Isn’t that convenient.

Talking about in the meantime. Working on this bullshit takes years if not decades. In the meantime, I have to react SOMEHOW when I fuck up, meaning I can apologise or try to explain what went wrong so the other person doesn’t think I’m a total piece of shit AND apologise.

That might work once or twice but if you’re apologising 10 times a day, I don’t think you’re getting off that easy.

Sure. How does that add to the topic at hand?

Okay, and? Are you saying that’s reason for any and all aid deliveries to stop?

But do I “agree”? Maybe I’m very good at figuring out other people, I just haven’t had enough opportunity to test it and come to any conclusions about my ability. I’m definitely overthinking this, as I usually do, because I probably don’t fully understand the possible implications of answering “agree” or “don’t agree” and I hate not understanding.

I hate this type of question. I don’t know whether I have trouble working out people’s intentions because my mental (and physical) health has me isolated socially. I don’t interact enough with people irl to know, I’ve been a loner basically all my life. Same for stuff like “do people frequently say X about you” - people don’t say anything about me, let alone frequently or to my face.

It’s really frustrating sometimes, especially when you’re trying to get any diagnosis because these questionnaires don’t take social anxiety into account.

I hate that there are ridiculous places where getting a diagnosis might actually be harmful, that sucks so hard, man. I consider myself very fortunate to live in a place where a diagnosis can really only be beneficial (neutral at worst) and getting it is free. Just takes forever to get an appointment.

Tbh, this particular question I’m having trouble answering (which might be telling too I suppose?) but I clicked through and took the longer version of the test and the result further confirms things that my therapist has already implied.

Gawwwwwd I need to get diagnosed…

True. I somehow expected it to be a different thing altogether, new mechanics and all, I don’t know why. Was thinking more along the lines of No Man’s Sky, FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON.

I mean, I did partake in the “Skyrim in space” jokes but I didn’t know there’d be pickpocketing. Huh. So is it safe to say everybody’s builds are going to trend towards stealth sniping?

Frank Sinatra singing Cruel Angel’s Thesis is now part of my playlist, I’m ashamed to say. I didn’t dare look further because I am weak. The appeal of the concept is undeniable, the implications are horrifying.

I fucking hate that by now I my first reaction to this kind of news has become “… yeah. pity.” I realistically have another 40 years on this shitshow of a planet and I can’t feel optimistic about it at all.

My main machine is Suckup (Second Universal Cybernetic-Kinetic Ultra-Micro Programmer), my laptop is Tuckup (Third Universal etc), my phone is Keitaichan (keitai being Japanese for mobile phone), my tablet is Tabbuchan (from Japanese taburetto for tablet), my NAS is Shinochan (from shinorojii, Japanese for Synology), because I am absolutely insufferable and unimaginative and I crack myself up.

My husband has one flaw and it’s that he doesn’t get Stardew Valley. These people do exist, in the midst of our society, unseen.

Yeh, I get that it’s just an example. But wouldn’t it be like that for anything you could ask it? It can only work with what you’re giving it and that data could be heavily influenced by you not wanting to see something. Or exaggerating. Or forgetting. A human looking at your diaries might be able to put themselves in your situation and understand, based on their own experience with the human condition, how you were probably feeling in a situation the diary entry is describing and interpret the entry accordingly, maybe even especially when considering other, seemingly conflicting entries. But they’re using “outside” information which an AI doesn’t have.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying what you’re imagining is completely impossible - I’m trying to imagine how it might work and why it might not. Maybe one way to develop such an AI would be to feed it diaries of historical people whose entries we can interpret with decent confidence in hindsight (surely those must exist?). Ask the AI to create a characterisation of the person and see how well it matches the views of human historians.

I am so very much not an expert on AI and I hate most of what has come of the recent surge. And remember that we’re not talking about actual intelligence, these are just very advanced text parsing and phrase correlating machines. But it does of course seem tempting to ask a machine with no secondary motives to just fucking tell me the harsh truth so now I’m thinking about it too.

At that point you could search your diary entries yourself to analyse the way you talk about her. Assuming of course you’re honest with your diary and yourself and not glossing over things you don’t want to realise - in which case do you really need an AI to tell you?

The AI would still need to understand feelings, at least in principle, in order to interpret your actions which are based on feelings. Even “I like having sex with her” is a feeling. A purely rational mind would probably reprimand you for using contraception because what is the point of sex if not making offspring?

Very few things are true for every person with a given neurodivergence. But this is one of the more (most?) common things that people with ADHD struggle with, some to a lesser, some to a greater extent.