#what is nlp

[tugstoffoles]

I have such intense thoughts about the fact Matt, as a kid, has a cane with a red tip, then in college it's fully white, and then as an adult it's with a red tip again. This could probably mean. Nothing. But! Why would they give him a white cane ONLY in the college flashbacks? (as far as I know, pls correct me if I'm wrong I'm only midway through season 1)

[ratchated]

NLP/DW because yes

[riazhatvi]

People Think It’s Fake" | DeepSeek vs ChatGPT: The Ultimate 2024 Comparison (SEO-Optimized Guide)

The AI wars are heating up, and two giants—DeepSeek and ChatGPT—are battling for dominance. But why do so many users call DeepSeek "fake" while praising ChatGPT? Is it a myth, or is there truth to the claims? In this deep dive, we’ll uncover the facts, debunk myths, and reveal which AI truly reigns supreme. Plus, learn pro SEO tips to help this article outrank competitors on Google!

Chapters

00:00 Introduction - DeepSeek: China’s New AI Innovation

00:15 What is DeepSeek?

00:30 DeepSeek’s Impressive Statistics

00:50 Comparison: DeepSeek vs GPT-4

01:10 Technology Behind DeepSeek

01:30 Impact on AI, Finance, and Trading

01:50 DeepSeek’s Effect on Bitcoin & Trading

02:10 Future of AI with DeepSeek

02:25 Conclusion - The Future is Here!

Why Do People Call DeepSeek "Fake"? (The Truth Revealed)

The Language Barrier Myth

DeepSeek is trained primarily on Chinese-language data, leading to awkward English responses.

Example: A user asked, "Write a poem about New York," and DeepSeek referenced skyscrapers as "giant bamboo shoots."

SEO Keyword: "DeepSeek English accuracy."

Cultural Misunderstandings

DeepSeek’s humor, idioms, and examples cater to Chinese audiences. Global users find this confusing.

ChatGPT, trained on Western data, feels more "relatable" to English speakers.

Lack of Transparency

Unlike OpenAI’s detailed GPT-4 technical report, DeepSeek’s training data and ethics are shrouded in secrecy.

LSI Keyword: "DeepSeek data sources."

Viral "Fail" Videos

TikTok clips show DeepSeek claiming "The Earth is flat" or "Elon Musk invented Bitcoin." Most are outdated or edited—ChatGPT made similar errors in 2022!

DeepSeek vs ChatGPT: The Ultimate 2024 Comparison

1. Language & Creativity

ChatGPT: Wins for English content (blogs, scripts, code).

Strengths: Natural flow, humor, and cultural nuance.

Weakness: Overly cautious (e.g., refuses to write "controversial" topics).

DeepSeek: Best for Chinese markets (e.g., Baidu SEO, WeChat posts).

Strengths: Slang, idioms, and local trends.

Weakness: Struggles with Western metaphors.

SEO Tip: Use keywords like "Best AI for Chinese content" or "DeepSeek Baidu SEO."

2. Technical Abilities

Coding:

ChatGPT: Solves Python/JavaScript errors, writes clean code.

DeepSeek: Better at Alibaba Cloud APIs and Chinese frameworks.

Data Analysis:

Both handle spreadsheets, but DeepSeek integrates with Tencent Docs.

3. Pricing & Accessibility

FeatureDeepSeekChatGPTFree TierUnlimited basic queriesGPT-3.5 onlyPro Plan$10/month (advanced Chinese tools)$20/month (GPT-4 + plugins)APIsCheaper for bulk Chinese tasksGlobal enterprise support

SEO Keyword: "DeepSeek pricing 2024."

Debunking the "Fake AI" Myth: 3 Case Studies

Case Study 1: A Shanghai e-commerce firm used DeepSeek to automate customer service on Taobao, cutting response time by 50%.

Case Study 2: A U.S. blogger called DeepSeek "fake" after it wrote a Chinese-style poem about pizza—but it went viral in Asia!

Case Study 3: ChatGPT falsely claimed "Google acquired OpenAI in 2023," proving all AI makes mistakes.

How to Choose: DeepSeek or ChatGPT?

Pick ChatGPT if:

You need English content, coding help, or global trends.

You value brand recognition and transparency.

Pick DeepSeek if:

You target Chinese audiences or need cost-effective APIs.

You work with platforms like WeChat, Douyin, or Alibaba.

LSI Keyword: "DeepSeek for Chinese marketing."

SEO-Optimized FAQs (Voice Search Ready!)

"Is DeepSeek a scam?" No! It’s a legitimate AI optimized for Chinese-language tasks.

"Can DeepSeek replace ChatGPT?" For Chinese users, yes. For global content, stick with ChatGPT.

"Why does DeepSeek give weird answers?" Cultural gaps and training focus. Use it for specific niches, not general queries.

"Is DeepSeek safe to use?" Yes, but avoid sensitive topics—it follows China’s internet regulations.

Pro Tips to Boost Your Google Ranking

Sprinkle Keywords Naturally: Use "DeepSeek vs ChatGPT" 4–6 times.

Internal Linking: Link to related posts (e.g., "How to Use ChatGPT for SEO").

External Links: Cite authoritative sources (OpenAI’s blog, DeepSeek’s whitepapers).

Mobile Optimization: 60% of users read via phone—use short paragraphs.

Engagement Hooks: Ask readers to comment (e.g., "Which AI do you trust?").

Final Verdict: Why DeepSeek Isn’t Fake (But ChatGPT Isn’t Perfect)

The "fake" label stems from cultural bias and misinformation. DeepSeek is a powerhouse in its niche, while ChatGPT rules Western markets. For SEO success:

Target long-tail keywords like "Is DeepSeek good for Chinese SEO?"

Use schema markup for FAQs and comparisons.

Update content quarterly to stay ahead of AI updates.

🚀 Ready to Dominate Google? Share this article, leave a comment, and watch it climb to #1!

Follow for more AI vs AI battles—because in 2024, knowledge is power! 🔍

[pinolitas]

I'm pretty sure all those tools people recognize as ai are actually machine learning because isn't ai supposed to be predictive rather than generative

[themindpowerindia]

What Is Neuro-Linguistic Programming? Top NLP Techniques You Should Know

Curious about Neuro-Linguistic Programming? This guide breaks down NLP concepts and shares techniques to help you build awareness and reshape your responses.

[studybugsworld]

you can also get another degree in speech language pathology and just. be really informed.

out of genuine curiosity what can you do with a linguistics phd

a normal person would go into either academia or industry (often in tech working on natural language processing) (but there are many other paths too)

[meelsport]

How AI is Revolutionizing Voice Search Technology

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[kyeterna]

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[simplicius-simplicissimus]

Way of Thinking - Denkweise

Last year we had dinner with a couple we know at a cute restaurant. The future son-in-law of the couple teaches courses in NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and our acquaintance is also engaged in this interesting topic. People are shaped (programmed) by their diverse experiences: positive as well as negative. These experiences are stored in the subconscious and are decisive for how we think, feel, perceive our environment and act - namely always subjectively and very individually. Our acquaintance used her son-in-law as an example: “A. has no sense for order. If he opens a closet with neatly arranged clothes, he doesn't recognize the order behind them." However, you can reprogram the brain (e.g. through positive experiences that strengthen your self-confidence and attitude towards life) - even by language. The human brain is a phenomenal construct. Yesterday I saw by incident the YouTube video below about the physicist Richard Feynman, in which he also describes exactly this: the different perceptions and ways of thinking of people (his experiment about the personal time sense).

I first came across Richard Feynman in the movie „Infinity“, directed by and starring Matthew Broderick. The movie is based on the second book „What Do You Care What Other People Think?“ from Feynman. The story of the book focuses on Feynman's first wife, Arline, who had been diagnosed with tuberculosis before their marriage. The title of the book is taken from a question she often put to him when he seemed preoccupied with the opinions of his colleagues about his work, thereby echoing his own earlier words to her. She died while Feynman was working on the Manhattan Project (project for the development of the first atomic bomb). While working there, he devotedly cared for his terminally ill wife who was in a hospital nearby. Life-shaping things!

The second time I encountered Feynman was in the movie „The Challenger Disaster“ with William Hurt playing Richard Feynman. There, as a member of the investigation committee, he found out that the sealing rings of the solid fuel rockets no longer fulfilled their function at low temperatures: to seal. At the day of launch, when the Challenger disaster occurred, it was unusually cold. This circumstance then led to the fact that the solid fuel rockets were no longer sealed - and finally to the explosion of the Challenger. NASA knew the problem - but ignored it.

-Simplicius Simplicissimus

[lordsardine]

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[theambitiouswoman]

Trauma is embedded within the body and ingrained in the brain. For lasting change, create strategies that address both the physical and mental aspects of trauma.

Physical Therapies:

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Leverages bodily sensations to navigate through trauma.

Yoga: Boosts bodily mindfulness and alleviates stress.

Somatic Experiencing: Helps discharge trauma-induced physical tension.

Tai Chi: Enhances equilibrium through deliberate movements.

Massage Therapy: Facilitates emotional liberation through easing muscle tightness.

Acupuncture: Activates the body's healing spots.

Craniosacral Therapy: Eases stress through soft manipulations of the skull and spine.

Breathwork: Employs breathing techniques for better physical and psychological well-being.

Dance Movement Therapy: Merges emotional expression with physical activity.

Mental Therapies:

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Bridges the gap between mental impacts and bodily reactions.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing): Aids in memory processing through eye movements.

CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy): Aims to transform harmful thought patterns.

IFS (Internal Family Systems): Promotes healing within different parts of the psyche.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming): Modifies behavior via language and thought patterns.

Neurofeedback: Boosts brain activity for better function.

MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy): Combines mindfulness practices with cognitive therapeutic techniques.

Psychodynamic Therapy: Investigates the influence of past experiences.

Narrative Therapy: Helps individuals reframe their life stories.

Please remember that I am not a therapist. Speaking to a professional will help you figure out what course of action is better for you.

[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!

[fandomtrumpshate]

FTH 2025 Supported Org: News Literacy Project

In the age of the internet, one of the greatest threats to public well-being is misinformation. The sheer volume of available information is enough to cause us mental and emotional damage that can make it more difficult to react thoughtfully. Furthermore, our information environment is saturated in misinformation and disinformation, often explicitly engineered to drive our political choices. Furthermore, in the past few weeks, Meta has followed X's lead and decided to discontinue fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram.

A few days after the election, the head of Media Matters described the United States as "pickled in misinformation," and all signs suggest that the problem is getting worse, not better.

The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan education nonprofit founded in 2008, aims to improve news literacy -- the ability to determine the credibility of news and other information and to recognize the standards of fact-based journalism to know what to trust, share and act on -- in this challenging, high-speed information environment. The NLP is building a national movement to create systemic change in American education to ensure all students are skilled in news literacy before they graduate high school, giving them the knowledge and ability to participate in civic society as well-informed, critical thinkers. A more news-literate populace will be less likely to fall for online hoaxes, and also better equipped to make well-informed decisions about our common lives and governance.

You can support News Literacy Project as a creator in the 2025 FTH auction (or as a bidder, when the time comes to donate for the auctions you’ve won.)

[telperinquaar]

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.