zbyte64
@zbyte64@awful.systems
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 22 hours ago:
Saying that you’re not worth the time to train someone to interact with you better but here’s a product you can buy is a platitude. You failed the empathy test.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 1 day ago:
Additionally, AI will only be getting better,
It might get cheaper, but that doesn’t mean it’s doing a better job.
if the alternative is telling people that are struggling and have no other options that they have to tough it out
That’s just it, if you’re talking to someone who’s is struggling with this there is already a better option: showing empathy. I suspect our perceived lack of empathy is a reflection of how society treats people in general, we are just more honest about it.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 1 day ago:
I’ll be honest, I find the framing of the study offensive and I’m not sure if I have the words but I’ll try.
It’s less about this study comparing itself to no intervention instead of comparing to existing interventions, but the social context of AI being pushed as a way to make care giving more efficient while sacrificing quality.
- Comment on An AI Social Coach Is Teaching Empathy to People with Autism 2 days ago:
half were assigned to use Noora for four weeks and half received no intervention.
If only they gave a control group an off-the-shelf social game like LA Noire…
- Comment on The devil made me do it 5 days ago:
Ever tried siracha deviled eggs? Or with grey puopon? I wonder what the price of eggs are now…
- Comment on I love bpd girls 2 weeks ago:
Wishing you the best therapist she can find. “Integrated Family Systems” could be of help.
- Comment on Help. 3 weeks ago:
… With whatever corporations is providing the bot. When the business decides to change the model or impose a technical limit that impacts their experience negatively, well you get the idea. There is a material, exploitive capital machine on the other end, and it wants your time.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Across the pond there were families that took in those refugees, invited Dietrich to speak to congregations, and stored his letters he sent from prison. In short, we should echo the voices of dissent and give them material support if possible.
- Comment on It's all a game for them and we are always the losers 3 weeks ago:
Imagine if the players could rewrite the rules of the game.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered by the SS because he didn’t stand idle as his country went full Nazi. He helped with multiple plots to assassinate Hitler, smuggled vulnerable people out of Germany and founded a church that rejected nazification that was later deemed illegal by the Mazis. The guy was a pastor. Do you honestly think he was dogshit for not doing enough?
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 5 weeks ago:
Hukuo in modern China could be perceived as prioritizing the right to have a home over choosing to have none. “At what cost” includes homelessness and higher unemployment rates. We are quick to highlight where there is a lack of right in China but not how it reflects on our own lack of rights.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know about Canada but the USA has been pro-child factory work lately. China’s wages have been rising faster than expected so they have gone all-in on automation. So when I see people claim their stuff is cheap because of “slavery” or human rights, it reads like projection.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 month ago:
For the Epstein list to be released and for all the wealthy pesos to be executed.
- Comment on The struggle 1 month ago:
Get a squatty potty and it will flow with more ease
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 month ago:
And what do interesting things are the Uighurs are making that is so interesting?
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 month ago:
Did you know that most of China’s debt is held domestically?
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 month ago:
I mean so does the United States thanks to the 13th amendment but we don’t have anywhere near the same infrastructure to show for it
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 1 month ago:
Overproduction of commodities is certainly a problem for capitalists. But the workers get to enjoy a lower cost of living. Like I would much prefer we built ghost cities (Chengdu was derided as a ghost city at one point) than have a decades long housing crisis with no signs of improving unless we deport millions of people.
- Comment on Neighbors take back Southeast Portland street, replacing RVs with community garden 1 month ago:
The RVs are people’s homes because there is a shortage of housing. They move their RV from time to time to avoid tickets/police. The vehicles usually look worn down because people are literally living out of them. Eventually the RV won’t work anymore and it gets towed and the family that was living out of it has to find somewhere else to sleep. Usually nothing illegal is happening because most of them understand they’re living off the good graces of others. But there are a lot of people that feel uncomfortable around unhoused people and would rather vilify their neighbors than take a hard look at that discomfort.
- Comment on Self starter 1 month ago:
Ehh, it is not that our dopamine receptors are fried. We are all wired to seek out information. But most of what we get is starving us for actual useful information so we have to wade through an endless sea of slop. The “instant gratification” is largely us not wanting to deal with the bullshit and get straight to what is useful.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The stock market makes no sense to me.
That’s because “The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 1 month ago:
That would mean admitting they did something wrong, which is impossible for these ghouls.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 1 month ago:
Wish they’d pray for forgiveness because then that would mean admitting mistakes.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 2 months ago:
Oh man I have a story about an unhoused lady who has dementia. I walk my dog and sometimes she recognizes me, other times she has no idea. One of the days I was walking the dog and she forgot who I was and asked to pet my dog. She thought I was unhoused as well for some reason and told me about some good spots to sleep. These people know what it means to survive based on the kindness of others.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 2 months ago:
I honestly think how we treat the service industry is how many people end up treating their kids.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 2 months ago:
I think it was David Graeber that pointed out that the poorer you are the more you need to be able to empathize with your boss and clients in order to survive.
But this notion that the middle class are somehow more empathetic is interesting because I think it is based on the (correct) idea that people need to actually own something in order to be generous. However, I find from personal experience, poor people have an easier time giving what they have because they know they can survive having nothing.
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 2 months ago:
Description: Elon talks about the implications to JD Vance.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 3 months ago:
Well, they ain’t harvesting organs for no poor folk and rich people don’t like to die
- Comment on Will AI make humans extinct? 14:52 3 months ago:
How do they expect to keep reign in AI’s “uncheck power and autonomy” when we hardly do that for corporations or billionaires?
- Comment on Can AI replace therapists? 4 months ago:
I’m not a therapist but I think the author is projecting their own sense of vulnerability.