you just need to have served as a soldier in a foreign country, have substantial weapons training, have experience killing people, have PTSD, enjoy murdering innocent people at close range, have absolutely no empathy or understand the word humanity, doesn't understand autonomy or self regulation, and have absolutely no idea of what it means being a man.
"you cannot be serious", in classic John McEnroe Wimbledon tone
where is my app that I have been waiting for.
here we go, the written bullshit:
I’m excited to share my (record) fourth collaboration with the great Noam Segal, AI Insights Manager at Figma and former UXR leader at Zapier, Airbnb, Meta, Twitter, Intercom, and Wealthfront. Let’s get to it.
this statement is particularly galling
Author’s note: Names have been changed to preserve participant anonymity.
why anonymous????????????
maybe the figures are made up and complete bullshit
using a posh word like, perturbations, which really means anxiety or uneasiness, or a state of agitation, cannot be attributed to something that is not human (ai) and comes across to me a deceptive.
if you are going to sell this stuff, at least have the common decency and courtesy to use computer language when explaining what your ai can do, and not language that is only fit for humans.
I’m not claiming human reasoning or feelings here. The model generates tokens; “reasoning” only happens in the reader’s head when you interpret the text. EME doesn’t inject any reasoning rules either. It just runs the same model multiple times under small, controlled input transformations (assumption flips, counterfactual constraints, consolidate vs. challenge) and logs the deltas.
What’s useful (when it is useful) is the comparative structure across runs: what stays stable, what flips, and which assumptions look load-bearing.
If you think this is just a diary/log, it’s super easy to test. Paste a real problem you actually care about right now (decision, plan, argument) and see whether the trace adds anything beyond a one-shot answer. Public demo, no login: https://eme.eagma.com
I dont know what types of therapy or therapist this person has enaged with, they are talking a load of bollocks.
yes, betterhelp is shit and a rip off for clients. Charging monthly fees that only a percentage is paid to the therapist, extra money is paid when the therapist replies to a text messages, but most therapists have a life and choose not to reply to text messages because they know it is unhealthy for the therapeutic alliance and the development of the therapeutic relationship.
My concern with all online therapy is the day that they get hacked, and they will. All that private video footage becomes readily available online. Can you imagine the horror of seeing yourself online talking about being sexually abused as a child.
The most fundamental requirements of all therapy is confidentiality, there is no confidentiality online, therapist, who work online are putting all clients at risk and should be struck off by their professional bodies.
Extract from the BACP Ethical Framework on confidentiality:
but the modern capitalist enshittifcation of therapy in general and the exploitation of vulnerable clients.
therapists do not tell client what to do!
therapists do not tell clients to trust them
therapists do not warn against co-dependency
therapists do not encourage clients to call and text them
therapists do not teach people how to date
therapists are not available 24/7
therapists do not act like proud parents
therapists do not work solely with the inner child
therapists do not treat clients like children
therapists do not speak to clients like a baby
therapists do not treat clients like a toddler
therapists do not "actually" love their clients
therapists do not miss their clients
therapists do not have favourite clients
on and on.
In my 20 years as a practicing psychotherapist I have never heard so much shit.
How about trying a local therapist and not some online bullshit money making machine.
It is cheaper and safer.
I was wondering about this after reading the article. What she describes doesn't match my experiences as a client at all. My therapist was very professional and set firm boundaries on contact time. We had an appointment every two weeks and that was it.
Seems to be a distinction between therapy and "therapy"?
Its the old weight watchers and alcoholics anonymous scheme.
The always in recovery alcoholic, who has not had a drink for 25 years. poor bastard seems to have lost his sense of autonomy. the cult of the 12 steps.
To the always in recovery obese person, who lives on weight watchers own brand, low fat foods, packed with excess carbohydrates, to keep you fat, for 25 years. give us your money!
the psychological damage and shaming, of being weighed every week, does wonders for your self esteem.
once your in the cult, you can't escape of your own free will.
I created a large 8 char password file, then manipulated it with. sed, cut, head, awk, join, paste, sort, tr, uniq, and many others.
sounds boring but it was great fun for me.
really simple stuff:
making the file 10 chars long
adding digits to the end of each line
adding a space to the begining of each line
adding a special character to the middle of each word
putting the word file into alphabetical order
etc etc. it got me learning how to navigate the terminal and not rely on extetrnal tools
What are they? they are a total fantasy created by boosters, salesmen and sycophants.
What causes them? Boosters, salesmen and sycophants.
LLM's do not and cannot hallucinate. they are not human.
LLM's do not partake in the ritual consumption of psilocybin (magic mushrooms) or LSD, nor are they prone to spending time in mental health facilities suffering from psychotic episodes.
Having been a methadone dispenser and alcohol group worker in the NHS for many years people seem to forget, that prior to 2004, addiction, whether alcohol or drugs was treated under the medical model.
A heroin user could be fast tracked to methadone maintenance or reduction precribing service, detox, rehab and full support, using the cycle of change as a base.
I found this model to be quite good at moving clients from addiction to living life as fully functioning members of society.
However, around 2005, the Labour government decided that addiction was no longer deemed a medical problem but a criminal justice matter.
So, 8 minor criminal offences were chosen as a way to enforce drug and alcohol assessments while addicts were in custody at police stations.
The outcome of this useless government intervention!
The revolvoing door of the prison service, which accounts for todays prisons being full to the brim with short sentences of drug users.
It starts like this:
initially they might get a 28 day prison sentence for shoplifting a bottle of Whiskey. They get released from prison and have to attend the probation service with strict protocols.
but being a drug user, the first thing they do is go to the off-licence and buy a bottle of booze. get totally drunk. do not attend probation, the terms of prison release are broken and they are arrested and returned to prison.
the next time they get arrested for stealing a bottle of booze, they get 6 months, the next time they get a year in prison, and so it continues. there is no escape once they become part of the criminal justice system. There is no justice!
round and round they go for years and years. never ever adressing the addiction.
for the last 20 years this is what being an addict is like in the UK.
back in 2005 it used to cost £400 per week to keep a man in prison, It cost £500 per week to send a man to rehab. yet successive governments choose to put them in prison.
you just need to have served as a soldier in a foreign country, have substantial weapons training, have experience killing people, have PTSD, enjoy murdering innocent people at close range, have absolutely no empathy or understand the word humanity, doesn't understand autonomy or self regulation, and have absolutely no idea of what it means being a man.
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