fullmoon

Reserving judgment until you've actually researched a topic is the third option.

And you don’t feel dirty about this victory because your glee is based on TikToks making people believe that data centres turn water dirty?

It’s not a ‘tirade’ to point out lies by manipulation. Media must be held accountable.

Stimulants make everyone’s ADHD symptoms (attention, focus; hard to distinguish from environment or personality traits) better (for some time), but they don’t reliably increase output.

Plenty of people with ADHD manage just fine (or better: sleep) without stimulants. Now if the ADHD is of the ‘late diagnosed’ kind, no one knows what reliably works or if the construct has been bent beyond its breaking point.

I don’t think so. If you start a new Claude Code session without a system prompt, it doesn’t even know what model it is and hallucinates being some old variant of Sonnet.

It’s absolutely lazy, because it’s not psychosis.

Enthusiastically matching the energy of an anxiously attached partner is a rite of passage many would rather not have walked.

It’s a great question, and I think it’s not exclusive.

Obsessive limerent obsession can be driven by reward circuits, and those _can_ be extinquished by more straight-forward therapy, but if it’s driven by unmet emotional needs, it’s often quickly replaced by some other maladaptive coping mechanism (hopefully slightly less unhealthy).

Mere talk therapy is infamously useless for attachment trauma, which is relational and somatic

People with severely disordered attachment _will_ seek out humans, again and again, to fill those unfulfillable needs, and leave bodies and psyches in their wake.

So I think there is a case to be made for harm reduction.

I agree, but not because I think that those users had stable attachment patterns and have been corrupted by an unscrupulous company, but because there is unacknowledged, often hidden, but severe pain in a large % of the population.

Which is your own reaction, which is a result of your own wounds.

Now imagine someone else coming to the same conclusion about you.

I’m not sure “AI psychosis” is even right for many of those users who formed attachments to their “companions”.

Psychosis is a real risk for schizophrenia spectrum disorders, but a lot of those relationships look to be rooted in disordered attachment.

Where, pray, is the sexism?

This seems to be an instance of “if you hear the dog whistle you’re the dog”

You’ve inadvertently listed many symptoms associated with anxiety and panic disorder.