hundreth

It seems like 50% or more of the posts these days are just rehashes of anti scientist or anti science slop. I get what Leo is trying to do but I can't shake the sense that this is not the message for the moment. It's 2026. Trump is president. RFK is the head of the HHS. We are in the aftermath of heavy anti-vax and anti expert sentiment. Experts in any domain have never been less trusted. Experts today utilize our flawed but very useful current understandings of science and available studies. This understanding at least has some grounding in reality in our relative material world. The vast majority of people have replaced trust in science and experts with trust in grifting social media influencers and pseudoscience nonsense. Science is a tool. What is the purpose of continuously disparaging a tool? It would be no different from creating 300 blog posts about how a screwdriver is trash because some of us use the wrong screws, put things together half hazardly and don't know what we're doing. That's not the fault of the tool, that's the fault of the user. But oh wait, a screwdriver can't build your entire house. Of course not, it's just one tool in the bigger picture. Just as science is one facet of truth. No one claims that science can be used to discuss God or other epistemic issues. So why continually harp on it for that? Is that really where the majority of people are stuck now? The greatest peril of our civilization at the moment is that society believes you can replace religion with science? Maybe for a brief moment in major U.S. cities circa 2010. This is vastly outdated. The present moment demands a different focus. To critique science and surpass it you need to first understand it and know how to use it. Your message will fall on the vulnerable ignorant who will use it as justification to trust the influence of grifters and pseudoscience peddlers. If the goal is to be helpful, I can't see how this is the right path.

Yeah I didn't spend too much time dissecting your disagreement but the core of her suggestion is right. You just need to spend more time. Sometimes we can go through a ton of rejection until we break through.

Hey dude. I've been the stoic quiet / serious guy type when I was young. You're going to look back at this as childish, silly and cringe one day after you've had more experiences with women. Yes, @Emerald is right that you will have to spend a lot more time around women. Yes, you can't sit home and play video games. Yes, you will have to leave your comfort zone. And yes, you will see it isn't masculinity that is holding you back, it is that your personality hasn't fully developed yet. The answer is more experiences. More dates, more travel, more shows, more heartbreaks, more drama, more career developments, more friends, more hobbies, more creative outlets, more comedy, etc. When you have that, you will find that you can more easily relate to everyone, not just women. At the end of the day women want to feel safe and comfortable around you. That is where your masculinity comes in. Your job is to make her feel safe. Being funny, silly and making jokes helps put them at ease. Understanding where they're coming from, being able to relate as a human - that makes them feel comfortable. Get on the dating apps, go on as many dates as you can. I promise you will have success eventually. You may meet one girl who sees something in you, and pushes you to break out of some of your neuroses. Either way, you will get there. Best of luck.

What has this thread become? Bots arguing? How do we feel about the ceasefire?

It's antisemitic drivel like this which is barely beneath the surface that as a Jew makes me support Israel even more unapologetically. Eat shit.

Not surprised to see a thread about Charlie Kirk being shot in Chicago, become 50% about Israel / Jews.

I came across a silly propaganda image suggesting that all of Israel would be Jordan if Israel lost, so I asked ChatGPT to rebuke it and it resulted in a kind of funny result. SO then I said: "So there would still not have been palestine?" And she replied: The world is a fascinating place.

Of course many Palestinian Hamas combatants dehumanize Jews and Israelis the same way. It's always awful. This goes beyond in the moment battle reaction though. His cluelessness months later about why they might care about their loved one's body shows that. That guy has permanently shut off part of his humanity.

That's fucked. Hurts to read stuff like that. Dehumanization for sure.

Then say "war criminals" - not Jews. Being Jewish doesn't make you a criminal. In fact, being a Zionist doesn't make you a criminal. It just means you believe Israel has a right to exist. Not to expand, not to attack, not to kill - to exist.

I don't support what Israel is doing but you can go eat a dick.

They added more X posts to the training data. AKA uncensored posts. Once you open the floodgates of negative content the AI is flooded with, garbage out ensues.

I agree with you. I personally don't like going in circles over history. I think it is a waste of time. I'm always focused on what is the best path forward today. They do need to learn to co-exist.

You don't know how AI works, clearly. AI is just a pattern recognition machine. It just reflects back what it was trained on. Garbage in, garbage out. It doesn't reason the way you think it does.

Every AI is making "mechahitler" references and spreading anti-semitic pro white nationalism propaganda? Ok cool story bro.