Regardless what’s going on with your friend you posted the same long screed in 6 places.

I’m gonna be real enough with you to say that behavior is screaming a big need for external validation. Or at the least, a marker for high personal drama. In my experience, those friends will wear out my social battery real quick and “it’s too much to hang out with me” is exactly how those folks can feel.

I honestly wish the best for you, your friend, and any friendship y’all manage between you. Just don’t forget to monitor the emotional load that you’re asking folks around you to carry.

I came to post this. So there’s two of us at least.

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We call it microdosing now

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To argue that ChatGPT et al. can’t cause direct harm (i.e. irradiate people) misses the larger point I think. To me, that’s slicing up the ethical responsibility of a system until no component bears ownership. Extending that logic to Therac-25 might be saying a function or variable can’t irradiate people. Sure, not by itself. But it existed within a system that reliably produced harm.

From the Therac-25 wiki: “These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems.”

I’d argue that mental health conversations are safety critical systems. Another safety critical system might be a basic search engine, if a user turns to it with real intent to do harm.

There’s a reason we put safety warnings on products, regulate access to chemicals, etc, etc. I’m not arguing that we should do the same for LLMs, just showing that the Therac-25 example is rookie numbers compared to the reach and risks of modern software.

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Ah yes, no one bats an eye at the female dominated fields of “nursing, teaching, therapy or veterinary medicine”. The grunt work of the patriarchy.

What you’re describing sounds like a difference in mate value. It’s a combination of any desirable traits like looks, fertility, resources, or anything else. We might spot an apparent difference in two mate values, but the US doesn’t have many rules or norms around mismatched pairs. Other cultures might though, with rules around bride price and such.

Most animals are pretty good about assessing their own mate value from physical and social signaling and tend settle into matched pairs more often than not. There are some cool social experiments that repeatedly prove this out, but I don’t have any links handy.

And pants!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Whenever efficiency increases consumption increases. Better steam engines mean more coal consumption. Faster cheaper RAM means more RAM consumption.

Wait… the US military is team MechaHitler now?

No need to nitpick. We are two humans communicating so obviously this is a social activity. A community theater is social media by the loosest definition, but the term “social media” now commonly means the big centralized commercial product platforms of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

There are worlds of difference between the manipulative ads and algorithms of social media and the activity feeds on Lemmy. It’s the difference between a shopping mall and a community yard sale.