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FYI—I was in the top 1% of ChatGPT users, last year. I have experience with Claude, Grok, Gemini and some others as well. I’ve actually been offered a pseudo consulting gig to help a billion dollar company incorporate agents, through a friend and his customer service department. I use AI everyday. It schedules for me, emails, finds me specific aisles where parts are in stores, looks up part numbers, educates me on unfamiliar machinery, reviews documents, etc, I have found the perfect use case in my maintenance and coordination field. I also will use it to talk through problems sometimes and have gone through numerous phases of wiping its memory, telling it about my life, etc. It’s not good at that aspect yet. It’s extremely circular, nonhuman and makes you feel good but really gets nowhere unless you go in there and tell it ‘I already know this is a problem with me. What do I do about it?’ Also, I’ve had vendors use AI improperly for work as well. I sent a fire systems company a picture of a fire pull station that someone pulled (the handles you pull in case of a fire) so he could see the location of it as they had just had techs out for an inspection as well. The guy told me the model I had doesn’t have a glass rod in it and they’re gonna have to look into a specialty order. I told him ‘I didn’t even know they had glass in them until I had to sweep it off the floor. Where would you have got that information?’ ‘Uh sorry, Google Lens lied to me.’ That’s just self deception and being lazy at that point. ’Model numbers’ are analogous to actual context and agency in your life in relation to personal problems or intellectual discussions. You know like a person on the outside who doesn’t need to be prompted to say something? You can speak with AI about a specific problem if you’ve already identified it but letting it probe your mind as if it’s a person with agency is like trying to search a product that looks like 1000 other products without a model number.

@AION They were not insulting you. They were warning you. There are literal studies showing decreased brain function in relation to AI usage. It’s fairly concerning you mentioned the preference for ChatGPT because it doesn’t insult you. It’s also concerning to call an artificial discussion with a Chatbot a real discussion—in the midst of a real discussion. It sounds like you’re avoiding the pushback and feedback that comes with learning and growth—in natural discussions. Just a pattern I’ve picked up on. Especially considering some of the insults or claims you’ve made and then noticing you often stop replying once someone has summarized your side of things.

I keep of a nice pair of moccasins, with a light rubber sole, for indoors. Grandparents always get them for me too. Grandpa and I rock the moccs. I think my mom and grandma wear more regular slippers. Grandparents are angels. I bet their sixth sense already told them I’m due for a new pair this Christmas. I love them. And my moccs. Edit: new moccs already confirmed

@Elliott I used to take creatine all the time. I’d do loading periods, work out twice a day, take it every day, all of that. This was like ten years ago. By the time I graduated high school, studies were already coming out saying you don’t need to do a loading phase. What I noticed, though, is that I still felt the cognitive benefits even when I wasn’t working out, especially if I hadn’t slept much. There are now double-blind studies showing that a large single dose can have cognitive effects during sleep deprivation. Creatine also takes weeks to return to baseline after you stop taking it, so taking it inconsistently doesn’t mean there’s suddenly none in your system. People who eat meat get creatine directly through their diet, along with the amino acids the body uses to synthesize its own creatine. I don’t see the point in constantly taking large amounts just to stay maximally saturated. Dehydration itself can stress the kidneys, and I’d rather not unnecessarily push the dose when I’m not always going to be perfectly hydrated.

@Yimpa What is ‘enlightenment?’ What would God have left to awaken to? Realizes it is imagining all people OR imagining to imagine all people, whereas people were otherwise just imagined? What were ‘people’ to you when you wrote this?

To love is to understand; to understand is to love.

Genius

… of Love. lmao Driving me insane Ah. Play the game. Play the game.

People used to drink alcohol exclusively, as it was sanitary.

@cetus Wow! How neat. I used to build models.

I take creatine as needed. It seems to work fairly well for me. 5g fairly randomly, up to 15g, sometimes 20g, if I got low sleep or big workout. I need a lot of water before a larger dose and during, otherwise I can get nauseous. Overall, it’s helpful.

I don’t like the loading phase. I skip it. I like L-theanine in combination, for mental focus. It’s the only supplement I max the dose. I am very conservative with supplements, otherwise.

Make them beautiful again

@Willy Phallicus @Elliott Enough with the vague attacks. If you’re going to shoot, at least aim.

@Natasha Tori Maru It’s honestly hilarious.

@Ulax Good boy

@Ulax Trolling isn’t interchangeable with joking, especially in an environment where people put time into genuinely engaging with each other. I love comedy. I watch a special pretty much every week, spent a lot of COVID studying it, and even considered doing it myself. My cousin does comedy too. I appreciate how much thought and skill goes into making something funny. But provoking people into answering something you aren’t sincerely presenting, then treating their engagement as proof they can’t take a joke, is a different thing. Calling that “joke tyranny” overlooks why people object: their willingness to engage is being used against them. Nobody has to find this funny to prove they can lighten up. Taking a discussion seriously doesn’t tell you how relaxed or playful someone is outside it. So sure, #FreeTheJoke. Bring some of that humor into everyday life too. But if you want people here to engage thoughtfully, give them something worth engaging with—and stop treating their effort as the punchline. You’ve shown you can joke around. What you haven’t shown in this exchange is the same willingness to think seriously about what people are saying. Maybe that deserves more attention than whether the rest of us can lighten up.

@AION You decontextualize arguments while actively judging the people making them. Then, when someone calls that out, you retreat to “I judge arguments, not people.” You can judge the logical structure of an idea independently of the person, but interpreting it accurately still requires considering their intended meaning and context. Otherwise, you’re evaluating your own version of their argument. For example, @Sincerity said the moderators supported @Natasha Tori Maru warnings. You turned that into “So other mods can’t disagree.” Agreement on specific warnings became a supposed rule forbidding disagreement. That wasn’t the claim. Meanwhile, you said Natasha had serious issues and mocked her with comments about testosterone. Those are personal judgments. So when she says you’ve been uncharitable toward her, your claim to judge only arguments doesn’t answer her. How you represent someone’s argument is precisely what’s being questioned. You’re willing to judge others personally, then claim detached objectivity when your own conduct comes under scrutiny. I’m sick of that double standard. Address the examples.

Most people do not think you’re genuine. I don’t know where people are getting the idea that you’re fooling a bunch of people or something. Maybe a few. Also, if there are people that do—it’s probably because trolling isn’t really allowed here and you’re deliberately being a dishonest participant. Obviously the mods don’t do anything about that, though. Even when it is literally the only form of communication Monster Energy has displayed.

@Emerald I agree. I notice those things too and your analysis is spot on in my opinion. “The point of the rape/abuse comment was that boasting about manipulation to get sex raises a concern about where that mindset can lead when someone’s desires take priority over another person’s boundaries.” I get that it was a fantasy/not real, though. Which is why Monster Energy probably responded how he did to me. He saw where is behavior was leading, perhaps.

@Inliytened1 I want you to know, I really appreciate you. You have a hilarious, fun presence with good, wise undertones. I never got the impression that you were bad or anything. TBH—you remind me of my Dad. I get the culture, generational stuff and you make good points. I’m not completely pure either! I used to play the ‘smash or pass’ game but when I realized most people weren’t smashing because of somebody’s face or voice I added the caveat: Smash or Pass, Bag or Gag? Lmao. Horrible. We literally played this on church trips. Everybody loved it. It’s disgusting, really. I mean, looking back I laugh. Nobody got hurt. But I’d feel horrible if one of those girls heard what we were saying… It was just like what boys did, I guess. We should change that.

@Sugarcoat Yes, he literally admitted it was bait/a joke. It is funny in general, but when you consider who or where is is coming from and the responses there after it becomes more questionable (the purpose or motive, beyond humor).

@Willy Phallicus That’s funny. I didn’t even know about this case until this post was made and my first comment stated that this wasn’t really interesting and we shouldn’t speculate. So you can keep making whatever claims you want and referencing whatever evidence you want. I know you don’t know what happened. I don’t need you to know you don’t know. But it was more than fair of me to point out the anger in/and the speculating as everyone should remain cautious of that.

Sometimes, I feel like a total fucking ass here. Alternatively, I don’t think some of you really take the time to consider context and/or who something is being said to. Too often, this forum becomes vague intellectual platitudes, nobody gets addressed and no progress is actually made. It’s honestly its own weird form of white knighting. Too often people come in, critique my comments to others without considering how the individual themselves responded, where the point came from, tone, etc. It’s getting really annoying.

The point of the rape/abuse comment was that boasting about manipulation to get sex raises a concern about where that mindset can lead when someone’s desires take priority over another person’s boundaries. I wasn’t claiming that happened here. Monster Energy may have responded more openly because he understood I was challenging that mindset, rather than accusing him of a crime. That’s what I mean when I say I’m speaking to one person at a time. His response doesn’t prove my interpretation, but it matters to understanding the exchange.