 'I am a Mom of an Autistic Child' people to demand that only they be allowed to speak for and have opinions about autism and autistic people.

    Dave himself literally has an autistic kid.

    Fuck all of these delusional narcissist aggreived white women who turn someone else's intrinsic and unalterable identity into their valor and profit machine, by way of gaslighting and promoting nonsense that serves as a bullshit worldview that rationalizes their deep seated need to infantilize people they do not care to fucking actually listen to.

    I viscerally hate these people, they are quite literally hateful bigots, who just absolutely need to be the victims, because they have no real identities of their own.

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    [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    Grifters gonna grift.

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    [–] 18 points 7 months ago

    Ok. "Professor Dave" debunked "The Telepathy Tapes" claim that non verbal autistic children are telepathic. So The Telepathy Tapes issued a copyright strike against Professor Dave.

    Is that correct?

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    [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    As an autistic person I already knew this with my telepathy /s

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    [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    a copyright strike ... debunking the podcast's claims about autistic children

    Eh? This doesn't make any sense. Copyright is nothing to do with correctness.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Knowing nothing about any of this, my assumption would be that clips from the podcast were played and then responded to in the debunking. Should be considered fair use, but webhosts tend to be very aggressive with regard to copyright claims.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    There doesn't need to be a copyright violation for a takedown to be issued, especially on Youtube. It's an automated process with minimal to no consequences for abusing it, and it's shockingly frequent that it is abused to takedown videos critical of the abuser.

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    • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Ky Dickens is a lying exploiter of vulnerable people.

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    [–] 8 points 7 months ago*

    Thank you for posting this. Taking advantage of severely disabled people for clout and money.

    Likewise if you see pets on social media "talking" with boards and buttons, that is also basically Facilitated Communication. If you properly blind the participants the illusion falls apart.

    Link to the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HiuElTX7pM

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    [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Why you should stop making posts like this: https://sh.itjust.works/post/58189605

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