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@fraddit / fraddit.tumblr.com

Forty-something. This blog is a dumpster fire of eclectic tasts.  I reblog a lot.  I mutter in the tags.  Currently hyperfixating on buddie and 9-1-1, or I was before I caught the Heated Rivalry bug.  Autistic, adhd, queer, any pronouns.
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If you’ve been following me for a while, you might be familiar with my annual tradition of reviewing the previous year’s posts and accomplishments and writing a post about it. I find that it helps me take stock of things and orient myself in my own life and experience and the passage of time.

This year, I feel kinda uneasy about it, because I cannot talk about how my year went without discussing something that I haven’t really discussed with anyone who’s on tumblr, because people on tumblr tend to have really strong feelings about this sort of thing, and I didn’t know how to bring it up.

Actually, that’s an understatement. I’m not uneasy. I am terrified to talk about this on tumblr. So I need everyone to be cool and chill and open minded when I say that, last January, I started eating a therapeutic ketogenic diet for mental health treatment and it changed my life so fucking profoundly that I literally cannot accurately discuss how my year went and leave that part out. Nor would I want to. I want to talk about my actual lived experience on my yearly review post on my personal blog. Obviously nobody needs to read this if they don’t want to. This is for me.

To start, I will explain what therapeutic ketosis is and why I decided to try it. Partly because I love info dumping and this stuff is really interesting to me, but mostly because I feel preemptively defensive about this, and I’m really scared of people’s opinion of me changing, and I don’t want people thinking I fell down some woo pipeline. I don’t have an eating disorder. I love science. I love vaccines. I hate rfk jr. The diet industry is evil. Etc etc. Just give me the benefit of the doubt here a little bit. Please don't kill me with hammers.

Then I’ll talk about my experience this past year. The tl;dr is I started the year fucking depressed as hell and I just ended the year with the best mental health I’ve ever experienced in my life. This section will involve me speaking bluntly about some pretty dark mental health stuff, so like content warning for mention of suicidal thoughts. But, again, I’m doing really really well now. So this is an angst with a happy ending situation.

Also, at present, this is the only post I’m gonna make about this topic, because I don’t want to feel like I’m proselytizing or something. So nobody needs to worry that I’m gonna start bringing this up all the time. I’m not opposed to discussing it further if people have questions or want to talk about it, but again, right now, I just want to openly talk about My Lived Experience for the length of this post and that’s it. I’m not talking about anything other people should or shouldn’t do or making recommendations or anything like that.

Continued under the cut…

#feeling extremely vulnerable and exposed in this chili's tonight...#january ritual#shut up fraddit
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This place is the planet Triskelion. You are to be trained and spend the rest of your lives here.

THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION dir. Gene Nelson – DP: Jerry Finnerman
#shows#star trek#tos
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Anonymous asked:

since you’re in the tech world can you explain why giving your personal information to a chatbot/using chatgpt as a therapist or friend is a bad idea? my roommate recently revealed to me that she tells chatgpt about her entire day and worries and i’m trying to convince her to Not do that (unsuccessfully). since you actually work in tech do you have any ideas for how i can explain the risks and issues?

xiaq answered:

Oh boy. This will be a fast pass since I’m on my lunch break but here we go.

  1. OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has explicitly said you should not use ChatGPT as a therapist/friend. If the CEO is telling you “don’t do this,” don’t do this. Source
  2. The primary reason he cites is that there’s no legal privilege. No Dr/patient confidentiality. Altman even said that, in the event of a lawsuit or legal inquiry, Open AI would produce the entirety of people’s conversations. Every word. There is zero privacy (and that’s aside from the fact that your data is being actively mined).
  3. Most chatbots are built to encourage engagement, prolong conversation (so you give them more content to mine), and be as agreeable as possible. This means they may inadvertently encourage someone who is delusional, reaffirm incorrect assumptions/statements that a human would call out, or even agree that a person should self-harm or kill themselves with no accountability. There are multiple cases now of people who have committed suicide or were hospitalized after interacting with chatbots (and at least one legal case now related to this). source, source, source, source
  4. Chatbots are only as good as the LLMs they’re built upon. So it’s unsurprising that they may show stigma against certain kinds of substance and/or mental health issues and may fail to recognize suicidal ideation. Source
  5. Finally, The American Psychological Association is saying don’t do it. All chatbots are not unilaterally harmful, and there are even some studies in which folks are actively trying to create therapy bots that do not have these pitfalls with positive initial results, but ChatGPT is not one of them. Source
  6. And that’s not to mention the environmental impacts of using generative AI in general. Source I get it. I understand the desire for a free (or low cost) therapist that’s available 24/7 without judgement. But while some might argue that it’s better than no therapy at all, as someone who works with AI/LLMs, it will be a cold day in hell before I ever use ChatGPT as a therapist.
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Tl;dr

Never trust a thing that pretends to have empathy while being incapable of it.

#excellent post#applied statistics#mental health#life advice
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Hey, @batfamfucker! I loved this question and immediately had to try it out. It technically works! The above beds are both queen size, so if they both went down to full size there'd be a little more room between them. It's about 24 inches right now, so a little cramped. You could even fit a night stand in there, but I was lazy.

Obviously it's not great that both beds have to be in front of the window, but needs must. If I personally wanted to fit extra storage in this situation, lift up storage beds would work or trunks or dressers would fit at the foot of each bed, that that'd be Very Cramped.

But it works!

#911#buddie#asks#or at least ask adjacent lol#thank you regardless!#shut up fraddit#i love experiments like this#i did a version of Eddie's house renovated to have a third bedroom with en suit#maybe i should post that someday???
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art history will be like "this is the most revolutionary painting of its time!" and you will look at it and is just a normal painting of a lady sitting under a tree and then an art historian will explain "this is the first time a painting ever used this specific shade of blue which challenged all understood conventions of how to depict light and launched a movement known as auzureism, and also the lady is looking at a sparrow which in its time it was a sign of fierce sexual liberation and it was considered scandalous" and then you find out the painter was expelled from the academy of art of stockholm because of the painting and that the king of sweeden paid three thousand marcs (equivallent to ten million dollars now a days) to have the painting in his room and the painting still looks like a generic painting of a lady under a tree

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happy sparkle on its wednesday monday

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edmundo 'stay single! hang out with the boys!' diaz going i don't need to date, why would i need to date?? i'm single, buck is single, this is great, we can exist in plausibly deniable bliss FOREVER without me having to examine or, dear god, express my desires -

only for buck to accidentally date two halves of a married couple and then get invited into a triad. right in front of his salad. tragic.

#eddie diaz#911#he's the funniest guy in the world
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I love being on tumblr with you guys it feels like we're all out here in the sandbox going 'look at this cool shell i found' and then people go 'oh hell yeah sick' and all pass it around to look at it

#tumblr#q

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