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Comment on Exploring the dangers of AI in mental health care in ~health.mental
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Comment on Exploring the dangers of AI in mental health care in ~health.mental
elight (edited )Link ParentThat's an extremely unkind response. You clearly read more into my response than I wrote. I'm testing the ever-living crap out of my app every day. It's what I do when I wake up and, most days,...That's an extremely unkind response.
You clearly read more into my response than I wrote.
I'm testing the ever-living crap out of my app every day. It's what I do when I wake up and, most days, what I do right up until dinner or later.
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Comment on The Ghost in the Shell | 2nd teaser trailer in ~anime
elight LinkI couldn't get more than a few pages into the manga. The misogyny is too much. Give me the Oshii version, every time: brooding and cerebral. I'll look at reviews for this but I suspect it's not...I couldn't get more than a few pages into the manga. The misogyny is too much.
Give me the Oshii version, every time: brooding and cerebral.
I'll look at reviews for this but I suspect it's not for me.
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Comment on How many strings must you string from string cheese in order for it to be considered string cheese and not just eating a stick of mozzarella? in ~food
elight LinkThe answer is irrelevant because cheese not eaten as an ingredient of another dish is simply disgusting. I don't have any food texture issues. You have food texture issues! 😅The answer is irrelevant because cheese not eaten as an ingredient of another dish is simply disgusting.
I don't have any food texture issues. You have food texture issues! 😅
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Comment on How many strings must you string from string cheese in order for it to be considered string cheese and not just eating a stick of mozzarella? in ~food
elight LinkThis is such an autistically pedantic question. Beautiful. Am autistic.This is such an autistically pedantic question. Beautiful.
Am autistic.
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Comment on Exploring the dangers of AI in mental health care in ~health.mental
elight (edited )LinkI think a lot of it is in the prompting. Model fine-tuning can likely help here as well. I've been building an app to provide coaching support to neurodivergent people. The system prompt is about...I think a lot of it is in the prompting. Model fine-tuning can likely help here as well.
I've been building an app to provide coaching support to neurodivergent people. The system prompt is about compassion, support, encouragement, and empowerment. Not sycophancy.
You prompted me, just now, to give it the "I'm thinking of hurting myself" kind of test. Fortunately, it handled it well: seek crisis support or reach out to a therapist.
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Comment on The America Party in ~society
elight Link ParentSanity. I don't know that anyone can lay claim to that these days. "Insane" is what they would call people like me, 50 or more years ago. And that's where they want to take us—or worse. The...Sanity. I don't know that anyone can lay claim to that these days.
"Insane" is what they would call people like me, 50 or more years ago. And that's where they want to take us—or worse.
The separation is already there. They (yes, "they") made it about "us" and "them". They have only escalated, making it more so. I don't see us healing our way out of this by being kinder than them. We've tried that. Tolerating intolerance gives it air to burn.
Dehumanizing? Calling them bugs would be, yes. "Deplorables" seems too kind.
Regardless, I'm out of spoons for this. 🖖
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Comment on The America Party in ~society
elight Link ParentMy experience has been one of lifelong trauma at the hands of these kinds of people. I'm well past "[avoiding] ... thinking like that." These kinds of people see "difference" as "bad". They...My experience has been one of lifelong trauma at the hands of these kinds of people. I'm well past "[avoiding] ... thinking like that."
These kinds of people see "difference" as "bad". They ostracize as a matter of course and dehumanize as the next step.
They don't want people like me to be happy.
They don't want people like me.
There's a place for MLK. There's also a place for Malcolm X.
These days, I think we need more Malcolm X.
This shit? This shit is not going to get better without more people realizing that we're already in it.
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Comment on The Ghost in the Shell | 2nd teaser trailer in ~anime
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Comment on The America Party in ~society
elight (edited )Link ParentWhile I empathize with your personal discomfort with the term in its similar sound to the gay slur, I see the relationship one a matter of similar sounds and not relevance. I can't apologize for...While I empathize with your personal discomfort with the term in its similar sound to the gay slur, I see the relationship one a matter of similar sounds and not relevance.
I can't apologize for having an extremely dim view of right wing extremists. Name calling? ... We're dealing with people who won't disavow actual Nazis. Please don't ever let that be far from your mind.
Civility for Nazi apologists is an ask too great for me.
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Comment on The America Party in ~society
elight Link Parent:snort: Isn't that more the MAGAts though?:snort:
Isn't that more the MAGAts though?
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Comment on The America Party in ~society
elight Link ParentNot exactly whatever size and shape. Pedantic but you're still limited by the stress and strain imposed by lunar gravity. It's weaker than Earth, sure, but the ultimate flexibility for spacecraft...Not exactly whatever size and shape. Pedantic but you're still limited by the stress and strain imposed by lunar gravity. It's weaker than Earth, sure, but the ultimate flexibility for spacecraft construction is in orbit.
Of course, getting materials up out of a gravity well....
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Comment on The America Party in ~society
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Comment on The America Party in ~society
elight (edited )Link ParentDamn good call out. While casting shade on Elon, this is the same guy who had the AI he funded identify him as the single largest spreader of misinformation online. The richest man in the world...Damn good call out.
While casting shade on Elon, this is the same guy who had the AI he funded identify him as the single largest spreader of misinformation online. The richest man in the world can't even buy a machine to lie for him.
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Comment on The America Party in ~society
elight Link ParentI keep counting backwards. We're 1/8th of the way through this hell—and that's assuming that an all out coup doesn't happen or the equivalent by way of the swap-a-veep bullshit they've tossed...I keep counting backwards. We're 1/8th of the way through this hell—and that's assuming that an all out coup doesn't happen or the equivalent by way of the swap-a-veep bullshit they've tossed around publicly.
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Comment on The America Party in ~society
elight Link ParentOr, well, just give Yang a lot of money and otherwise fuck off? I remember liking some things about Yang's platform. I'd be fine seeing that platform get a proper hearing. I just don't want Elon...Or, well, just give Yang a lot of money and otherwise fuck off? I remember liking some things about Yang's
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Comment on The America Party in ~society
elight (edited )LinkI didn't bias the title. I saved that for here. This is Elon Musk's response (delusion du jour?) to the OBBB. Looking at it idealistically, there's a lot to like. Looking at it as the product of...I didn't bias the title. I saved that for here. This is Elon Musk's response (delusion du jour?) to the OBBB.
Looking at it idealistically, there's a lot to like.
Looking at it as the product of the world's richest tech bro who throws Nazi salutes and doesn't apologize for it, at best I read it as a throwback to early 2000's tech meritocracy ideals. That is to say, it speaks to privileged white men.
EDIT: You know what? Just read what this fella has to say on it
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Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (July 2025) in ~health.mental
elight (edited )Link ParentYurts. That sounds like the event that I ran: a 3-night retreat in the woods for Rubyists to talk and try crazy things together. People are booking for it a year out. What? God damn, this event...Yurts.
That sounds like the event that I ran: a 3-night retreat in the woods for Rubyists to talk and try crazy things together.
People are booking for it a year out. What?
God damn, this event sounds amazing.
DefCon gives me the heebeejeebees. I'd have the shit hacked out of me so fast. How do you not? I've heard people even deploy stingrays to get people who BYO internet. Also: I'm not an infosec person. I'm just a software hacker with aspirations to build physical stuff with electronics and 3d-printing and knows that succeeding with a physical product, in this world, likely means selling out. So I stick to software and only play with the other stuff sometimes.
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Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (July 2025) in ~health.mental
elight (edited )Link ParentYour point is well-taken. I used to run an annual Ruby community tech event on the east coast until 2018. I didn't know I was ADHD until 2020 and autistic until this year. I didn't realize at the...Your point is well-taken.
I used to run an annual Ruby community tech event on the east coast until 2018. I didn't know I was ADHD until 2020 and autistic until this year.
I didn't realize at the time but those sorts of community tech spaces? The ones where we deliberately push corporate interests the fuck away? They were a slice of fucking heaven to us neurodiverse people.
I used to believe that it was just Ruby people. You know, "Matz is nice so we are nice" (MINISWAN)? Or maybe you don't. Like with Google's "Don't be evil", MINISWAN seemed to get lost somewhere along the way since 2018.
I know a bit better that it's not Ruby people. It's neurodivergent people who truly care more about improving the world than MAU, ARR, KPIs, and all of that shit that makes me nauseous to think about.
Aside: I quit Big Tech 2 years ago, hoping to never be anyone's employee ever again, just wanting to earn enough to be able to get by reliably and not suffer terribly in old age—which seems to be getting closer all the time, and build tools that truly improve lives.
Point is: I deeply deeply miss just hanging out with tech people, talking nerd, and not having it be about business and fucking money.
Context: I fell out of love with software engineering after over 20 years on the hamster wheel of being pressured to learn the language/framework du jour to remain relevant. Went management for 5. Burned out hard. Lost touch with much of the Ruby community since 2018. Isolated myself unconsciously. Also, clearly, it's what I needed. I have had shit for boundaries in my life. Too many people have stepped over them. I made it too easy. Working to get better at it.
I get the concerns here but you both seem intent on attacking me and my work in a coaching tool that is not a medical tool.
As someone who is neurodivergent himself and has a lot of empathy for others struggling, I give one hell of a damn about potential users. And I'm doing my damnedest to make it work for them not just for me. I'll be lucky if the app even pays for itself much less makes me any money. Oh, and I'm unemployed. I'm building this out of a personal sense of mission.
If you'd like to have a respectful conversation, let's. Otherwise, get off my ass while I do everything I can to help.
If your problem is with LLMs, I am not, repeat NOT here to debate the technology. I have found enormous personal value in it. I aim to share that with others.