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There is a second option to moving to Japan. Import the best of Japanese culture here. Start acting like and being the culture you want to see. Be polite. Be kind. Be honest. Christianity was an import from the Middle East. Why not the best of Japanese culture?

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Thank you for the reblog but, more importantly, your added context and the screenshot!

Posts on Reddit Praising AI As A "Therapist" Could Be Fake and Here's Why

I couldn't screenshot the entire post but in the whole post, reviewing and praising AI as a personal therapist, nowhere does it mention that you are giving your deepest personal information on yourself to these online companies. Is it possible in all the excitement surrounding AI that some of us have forgotten these companies are based on a business model that collects as much information and personal data they can on their users in order to manipulate them as much as possible? I don't think so. These posts are designed by industry insiders to encourage compliance and acceptance of AI in the population. They want you to spill your guts to their LLMs because they want to form a deeper psychological profile on you than the one they already have and sell it to third party advertisers. Don't fall for it.

The Reddit user who made the post even admits to being an industry insider at the bottom of their post, which you can't see in the screenshot since it got cut off. But here is the link so you can read it in full for yourself:

I don't argue that therapy through AI probably has many advantages we should all utilize...but before spilling our most private secrets to an AI "therapist" there must be certain guarantees for privacy and laws in place protecting the user before doing so. Ideally, the program would be open sourced and not connected to any large business entity. An even better version of an AI "therapist" would, in fact, be completely self-contained and disconnected from any connection to the Internet so no information you enter ever leaves your own computer-- a DVD version or other offline psychological reference database perhaps? Some version where everyone but you and the AI program is locked out.

The point is, don't grant these companies unconditional access to the most personal secrets about yourself. They or their third party advertisers will only use this information to further manipulate and control you.

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Posts on Reddit Praising AI As A "Therapist" Could Be Fake and Here's Why

I couldn't screenshot the entire post but in the whole post, reviewing and praising AI as a personal therapist, nowhere does it mention that you are giving your deepest personal information on yourself to these online companies. Is it possible in all the excitement surrounding AI that some of us have forgotten these companies are based on a business model that collects as much information and personal data they can on their users in order to manipulate them as much as possible? I don't think so. These posts are designed by industry insiders to encourage compliance and acceptance of AI in the population. They want you to spill your guts to their LLMs because they want to form a deeper psychological profile on you than the one they already have and sell it to third party advertisers. Don't fall for it.

The Reddit user who made the post even admits to being an industry insider at the bottom of their post, which you can't see in the screenshot since it got cut off. But here is the link so you can read it in full for yourself:

I don't argue that therapy through AI probably has many advantages we should all utilize...but before spilling our most private secrets to an AI "therapist" there must be certain guarantees for privacy and laws in place protecting the user before doing so. Ideally, the program would be open sourced and not connected to any large business entity. An even better version of an AI "therapist" would, in fact, be completely self-contained and disconnected from any connection to the Internet so no information you enter ever leaves your own computer-- a DVD version or other offline psychological reference database perhaps? Some version where everyone but you and the AI program is locked out.

The point is, don't grant these companies unconditional access to the most personal secrets about yourself. They or their third party advertisers will only use this information to further manipulate and control you.

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Okay, been away a bit but we now have our poll results. So you CAN vote for a non progressive Dem and not be for genocide, I guess. Thanks to everyone who bravely participated in this poll...on both sides...because it's not easy to take a public stance for either side when people are screaming at you and calling you horrible names.

I'll just add for further clarity (if it's not clear enough), that doesn't justify or condone any wrong stance a Democratic president or presidential nominee holds on the Israel-Palestine conflict. It just means people are not willing to suffer the kinds of additional domestic policies we have seen under a Trump/Republican administration. In other words, because Trump and Republicans won, we have more problems and injustices to deal with in addition to the genocide going on in Gaza. Now it's Gaza, plus the dissolution of our alliances and small businesses due to these mindless tariffs, plus an unjust and overreaching immigration crackdown, plus threats to trans rights, plus the silencing of the Press and threats of arrest of Democratic lawmakers and governors, plus threats to important programs and safety nets like Social Security, plus the gutting of government jobs, plus a sociopathic President rolling tanks into Washington D.C. who is hell bent on doing anything he can to remain in power forever.

Allowing Trump or other politically vile Republicans to waltz into power so they can make things worse for ourselves, including those domestic activists fighting to free the Gazans of their suffering is not going to help their cause. With a Democratic president, there is always a chance we can get them to turn on their policies, as Obama did on gay marriage. But when you see the cold-stone manner with which Republicans push for and enact their own policies, you know there is much less chance of changing their minds.

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I just got an idea for an AirBnB.

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STARTING TOMORROW

Scientists in weather and climate are live streaming for 100 hours to make their case to the American public.

They are live streaming, but engagement is necessary for it to work. SHARE THIS WITH PEOPLE, RECORD THE STREAM, POST CLIPS OF IT THAT ARE FUNNY, if you can tune in, PLEASE DO!

This is something that has to be heard by as many people as possible. Put it on in the background! See if you can get other people to watch it! Do whatever you can do support those who are trying to be supported! Anything and everything helps!

TUNE IN HERE

article I posted screenshots of here

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WHEN THE TIME COMES

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His full answer: "Well, it means exactly what it says, it's a declaration. A declaration of unity and love and respect, and it means a lot. And it's something very special to our country."

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CBS Mornings asked the "Godfather of AI" if we should give AI robots rights. He replied he didn't know.

I'll make a prediction on this question right now:

We will very quickly discover we can't give AI robots rights and so we won't.

Why? Because we created AI and robots to do the work humans don't want to do for a fraction of the expense we pay humans to do it. If we throw that all out the window by giving AI robots rights, the technology becomes useless to us. We might as well not have invented it at all. AI robots with rights like humans, are not going to want to be our slaves or sweatshop workers.

I understand we're still in the early stages of AI and robotic technology and it's easy to make the mistake of asking such a question (I have made that mistake myself) but, when we give ourselves time to think about it, it's a question that can only ever have one answer.

No, AI robots will never have or be given rights. Not ever. Guaranteed.

The full interview is below.

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I’m hoping that this is as “angry” as I’ll get with a comic, but given how the world is shaping up politically at the moment, I fear that might not be the case.

It’s been incredibly eye opening to witness the degree to which some people I know are willing to bury their heads in the sand in order to avoid the reality of the awful things that are happening around them.  Awful things that they were told were going to happen.

In America, people are being black bagged and shipped off to El Salvador without due process to be held indefinitely in prisons, with the current administration now making social media posts cruelly boasting that they’ll never return. 

Make no mistake, if people are being kidnapped by the government, given no due process, and are shipped to a foreign nation to be held in prison with no intention to give them any legal recourse, we need to call these prisons what they are:

They are death camps.

The United States of America is rounding up “undesirables” and sending them to death camps. 

There are people in this country that voted for this.  No matter how nice they otherwise seem or claim to be, these people are evil to the core. 

There are also people who didn’t vote for this, but do provide social validation and acceptance to those who did.

If you are someone who thinks you’re against fascism, but you also accept fascists in your life, you are a fascist. 

There can be no acceptance of intolerance.  In the comic, the person I’m lampooning is the “Fake Trans Ally”, but you can swap out “trans” for any other group of marginalized people.  Frankly, just call this person “The Fake Ally.”

If you’re someone reading this and feel attacked because I’m calling you a fake ally, it’s time to do some soul searching.  When the history books are written about this period of American history, are you going to be someone who was unambiguously against hatred, or were you someone that treated hate as acceptable? 

Were you someone that invited hatred into your home?

Were you someone that shared a meal with hatred?

Were you someone that allowed hatred a safe haven?

If you’re someone that does that, you yourself are hateful. 

When you accept hate, you do so at the expense of those who are the target of that hatred.

Be better, our lives depend on it.

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Request to Tumblr:

Is there some way you could make it easier to find replies to our posts in threads we've commented in? Every time, on mobile, I see a notification that someone replied to my comment in a thread, I click on it and invariably have to scroll around the thread looking for the reply so I can reply to it. Isn't there some way clicking on the reply notification could take me directly to the reply? Half the time I can't even respond to replies in big threads because I can't find the reply. Other than that, Tumblr is so much fun. I love it. Thanks.

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This is to Mr. Mullin.

If you don't like or can't tolerate criticism or negative stories from the Press without wishing for some violent way to deal with it, leave government service. It's not for you.

As a representative of the public, it is the duty of such representatives to handle all criticism and negative stories about oneself with patience and tact and transparency. An upright and honorable representative of the people should not only expect criticism from the Press of themselves and their activities but even encourage and challenge the Press to find and create bad stories about oneself which you can patiently answer and refute with facts and logic. THAT is a true representative of the people. They don't scold the Press. They don't run from the Press. They don't try to suppress or punish the Press. They encourage the Press even against themselves. That's a true leader.

Even falsehoods that might be written by the Press serve a purpose. They reveal the integrity and spotlessness of character and deed of the representative that can withstand, survive and successfully answer and dismiss such falsehoods publicly. You should welcome falsehoods about you as a public representative, for if your character and actions are upright and honest, falsehoods are the easiest claims to refute.

I understand. Criticism and negative stories about oneself - whether true or false - hurt. But if you can't handle them and answer each criticism or falsehood patiently, public service is not for you.

Don't misunderstand me. There's nothing wrong with not having the personal constitution for the public criticism and sometimes harsh accusations that come with public service. I don't. But because I know I don't, I don't enter public service.

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dare i say that stuffed animals are one of the single greatest inventions of all time and im thankful every day for the fact that someone thought to make animals but in huggable plush form…..saved me from a lot of bad nights and nightmares as a kid, i love you stuffed animals