Mhm I think the diagnosis is mainly for yourself to have closure. Now you can better understand why and maybe you'll learn some tricks from autism communities to make life better.

You don't need to tell anyone. You can, but if there's no good reason, you don't have to.

Sometimes it makes social life or work life easier because people start to understand you better, but this only applies if it's an issue.

You can be happy you figured yourself out a bit better and you got a new club of people you probably fit in with :)

Congrats on getting the diagnosis!

May the textures feel comfy, may your relationships with people be smoother, and may you have fulfilling special interests!

Here's your obligatory cozy cottage, and may the odds be ever in your favor :)

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Sorry

Did I pass the immigration test?

That's genuinely a good strategy, I might use this.

The one thing that really trips me up is that I am now really interested at how many people are assholes because they aren't able to be good, and how many do it for other reasons...

Two things come to mind:

• a psychopath wants to be good because he knows this will give him a better social stand. But he doesn't really get it, because some things his peers do just look irrational to him. At some point he just reverts back to manipulation because that's what he understands.
• an autistic guy tries to be nice, but he doesn't get it. People are puzzles to him, and the way he is nice is very different from everyone else. He starts becoming jaded and stops trying to be nice like everyone else.

Both examples are people who don't have the extended knowledge of what "being nice" is, and therefore they stop being nice. I would love to know how big that percentage is amongst all assholes.

This is also intertwined with the fact that if there's an asshole for every 20 people who are nice (just as a thought experiment), you wouldn't remember the nice people, because they don't give you a headache. The asshole does. So for us, the percentage always looks really skewed, in fact it's almost exclusively the assholes we hear about.

I mean it assumes not everyone can be good (which is fair) but it's also assuming everyone wants to be good. And to be blunt, I think there's some people out there that don't care if they're assholes.

It's an interesting thought though, and I totally agree, some people really don't know how to be good.

Either Killing in the Name or The Pretender.

Hello,

Let me chime in as someone who would probably fall under your definition of an AI defender.

How do I defend AI? Well, I think AI really flips the world on it's head. Including all the good and the bad that comes from it. I still think the industrialization is a good metaphor. Things changed a lot. A lot of people were pissed. Now we don't mind as much anymore, because it's the new normal, but at the time, most people weren't happy about it.

Same with AI. I think overall it's a plus, but obviously it comes with new pitfalls. LLM hallucinations, the need for more complex copyright and licensing definitions, impersonation, etc. . It's not entirely great, but I totality, when the dust settles, it will be a helpful tool to make our lives easier.

So why do I defend AI? Basically, because I think it will happen, whether you like it or not. Even if the law will initially make it really strict, society will change their mind about it. It might be slowly, but it's just too useful to outlaw.

Going back to industrialization metaphor, we adapted it over a longer period of time. Yes, it forever changed how most things are made, but it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just a thing. And even though lots of logistics chains are streamlined, there's always gonna be handmade things and unique things. Ofc, not everything is handmade, but some important things still are. And for both of them, there's some stuff that's totally fine to be automated, and then there's some stuff that just loses it's value if we just gloss over with automation.

Now I don't want AI to just roam free (ofc not, there's some really bad stuff happening and I'm not pretending that it's not) but what we need is laws and enforcement against it, and not against AI.

Imagine if most countries outlawed AI. It would make all AI companies and users move operation to that one country that still allows it, making it impossible to oversee and enforce against. So we better find a good strategy to allow it for all the things where it doesn't do damage.

Now let me address some specific points you brought up;

In the near future no one will "need" to be a writer

But isn't this already how it's going? Only people who wanna be a writer are one, anf it's good that way.

Also, AI can only remix the art that's already there, so if you're doing something completely unique, AI won't ever be able to replace you. I find that somehow validating for the people who make awesome and unique art. I think that's how it should be.

Do these people not see or feel the human behind the art at all?

I do. And that's the exact reason I'm not concerned. Everyone who puts in the work to make something very particular to them should not be impacted in any way.

Now there's an argument to be made how consent for training data is given (opt-in / opt-out) and what licensing for the models can and should look like, but this is my very basic opinion.

Are these really opinions you have encountered outside of the internet?

I may have about one friend out of 30 who thinks like me.

I mean I am living proof we exist, but I can't say this is a popular opinion, which is fair.

I don't want people to mindlessly agree, I want them to come their own opinions because of their own research and presumptions.

I also don't expect you to agree with me, but I hope some people will understand my perspective and maybe this brings a bit more nuance to this bipolar conversation.

This is a video about it, which I think takes a very sobering approach to it. Her humor tends to be very dark, but if you look at the comment section, she seems to be hitting it head on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQv8VuLpKN4

Now for solutions, I don't know anyone who talks about it beyond the basics of "listen to men" and "give them a healthier and less judgy space to develop social skills". But that's probably because this is such a complex issue and there seems to be no simple solution.

I think they tried it with YouTube and it's dog shit still.

I don't know if the bottleneck is on the AI or the subtitles tho.

Autodesk Maya

Well there's maya, but technically there's also others like 3dsmax and Arnold that arguably fill the scope blender is in as well. We're getting real granular here, but depending on how to compare, you'd either have to take them individually or look at the product suite as a whole.

Also there was no story and gameplay wasn't as linear in the old version.

I loved the gameplay loop of exploringanother planet, and then coming back to your home planet and to build, craft and decorate.

Been bumping the last Oh Hiroshima album which is way underrated.

The first track is one of my absolute favorites (Oh Hiroshima - Wild Iris)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KId7N4Cb93Q

That's gotta be peak full disclosure communication lol

I mean considering law is the practical application of a moral construct, and this moral construct is mostly agreed upon, I would not wanna question the laws that make killings a crime for example, although there is obviously nuance.

I understand that some people think "there can be a justification for a killing" but I would always say, if we justify some killings, there is always a chance people will abuse this "loophole" for crime we created. So saying all killings are illegal is kind of the best application of our morals we have. Unfortunately, it's impossible to include every little nuance and detail in the moral system we base our laws upon, but that's why our laws are not absolutely rigid, and our moral systems are bound to change inherently.

I get it, it feels wrong, I really do. But there can be both. I can both say that even a CEO shouldn't be killed, and at the same time acknowledge that there is good reasons and something like that was inevitable given the status quo.

I wanna say it gets really tough, because "naturally born US citizen" is not further defined, as such, is inherently up to interpretation.

So we don't know, unless they try.

I mean the manliest thing is to buy the girliest things. Because it means you have better things to do than to worry about how manly you are.

I think, it's because this case is so big, that the amount of people talking about can't really increase, but also there's so much more to the case than this aspect. Which makes it difficult to focus conversation on this.

I also wanna say that it makes sense for him to get charged, even though a lot of people don't like it. Killing another human is an issue no matter what it is. And just because we think this crime stands for something bigger, that doesn't justify the killing in the first place. It's just shades of immorality.

That said, healthcare is a huge issue and I hope this changes things finally. I also don't agree with the charging of terrorism, as it says "terrorism" in it, and even though there's a small chance it fulfills the requirements, I have no angle to personally view this as terrorism.

Does it instill terror? Everyone gets scared when someone is killed, but this does not exceed it to the point that there is now a present danger. There's no furtherance to the terror, only vigilance in the crime.

Some lawyers even argue this is a pile-on to the charges, which might be the case, although I'm not an expert.

But I do think it's gonna be hard to prove the terrorism as opposed to everything else. Truly, the only threat to the prosecution of the other counts is jury nullification, which poses completely different risks.

But that's a story for another day.

This is one hell of photo

Just tell him you don't talk a lot because you need to concentrate at work and you always keep it professional because you wanna separate work and private life.

Small chance it might be awkward for a bit but he will respect it. Unless he is an asshole then you don't owe friendliness.

Andrew Wade - Drifting

Real nice indie song that isn't anything extraordinary but it helped me ground myself in my chaotic life.