#how to use NLP

[trading-attitude]

🤯 Unlock Your Potential with These 14 NLP Principles

[yawpyawp]

one of my projects at work right now is to design an icon for an AI chatbot and this is my latest draft:

[taohun]

I guess it’s hard to even conceptualize a world where math isn’t the center of the universe though because in a language oriented world the processing would look so different without the tenants of discrete structures

[stardecrossed]

>> Also does anyone have a muse interest tracker that doesn't involve Google, Microsoft or AI services?

[fandomtrumpshate]

FTH 2025 Donation Totals

Friends, this has been an extraordinary year for the auction. We know how and why this happened: like in early 2017, everyone is scared and upset and looking for a way to do something meaningful.

And—just like in 2017, and every year since—hundreds of us have stepped up to support our most vulnerable neighbors and the organizations working to protect them.

Except this year, we did it on a scale we've never done before.

Last year, our donation total was an incredible $67,776.28

This year's donation total...

are you ready for it....

(you're not ready for it. we weren't.)

This year's donation total is:

Yes, you're reading that right. $127,204.11

We're flummoxed too—and deeply grateful to everyone who has poured their time and effort and money and love into participating in the auction this year, and into the fanworks that will come from it.

If you're curious about how those donations were distributed across the different organizations, here is the breakdown (this breakdown doesn't include employer match donations, which is why the total is a little lower):

Bellingcat: $2,636.19

Congo Leadership Initiative: $2,842

Crips for esims for Gaza: $4,762.60

Disability Law United: $3,835.39

Environmental Integrity Project: $3,712

Fight for the Future Education Fund: $3,108

Freedom to Read Foundation: $7,139.50

Global Project Against Hate and Extremism: $6,473

Hope for Ukraine: $12,613.93

In Our Own Voice: National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda: $3,626

Middle East Children's Alliance: $13,572.43

National Network to End Domestic Violence: $4,999.95

Never Again Action: $4,555

NLP: $3,745.16

Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights: $10,072.56

Umbrella: organizations serving vulnerable LGBTQ people

Brave Space Alliance: $2,558

Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc: $2,636

Sherlock's Homes: $7,780.77

TransFamily Support: $5,387.01

TransQueerPueblo: $2,949

Other local LGBT organizations: $10,696.71 Yes, you're reading that right again. Three orgs AND the cumulative Other local LGBT orgs broke five figures.

We're especially delighted because, for the first time, the umbrella category worked the way we've always hoped it would! As you can see above, significant numbers of people used the umbrella category as a way to connect to an organization local to them.

As we learned through people's comments on the donation form, some people donated to organizations they were already familiar with (and in some cases had already donated to, or even volunteered at); others used this as a reason to learn more about their local organization and support them.

We'll share more about the "other umbrella" donations over the next few weeks—some more detailed stats, as well as the names of some of the local orgs that people donated to—and we'll invite those of you who connected up with local orgs to share your stories. We love that so many people took this chance to support groups working in their own community, and we hope that we can keep that going next year and beyond!

And speaking of the future!

Now is a great time to follow @fth2025fanworks. We'll use that blog to share any auction fanwork that gets posted to tumblr.

We urge you to keep up with the organizations you supported this year (and the others on our list!) Follow them on social media, subscribe to their newsletters, whatever works best for you. It will enable you to keep an eye on the good work you've helped support, and to find out quickly when these orgs need some extra support, financial or otherwise.

And if you're looking out at the world and feeling the itch to do more, here are some possibilities:

Follow @fthaction, the meatspace activism wing of FTH. We relaunched this project in the weeks between the end of signups and the beginning of browsing period, sharing some reading lists, an individualized activism bingo card, and an AMA with activist and organizer Kat Calvin. (We also did a test-flight AMA with ourselves, talking about the auction.) We'll probably need some time to recover from this year's auction, but we'll be back soon with more resources to share, more AMAs, and more tools for exploring all the different forms that meaningful activism can take and for figuring out which ones are right for you.

Organize your own auction! We've put together a detailed playbook that contains that contains as much information and as many resources as we can provide for getting an auction off the ground, including detailed guides. Almost everything in the playbook is fully public; there are a few forms that are access-locked because google has stupid ideas about sharing forms, but we're happy to give you access to those, too: just drop us an email.

Over here at FTH headquarters we are all in need of a long nap. But we'll be back in a couple of weeks, as promised, to share more about the umbrella orgs and to dig back into @fthaction to see what's possible.

Looking forward to a whole bunch of new fanworks! <3 your FTH mods

[theambitiouswoman]

I just realized I have never even spoken about NLP on here so let me share for those who don't know

NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. It’s a psychological framework that explores how your thoughts (neuro) language, (linguistic) and patterns of behavior (programming) all work together to shape your reality. In simple words it's about changing how you think, speak and act to get better results in life

NLP was developed in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. They studied the most effective therapists of their time. Their goal was to understand what made these communicators so powerful and model their language and behavior so others could replicate their success. They published their findings in books which became core texts in the world of NLP. The one I read is called "Frogs into Princes" for anyone curious

So NLP helps you understand how you brain stores and interprets experiences, recognize and change emotional or behavioral patterns and use language more intentionally to influence yourself and others

For example, if you always procrastinate, sabotage relationships, or replay past failures, NLP gives you tools to interrupt that loop and reprogram how you respond

How it works is first you create a mental or physical trigger to access an emotional state, then you change the meaning of a situation and replace it by creating a new mental image until your brain defaults to the new image. Think "change your mind, change your life"

NLP helps you break limiting patterns and install new ones that move you toward your goals. And the same works when dealing with others

Everyone processes information differently and this affects how we learn, behave and relate to others

It dictates that we experience the world through our five senses, but most of us tend to favor one or two. Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic and Auditory Digital which means you think in words, logic and internal dialogue

Once you understand how someone represents and filters information, you can tailor your communication to match their learning style, which makes learning, coaching, selling, communicating etc overall much more effective

So for example:

A visual learner could say “I see what you mean”

A kinesthetic person might say “That feels right to me”

By using NLP, you learn to speak people’s internal language, making your message land more clearly

[reflectingiridescent]

Rewatching the end of The San Lorenzo Job. Nate and Sophie are so full of shit (loving). The way she's smacking him with that flower screams NLP. We've seen her use it on Eliot, Keller, and various other people all season (and also Nate's used it on people before s3, but that's less relevant here).

We also know canonically he's the one person she can't con. He can always see through it, even if he doesn't know exactly what she is up to. So there's no real brainwashing at stake here. These are just two people who have serious baggage around communication, who have worked with their new partner dynamic all season, and who are looking at how the major threat of their lives for the past six months is gone. And they're telling each other, in their weird sideways communication manner, that they're open to knocking boots. 🤣

As of The Inside Job, they've communicated that the ball is in her court. And now, he's worked off the slap. She's ready to let him in because he's not only proved himself to her but also to the team (He asked them for consent to go after Moreau! He said please! In the Christmas episode, he apologized to them! He and Sophie split Christmas present duty this year!). But as we'll see next season, it's still so hard for them to talk about things directly.

So what does she do? She presents him with just a little bit less than what she (everyone) knows he wants (she actually will continue to do this all the way through s4, walking out halfway and prompting him to go the rest of the way himself). Their old dynamic didn't work. But this new dynamic, where they're equal partners and friends, that's what she's good with, right? That's what's working for them, right?

And what does Nate do? He latches onto the "partners" more than the "friends" (though they are friends - this is so important). He asks her for a "friendly drink" which escalates. But she's already told him that she's open to it, you feel?

And just in case anyone is curious, we know that the timing of the NLP suggestion matters, so here's where she hits him with the flower

"eggs"

"omelette"

right before she says "You're a bad influence"

Well, when's the last time they talked about their romantic potential in a way that wasn't about Nate trying to figure out her name? They had a little bit of flirting in The Morning After Job, but before that, it was in The Inside Job, right?

Sophie: I should have had you cook me breakfast a long time ago.

Look, I'm not saying it was intentional on the writers' part. I'm just saying it's really, really interesting. Because you know neither Nate nor Sophie has forgotten about a conversation like that.

I'm just saying that both of them knew exactly what they were walking into. She asked and he answered, but only after he was the first one to broach the subject of them after he got out of prison. They were a little freaked out about getting involved (which is why they were drinking so heavily) but not enough to not do it.

Bonus Tidbits from My Watch (I'm sure I'm not the first person to say any of this, but I want it on my blog somewhere)

Sophie and Nate are the most dramatic goth mfs like...the first time they almost kissed was in a graveyard, after Sophie had faked her death and laid the construct of Sophie to rest.

(Their first kiss gets reserved for when both of them have come to terms with who they are now - Nate as a thief, Sophie as a person with a past who chooses and owns her present)

The first time they hook up is also after Sophie's faked her death LMAOOO

Something something shedding old skin and rising from the ashes

We also get the first whispers of Leverage International. "We didn't just con something. We built something," says Sophie. Neither she nor Nate are going to forget that feeling for a long time.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

thank you so much for your blog!!!! it’s genuinely so useful and insightful when writing. is there anything on writing blind characters? more specifically types of blindness and blindness throughout history + how it impacts them in their day to day life? Thank you in advance!!!

Writing Notes: Blindness

TERMINOLOGY

“Blind” or “Legally Blind” - in general, is acceptable for people with complete or almost complete vision loss.

For others who have a loss of vision, the American Foundation for the Blind uses the term “low vision,” which it describes as “uncorrectable vision loss that interferes with daily activities.”

The foundation says that other terms commonly used to describe vision loss – “partial sight,” “partial blindness” and “poor vision” – are no longer in general use.

The foundation also uses the term “visually impaired,” but some object to the use of the words “impair” or “impairment” when describing a disability.

NCDJ Recommendation: “Blind” may be used for people who have complete or almost complete loss of sight.

Other terms are acceptable for those with some vision loss.

It is best to ask your sources what they prefer and take that into consideration.

Similarly, ask whether the person prefers identity-first or people-first language. Many prefer “blind” or “blind person,” while others prefer “a person with blindness.”

Other commonly used terms include:

Limited vision: Acceptable when a person is not legally or completely blind

Low vision: Acceptable when a person is not legally or completely blind

Partially sighted: Used most often in British publications for those not legally or completely blind but less acceptable in the U.S.

Visually impaired: Similar to the term “hearing impaired,” some may object to it because it describes the condition in terms of a deficiency.

Because these terms tend to be imprecise, consider asking how the visual condition affects acuity. For example, a person may be able to describe having low central or peripheral vision.

APA Style. Description of blind people or people who are visually impaired:

Problematic

visually challenged person

sight-challenged person

person with blindness

Preferred

blind person

visually impaired person, vision-impaired person

person who is blind

person who is visually impaired, person who is vision impaired

BLINDNESS & VISION LOSS

Blindness - A lack of vision.

Profound, near-total, or total impairment of the ability to perceive visual stimuli.

It may also refer to a loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses.

According to the World Health Organization’s international classification (1990), blindness is defined as visual acuity less than 20/400 in the better eye with best correction or a visual field less than 10° in the widest meridian in the better eye. 

Partial blindness - very limited vision.

Complete blindness - cannot see anything and do not see light.

In the United States, the criterion for legal blindness is visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with best correction or a visual field of 20° or less in the widest meridian of the better eye. People with vision that is worse than 20/200, even with glasses or contact lenses, are considered legally blind in most states.

Vision Loss - the partial or complete loss of vision.

May happen suddenly or over a period of time.

Some types of vision loss never lead to complete blindness.

Alternative Names: Loss of vision; No light perception (NLP); Low vision; Vision loss and blindness

Common types of low vision include:

Central vision loss (not being able to see things in the center of your vision)

Peripheral (side) vision loss (not being able to see things out of the corners of your eyes)

Night blindness (not being able to see in low light)

Blurry or hazy vision

Cortical Blindness - blindness, with normal pupillary responses, that is due to complete destruction of the optic radiations or the striate cortex. Because the subcortical structures (white matter) of the visual system are involved, it is also called cerebral blindness. Typically caused by a stroke affecting the occipital lobe of the brain, cortical blindness can also result from traumatic injury or hypoxia. In children, it is often a consequence of hydrocephalus, meningitis, toxic or hypertensive encephalopathy, trauma, or diffuse demyelinating degenerative disease. Complete loss of vision in a portion of the visual field is called partial cortical blindness.

Functional Blindness - visual deterioration without any apparent change or disease affecting the structural integrity of the visual system: one of the most frequent symptoms in somatization disorder. In addition to loss of acuity, visual functional phenomena may include photophobia; burning, painful, or tired eyes; monocular diplopia (double vision); ptosis; blepharospasm; convergence problems; and severe concentric visual field constriction in one or both eyes. Despite the symptoms, the pupils continue to react to light, and the patient automatically avoids (i.e., is able to detect and thereby avoid) objects that would cause injury. Complete functional blindness is rare. The condition was formerly known as hysterical blindness or psychic blindness.

Low Vision - reduction of visual capacity (especially visual acuity and visual field), regardless of the underlying cause, that cannot be corrected to the normal range with glasses, contact lenses, or medical or surgical treatment. Low vision causes problems with various aspects of visual performance (e.g., mobility, reading) and is often associated with a decline in quality of life, an increased risk of depression, and decreased functional status. Low vision services provided to those with this condition include assessment of an individual’s residual vision and instruction in the use of high-powered optical devices (see vision rehabilitation). Also called partial sight.

Visual Impairment - partial or total inability to see, or to see normally, due to partial or complete loss or absence of vision or to visual dysfunction. Visual impairment encompasses the continuum from blindness to low vision. It can result from disease or degenerative disorder (e.g., cataract, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, or macular degeneration), injury, or congenital defects (e.g., refractive errors, astigmatism). The degree of visual impairment is assessed in terms of disability in everyday life. Also called vision impairment.

Adventitious Visual Impairment. Partial or total vision loss that results from injury or illness following a period of normal visual ability. Onset of the impairment can produce severe grief, mourning reactions, and dependency. As a consequence, any residual visual capacity may not be used effectively, exacerbating psychological and social-adjustment problems. Also called acquired visual impairment.

Congenital Visual Impairment. Partial or total vision loss already present at birth or occurring soon after birth. Major causes are infections, bilateral cataracts, and prematurity. Unless specially stimulated, children with this impairment are likely to show delay in sensory, motor, and social development.

POSSIBLE CAUSES

Accidents or injuries to the surface of the eye (chemical burns or sports injuries)

Cataract

Diabetes

Glaucoma

Macular degeneration

Refractive errors

The type of partial vision loss may differ, depending on the cause:

With cataracts, vision may be cloudy or fuzzy, and bright light may cause glare

With diabetes, vision may be blurred, there may be shadows or missing areas of vision, and difficulty seeing at night

With glaucoma, there may be tunnel vision and missing areas of vision

With macular degeneration, the side vision is normal, but the central vision is slowly lost

Aging doesn't cause vision loss on its own. But many diseases that are more common in older adults can cause it.

Other causes of vision loss include:

Blocked blood vessels to the retina

Complications of premature birth (retrolental fibroplasia)

Complications of eye surgery

Lazy eye

Optic neuritis

Stroke

Retinitis pigmentosa

Tumors, such as retinoblastoma and optic nerve glioma

Total blindness (no light perception) is often due to:

Severe trauma or injury

Complete retinal detachment

End-stage glaucoma

End stage diabetic retinopathy

Severe internal eye infection (endophthalmitis)

Vascular occlusion (stroke in the eye)

Other eye disorders, eye injuries, and birth defects can also cause vision loss.

IMPACT OF VISION IMPAIRMENT

Young children with early onset irreversible severe vision impairment can experience delayed motor, language, emotional, social and cognitive development, with lifelong consequences.

School-age children with vision impairment can also experience lower levels of educational achievement.

Vision impairment severely impacts quality of life among adult populations.

Adults with vision impairment can experience lower rates of employment and

higher rates of depression and anxiety.

In the case of older adults, vision impairment can contribute to social isolation,

difficulty walking,

a higher risk of falls and fractures, and

a greater likelihood of early entry into nursing or care homes.

EXAMPLES IN MEDIA

All the Light We Cannot See: One of the two main characters is blind.

Blindness (1995): An unnamed country is swept by a plague that causes everyone to go blind, creating societal chaos. It was adapted into a film in 2008.

One Hundred Years of Solitude: Úrsula Iguarán, matriarch of the Buendía family, progressively goes blind as she grows older. However, none of her family members ever discover this, since she completely memorized how their house looks and is able to walk around as if she could see.

Sources: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ⚜ More: Notes ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

Thank you for your kind words, means a lot! Here are some related information. You can find more details and examples in the links. Hope this helps with your writing!

More: Color Blindness ⚜ Quadrantanopia ⚜ Face Blindness

[thekinkymadscientist]

So I’m starting to learn hypnosis because my partner has said they’d think I’d be good at it among other things, and the resource I’ve found has been great so far, but his boyfriend mentioned confusion and conversational inductions and I’m not sure what resources are good to trust so I’m curious if you have any good suggestions for more in depth things?

Great question! Finding resources for this sort of thing can be quite challenging. Credentials are not very trustworthy: at least two cats have been awarded high-level hypnotherapy credentials, and no matter how warm and relaxing they are, cats aren't hypnotherapists.

For a similar reason, I'd generally advise against paying for any books or materials that haven't been specifically recommended to you. Not because they're all bad, but because anyone can sell a book these days, there are just as many bad paid resources as bad free ones. (Although the best ones may be better than their free counterparts.)

Confusion inductions are reasonably easy to learn if you've been able to hypnotize people in the past. I recommend the induction "Seven, Plus or Minus Two" (you can find a few different scripts and demonstrations for it online) as a good starting place. It's not the only way to do a confusion induction, but it can be easily adapted to lots of different environments, so it's a good one to learn. I strongly encourage you to use point-form notes instead of a full script, and Seven Plus or Minus Two is very well-structured, so it's a good one to start with point-form notes if you've been reading scripts up until this point.

Conversational inductions are a lot harder, mostly because there are a lot of people interested in them who want to hypnotize others without consent (genuinely, not just CNC), and so there are a lot of creeps and grifters trying to make money off them. Anything which mentions "seduction" is an immediate red flag, and I'd also steer clear of anything which is trying to teach hypnotic techniques to salespeople. You'll come across a lot of references to "neuro-linguistic programming" as well. I personally don't like NLP as a model/paradigm, but many objectively good hypnotists do like it and claim to benefit from its techniques. I won't say not to learn about it or listen to its adherents, but I will encourage a healthy skepticism.

I'm still not amazing with conversational inductions, but the way I eventually learned them was by studying Eriksonian hypnosis and indirect suggestion. Once I had a firm handle on that, I was able to integrate those hypnotic patterns into my speech. The book I found most useful for conversational hypnosis (among many other things) was Trancework by Michael Yapko. It's a great book and very informative, although fair warning: it is a textbook for therapists, so it's quite dense and some of the ideas need to be filtered/adapted for a recreational context.

I hope this helps. Please do send me another ask if I missed something important, or if you have more questions. Good luck and happy trancing!

[obi-waankenobi]

Hi, you recently reblogged a post about how Nanowrimo is not disallowing or disavowing AI because doing so is classist and ablist and in your tags suggested that you consider this "yikes."

Honestly, it kind of hurt my feelings as a person with a disability who occasionally uses AI as a disability aid. Let me explain.

I use AI frequently for word recall. I have ADHD- a lot of people do. Many people with ADHD, including myself, struggle with word recall. It can be extremely bad, but how bad it is day to day is variable, and not all people with ADHD struggle with this to the same degree. When my word recall is really bad, NLP's (Natural Language Processors) are practically tailor-made to find that exact word I need. As an example, I used AI to remind me just now about the term "Natural Language Processor," which, along with the term "machine learning," is frankly just a better description than AI for these tools. But I will continue using the term AI for convenience.

The fact that people do not imagine this sort of use in conjunction with AI IS a form of ablism. They immediately assume all use is infringing. If they actually talked to people with disabilities (who do use AI), they would discover these other uses, and perhaps the conversation could be elevated to a more constructive state instead of trying to make everyone who uses a tool feel "yikes" for using it. Many of us are extremely conscientious and well informed of the issues involved.

Consider that if someone has said something is ablist (or classist or any other -ist,) they just might have a point and that you should try to discover what that point is before assuming that it's fake. Don't take everything at face value, but don't dismiss it out of hand either. Listen to people who have differing opinions and try to get the nuances of the conversation.

When people think about AI being used in conjunction with writing and visual art, they only consider the egregious uses - which makes sense, as that is how AI is advertised; as a magic technology that solves ALL problems. But those egregious uses are not the only use of these tools. AI does not have to be a magic wand that replaces the creative process of an artist. I have given one example of such a use above, but I could list many more.

If your "yikes" is in regard to the ecological impact - I hope that the overzealous implementation of AI into everything takes the ecological facts into account and that is ammealorated, but please do not throw people with disabilities under the bus while trying to make buses less polluting.

//The only use of AI in this post was to help me remember the word Natural Language Processor - I know my tone is pretty formal and sometimes comes across as AI, but it's not.

Jeezly fucking crow, dude. It was a single-word comment. I hope you sent this to literally everyone else who commented in a similar manner.

I use AI frequently for word recall. I have ADHD- a lot of people do. Many people with ADHD, including myself, struggle with word recall. It can be extremely bad, but how bad it is day to day is variable, and not all people with ADHD struggle with this to the same degree. When my word recall is really bad, NLP's (Natural Language Processors) are practically tailor-made to find that exact word I need. As an example, I used AI to remind me just now about the term "Natural Language Processor," which, along with the term "machine learning," is frankly just a better description than AI for these tools. But I will continue using the term AI for convenience.

I also have ADHD. I also struggle with word recall. You know what I do? I google things. I use dictionary and thesaurus websites. I use OneLook, which suggests associated words, similar words, and similar concepts.

Not everyone who uses AI is stealing from artists, no, but it's well known that AI does scan people's art--almost always without their consent--to generate pieces. It's also been seen around places like AO3, scraping fics from unlocked accounts.

Personally, I dislike the implication that disabled (or poor--that's what "classist" means here) people are incapable of writing without an AI generating something for them. I've written 100k+ words on AO3, and all of them are mine. I've talked to friends, I've written parallel fics, I've rewritten my own stories, but those words are mine. I wrote them. A disabled person. To imply that I need AI to do that pisses me off.

And believe it or not, my primary dislike of AI isn't ableist or classsist or whatever. (I'm not even against all forms of AI! I understand that in some fields, analyitical AI is quite helpful--I've read that it's great at finding breast cancer, for example.) My primary beef with AI, especially generative AI like ChatGPT is the fact that:

It will just lie to you. It will just make up things. There are people who have used it in court cases (it didn't work), and there are people using it to write books--everything from cookbooks to mushroom identification guides. (Guess what amateurs need expert help with when they're starting out? You know, so they don't die?) It's also happened with animal care guides. AI doesn't need to be used in a generative context at all.

There is also a massive environmental impact that I rarely, if ever, see talked about.

[h-sleepingirl]

Thoughts on "Hypnotic Agnosticism"

I'm in a weird place spiritually because I really want nothing more than transcendent, hard-to-explain experiences -- which I have HAD -- but saying I have confidence that they are "real" (or acting like that's part of my worldview) is like impossible.

Like I'm sitting here and idly thinking "I would guess generally being open to 'woo' can facilitate more intense hypnotic experiences." But I feel like I can't fully buy into magical thinking(?) (and I also include "science"/pseudoscience like NLP in that!).

For example at a hypnosis event, we introduced ourselves with something other people may not know about us; I said "I believe in xyz" where xyz is a certain mystical concept. But, DESPITE EXPERIENCES RATIFYING THAT BELIEF over the weekend, I find myself with a lot of doubt and skepticism.

It feels similar to how NLP is bs but useful when you work within its own model; it makes sense in its own context and you can get pretty far with it. My various spiritual beliefs are "real" in that way, but on a more zoomed-out scale, I really just don't know what is what.

I guess this is basically a kind of agnosticism which is fitting for me to not know things (being a bimbo) and also to sit balanced between multiple models (being sleepingirl). But it's confusing and also pretty tiring on some level!

I do think parsing this out makes me think about agnosticism as my ideal "model" for looking at hypnosis. A measured, skeptical acceptance of all models as useful, maybe. But also maybe even a healthy balance of both skepticism and reverence for hypnosis itself.

I've been doing hypnosis for 15 years now, which feels impossible. But I am also genuinely constantly surprised by it and I think part of that is because maybe I don't fully believe it's real! BUT/AND I desperately want and am open to its intense experiences.

Maybe this ties into curiosity/surprise as being some sort of necessary ingredient for intense experiences like this? I am not sure where I'm going with this but I'm thinking a lot about the spiritual overlap, anyways.

[translatingpostsintoitalian]

I used Duolingo to learn some Italian despite being very put off by their continuous reliance on ai. The more ai is involved the less natural it feels, as is ofc expected, but can you tell me how often you actually ask "Vero?" At the end of a statement? Because the way Duolingo presents it it seems to be the same frequency as an English person might say "isn't it?"

Example:

Duolingo will constantly have me translate sentences like "you live with your friend Chiara, right?", "you have a red jacket, right?"

And I just wanna make sure that that is the more common way of asking something rather than asking "Do you have a red jacket?" Which according to Duolingo translates in Italian to the statement "you have a red jacket." But like asked as a question. Which is fine and also a thing in English but I just wanna make sure because the amount of times it has me put vero? At the end of sentences is. A lot

Short answer: we don't use it that often, the most common way imho is "no?".

Very long answer: we do say "vero?" at the end of a sentence to seek confirmation, but it doesn't have the same frequency as English "right?" or UK English "innit?". See it more as a "correct?", "is that right?". Something that's closer to the frequency of "right?" in my opinion is "no?". Examples: "Vivi con la tua amica Chiara, no?" "Hai una giacca rossa, no?". Some people use it *a lot* in the same way that some English speakers use the phrase "you know". Example: "Ieri sono andato in quel bar, no?, e c'era Beatrice, sai, l'ex di Luca, sai no?". ("sai" is basically the same as "you know")

You can also skip the interjection altogether and phrase it as a question, yes. "Vivi con la tua amica Chiara?" "Hai una giacca rossa?". This changes intonation, which in Italian is very useful for understanding whether something was said or asked. If you say "[sentence], no?" the sentence is uttered like a normal statement (downward inflection at the end of the sentence), then the "no?" has a raised intonation. If you say "[sentence]?" you keep a moderately high intonation throughout and then raise it more at the end. If you're familiar with Spanish, that's what the upside-down question mark ¿ is for in Spanish: it tells you where you have to start raising the intonation.

About Duolingo... I'm so sorry that what used to be, and still is, the go-to app/service for learning new languages, has ended up not being the best resource anymore. I haven't used Duolingo in years because it actually stopped being useful to me, before it started using generative AI to generate its sentences and for other uses. The truth is that Duolingo is still a tool that's very easy to use, low-effort, and that gives you a lot of base knowledge. I don't reprimand anyone for using it, but if someone asked me directly, I'd certainly recommend something else.

The repeated "vero?" is one of the problems I have with Duolingo, honestly. By repeating a certain word several times to the point of exhaustion (at least for me), it kind of inflates the frequency that that word actually has in the normal spoken language. I'm not familiar with what specific kind of generative AI Duolingo uses, but I study NLP and LLMs. A widespread and well-known problem of LLMs is that they tend to collapse into short sentences and into repeating the same words over and over, when not trained extensively against this. You don't see this very often with commercial LLMs like ChatGPT or whatnot, but it's because they have been trained *a lot*. If you take a fresh untrained or lightly trained model you can rest assured it's going to spout the classic "with the method and the method and the method and the method and the" within 5 minutes. Another problem is, due to how LLM word distribution (and temperature) works, LLMs often use certain uncommon words at a higher frequency than what's considered normal. These problems are, again, very well-known and the reason why I would never put genAI in charge of a language learning service such as Duolingo if it didn't have extensive human-based feedback behind it, which they unfortunately lack in a lot of languages.

[v171]

This is so annoying, I work as an engineer is a division that collects education based data and trains models. We have been in the LLM space for literal decades, and most of the AI engineers, NLP scientists, and data scientists know EXACTLY the ways in which things like ChatGPT are lacking and the dangers of relying on them too heavily.

My boss asked me to write up a report to send to him. I spent a few hours doing my due diligence in researching then sent it off to him. He then asked if I ran this through AI to which I said "no, I only really use that for copy editing purposes." He says "You really should start to learn how to leverage it, it can streamline you work a lot. For example, this is what ChatGPT told me when I asked for a similar report."

And I don't know how to navigate this because I think it's wildly irresponsible to use LLMs as a search engine, and validating whatever ChatGPT spits out at me would take more time than just writing the damn report, but I don't exactly know how to say "Not only do I think that's poor advice, I think it is dangerous and unprofessional." So instead of that I was just like :thumbs up: and decided to not ever do that.

But now, after another draft, he is specifically telling me to run the whole thing through ChatGPT and share the output with some higher-ups. And I feel like I'm at a crossroads where I'm like... I think this is very very stupid and it's concerning that you don't know better.

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language, hypnotism, and you!

here in the Hypnokink Zone we tend to center our focus on inductions. and for good reason!! they're the purest form of hypnosis, the intentional induction of someone, an endeavour designed exclusively to take someone into trance. but what if we didn't want to do an induction, or even take someone into trance, but still have a hypnotic effect on them? as it turns out, this is extremely doable, and extremely cool!

if you've been here for a while now you might have seen this post from me, my first proper ramble about all this stuff, and you might remember that bit at the end, when i talk about just how hot i find the words "hypnotized" and "brainwashed" themselves, and how i sometimes just find myself repeating them over and over when i'm really feelin' it. i think that's a good representation of how just single words can fuck with our minds, and it's not just those two <3

so like, let's think for a second about what language actually is; we tend to take for granted the fact that we make air do silly tricks with our mouths and our throats in order to put ideas and concepts into other people's heads. really, a word isn't just a word- it's not just the funny shape that air takes on when you make just the right tongue movements, it's the idea that word actually is. and ideas are extremely powerful!! when you think of the word "brainwashed" you don't just think of the individual letters, you think of helpless subjects, spinning spirals, and complete, devoted obedience. and that has more effects on you than you might realise :3

sometimes people in the hypno sphere call this "neuro-linguistic programming" or "NLP" but that's kind of a misnomer, (actual NLP is a silly and weird pseudoscience largely invented by "pickup artists" to sell courses, so, y'know, i try and avoid the association) i prefer to just use "hypnotic language" because it's just as descriptive! the basis of hypnotic language is this: when you say words, you incept ideas into someone's head. if you have the skill, time, and familiarity with the person you're talking to, you can use this to control their thoughts nearly as effectively as if they were in trance!

a lot of this relies on what words mean the most to the individual you're talking to. let's take me as an example!! the word docile makes me fucking weak. it conjures up images of blank-face, calm-smile obedience, of gently nodding and going about the commands i'm given, of empty-headed servitude. the images it conjures in my head are vivid and hot as hell, and it's just a single word. use it a little bti around me, and you'll ensure i have all those thoughts swirling around in my head! thoughts of servitude. thoughts of enslavement. and so it comes naturally that i'd be easier to control <3

tone matters too! if you speak to someone authoritatively, they'll come to see you as an authority. even in tiny matters, insignificant ones, even in little ways- saying "hey, grab me a glass of water" is more authoritative than "hey, can you get me some water?" obviously, this is a double-edged sword! too much authority and you might give your intentions away, or just come off as kinda bossy, and that's more likely to make people actively resist you than let you in. once again, it's all about knowing your target! you gotta know what your subject's tolerances are for this kinda thing

take all this together, and you can have almost as much of a grip on someone's mind as you would if they were completely hypnotized :3 you break them down overtime, get them hanging on certain words, widen their tolerance for authority... and eventually, with a lot of effort and patience, they're yours. obedient to you- brainwashed, in all but process

can you imagine it? like, from the subject's perspective- being completely under someone's hypnotic control without ever having been hypnotized. maybe looking back at a long time ago and thinking "i sure acted different then", but not worrying about it at all. you're a thrall, and as far as you're concerned, that's just who you are!! that's just kind of how the world works

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[theambitiouswoman]

Hi

Hope you are doing well. I am actually a student of class 12 in India and as I've taken science, there is a countless pressure on me which I actually put on myself.

But regardless of that I never can bring myself to study no matter how many productive videos swatch or study motivation that I watch.it feels like a hopeless loop of me toying to get myself to study and then failing to do that anyway. Do you have any suggestions on how this could be made better because it feels like I constantly run away from studies at this point.

Thankyouuuu

Hi!

I actually think you should intentionally take the pressure off of yourself. It’s like the conversation around being busy but not productive. Sometimes we’re so overwhelmed by what we think we should be doing that our brain just shuts down completely. You putting all that pressure on yourself every single day doesn’t make it easier, it just makes it harder to move at all

Shrink the goal. Don’t try to study for hours. Do something before that puts you in a good mood and help clears your mind. Then sit with a book for 5–10 minutes. That’s it. Sometimes the trick is just to begin

Knowing our NLP style whether we're more visual, auditory, or kinesthetic can totally change how we learn and process information. For example, if you're a visual learner, your brain thrives on images, diagrams and color coded notes. You might love vision boards or mind maps. If you're auditory, podcasts, lectures, or even talking out loud to yourself helps information click. And if you're kinesthetic, your body needs to move learning by doing, walking while reviewing notes, or even using physical flashcards can boost focus. Make sense?

The problem is that so many of us are forcing ourselves to work in a way that doesn’t match how our brain is wired which also leads to burnout, procrastination etc. The way you naturally process the world is the way you should study and live. Lean into it

Good luck!!