> My life experience also mimics this. In college I thought I had crippling social anxiety. Turns out I just needed to be around people more to develop my abilities.
I don't understand why you think that the fact that exposure cured you means you didn't have social anxiety?
Exposure is something a therapist would suggest for social anxiety.
The issue seems to be that you think saying that someone has social anxiety means they are permanently broken (and maybe will give up trying to do anything about it?) but I'm not really sure where you got that idea from.
Yes. And yes, OCD can look similar I think (IANAP). Both are often anxiety driven. Try telling someone with OCD to put on their shoes quickly if they are paranoid there's a spider in them ...
Sure there might be some "pure" pda where it's 100% down to reacting against demands. But AFAIK it can be also driven by autism related anxieties ("I can't do that because for some reason it's freaking me out and I can't explain it, so I'll get mad and then think I'm mad because I don't want you ordering me around"). Or it's just "I didn't understand the first 16 times and now I'm mad that you're mad ..." which is more like pda as it's often described ... but is it always that?
OCD is often anxiety over specific fears ("if I do that I might make a mistake, and if I make a mistake it's the end of the world, so I'll get mad and think I'm mad because I don't want you ordering me around").
Anyone a bit "weird" can be reactive if you tell them something that seems reasonable to you but isn't reasonable to them.
Even if you don't think it has validity as a single disorder, autism is at least diagnosed in a way that's fairly consistent between clinicians using ADOS.
I'm more dubious of clinicians who like to pick random dubious rare disorders that people can't even agree about the basic description of like schizoid out of the DSM like the author of this article.
A lot of older small towns are good but newer stuff tends to be built along highways with no other connecting roads, and more spread out
Also, a lot of the "rural" population in census data is actually living in outer suburbs and newer suburbs tend to be pretty unsafe for kids to walk/bike around
>> A weeks ago, my friends and I were talking about the inner workings of Zen 5. We were talking about how the CPUID instruction works, and how AMD MSRs are technically editable if you ask the processor nicely.
> As do we all.
I think they interpreted “as do we all” as pointing out humorously that this is an unusual friend group. So, speculation that it might have formed online makes sense, because online spaces can sometimes facilitate that sort of thing.
Presumably because they all traveled there for a temporary part of their lives. And after university, they presumably scattered to the places where they built their careers and families.
They are two different situations but why is the distinction meaningful here? I rarely even remember the venue of most conversations, just that it happened.
Because for a lot of us it’s hard to imagine finding a half dozen or so people who can talk in person like that outside of a conference or workplace. Discord facilitates that because it assembles people based on interests and such. You’re just going to more easily have that kind of conversation than you would “out in the real world.”
My guess is they are functionally saying “this probably happened on discord if anybody is wondering how this is even possible and not made up for effect” but I might be interpreting too much
My friends and I share interests but they can’t all talk about the relative pros/cons of full frame vs. cropped sensors in digital cinema with me. That’s kind of the framing here if that makes sense. We share a lot of interest and can talk in depth about certain topics, but there are plenty of topics that I am interested in or just know a lot more about that none of them can really discuss with me, so I have to find those communities elsewhere
Even if they know they would lose in court, lawsuits are expensive enough that threatening to sue or filing a lawsuit is often enough to get people without deep pockets to do whatever you want.
I don't know if that was the reasoning in this case though, considering that they didn't drop the lawsuit once it was clear that the youtuber wasn't going to give in to their demands.
One thing that's interesting to me is that a lot of the ai-generated images shown in the screenshot of the stock image site seem like they are emulating the style of national geographic photographer Steve McCurry who has had some controversy due to editing his images and also allegedly has staged images (which is something that you aren't supposed to do for documentary photography), and also I think has been criticized as feeding into stereotypes about different places.
So it's like there is a certain genre of photograph that is what people have come to associate with poverty in developing countries that may not be realistic in the first place, and then as an additional level of detachment from reality, ai is then reproducing the conventions of that genre without even involving real people or places.
Well said. I have always tried to understand Baudrillard's process of formation of the simulacrum. Only it's a pity that we are no longer content with reimagining mint chocolate or pumpkin spice, now it's time to stereotypize real destitution and sorrow.
Anyway, who will want to continue to fork out money over fraudulent images of victims? How can I know that this or that agency represents actual people in need?
In Zurich, an Oktoberfest-related festival (Zuri-Wiesn) held inside a large tent-like structure put up within the main train station's main hall has recently concluded. On the outside, on both sides, the tent was adorned with large-format prints of vaguely Germanic rural folk in celebratory garments holding up their pint. All generated! Blurry facial features, malformed metal buttons. I'd argue that already damaged the joviality and earnestness of the event. And that's just beer...
By that logic now that text to speech has gotten quite good we should stop teaching kids to read.
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