Dilettante_

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If I seem autistic that's cause I am.

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Comment · 1 day ago
They're just letting anyone make a Wikipedia page these days huh
Comment · 18 days ago
"Discord becomes strife cause that means kinda the same thing, strife becomes strafe cause that's a gamer term"

is the completely german-less train-of-thought I could imagine leading to this name

Comment · 1 month ago
We can't even make humans care about humans, how would we make the Shoggoth think we're worthwhile?

Also I can see a human zoo on the horizon through your direction.

Comment · 1 month ago
>"What's 1+1, and don't say 2"?
Comment · 2 months ago
>So because TUIs look universally bad

You can't stay engaged if the menus don't bleep and bloop at you and confetti rains down on every click? That's a personal problem. A minimal UI is not automatically a bad-looking UI.

Comment · 2 months ago
I just went and tried. Free signups unlock the article just fine. Gonna pat myself on the back for doing the incredibly minor legwork now :3
Comment · 2 months ago
Unrelated to the article itself: The login-wall on some random website I've never even seen before feels mildly disrespectful of my time. Kind of similar in vibe to making you download an app to order in a restaurant.
Comment · 2 months ago
"One man's modus ponens..."
Comment · 2 months ago
Nice Unthinkable Topic you have there.
Comment · 2 months ago
>"Everybody experiences the world in a different way, and yet everybody assumes that everyone else experiences the world the same way they do."

Relevant article: "Generalizing from one example"[https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/baTWMegR42PAsH9qJ/generalizi...]

Personal note: That principle has been the bane of my autistic existence. People sometimes seem literally incapable of understanding that other people even can be different.

Comment · 2 months ago
It is a bit strange, like being surprised some countries drive on the left side. xkcd 1053 of course, but people are still allowed to be surprised when someone went their entire life without picking up a fairly common factoid.
Comment · 2 months ago
What's wrong with tiny people? ;)
Comment · 2 months ago
>not comparable to all this

In the literal sense that a gun is not a chatbot? True.

In the sense that both your post and my analogy use the argument "this is assistive technology" to defend something which only in a very narrow slice of their thing-ness actually is assistive and in the whole rest of usages are much more, and not only Good, which both you and my "futurama caricature" were willfully ignoring? I think it's quite illustrative.

Comment · 2 months ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, much like a gun really would help a victim of CPTSD feel safe.

What I was trying to point to was that "this thing helps some people" does not equal "this thing is unequivocally Good and should be entirely unchecked".

I don't even care about the AI. I just get peeved by bad lines of argumentation.

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