Depends on how you define hallucination

Misremembering details, false assumptions about what is said, assuming intentionality incorrectly, projection of emotions onto others, bias, etc mean that the same words are said but we walk away with potentially wildly different interpretations of the experience

“Getting on the same page” is a challenge

I agree but to clarify:

Autistic people do not inherently develop post conventional morality and the j6 types are not presented here as a counter to “autism” but as a counter to “post conventional morality”

There are many autistic people who are stuck in the early more stages focused on discipline and punishment. Many neurotypical ppl as well. These people are extremely susceptible to fascism because it appeals to simplistic morals based on “things need to go my way and if they don’t you need to get severe punishment”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg’s_stages_of_moral_development

_These people would literally be in the first stage of the Heinz dilemma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_dilemma

Kohlbergs stages have valid criticisms (like they ignore the entire concept of collectivist cultures, for one) but they’re still a decent framework

This is a good way to describe the way moral reasoning works for a lot nd people succinctly. Now I will describe it much less succinctly lmao

There are possibly neurological bases for this as well

Mirror neuron system, for example, is thought to be a key factor in development of empathy and moral understanding. This is this system of neurons that give a shared neural activation in response to stimuli, eg we see someone in pain and it activates regions that activate when we experience pain directly

However, people with autism tend to have less active mirror neurons or differently organized system of mirror neurons (still somewhat poorly understood). This is one of the theorized mechanisms behind challenges with socialization and empathization in autism.

However people with autism can obviously still socialize and become empathic, right? I have spoken to many people with autism who if anything feel they are too empathetic.

One of the hypotheses here is that because of the above neurological difference there is a compensatory strategy. Essentially that instead of being able to naturally adapt neurologically people with autism create empathization, social and moral understanding, etc through higher level cognition. Analytical and cognitive based approaches. Trial and error, assessment and reflection, etc rather than instinctive and emotionally driven responses.

Thus far more thought is given to concepts and ideas that the general public simply does not consider. What is gender? What is a social construct? What is the point of social pragmatic language? What is the point of “business appropriate attire”? what is the point?

We recognize that many of these questions are simply tradition enforced by hierarchy balanced against us and can quickly fall apart with basic logic. We dissect these questions and potentially start to reach a state of postconventional moral development (read Kohlberg for more about this).

The thing about this is that you start to recognize a morality that supersedes the need for social order and start to maintain a personal sense of ethics and morality that is not dictated by external factors but empathization. You’re more likely to support civil disobedience now and also more likely to violate social norms but that’s because many social norms don’t make sense. Not surprisingly many adults don’t move to post conventional morality; they stay at a conventional morality in support of maintaining social order. Their morality is mostly dictated from external factors like law and religion.

Now to be clear this doesn’t mean that January 6 trump people have post conventional morality because they were practicing civil disobedience. Their violence was to arguably to protect social norms and to push to a society with extremely rigid social norms and they arguably have the moral development of a child (punishment and obedience stage, literally the first one, classic fascist shit). Where they stand in terms of moral development is an interesting debate but that’s a different post altogether

There’s a lot more to this like medial prefrontal cortex differences, temporo-parietal junction, VTA, reward system activation, etc. the neuroscience here is super interesting and of course it’s important to stress that people with autism approach moral reasoning differently and not that they can’t do it because if you don’t stress that dumb people associate autism with sociopathy and think all autistic people are elon musk

being a hentai addict would make him objectively cooler than the piece of literal shit he actually is

I’ve written bad music, lots of it. Not bad in an interesting way. Just uninteresting and bland. The worst kind of insult one could think of when their art is being evaluated kind of thing. Like the kind of music you’d hear in a bad low budget commercial, once weird millennials get old enough for them to co opt shoegaze for pharmaceutical commercials

Well of course. Me too! The only way that changes is if we change the framework of our entire economic system, really

And mine either!!

my home actually has adaptive lighting, highly recommend. Gradually changes from cool to warm through the day

https://github.com/basnijholt/adaptive-lighting

Need home assistant although some things like homekit can do adaptive lighting too, just not as feature rich. You also need bulbs that can do the full spectrum of white (or rgb) obviously

But the home assistant one can adjust based on sunlight, dim the lights concurrently in a specific room to help with sleep, and customize it (like most times the primary advantage of HA vs commercial options)

I assume they’re being pragmatic. Appealing the us to remove copyright is a fools errand. Appealing to shorten the length of the prection period is too frankly given the nature of corporate protectionism but it’s far more likely than America ever entertaining the idea of free information, regardless of the benefits that could ensue. Think of the shareholders! And yourself! Gotta hang that carrot in front of you. What if you finally write that novel and it blows up! I know you secretly want to be a multimillionaire! No one just makes art or has passion to study and document something without financial gain, that’s dumb. Ignore all those forum posts where people do exactly that

My favorite ones are the ones from people who’s were the unfortunate victims of amazons garbage user interface

Saw a white led where you could buy in various color temperatures but you had to select and the default was 5000k/cool white (blue white). First review was a guy that expected amber/warm white/3000k and it was cool white. It said he had purchased the 5000k option. Sorry that amazons ux is absolute shit dude but I guess the cool white is what it’s supposed to be

Similarly the amount of “answered questions” that are just “I don’t know, why are you asking me??” Because amazon sends obnoxious unclear emails asking for product feedback to customers and then posts the answers with 0 moderation or review. So your grandma gets an email like “does your new toaster have smart capabilities that work with 2.4ghz wifi?” And she’s a trump person that can’t handle defying even the mildest authority figure so she answers, even if her reply is utterly useless

phew

I’m sure they initially just did a ctrl+f for “lgbt” then someone on truth social who’s totally not obsessed with checking on gay and trans stuff all the time boosted a post about how it still had a reference to ‼️‼️🚨🚨gay shit🚨🚨‼️‼️

“The goal for OpenAI is not to create hyper-persuasive AI models but instead to ensure AI models don’t get too persuasive.”

Fingers crossed, trust us bro

How do you deal with flawed papers?? Especially on this scale. Like as a social issue

I highly suggest reading the second half of the article at a minimum. Morris destroys this bullshit paper. But Morris is the director of biostatistics at UPenn. You can’t expect the average person to hold articles to the same rigor that he will. But for better or for worse the articles are available to all.

Like as a person who is educated on statistics and research methodology it is generally easy to find flaws in a deeply flawed paper like this (although some things, like the authors having a history of retracted papers, the journal not being listed in pubmed or medline, the journals mailing address being just some guys house, the journals board of directors all being antivax nuts, etc), take effort and research.

But the laymen can’t necessarily see this. Of course that’s why they bother to go to these lengths. To create an “alternative” (read: fake) journal. Because an article like this (hopefully) wouldn’t pass the review process in a legitimate journal. But a laymen doesn’t know that. They don’t know the difference between nature, Wiley, and whatever the fuck their kooky shit is called. The pdfs all look the same. It legitimizes their nonsense

In a time where people just read abstracts (or really just headlines) and call themselves experts, how do you combat this? I don’t know. This paper was shockingly easy to tear apart and here it is, in a congressional hearing, being presented as a potential valid source. Some of our congresspeople brought good papers to counter but even they didn’t seem to know how to tear this paper apart when it had such basic flaws. But all Kennedy had to do was not cite the Wakefield study and find one of the many kooky papers that have been written in its wake (lol) which they didn’t prep for.

This should’ve been a shutdown where he referenced that paper, they looked it over, and immediately fucking destroyed it. I was unfamiliar with that paper and found several issues on my first read like confounding variables mentioned in the article. This is a pretty big one but not as huge as the major one Morris mentions, which is the potential for vaccinations to have occurred outside of network, making their data and proposed outcome garbage!

It’s funny because when you work in a medical field you’re taught explicitly to stay in your lane. Ethical codes generally tell you to do this too. Not everyone does this obviously. But when someone is outside of this system, like rfk, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Like if an MD was sitting for this right now people could appeal to the AMA to pull their license. But RFK has no such authority over him. He can say whatever and do whatever. Libs love that of course but it means that he can push very harmful narratives with no evidence

Dark times. I genuinely don’t know how to handle something like this

And a reminder while anti vaccination goes wayyy back (it actually predates vaccines, oddly) the autism vaccine link is primarily due to the “Wakefield study” from 1998 linking the mmr vaccine to autism. This was (eventually, took forever) retracted because Wakefield both falsified data and had a vested financial interest in test kits (he stood to gain $43 million per year). He also had his medical license revoked. He has since shed all of that though and decided to ride the anti vaccination wave, which is quite lucrative. He has done podcasts, documentaries, “political activism”, and was hobnobbing with celebrities back when anti vaccination crunchiness was a weird lefty thing (he was even married to Elle McPherson for a few years). Like many sociopaths a grifter who does not give a shit about killing hundreds of thousands for financial gain and will likely happily adopt right wing politics (maybe he already has) once he realizes how easy that crowd is in terms of extracting money

Also a reminder that a study retraction is very uncommon, generally only done when fraud, errors, or misconduct are discovered

I remember when I was a teenager working in restaurants during high school I’d come home and shower afterwards. when I’d wash my hair it’d reek of cigarette smoke because I’d spent the last 5-9 hours standing in a giant plume of it.

I picked up smoking in college, I wonder if that was a factor. Thankfully I quit, eventually

It was wonderful. I got dental care while I was there and it was incredibly affordable and expertly done. Best healthcare system in Latin America and one of the better ones in the world.

Some photos while driving. One of the downsides is driving in Costa Rica is an intense experience that I would not recommend. We got a deal where a car rental was only 50 cents a day if we added it onto our flight so it was like why not! They only had manual which was fine, I can drive that, but keep in mind because it also meant I had to do 100% of the driving as my partner is like most Americans and has no idea how to drive a manual. But when we picked it up the clerk was like “have you ever driven in Latin America before?” when I replied no he looked a little alarmed. It was challenging

There was a sloth, these were actually really hard to find. Hide and seek champions, way up in the trees and blend in well.

Monkeys however, were all over the damn place. They would unzip your backpack and steal your shit if you didn’t pay attention, apparently. We were also warned to not leave bags outside because raccoons would apparently also do this

See that looks green to me so I’d totally just die

This is true but he would do something like this, force everyone to be unhappy, and just eat the now illegal food. He would do it blatantly. He would take photo ops signing executive orders with matchbox cars and McDonald’s cups on his desk and then blame a staffer for leaving them there when everyone, including his die hards, would 100% know that moments before they shoved that placard into his hand he was chugging Diet Coke and making that car do sweet jumps. But then the die hards, knowing he was full of shit, would push the narrative that someone else did it, and twist it (deepfakes, never happened, etc) until they started to believe it themselves.

Then the media would call it some stupid shit like sodagate and snopes would have an article like did Donald trump actually drink soda and play with toys? They’d post the picture the body would be like “while many believe trump did drink the soda based on his historical love of the drink, the official narrative is that it belonged to a member of staff who has not been named. Additionally there have been several debunked theories about the photo being doctored or the situation being a fabriction.” With no definitive ruling on whether he did or not because they often don’t seem to do that anymore to seem “impartial”

At this point though he would have already done something else ridiculous and horrible so everyone would’ve moved on. “Who cares about mcdonalds and toys?” you say. “Did you not just hear he literally banned people from thinking about the concept of trans people and imposed a 40% tariff on anything blue?”

Mihon is still available although it doesn’t do anime, only manga

I would go through LinkedIn and pick a person at random, use their name with the exact same spelling and any alphabet soup they have behind their name

Jerry Thompson, Esq Mary Kowalski, F.A.C.S. Dr. Alan Carter, DDS, FACP

These are all fake btw. I mean they may not be but if they are it’s genuinely a coincidence. That would be so weird

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