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Wellness Wednesday for February 22, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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Even lobotomized to be the Borgesian NY Times of Babel, I'd rather interact with ChatGPT than other people.

You say you're "learning more" but what are you learning?

Yes I am being literal. I am asking what knowledge/wisdom have you gained, what specific skills are you honing.

Can you point to specific gains/improvements in yourself as a result of your interactions with GPT or are you (as you yourself put it) allowing yourself to be "domesticated and isolated" by a chat-bot. Pacified by porn.

Yes it's a serious inquiry. One that I'm making in large part because you yourself raised the possibility. The question that occurs to me is if you are being "pacified" how would you know? Being able to point to clear insights in contrast to mere satiation seems to me like it would an obvious tell, but it's not one I feel like I'm getting from you right now.