Aspie supremacy. They think autists, or at least their specific kind of autist, are a higher evolved form of life. I’m autistic and it makes me cringe.
Yeah we already get that it’s called talking to other people
Edit: so, there’s value in helping autistic people who struggle with
social reasoning help understand the unwritten rules of society, and
appreciate the underlying logic to them… but an AI isn’t going to do
that. Humans need to explain human behavior.
It definitely shouldn’t be with the goal of dating, either… you know
how autistic men get dates? They learn to be empathetic towards others
and then go talk to autistic women. It’s not rocket surgery.
Dating as a man who isn’t a complete tool is not hard. Women,
especially autistic women, aren’t going to dump someone with a good
heart cauz they’re weird.
I don’t know if it would have found this useful when I was younger
and not married. But while, say, chatting people up in IRC (I’m old!)
definitely had value in terms of conversational practice, I don’t think
it would work if I knew the person on the other end of the line was
fake.
Like, one of the characteristic autistic things is that we take
things so very literally, so I personally wouldn’t be able to ignore the
fact that the person isn’t real, and that the responses and any
“progress” I was making wouldn’t necessarily map to conversing with real
people.
When I was a kid, I bought a comic book on how to be a ninja. I was
probably 12. It was a fun idea, but when I got it I realized how little
this could actually teach me, and after trying some of the moves —
again, I was probably 12 — the fact that I couldn’t tell if I was doing
any of the moves right meant that i wasn’t exactly confident about using
my ninja skills out in the real world.
Infamously, just for asking for empathy for the problem, and
for trying to explain its nature, I received a level of online
vilification that one normally associates with serial pedophiles and
mass shooters.
He said, ahistorically, on the blog that is still named for a sex
fantasy.
Scott Aaronson once again encourages “empathy” for misogynistic
incels. Pro-tip: the universe doesn’t owe you a girlfriend, creeps. At
least you’re a cishet white man who never had to cope with relentless
transphobia.
Making you seem more human in person is one thing AI will always be
terrible at. It can replace the engineering skills these people have,
but it can’t help them with what they don’t innately have. If you’re
wondering why they seem so much more worried about AI than us “normies,”
this is one reason why.
So how do they make the ‘autists need love’ thing work with eugenics?
Men will literally talk to a glorified autocomplete before going to therapy.
Yeah we already get that it’s called talking to other people
Edit: so, there’s value in helping autistic people who struggle with social reasoning help understand the unwritten rules of society, and appreciate the underlying logic to them… but an AI isn’t going to do that. Humans need to explain human behavior.
It definitely shouldn’t be with the goal of dating, either… you know how autistic men get dates? They learn to be empathetic towards others and then go talk to autistic women. It’s not rocket surgery.
Dating as a man who isn’t a complete tool is not hard. Women, especially autistic women, aren’t going to dump someone with a good heart cauz they’re weird.
I don’t know if it would have found this useful when I was younger and not married. But while, say, chatting people up in IRC (I’m old!) definitely had value in terms of conversational practice, I don’t think it would work if I knew the person on the other end of the line was fake.
Like, one of the characteristic autistic things is that we take things so very literally, so I personally wouldn’t be able to ignore the fact that the person isn’t real, and that the responses and any “progress” I was making wouldn’t necessarily map to conversing with real people.
When I was a kid, I bought a comic book on how to be a ninja. I was probably 12. It was a fun idea, but when I got it I realized how little this could actually teach me, and after trying some of the moves — again, I was probably 12 — the fact that I couldn’t tell if I was doing any of the moves right meant that i wasn’t exactly confident about using my ninja skills out in the real world.
A few, I’m guessing.
He said, ahistorically, on the blog that is still named for a sex fantasy.
Scott Aaronson once again encourages “empathy” for misogynistic incels. Pro-tip: the universe doesn’t owe you a girlfriend, creeps. At least you’re a cishet white man who never had to cope with relentless transphobia.
Making you seem more human in person is one thing AI will always be terrible at. It can replace the engineering skills these people have, but it can’t help them with what they don’t innately have. If you’re wondering why they seem so much more worried about AI than us “normies,” this is one reason why.
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