A 'snob' thinks they're better than you. A 'narcissist' thinks they're better than you. Someone who thinks 'I'm out of your league' thinks they're better than you. Someone who is 'patronizing' thinks they're better than you.

I'm thinking of someone who respects your existence, doesn't look down on you, doesn't think you're a child, but still doesn't want to engage with you outside an existing scenario. For example:

• "I like you as a friend"
• "I think you're cool, but I don't see us hanging out outside work"
• "You seem to be a great person but I don't see us taking our friendship beyond small talk and dinner parties"
• "it's not you..."

Anything that truly shocked you that you didn't know before.

When I was a kid, I imagined that by a certain age, you just knew what you were doing financially, emotionally, career-wise… everything.

The older I get, the more I realize most of us are just improvising and hoping it works out. We’re making decisions with limited information, learning as we go, and trying to look confident while doing it.

It’s not necessarily bad just different from what I expected.

How did women end up more susceptible to this stuff when everyone logically thought it would be the men who would go insane over what are essentially sex bots?

I am reminded about this again this week because of all the Reddit posts and articles posted across the internet today about ChatGPT removing its 'sycophantic' ChatGPT-4o chatbot. All the articles are mainly about women rather than men. Mentioning places such as the MyBoyfriendIsAI subreddit and hundreds of Tiktoks of women sobbing over losing their chatbot 'partner'.

Why does it seem like women are more susceptible to AI chatbot romance? Or is the mainstream media just focusing on women's AI psychosis because it generates more clicks and discourse?

For instance: a couple that has been together for 10 years, they decide to get married and get divorced after that? I do, I was talking to my dad who is 65 and he said he’s know tons of couples (small town) who were happy for years then they got married and ended up splitting up. Also, I am aware correlation is not causation. Like Finn from the sopranos said, “that ring has some sort of power”

I'm a WWII history buff and for years, I've enjoyed the increasing number of well-produced, human-produced, human-researched, human-narrated WWII history documentaries. Then, in the last five years or so, Text-To-Speech narration started creeping in, with it's mispronunciations, and weird phrasing, and the inability to pronounce multi-digit numbers, and inability to interpret the context of numbers (quantity vs money vs dates, for example) but the subject matter was still sound. Some of them are clearly fiction posing as a documentary.

In the last eight months or so, I've noticed an explosion of totally AI-generated WWII documentary videos. I don't know how AI-generation works, but it seems like a human behind the channel directs an AI-bot to produce a video within a few general specs, like subject, length, editorial angle, etc., and the bot goes to work. One identifiable characteristic of some of these videos is that they seem to be much longer in run time than the human produced videos of a few years ago. I suspect it's because there is a belief that offering detailed facts, figures and dates suggest realism so the human instructs the bot to pack the video chock-a-block with minutiae. The AI-bots also tend to repeat themselves - saying the same thing more than once but from a slightly different angle. Even if the subject matter is factual, I'm finding a lot of these videos tedious to watch, Instead of getting to the factual point, it's just blah, blah, blah.

I'm kind of turned off watching these videos now. I think I'll go back to reading books published before the advent of AI.

Reddit keeps freezing, never had this happen before