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Rachelhazideas @ Rachelhazideas @lemmy.world Posts 1Comments 412Joined 2 yr. ago
Rachelhazideas @ Rachelhazideas @lemmy.world
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Dehumanizing AI is a good thing.
People when kids screech at a restaurant: 'Must be shitty parents.'
People when kids run around at a restaurant: 'Must be shitty parents.'
People when kids use an ipad at a restaurant: 'Must be shitty parents.'
There's no winning here. Children just aren't allowed to exist.
We are the exception because we most definitely weren't like that at all as a kid. /s
Imagine being an early hominid and not knowing that dogs only live for so many years.
The last day always comes too soon.
Wisdom teeth were amazing to have back when dental care didn't exist and our teeth fell out from decay or injuries.
Insomnia is a chronic incurable medical condition.
If you can cure it by limiting caffeine consumption, that's not medical insomnia that's just a caffeine issue.
It's just like migraines. If you can treat it with ibuprofen, you don't have a migraine you have a headache.
^What people who don't have insomnia think it's like.
Millennials are killing the living industry.
This entire post is precisely the problem. The fact that everyone here is conflating sex with mental health support is the reason why men's mental health isn't being taken seriously.
Men are not socialized to, and even actively discouraged from being emotionally vulnerable with each other.
We won't need men doing more fucking, we need men to sit down together and talk about their depression, and we need other men to be supportive and not downplay these conversations with sexist or homophobic slurs.
People when autistic boys have mental shutdowns: haha it's so quirky when he hyperfixates.
People when autistic girls have mental shutdowns: what a bitchy and emotional teenager. She's not even autistic she just does it for attention.
I'll read out the subtext for people who are unable to:
"When I say 'hurry up', what I mean is that I'm annoyed because you should have hurried up before getting to the bus so that I don't have to wait for you while you're late."
People are overworked, underpaid, and struggling to make rent in this economy while juggling 3 jobs or taking care of their kids, or both.
They are at the limits of their mental load, especially women who shoulder it disproportionately in many households. AI is used to drastically reduce that mental load. People suffering from burnout use it for unlicensed therapy. I'm not advocating for it, I'm pointing out why people use it.
Treating AI users like a moral failure and disregarding their circumstances does nothing to discourage the use of AI. All you are doing is enforcing their alienation of anti-AI sentiment.
First, understand the person behind it. Address the root cause, which is that AI companies are exploiting the vulnerabilities of people with or close to burnout by selling the dream of a lightened workload.
It's like eating factory farmed meat. If you have eaten it recently, you know what horrors go into making it. Yet, you are exhausted from a long day of work and you just need a bite of that chicken to take the edge off to remain sane after all these years. There is a system at work here, greater than just you and the chicken. It's the industry as a whole exploiting consumer habits. AI users are no different.
That's a recipe for a UTI. Please do not garlic bread.
Quick way to find your blindspot:
- Close your right eye
- Hold your phone/monitor 1ft (30cm) away from your face
- Look at the 'x' below with your left eye
- Slowly bring your phone towards you (or your face towards the monitor) until the '.' disappears
. x
That's the evolutionary theory behind polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). 10% of all women have it.
Starve a lot, eat a lot, expend minimal calories, rinse and repeat. As a bonus, we get hyperandrogenism and delayed fertility. Great for surviving scarcity, terrible for surviving the modern world.
There wasn't. I never said every woman always has support. I only said that men struggle with vocalizing mental health needs among their friends.
If talking to your friends about trauma at the appropriate stage in your friendship is considered trauma dumping, I'm sorry to say that I'm afraid you don't have close friends.
That, or you're coddling and patronizing your friends for lacking the emotional maturity to handle deeper conversations.
True friendship comes from being comfortable with your vulnerabilities around your friends, and having each other's backs. A support group isn't a substitute because it's premise is transactional in nature, where you are expected to talk about and listen to trauma without attachment.
Because men don't have a strong enough social support system to have cathartic talks about their emotions. Because women aren't willing to disproportionately shoulder emotional labor anymore.
The patriarchy hurts everyone. Normalize discussing mental health among men. Don't let stigma stop you from telling your friends from how much they mean to you and how you're here if they need to talk.
Other people have different needs from you. What if they're dieting? What if they just worked a 10 hour shift and need to decompress at home? What if they're disabled and can't go out often? What if they don't have friends?
Let's not make a moral judgment here. There are far worse things to do than playing steam games like drugs, binge drinking, smoking, committing a robbery, etc.
40% of Mormon missionaries leave their church after their missions.
Don't turn them away. Talk to them with kindness and compassion, and understand that they grew up as victims of a cult. Show them there is so much more to the world than the what the LDS church tells them.
We humanize lots of non-human things all the time. Pets, animals used as meat, 1 month old fetuses, fictional characters, religious figures, etc.
It is as human to humanize as it is to dehumanize because it's in our nature to attempt to define what is and isn't us.
When you attribute value to a being because you see humanity in it, you are making a value statement that a being has worth because it has humanity, not because it has life which is precious.
Ultimately, dehumanizing ourselves is how we can extend our compassion to other beings. When we accept that we are no more alive than pigs are, we accept that pigs, too, are living being with their own thoughts, subjective experience, and suffering.
You can absolutely dehumanize things that were never human, because what it means to be human is neither universal nor static. AI is human to people who don't understand how LLMs work. There's a thought experiment called Roco's basilisk (trigger warning as it can induce anxiety) that entirely banks on people's tendency to humanize AI. You can argue that people are dumb and just don't understand that that's not how AI works, but how something works often has no bearing on how it is perceived by people.
More people than ever are asking what it means to be human in the face of something that almost communicates like one. We are not dehumanizing AI because of it's race, gender, or color, because that is not clearly defined in AI. We're dehumanizing AI because we are asking what it means to be human outside of superficial context.