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- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
There are ways to talk about these things without needing to mislead people. Frankly I don’t think that denying that some ADHD medications are indeed amphetamines or even methamphetamine (see desoxyn) is going to help in the long run. If anything lying about it is just going to make people trust you less. I didn’t think anyone was even calling methylphenidate speed anyway.
Oh and for the record I have never had the privilege of being medicated as when I was being diagnosed you couldn’t officially have both Autism and ADHD, and in my case one apparently took priority over the other. So if I want to even explore that I would have to go back to a doctor and be re-evaluated even though it says right on my psych report form when I was 4 suspected ADHD. Go figure.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
While giving teachers more education on special needs is always nice to have, it’s not going to solve the need for additional staff. Pretty much all teachers already receive some baseline instructions and training related to handling students with disabilities. There are already classrooms with additional needs kids that only have a single member of staff. For more mild disabilities that’s the standard here in the UK. There are also loads of students like me who going through school needed dedicated staff even if it was in a normal mainstream classroom environment. There are sort of three levels of intervention here: exam arrangements only, additional support in class, and dedicated classrooms. All three are used for good reasons. In some cases you can have different levels of intervention for the same student in different classes depending on how much they struggle in a given academic area, that’s what I had towards the end of my schooling career.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
Yeah fair enough. It is one of the often repeated things. There are some things it just doesn’t really apply to.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
You said ADHD medication. Adderall is a popular type of ADHD medication. Doctor approved or not does not change what it physically is, and I know of people with ADHD who refer to it as speed. You are white knighting over something while ignoring both the actual neurodivergent community and the physical reality just so you can feel correct and morally superior. As an actual neurodivergent person I take issue with your attitude and willingness to spread misleading information.
I also know there are people who abuse Adderall either through diversion or by abusing legitimately prescribed medication for their legitimately diagnosed ADHD. On the other side are people who self-medicate with street drugs as that can be easier and cheaper than doing it the societally approved way. Nothing is as simple as you are making out.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
I am not so sure that’s actually true for all traits. Certainly I don’t think most people have any kind of eye contact aversion. Likewise many people very much do not have alexithymia.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
I think there is a lack of understanding here and it’s the same lack of understanding I see in the late diagnosed parts of the community. For some people it is a lot more disabling than others. There are many that can’t actually function fully independently. Arguably no one with a formal diagnosis should really function fully independently without some kind of support system or therapy or medication in place.
You also can’t cater to everyone in mainstream education. There is a very good reason why special education exists. This is one of those takes that suggests dismantling a system just because you haven’t experienced the reasons for its existence.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
Adderall is made from amphetamine salts. It literally is a form of speed. Note that the term speed is used to refer to both amphetamine and methamphetamine. You are thinking of ritalin which is indeed different. All of these including methylphenidate are classified/scheduled substances in the US and UK. So very much are illegal if you don’t have a prescription.
Stop spreading misinformation. You can destigmatize ADHD and ADHD medications without spreading falsehoods. Probably destigmatizing amphetamine which isn’t really that dangerous to begin with would help.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I am not a furry lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Furies don’t do it with animals you dense motherfucker
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 2 months ago:
You are correct. I had to actually look that up.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 2 months ago:
Reading back over this I think you have me confused with another commentor. I don’t mention anything about IF in the commend you are replying to. Someone else did though.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 2 months ago:
Yes genetic algorithms are something different. Though they are used sometimes in training or arcitecting NNs, but not at the scale of modern LLMs.
Fyi you can have all or nothing outputs from a perceptron or other network. It all depends on the activation function. Most LLMs don’t use that kind of activation function, but it is possible. Have you heard of bitnet? They use only one of three states for the neuron output in an LLM. It’s interesting stuff.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 2 months ago:
Kinda but also know. That’s specifically a dense neural network or MLP. It gets a lot more complicated than that in some cases.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 2 months ago:
It’s only one type of neural network. A dense MLP. You have sparse neural networks, recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks and more!
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 2 months ago:
Not all machine learning is AI. There are plenty of Machine Learning algorithms like Random Forests that are not neural networks. Deep learning would be big neural networks.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 2 months ago:
To be more specific this is an MLP (Multi-Layer Perceptron). Neural Network is a catch all term that includes other things such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks, Diffusion models and of course Transformers.
What you are arguing online is some variant of a Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, which do have MLP or MoE layers but that’s only one part of what they are. They also have multi-headed attention mechanisms and embedding + unembedding vectors.
I know all this and wouldn’t call myself a machine learning expert. I just use the things. Though I did once train a simple MLP like the one in the picture. I think it’s quite bad calling yourself a machine learning expert and not knowing all of this stuff and more.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 months ago:
A techbro? Do you think I work for some big company? I am a PhD student motherfucker.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 months ago:
well that settles it then! you’re apparently such an authority.
I am someone who is paid to research uses and abuses of AI and LLMs in a specific field. So compared to randos on the internet like you, yeah I could be considered an authority. Chances are though you don’t actually care about any of this. You just want an excuse to hate on something you don’t like and don’t understand and blame it for already well established problems. How about instead you actually take some responsibility for the state of your fellow human beings and do something helpful instead of being a Luddite.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 months ago:
I don’t trust OpenAI and try to avoid using them. That being said they have always been one of the more careful ones regarding safety and alignment.
I also don’t need you or openai to tell me that hallucinations are inevitable. Here have a read of this:
Title: Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models, Author: Xu et al., Date: 2025-02-13, url: arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817
Regarding resource usage: this is why open weights models like those made by the Chinese labs or mistral in Europe are better. Much more efficient and frankly more innovative than whatever OpenAI is doing.
Ultimately though you can’t just blame LLMs for people committing suicide. It’s a lazy excuse to avoid addressing real problems like how treats neurodivergent people. The same problems that lead to radicalization including incels and neo nazis. These have all been happening before LLM chatbots took off.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 months ago:
The 50s? Did LLMs exist in the 50s?
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 months ago:
This is why safety mechanisms are being put in place, and AIs are being programmed that act less like sycophants.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 months ago:
So far there have been about two instances of this happening from two different companies. Already there is a push for better safety by these companies and AIs that act less like sycophants. So this isn’t the huge issue you are making it out to be. Unless you have more reports of this happening?
Ultimately crazy people gonna be crazy. If most humans are as you say then we have a more serious problem than anything an AI has done.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 4 months ago:
What graph? What are you talking about now?
- Comment on Reddit lost it 4 months ago:
There are to my knowledge to instances of this happening. One involving openai the other involving character.ai. Only one of these involved an autistic person. Unless you know of more?
I also think it’s too soon to blame the AI here. Suicide rates in autistic people are ridiculously high. Something like 70% of autistic people experience suicidal ideation. No one really cared about this before AI. It’s almost like we are being used as a moral argument once again. It’s like think of the children but for disabled people.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 4 months ago:
I think they were talking specifically about character.ai and one particular instance that involved an autistic person.
OpenAI and character.ai are two different things. I believe character.ai uses their own model, but I could be wrong.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 4 months ago:
Are their records of this happening? Did someone prompt it into doing this?
- Comment on Reddit lost it 4 months ago:
What has happened exactly?
- Comment on 2hot2handle 4 months ago:
I mean sure, but you can’t deny it’s misused sometimes. I never said it didn’t happen at all. Stop reading what I didn’t write.
- Comment on 2hot2handle 4 months ago:
You can do that without calling someone sexist.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 4 months ago:
They do provide vaccines. Just not for flu specifically.