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In my view the people, no matter walk of life or education level or societal class, who ask “AI” systems mental or physical health questions are modern day incarnations of customers who went to palm readers, tarot card sessions, or used to rely on televangelists for hope and meaning.

I strongly dislike the author conflating HIPAA with PHI but this is a losing battle for me. And clearly editors don’t spot it, neither do AI systems - where is Clippy?! It simply serves as an indicator the author is a pretty ignorant medical consumer in the US, and this case study is stunning. Some people really should not be allowed to engage with magic.

I’m on standby as my generation, the Millennial cohort, becomes the true “sandwich generation” in the US. Elder care is such a disaster and farce here. There’s a high profile senior citizen who has no business in leadership but apparently the system likes it this way. There’s going to be a mass passing of Boomers and how it looks - probably a lot like this but without public healthcare so even more traumatic - in the US does not seem manageable.

In the US we don’t even test drivers over age 70 for competence because taking away their licenses means we’d have to look out for them or provide alternatives and that’s not happening so here we are.

Horses have some semblance of self preservation and awareness of danger - see: jumping. LLMs do not have that at all so the analogy fails.

My term of “Automation Improved” is far more relevant and descriptive in current state of the art deployments. Same phone / text logic trees, next level macro-type agent work, none of it is free range. Horses can survive on their own. AI is a task helper, no more.

It certainly offers strong motivation, in my experience, to revisit or commit to analog based hobbies. Recently I did a sewing class at a library. I’ve got a watercolor painting kit for about $30 all in and - as this article indicates - seeking info by surfing the web to use the web as a benefit, well I do recommend it.

There still is plenty of information superhighway infrastructure online - more than ever! It’s a matter of disengaging from the AI “slop trough” as I like to call it. Good article framing the discussion.

Still couldn’t resist making a digital trophy and self important landmark eh?

I’ve had some relatable discoveries about the meaning of life but it’s very different than this back-to-primitive-existence as utopia. Mostly because I have creative talents. I can write and play music. I write a fuck ton better than this guy. He belongs in a field…as do most people on social media, or otherwise “influencing” discourse.

That’s why I muted my socials for quite a while. Doing is better than posting. I’m posting here at 3 am because my sleep cycle is still fuckdd up from jail this is when they woke us in solitary for breakfast. I only was in for a year and not quite out yet for a year. I wonder if this guy will still be of the same perspective 10 years from now. Might want a smoke just for the sake of it…

So how does the cycle work? I’m not being sarcastic I actually find this a relevant and on-point summation. I happen to be very interested in the systemic consequences and results in Western history as much as is applicable in present USA. I’m glad to be a bystander and not participant, that’s for sure.

I second this strategy. My suggestion is keep an eye out for soundtracks and “sampler” type promo discs - some quirky gems! Record labels and their relationships with Hollywood did demonstrate money and drugs and music to great together…see: Spawn the movie soundtrack (1990s).

Also my library card is much better for legacy music exploration. It scales too.

As an actual prisoner in solitary confinement, the principles of stoic acceptance helped me a lot. Control is a powerful myth. It is stunning once it is taken away.

>Stoicism is, as much as anything, a philosophy of gratitude – and a gratitude, moreover, rugged enough to endure anything.

Wow that is really fast, in my view, and I wonder how many more of his cohort will similarly crash out.

I don’t have an estate to get in order, so to speak. Then again, I also won’t pass along a house full of a lifetime of “collections” or “mementos” with little to no monetary value. The oncoming secondary market is about to be awash in Boomer junk. Nobody wants to send their precious collections to the dump or recycling.

One of my biggest mental hiccups to work through of late is the changing nature of collective memories, fame, and idols. Scott is a great example who was “big in the 90s” and 30 years later his method (print cartoons and books) is basically dead and can’t be folllowed. Gen Z will be spared Scott, and probably Elvis and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, ABBA, and Garth Brooks comparatively speaking.

This is a meandering way to note how fast we can be poof gone and life will move on with a pace quite breakneck.

I'm so glad to read about this!

Why?

Because it adds significant validation to my premise that AI is simply "automation improved" at this juncture and a crutch more than a viable tool in 90% of use cases.

In short, seeing "I made this because I was tired of wasting time with writing letters while applying for jobs" has me dying with laughter because the translation I come up with is "I am so crippled by laziness I'm recalcitrant to do the work to actually get the position to do work" and that's my take-away.

Of course there will be arguments to my perspective and I welcome them. I would like to feature them in my writings on this subject. AI is a shortcut for lazy, otherwise talentless people. I say this as neither.

This was already an article, so in recognition of your genius, go donate to some journalists.

Wondered if it was a yet-unexplained indicator I'd been banned, which I figured peculiar, as my worst mental health episodes are behind me and my participation here is of better quality of late and is aiming to continue that path. It is a nice shade. Reminds me of trying to select the appropriate Crayola for a mood or vibe. This fits.

Excellent!

As a side note I’m looking forward to unenforceable copyright protections and the resulting free for all in other arenas like music. Use 1% AI? 0% protected. Boo hoo.

I am a nobody who had a mental health breakdown following an ugly divorce and even though I settled my case - 380 days in solitary, Plea Bargain for Class A Misdemeanor - last month I was cuffed and interrogated in one county simply because I visited downtown and my plates were picked up in a different county when I was trying to navigate family law related obligations.

To put it another way, I'm on a legal-to-harass-list probably for the rest of my life and likely can't do a damn thing about it...beyond the obvious, which I've chosen, which is to enjoy a low-key, crime free, introspective creative sabbatical as much as possible on the fringes of society. Last thing I'm interested in is...whatever they accused me of this time...

What the holy fuck are you talking about with "retain full control" without "legal regulation" as a divergent concept? Are you huffing paint? I'm seriously at a loss how you can possibly hold these two notions concurrently without being certifiably insane or a sociopath.

RIP CHARLIE NEO MAXIMUS BABSON

This was very apparent to me on IG before I shut down my account (again) here in the US.

Women promoting themselves (photography, DJ, art, small biz) want to give off the scent of being available. Rarely does a woman have an account simply to share life - it is a messaging and broadcasting channel suited to their gender chemistry. They want the guys to think they have a shot of sorts. It’s a deceptive marketing practice and part of the reason I quit (I met a couple of the local women were playing this game).

Cephalopods are the most highly evolved species living on planet Earth. They survived the first surface extinction. They'll survive the second. No wonder they prefer staying down there. Disclaimer: I had a wild dream in jail one night that made me reconsider some notions about...

Wow I wonder how fun conversations in the afterlife with Aaron are going to be for the OP. There are ways to improve broken systems. Pimping them out with glee is not one of them in my book.

Everything about this concept I hate and it’s difficult not to conflate that with the creator. I make comparisons and equivocations. This is an ethical discussion akin to “Can you enjoy Bill Cosby comedy knowing he was a Rapist” and I’m not being glib.

Tell that to judyrecords with the same smug attitude.

Your textbook versus reality conceptualization of things is dogshit. It’s exploitation to do what OP did. You’re endorsing it and minimizing the ethics and this certainly shall poison the well from which you drink. Godspeed.

So what will these humans alternatively perish from? Old age? How is that fiscally possible?

…aaaaaaand we’ll be seeing the bankers and financial professionals involved with the money laundering catching casss right?

Oh come on Chauncey Billus didn’t do his betting in Crypto like Dogecoin we just gonna let everybody skate like George Sorry-Ass Santos I guess?

Damn answered my own question.

Feed the same system an image of an Asian kid and it will think the bag of chips is a calculator /s

Or am I kidding? AI is only as good as its training and humans are...not bastions of integrity...

Stronger correlation: How the USA treats its Artistic class.

Can be a revolutionary talent, participate in commerce, and not afford to bury yourself.

I applaud your enthusiasm for life in the wasteland post US collapse / Balkanization and will meet you at the last functioning terminal in 2042!

What the actual fuck? The homeless problem here in Dallas is at an all time high. I've been in and out of the Downtown proper for 20 years now.

Completely unbelievable premise and not worth reading.

Citation: I was recently homeless following a stint in jail on a bogus Felony charge, and still frequent some of the resources / areas where I got help. 24 Hour Club. Dallas Public Libraries.

Tarrant County has a very good homeless program. They throw them in jail. Then let them out to do meth, then put them back in. They were my company in Lon Evans.

WELCOME TO TANGENTIAL INJUSTICE!

Lost access to my phone, then went to Tarrant County jail awaiting trail (innocent until proven guilty but $250,000 bond where no humans or property harmed), and only was able to get a few G-M-@-1-L related accounts reset following a plea bargain to get back my freedom. Lots of corpses in that system. IYKYK.

What can you do? Ask nicely. Hope to escalate. First off though, think of Jack Handey...

If you lost your keys in lava, man, let 'em go, they're gone.

Oh no good tool goes unexperimented as weaponry. Kudos for the try. See you in about 7 hours. [R]age Board for the Elites gotta represent ya hurr?

How related is this to SevenThirtyEight or whatever that was?

Counterpoint: The instance at the cheerleading convention here in Dallas where a knocked over piece of equipment prompted a panic and viral news spread with incorrect assumptions.

The "ripple effect" of trauma is magnified more than ever. You don't even have to go out of your way to get the news, as with the past, oh, before 30 years ago...now it's in our pockets. I think the assumption passes the intuition prima face test in my world, too bad not yours. Equipment may need better calibration.

As a Curriculum Designer and OG dial-up Millennial I agree wholeheartedly. Too late though. Enlightenment, collaboration, and advancing human experience isn't profitable.

In other words, until one learns how to hammer a nail, it's unreasonable to assume knowledge of how to tell another to do so. AI is no exception. It's speed-running US society's final threads being severed, and okay, sigh, here we go. No, I'm not interested in fixing the problems he's identifying.

My ex had a saying from bench science..."if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitant." That part. Off to go live in a van down by the river...