That poem hits hard, very well done.
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This is so well-written. I overhear people at work talk about using AI for a meal plan, or a workout plan, and I always think, "Someone in your life would love to share their passion for cooking or exercise with you." Screw it, I need to start bringing it up with those people.
“Someone in your life would love to share their passion for cooking or exercise with you.”
There is a reason people talk to ai instead of people, unfortunately. If you don't know for a fact that someone has people in their life who enjoy listening to them, you shouldn't suggest that those people somehow exist, not unless you're sure that they do. You have to be sure as in you really know, not sure as in "I'm sure they mean well." People often do not actually mean well.
The thing with is: if you have passion for something you want to let others experience these feelings as well. And i dont need to know someone to tell them about my passion projects and they only need the tiniest of positive response for me to enjoy helping them... I hope you have something you are passionate about to understanding what i am trying to convey. The crucial part is the "i dont need to know someone well to enjoy helping them" and i know for a fact that a huuuge percentage of people share that mindset. Sooo:
I know there is someone in your life that would love to share their passion for cooking with you!
And btw: suggesting there is someone in your vicinity to help you with your problem leads to them masking around for help leads to the person broadening their circle which makes it evermore likely to find someone which actually wants to help.
Some people don't get a positive response. I know that's really hard to believe. And from an outsider's perspective you see why they get a negative response, because a lot of these folks just "say things wrong." It's really hard to explain unless you've seen it before.
That is not hard to believe. But I believe their social skills will improve by beeing social. ie the solution for these people is to ask more people for help.
While some individuals with developmental delay (AN INVISIBLE DISABILITY AND NOT AT ALL WHAT YOU'RE PICTURING) can improve their social skills by being social, for many, their disability (NOT WHAT YOU'RE PICTURING, STOP USING YOUR IMAGINATION), is something that they were born with, is permanent, and requires outside assistance. It is not helpful to tell people with no social circle, whether due to disability, poverty, depression, or something else, that they can magically be social or become social somehow without outside assistance. You may be capable of just being social and you probably have been since the day you were born. There are a myriad of reasons why someone wouldn't have a social circle, and many of those people cannot simply "be social." That isn't how it works.
I have been trying not to say the words disability or poverty or depression because I knew your brain would shut off and you'd focus only on your own imagination and not what I'm trying to say. You'd also probably imagine that I'm talking about a small population of people.
Edit: Why don't you write a poem about paying psych workers at least $40 an hour?
Your assumptions about me are off by a lot. (Except for me thinking of a small population, which made me reflect, thank you)
I did improve my social skills by forcing myself to talk to people for half a year every Thursday. Someone telling me that "beeing social" is a skill would have helped me.
And it's obvious you believe it helps some people if I say "be social". Why is an advice "not beeing helpful" to some reason enough not to say it?
Your assumptions about me are off by a lot. (Except for me thinking of a small population, which made me reflect, thank you)
It's not you in particular. Most people, when they hear autism, intellectual disability, or developmental delay picture a drooling helpless patient wearing a helmet who barely knows he's indoors. Those guys exist, and they deserve care, but they do not represent the vast majority of disabled people.
And it’s obvious you believe it helps some people if I say “be social”.
No, I don't think it helps at all. The people who are capable of being social are already social. Some may or may not use AI but the people who are capable of hearing "be social" and acting on it are largely already social and do not totally depend on AI. The reason you're seeing "normal people" get AI psychosis is because THAT IS WHAT DISABLED PEOPLE LOOK LIKE. THEY LOOK ""NORMAL."" Vulnerable people do not have a sign on their forehead that says I'm Vulnerable. That isn't how it works.
Why is an advice “not beeing helpful” to some reason enough not to say it?
Because it's exactly like saying "you should just make more money," in my opinion.
And be sure to use AI when your next child
gets married, so that you can write them
the perfect toast or poem or speech or song
because no one wants to hear your
words, the actual poorly written words
of a parent (you) who changed
hundreds of diapers for said child or fed
them in the middle of the
night from your actual body.
Shawn Smucker
Watch Netflix, use Google, Facebook. Buy Apple. Play Ubisoft and EA games. Eat McDonalds. Order on Amazon.
Complain about how hard is to live now.
This reads like texting me is like poking AI because I answer promptly and don’t small talk because I might be AuDHD
what about people who dont have cooks as friends or enjoy fishing, am i allowed to use it?
No, read a book and come up with it yourself.
ok what book do i read to find 3 night electronic music festivals happening in august on the east coast that cost under 300 dollars?
I think - correct me if I'm wrong - that 'internet search' is a thing that might be helpful here. What that can do (assuming that I didn't dream it) is allow you to compile a list of music festivals that lean towards your preferred genres. From there, you may be able to figure out what you'll need to compromise on (duration, cost, location) and even find somewhere to book tickets. I believe altavista, or maybe it was astalavista, or possibly 'yahoo', were some of the sites. It's been a long time, and like I say, 'twas perhaps just a particularly vivid recurring dream I used to have...
yeah i could use a search engine. or i could use an llm for qiuck pointers and then use a search engine to investigate the best sounding suggestions and save myself a ton of time.
There are already plenty of "best [genre] bands" listicles, why would you need an llm to read them for you?
Just leaving this here for no reason
Edit: not mine

No wonder you have no friends.
Oh, you poor lemmings, who cannot understand that sometimes there is more to an article than what the headline says literally.
Nobody else has commented here but you.
Yeah, I was referring to the downvotes from people who assume the article is actually asking you to please use ai.
I didn't downvote but it may not be the content of the post, but instead the inflammatory sort of nature of the headline that people don't like. This is to be expected when you use an inflammatory title to get clicks.
Also possible that those people consider both Hacker News and Substack to be shithole sites.
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