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Awillia91

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  • ChatGPT (or other LLM) and neurodiversity/mental health

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  • LLMs cannot be therapists, it will be obvious if you try to use one for therapy. In general, do not trust anything trained and gatekept so heavily by corporations with your personal data. That being said there is one small area I’ve found pretty legit help from them in the past.

    In my opinion acute anxiety is one of the few use cases I’ve found where LLMs have been absolutely superior to other things for me. I am autistic and I can at times get pretty significant health anxiety, like I’m convinced I’m dying. In the past I would google it and really freak out. Sometimes (more than once) I’ve ended up in the ER from it.

    I’ve found it helpful to describe my symptoms and mention that I have severe health anxiety and I’m able to get information from it without worsening my existing anxiety. It doesn’t replace a doctor, and if I’m worried about my health it means I need to see one. But in that exact moment what I need is to calm down and realize that my symptoms are probably not dangerous.

    On the other hand I cannot talk to an LLM about personal things, or like it’s a friend. I have tried, I’m not saying it for moral reasons or anything. But I just get mad with how steerable the conversation is, how formulaic the responses sometimes seem, and how full of platitudes a lot of the messages are. And if at some point it misinterprets something I’m asking and decides to refuse it can really irritate me.

  • Layoffs reach highest level since 2020, new data shows. Here's why companies are cutting jobs.

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  • Although layoffs have jumped, the nation's unemployment rate remains historically low at 4.2% and hiring has remained steady. The Department of Labor is set to release its June employment report on Thursday, with economists forecasting payroll gains of roughly 115,000 in May, according to financial data provider FactSet.

    I literally don’t even know how to interpret things like this at this point. I hear that everything is falling apart and it’s extremely difficult to find a job (which matches my experience) and that jobs I general are getting worse (also matches my experience), and then I read that unemployment is “historically low” and companies are hiring. Maybe it’s true by the numbers as we measure them, but then we need a new way to measure these things because the numbers are not matching the reality.

  • Wage Labour and Capital | Theory Discussion Group, Weeks 29-30 of 2025

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  • I’ve been thinking a lot about the point that capital is incapable of producing value on its own and that only labor can create new value. Capital like tools, machines, etc. just transfers the value it holds due to past labor, while living labor is the only possible source of surplus value.

    But I’m wondering how this principle holds up under the (potential, eventual) development of advanced AI. The question is more about how the theory would explain a capitalist society which had achieved true “abundance” and post-scarcity, even without solving the distribution problem and it’s not meant to imply that I believe these capabilities are right on the horizon or anything, but if we assume they exist it can help to understand the theory a little bit better, I think.

    If a neural network could carry out intellectual tasks like writing, coding or creative work and if robots could carry out physical ones the what does the labor theory of value look like at that limit point? Is AI just dead labor like other machines, or is there (theoretically) something qualitatively different at that end point?

    Can AI ever create surplus value in the Marxist sense? And if not, what are capitalists extracting when they profit from these theoretical fully AI-based supply chains?

  • Fellow American Comrades, how were you able to overcome the liberal propaganda?

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  • Same here. Growing up autistic definitely primed me to be able to accept alternative ideas. When I was younger and my mom made me go to church I remember realizing that none of it made any sense and I didn’t believe it. I think my thoughts about Capitalism were pretty similar but just took longer.