yeah, but it makes for scary headline about AI.

and that’s what counts.

AI also sources legit information, not just bad info. It will point you to better resources than the average person could or would.

Unlike people, who tend to reject legit information outright, because it doesn’t make they feel good about themselves and feelings is all they think they need.

you are confusing the possibility of AI being wrong sometimes, with the fact people are mostly wrong most of the time.

But again, it’s about your feelings, because you’re a person and that’s what you think is the ultimately source of all truth and knowledge.

AI responses are probably less shit than they’d get from real people these days.

half the people I meet now are living in a delusion-fueled alternate reality and suffering from main character syndrome, they are utterly useless for any social or relationship advice.

and social media is 90% terrible advice pushed my influencers who are only there to stir up drama or ‘work on yourself’, both of which are pretty useless advice, and are just designed to get you hooked on buying shitty products they advertise.

Because money mostly. Once people find out I am not rich they tend to treat me radically differently than when they are under the impression I’m wealthy.

the issue with housing is that other people hate other people. they don’t want more people living around them. they hate growth. they think people should live ‘somewhere else’ than their town/city/neighborhood.

i live in a city with over 120K people. if a housing project goes up that that adds say, 20 units for 30-40 people, people FREAK OUT. and oppose it and usually it gets downzied to like 12 units for 20 people, and only then it’s approved for development. this is in already very dense city, it’s worse in less dense places. anytime a major project, for like 500+ units is proposed, it has to be downsized by like 50% before anyone will approve it because the citizens REVOLT. they HATE new housing.

the last major development in my urban area added 8000 jobs, and 500 units of housing, and the major opposition was to the housing, all the feedback was ‘no new housing, but more new jobs’. the plan with the highest approval from the citizens was the one with 10,000 new jobs, and 0 new housing. and th eone with 5000 jobs and 1000 units of housing, was opposed like 90%. and the plan that was approved only had a 1 vote margin…

this is what people want. they democratically oppose new housing at every opportunity.

the average person doesn’t think they are working class, they think that’s what poor people are.

my dad made a working class salary his entire life, but he always told us we were middle class and ‘better’ than those working-class idiot losers.

average people admire rich people and want to be them, and they hate working class people.

i’m a middle class person now, but i live around a lot of upper middle class people, and regularly they let me know I’m subhuman scum in their eyes. and working-class people i grew up with, think i’m a rich effete snob with my graduate degree and my expensive coffee and my compact car.

people generally are much more focused on the differences around them and feeling they are better than their neighbors is a far bigger concern than what rich people are doing. the person living across the street from you gets more upset about you getting a nicer car than them then they do about jeff bezo’s wedding.

cool, my experience is that people only want to talk about their problems, regardless of gender. they dont’ give a fuck about yours and get offended and upset if you do so. but I’m male, and I’ve never had the experience of having anyone care about my problems beyond dismissing them as ‘bringing them down’ and that i need to ‘get over it’. even when it’s my dad dying of cancer and it’s my so called ‘loving girlfriend’ of years.

nah, it’s just the sexist double standard, that if a man does it, it’s nefarious/negative/harmful. but if a woman does it, it’s a form of ‘self-care’.

the way interpret this stuff would also be a matter of physical looks as well, as if an attractive person doing it would be viewed very differently than an unattractive person.

yes, you’re correct. stigmatization just further entrenches things.

Which feelings?

Very few feelings are allowed. If you keep to those social acceptable feelings, you’re fine. The second you go off-script, people are done with you.

Like I can pet my dog and say I love her. That surface level stuff is fine. But talk about anything complex, like the struggles we’ve had, or how she helped me through some depressing periods or she had a period of sickness and anxiety and misbehavior? People freak out and back away or tell me to shut up and go get a therapist and get my dog one too.

Men are allowed a very narrow and shallow range of public emotion. Basically anger, and sentimentality are acceptable. Anything else? You’re creepy, weird, or mentally ill.

If you go outside that box or show complexity or vulnerability, you’re socially rejected because it makes people ‘uncomfortable.’

am i a victim of air because I have to breathe it? or a victim of capitalism because i have to work to pay my bills?

there is no getting outside of it. every ‘woke’ person i’ve ever met also hates men for sharing their feelings, almost as if they are just virtue signalling…

the only person who a man can ever open up w/o consequence is a therapist, because it’s a professional paid relationship.

sucks, but that’s how it is. and nobody is interested in changing it.

people fall in love with fictional characters in books and other media, mostly as a product of their imagined interactions with the character.

this isn’t any different, it’s just a AI version of it. it’s still mostly imaginative fantasy at the end of the day, and it’s a form of escapism from the real world.

the new yorker had an article about it where a housewife basically had AI boyfriend who was her version of Geralt from the witcher, and was using it to cope with the fact she had a stillbirth from 5 years earlier and her AI Geralt was the only one who ‘really understood her’ and her struggles with the stillbirth trauma. it’s all entirely a fiction in her head, but it’s a mechanism for self-soothing, that is relatively harmless compared to her say, doing drugs or divorcing her husband or other methods of coping that might manifest. it was basically fan-fiction with an AI agent helping her co-write.

People choose to be dumb. Just like they choose to be lazy.

no psyop is required. biology doesn’t like making an effort if it doesn’t have to do so. you can see lots of non-human examples of this as well.

getting human beings outside of their default biological impulses to be lazy and not think… takes years of training and work. hence why so few people are able to achieve it. and you can always default back to it if you don’t maintain the effort consistently

No it’s not.

It’s just the mental version of obesity crisis. It’s people choosing the easy and unhealthy option because it’s cheaper and readily available, than the far more difficult and more costly option of eating well and exercise.

most of modern life isn’t genuine. and yes, people don’t like it when they encounter it.

they love artifice. they love their biases being confirmed, they love their egos being flattered.

Yeah. I have become painfully aware of this the past few years. People’s obessive use of AI and social media has distorted their real life interactions to be far less substantail than they used to be.

Which is why so many people, even who are very social, are so lonely. We have created a society that does not create substantial connections anymore, and obsesses over trivialities, and endless repeats and broadcasts them as fundamental truths.

I have noticed that online, and in IRL, nobody asks each other questions anymore. What they do, is make accusations. And it’s miserable and draining to be constantly accused of stuff. I feel like this shift started around 2021.

Back in 2018 I could meet a stranger and they would be like ‘oh where are you from? oh cool, what was it like there, I have not been!’

now it’s like ‘i bet you are from x, oh you’re not? well you SEEM LIKE a person from x. oh you are from y? THAT’S WEIRD. I haven’t been there but i bet it’s weird because you are weird.’ Or they try to tell me that I can’t be from y, because they KNOW i am from x. It’s so bizarre. Increasingly the strangers I meet basically tell me that they know the TRUTH about me… even as I tell them that what they are saying isn’t true.

I basically can’t have conversations anymore, at least like I used to. I used to be able to sit there for 20-30m and talk about a single book I read to someone, and they’d ask me all about it and I’d ask them about a book they like. Now they just jump down my throat or lecture me and never ask me any questions, and switch to another topic after like a few minutes and say dismissive stuff about how books are outdated and dumb. Or even if they do like to read, they get all bent out of shape that I don’t read the same type of stuff as they do.

Same with movies, same with hobbies, same with my job or my family or other stuff that I used to be able to connect with people over. Used to be a nice back and forth, now it’d dodging bullets and if you don’t give the ‘right’ answer they get angry and dismiss you as a bad person.

And on the flip side… AI gives these people what they want. It just parrots back to them what they want to hear about how wonderful and great they are and how everything they do is amazing and valid and their life is so hard… which is precisely what another human being is NOT going to give you…

No, they are just here to spout cliche gender war bullshit about how men are awful for existing.

and if you asked them about women on male violence they’d deny it exists.

trying talking about your feelings as a man and see how society reacts…

spoiler: it won’t be pleasant.

sort of like how these men in the article are talking about their feelings…

Gut für dich. Das ist alles Scheiß.

plenty of them are older people too.

they just have a very black and white view of the world and limited experience.

amen. 100% agree.

far leftism is just another flavor of nazism.