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It's not an assumption. It's an observation. It's clear that the OPs perspective comes from a place of polarization, judgment, and resistance to the way that the average person is. It's his way of hierarchically differentiating himself from the plebeian hordes of average non-truthseeking people who simply live their lives. It's saying, "Now that I am (superior) like this... I scoff at those who are (inferior) like that." It's building an identity based on hierarchical differentiation and uncommonality. Is that not clear to you?

Yes. It's unethical because you're not presenting your own personality and thoughts. It's like catfishing... but with your personality instead of your looks. (which as bad as looks-based catfishing is, personality-based catfishing is worse) Now, if you used a program that was like... "Hey, this Tinder user uses a Tinder bot for introductory conversations. Type in a query to learn more about this Tinder user." that wouldn't be unethical. But passing off ChatGPT or Tinder Bot messages like they are yourself is unethical... because it's misleading the person. It's giving them zero accurate information to go off of when they're considering you for a date.

What she's saying is just great advice for women. She's not saying anything shallow like the OP suggests. She's talking about the safety of being able to escape from abuse. And given that her dad abused her mom, it makes sense that she's very attuned to and aware of these risks. A lot of women end up in a relationship where the man is making all the money or where he makes a ton more money than she does, such that she relies on him partially or wholly for sustenance... which gives the man considerable power over her. Or there can even be a dynamic where both the man and woman don't make a lot of money and have to live together in order to keep things afloat, and cannot support themselves off of a single income. And in these situations financial abuse and other forms of abuse run rampant because the woman cannot escape without plunging herself and potentially her children into poverty. It's like, "Do I stay with this man who is physically/emotionally/sexually/financially abusing me? Or do I escape with my children and live out of my car and homeless shelters where the kids will be exposed to all manner of trauma?" It's a terrible place to be that MANY women get themselves into. Honestly, having the capacity to make enough money to support yourself and your children off of your own income alone is SOOO MUCH safer for women. This dynamic could also happen in a dynamic where the woman is controlling a man financially. But most of the time, it happens the opposite way.

That would also be unethical.

Be careful not to use your inner work as a means to feel superior to other people. You are not better than the average person because you're into personal development and spirituality. It doesn't even guarantee that you're wiser than others.

LLMs simply cannot do that. And that kind of program can NEVER be developed enough to learn to do that, as it isn't how LLMs work. If we take for granted that it can be done... we'd need to invent something TOTALLY different than LLMs.

AI is useful within a limited context. But I feel like people project the expectation onto LLMs that it's ACTUAL artificial intelligence. But it isn't artificial intelligence at all. We are a LONG way off from discovering how to actually create real AI... if it's even possible. LLMs only have two skills among thousands that the human mind possesses. One of those skills is data collection and retention. The other skill is holistic data synthesis to create text, sounds, and images. And because these are things that human minds can do... sometimes better than LLMs and sometimes worse than LLMs... it gives the illusion that we're interfacing with an artificially created intelligence when we're interfacing with LLM software. But it's really just another computer program like any other. Only this one has been trained to collect data and holistically synthesize it into new text, sounds, and images. And the text, sounds, and images it creates resembles the texts, sounds, and images that humans create... sometimes identically or just in relation to general aesthetics and style. So, it gives the illusion of intelligence and sentience. But it's just an illusion. So, it's only annoying if you don't expect too much from it.

Yes, of course. You'd just need to find work where hearing isn't a major part of the skill set. There are plenty of jobs and careers that have hearing as a major component. But there are also plenty of jobs and careers that don't have hearing as a major component. And just like everyone else, finding a career that's a good fit for one's strengths and weaknesses is part of the career search.

Women on dating apps (and many of the men as well) are looking to get a sense of the other person's personality with the texting to help narrow down whether or not the person they're texting with is a good candidate for a date. Women get bombarded by TONS of suiters. And she has to sort them and choose to spend her time pursuing the ones she sees as the best candidates. And using a bot to text for you would be giving women false information to make those choices off of. Like, imagine that a woman doesn't realize that it's a bot. And then it's some violent, crazy guy who's using this tech, but the bot is coming across like a normal gentleman. And she's like, "Sure. He seems normal. I'll go out on a date with him." Then, the woman goes on the date... and the psycho guy chops off her head. And she never saw it coming because the little red flags that the guy would have left while texting don't come through... because it was a bot doing it. So... that's how bad it COULD get. But even if a normal guy is using the tech... it's still misleading and a waste of time. So, it's misleading and a waste of time at best... and VERY dangerous at worst. So, yes... unethical all around.

I'm sure that that's true.

Thank you for sharing this! I had a lot of fears of aging for the same reason. And I couldn't even deal with them until I had the direct of experience of the unity that's only possible through the embrace of ordinariness. It's hard to get there though, as it requires us to relinquish power. It requires one to embrace and love the wilting flower and to recognize the wilt as part of the beauty of the flower. Blooming is only meaningful because it's temporary and finite. So, anyone who is clinging towards eternal expansion and immortality will start to grow hardened. You see a lot of this in the tech space with the lofty ideas of trans-humanism and all the Patrick Bateman-esque health routines. Such a fear and denial of average-ness does no good and only makes one feel perpetually like a stranger in a strange land.

Think about what I said on the paradigmatic level it's meant to be approached from. Don't hide up in the stars. If I tell you that your fly is down... it might not be best to respond with, "God has no fly to be down. Human stuff is irrelevant."

That's how I used to feel about it too, prior to my medicine journey where it showed me that there was so much that was positive and superior in beauty on the other side of embracing my ordinary side. I'm picking on you about this because I think your resistances to average-ness are holding you back from your stated spiritual goals.... and that your goals towards seeking Truth may partially be a cover for your resistance to average-ness. You have to be able to kiss the frog to experience the higher state of the prince. You may be motivated to transcend the 'human smallness' through enlightenment because that is another way of creating a differentiated ego and setting yourself aside from all other humans because other humans are the frogs. But that motivation would just be an outgrowth of the same human smallness and non-Truth that you're seeking to get away from... and would make you just another frog. So, even your resistance to ordinariness is a really normal and average human condition. I've experienced it... and many of my clients over the years have too. It's very ordinary to want to not be ordinary and to hate mediocrity. And because specialness is power... t's nearly impossible to truly cast away that "ring of power". So, when you make a show of "I'm one of the rare special ones who can ACTUALLY cast the one ring into Mordor." forgive me if I'm skeptical and poke at you a bit. If what I have glimpsed is true, God is one that can embrace all things completely and staying with the reality of being God requires such an embrace of all polarities along all spectrums in the everythingness (as that is what Love is)... how can you expect to stay with the Truth that you are God, if you can't even accept the inescapable ordinary averageness of the Leo character? That resistance alone will keep you clinging to the ego story of "Leo, the special alien." And yes, I do still have a resistance to malice and that which causes suffering that sometimes gets in the way of my goals. But I've been working for several years on breaking down my resistance to ordinariness. But those resistances used to be almost equal. I couldn't tolerate blending in with the crowd in nearly similar to the resistance to causing suffering. That's the big boss level resistance for me. But the truth is that every human is fundamentally ordinary, you included. And aging alone will rob you of all relative specialness that you currently enjoy. Can you accept that truth?

It's my way of questioning your motives... as the individual called Leo. My question is not about God. Don't run away into that paradigm. You do like being special as a person... and being 'among the few' truth-seekers. Would you deny that you have such a competitive desire to be the rare one? The one that stands alone seeing Truth where all else are too unconscious to do so? Could you accept yourself and love yourself if you were not such a rare Truth-seeker? Could you accept and love Leo if he was just a random low consciousness pleb on the street that was ignorant and knew nothing of Truth? If the Tooth Fairy came up to you and beat you with her wand and magically made you average in EVERY SINGLE WAY, could you love and accept that?

It's just the many-ness of everything. It's not specifically the way that AI does things... or even that it's AI. AI just floods the internet with exponentially more videos and images that can be produced instantly... to add to all the videos and images that already exist. The main aversion to it is the exponential expansiveness and dilution of meaning through that expansiveness. That's the fear. Plus, the way that Social media sites construct their sites over the past few years is one that feels more inundating than it was in previous years.

I think that's a good metaphor for what's needed.

Thank you! It's very challenging to contract one's aperture enough to find meaning in the face of experiences of the infinite.

That is true.

This feels very relevant to me right now. I have the sense that I will find the blooming that I'm looking for in the context of this Earthly life through the embrace of ordinariness and the mundane. But it's difficult because my MO since childhood up until the past few years is to seek to differentiate myself from others. It's like this underlying function of the gameplay to differentiate myself that I've always taken for granted. But one of my medicine journeys revealed that embrace of ordinariness is what enables one to be a part of the sauce... belonging within humanity, nature, and the universe at large. And my underlying mechanism has always been to avoid blending in. So, I think the "tv static" of the infinite everythingness... and the fact that it homogenizes EVERYTHING, no matter how mundane or divergent, REALLY disturbs me. But it is the path to integrating what has been left out in my desire to differentiate myself to have meaning in life. But it's difficult for me to figure out how to embrace ordinariness... without undercutting what is real and authentic, which may (by happenstance) happen to diverge.

Is it because you're the special snowflake among us who is one of the only intelligible books in the library? I could interpret your question that way... and see you as doing what I've always tried to do in order to differentiate myself from others.... to be the identity that is special and rare among all other identities. It's to be the rarest and most valuable book in the library. But maybe you mean it in a wiser way that actually reflects great humblings to your identity of being the rare person who wants Truth. And instead, you recognize that you don't really want Truth when you're faced directly with it. That is what I realized. I want to live the illusion and be the avatar... and to have preference for one thing over the other. I want to be like a simple Hobbit who is born and dies in the shire and lives a finite life of great meaning. Perhaps you ask this question because you too are admitting that you are alive because you are choosing to persist in the mundane human life because you do not really want to love and accept all things... and you recognize that you are still alive for that very reason. Or perhaps you're saying that because you want me to know how special and different you are to prove yourself to be a more coherent book than others. It really could be either one.

It's honestly a silly thing to assume you must choose between your purpose or a relationship. The latter will only help the former. Honestly, you will need a strong social support system if you want to achieve something great. Trying to forego relationships and friendships for your life's purpose is like trying to forego food for your life's purpose... as you're taking away necessary support and fuel. But if you love someone and you're monogamous with that person, then it's good thing to have one-itis. It's really the only way to have that kind of relationship. Sod whatever the internet says on the matter. But if you just want to date around, then do that. But don't get too attached to that person. Keep your goal in mind relative to how you want to approach dating, relationships, and sexuality. Do you want a monogamous committed and loving relationships? Then develop one-itis. Do you want to date around and have a bunch of sexual escapades with many people? Then either get into a polyamorous open relationship with the person you love (if they're okay with it) or let them go and go meet a bunch of people for brief flings.

The Great Replacement is a far right conspiracy theory that's been around since the late 1800s... and was originally invented by Camus and later adopted by Eugenicists in the early 1900s... and in the 1990s was adopted as a common talking point in Neo-Nazi circles. The idea is to cloak more overt racist and antisemitic ideas in language that the average person would find more palatable in order to evoke in the average white person the fear of people of other races, ethnic backgrounds, and religious backgrounds... such that the violent and genocidal aims of Neo-Nazis and White Nationalists will be easier to accomplish. Even your questioning of it is a sign that those Neo-Nazis have an effective strategy for drumming up fear of the "other"... as you seem to have more egalitarian values but seem genuinely worried that it's true. And it's good that you're throwing doubt on it. But even that seed of doubt that you have... that's how they weaponize SO MANY people towards regressive, violent, and genocidal aims. That's why it's SO important to be very careful and very skeptical when listening to propaganda.

Very fun indeed

I just really don't like it when people misrepresent someone else's perspective by misquoting it or strawmannirg it in other kinds of ways. The constant barrage of intellectual dishonesty in the world and the ubiquity of internet propaganda have made me even more sensitive to it as it's just infuriating... and sometimes it's even dangerous. So, I like to call it out directly when I see it... even in small forms. But I get it. You're not Vegan, and you don't agree with it. But you should still work on avoiding strawmanning your opponents... even if I grant you that it was done accidentally.