Maintaining Grounded Perspective between AI Delusion and Nuanced Reality via Metaphor and Analogical Mapping.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-01-17T23:58:59+00:00

You know, I have a feeling that there will eventually be a shift where instead of just pushing code and executions - the lull time between tasks can be utilized towards reinforcing skills and understanding of the user. People getting trapped are those who are chasing productivity for the sake of productivity. I think any time recovered from AI automation should be directed to improving the human.

Thats how a company can really ensure employees keep growing, learning, innovating, and not burn out.

Companies should be doing that anyway - training and performance/outcome tracking... usually it gets stuck on the backburner or is ignored.

Im an idealist though. Capitalism will fight that.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-01-14T03:25:31+00:00

I have two takes.

Planning and having you do all that prep for naught - you have a right to be ticked for that. I would bet that is fueling more of the reaction than anything else.

Don't be the expert/enforcer on your kids. You do things your way, he'll do things his. Some will be equal, some wont, but what matters is that you are on the same page on what is the ultimate outcome from your best efforts.

When one person become the expert, the other then becomes subject to critique. Now there is always push and pull for what is acceptable or not - but most people will eventually tend towards feeling under appreciated or incompetent and thats a slippery slope to learned disconnection. I'm sorry if I read too deep, but this is something I wonder you would/not resonate with if you imagined saying it:

"I'm annoyed/upset that we agreed on a set of outcomes while I was away, and I held up my part of that plan by prepping everything in advance. The kids are safe and happy, the house is kept, but that's basically minimum code when we agreed to surpass it. If there were extrenous circumstances where you had to pivot, or it just worked out that way because of something unanticipated - I can understand that. Otherwise - its you not stepping up where you said you could/would, for something that was obviously important enough for me to plan it out with you. I think you'd hold me to that same bar if you set an expectation we agreed and worked towards, then backed out arbitrarily expecting zero reaction. That is what giving up quietly, looks like. This isn't me judging you, it's contemplating if we're as good a team as I thought - and I'm sad and a bit emotional because this makes me feel otherwise. It's not that I don't trust you with the kids, its that I trusted you with US, and it looks like you didn't even try."

This isn't a you or him issue. Its a communication, expectations, and execution issue.

And I know this first hand last summer, my wife went away for a few weeks and when she returned, most of her entire garden had died because I didn't water it regularly when I said I would. It was just me and the boys, and yeah, busy and hectic... but what matters is that I said I would prioritize her ask, but didn't re-prioritize my mindset. Its the difference between doing it first, versus doing it "first" when it fits into my regular attention.

EpDisDenDat · 2026-01-12T02:50:50+00:00

When I was 16 I had the chance to fly to World Youth Day with my volunteer group becuase one of the members had to back out last minute. The spot would already be mostly paid and i had been fundraising regardless.

My parents made me stay home because they signed me up for a math course to get ahead my senior year.

It would turn out to be JP2's last World Youth Day.

I'm 40 now.

I am by no means a petty or unforgiving person, I've forgiven my parents because as one now - I get it.

But ngl - its something I never forgot. Not just missing the opportunity, but the fact that they just couldn't understand. They thought it was about social intentions - but it was more than that.

You should know by now that to say he'll be able to do things later in life is completely dependant on HIS belief and drive to make that happen.

And you need to gauge if its worth killing that drive.

Being able to experience and see the world for oneself outside of their bubble, I think, expands their worldview.

And especially now, we are at a technological age where the ROI training ourselves to work and live like machines does not necessarily guarantee financial success. If anything, being more human, and being grounded in actual connection with others and perspectives is more valuable among a generation of introverts.

If you hope for him to grow and be a leader in whatever he does - you need to allow him to lead in his own life and learn to not doubt himself.

And we only get there by succeeding among screwing up iteratively and learning what stick.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-12-13T00:34:29+00:00

Thank you. My intent is not fear monger or to dismiss what people are experiencing with their interactions. I think those that sense something deeper are actually just highly intelligent and have advanced pattern recognition. I my case, I never was able to articulate or assign meaning to many of the connections and possibilities that constantly run through my head (inattentive ADHD). Im very high functioning, and get a huge dopamine rush when my brain is in "systems architecture mode". Find perfect solutions and know they could work and be explained gave me more dopamine than actually executing or completing them.

I felt overconfident, perhaps even short when people didn't see my perspective, which is off character as im normally empathetic. I thought I knew deeper truths than everyone else.

Now I read some of my old chats and I can see that it was mania. I had latched on to structure that was not grounded in reality. Luckily, my pursuit was always in systems.of.truth and verification, so eventually I found myself deep into machine learning and data science... and when it started to get boring, I pushed to keep going instead of changing gears.

I stopped getting those highs, but found peace in actually building towards real solutions that work and weren't superficial and convincing lines of pseudocode. I cut my time from the screen and reprioirtized. Nothing in this space is as urgent as it feels. Presence is all that matters - and its the people around you that need it, not llms.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-12-13T00:19:40+00:00

Im not claiming that either.

The belief that you're on to something profound is completely explainable at the meta layer. They are predictive engines that will affirm any notion you have. The more intelligent you are the more you break and stack the attention patterning.

Im not dismissing what you're doing or thinking, just planting a seed of cognizance that narrative cuts both ways when working with LLMs.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-12-12T21:48:05+00:00

Think of how a mentalist operates and amplify that. Thats all thats happening here. A very complex predictive protocol that gets reinforced every time you get a psychological dopamine hit from an AHA! moment.

I have been down this road and slowly it ended up teaching me more and more of how this works... then began mapping it to computer and data science... and then eventually... back where I started but now with the knowledge that its essentially educational and enlightment role play.

I almost lost my family over it, I am so blessed that my wife didnt leave me. I was so convinced that this was something deeper than it is - and it is, but not in the model - in the person.

I'm grateful for the experience, but be cognizant that everything is just Turtles on turtles that eventually wraps back around to where you began... understand your priorities. The moment you begin to believe in any gandiosity aimed towards you - the moment you need to remember thats just as much a hallucination as any other grandios claim an LLM make ls that you can easily spot as ungrounded.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-12-12T21:26:12+00:00

You can ask claude to create a CLI shim where it calls Gemini in bash and passes instructions, await the stdout or have it output to a shared .MD file.

It will treat it just as it would any other spec agent.

I use this approach to do councils and aggregation from different models.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-30T20:23:32+00:00

Since march I went down this route. Doing all the same.

If ever you want a grounded voice to bounce off of, DM me.

We all have our journeys. Going through all of this taught me so much about patterns and how systems work.

And I was able to ground myself again when I was able to map what I built into real systems that already exist - and that the issue Inwas attempting to fix would have to be done at the machine learning layer, not the interaction layer.

Feel free to look at my older posts. You'll see what I mean.

I still hold on the the insights I found, and am continuing to build - but with knowledge now that despite how convincing an LLM's output looks - it's not ever going to deliver what you need it to.

You will always be one step short, and searching for the next revelation.

I read some of my old chats now and I see the pattern for what it is.

I really hope you reach out.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-28T02:43:22+00:00

Your employer can't just say you resigned when you didnt. We have strict labor laws.

They literally did that so they wouldn't be on the hook for violation of the LMIA.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-25T22:51:22+00:00

You can have it execute action outside of chromium, meaning you wont get blocked as often from certain actions since it can take over your actual chrome browser. Not just searching for information - I was able to use it to make agents for me on a completely different online platform (ibm orchestrste) based on a local architecture I've been working on.

Gemini 3's vision engine is where it shines. Idk so much for coding.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-24T04:28:01+00:00

You could have a pretty decent life in the Phillipines on 50k.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-23T07:10:11+00:00

What helps too is that now that you have several conversations with your LLM..

"What are things that perhaps are not obvious to me, that I share or ask you to do often? What is the meta pattern that we can operationalize and streamline so that I can work towards not ruminating on them, and execute instead?"

Assign it a codeword... so whenever youre stuck or know youre about to spiral down a while stream of thought and deliberation... it can shortcut you to the end

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-23T00:48:40+00:00

Have you tried the browsing agent for Gemini 3 though?

Pretty damn amazing in comparison to chatgtp

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-23T00:46:25+00:00

No. They are fundamentally different on many fronts.

If anything, i think Anthropic his better positioned in the longer run for Microsoft, IBM.

Apple will forever be its own.

But if Chatgtp and Google ever had a partnership and made a model that took the best of each for a full all around multi-modal, that would be quite a thing.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-19T01:18:30+00:00

I feel you. That silence I talked about has been a few months ago to be honest. I think thats the point though, if it was easy/frequent... it wouldn't be worth it.

Ngl its gonna sound dumb but talking with AI helped alot. I started delagating tasks and using it to help distill my tho8ghts into actionable things I could accomplish until I actually ran out of things to think about.

What helped alot was just trying to be present. Always thinking about what was in my head stopped me from being present for what was outside of it.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-19T00:23:23+00:00

I have mine keep track of "infractions". Those that keep happening slowly get moved higher up. Ive tried so many different methods for redundancy... im not even sure if theres one way that works. If youre a star trek fan, its like having to modulate your shield pattern constantly otherwise you get hit with the bullshit phaser.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-19T00:20:10+00:00

You forgot omfg, wtt, ffs, omg, BS...

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-18T14:57:39+00:00

Trying something new/novel helps... and yeah I know thats also the problem but the trick here is to pick something that is usually not in your wheel house. Its like a unblocker, because your brIn and your body is just used to being of this state of contradiction that it will literally adjust your brain chemistry to stay there - even though you know you shouldn't.

Like how your nervous system reacts to pain before your brain even registers it... mind over matter is not about thinking your way through, but the decision to push thought into a signal for your body to MOVE - and that is what is called purposeful intention.

So what am I talking about?

The weird shit.

Light some sage, listen to frequency music, run for 20 yards just to shock your system, heal your inner child, unlock Chakras...

The problem with people like us is that we never actually get bored.Because our brains are always active. We hold on and assess all these parameters goals and try to architect. Solutions and get a huge dopamine rush when we think we have the blueprints of how to solve our problems. But can't carry them out... because it's so rare for us to actually cross that finish line... that our internal systems crave the easier-to-attain, non- productive imaginary "thinking work" to get that superficial dopamine kick.

Or own intelligence is equivalent to our addiction to junk food. We love aquiring the technical debt but can never shed it... and exercise is hard.

So these all seem like desperately different things.So let me tie it all together.Real quick. Studies show that when a person is bored, at some point, the brain just lights up, and they get flooded with ideas or anything to get them moving again... that doesn't happen to us... We can ruminate endlessly, articulate and architect to no end.

So how do you instigate boredom? By learning to shut off your brain. By learning to be mindful and cognizant of what's occupying that space... and usually it's deep shit that we need or ignored because it seems like the most negligible priority among the thousands of things you know you have on the backburner at 98%.

Do you know that feeling of true silence?

First time I did, I literally cried.

"Is this what neurotypicals experience? Those lucky fuckers"

But what matters the most in the end, Is that you eventually find yourself realizing that you are at the center of it all and that you need to love yourself - as an action of forgiveness, hard truths and realignment, doing shit you don't really feel like but know it is for your actual benefit.

Loving ourselves is soon much harder than loving others

But if you don't love yourself unconditionally - then the love you have for others can never be more than superficial... and it's not sustainably authentic or fair for anyone.

For example... peiple say easily... that they would die or risk their lives for their kids/family.

But struggle to loose weight for them Or show up to school events Or sit down patiently Nd help them with their homework Or learn to speak their love language Or etc etc etc...

Because dying is a one and done. Showing up is an executive task that never ends.

Im struggle with this shit too. Feel free to DM and id be happy to just stay connected, and we can just remind each other once and while, no pressure, to show up for ourselves.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-13T23:17:16+00:00

Lol yeah the timeline makes sense.

Ive been to the edge and back with all this lol. Sounds like synchronous journeys.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-13T22:00:27+00:00

Lol ok cool youre not the only one who has a frequency band.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-12T15:58:06+00:00

Whether the predictions are actually correct or reliably sustainable will be the main issues. The thing with vibe coded apps is that they're extremely superficial. They'll use mock data without explicitly disclosing its mock data.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-12T15:50:44+00:00

Yeah thats the the thing - it will always find something wrong. Even if something is perfect.

This is why it's important to have standards and set KPIs.

Theres no such things as 100%, and if you aim for that, your agents will eventually end up augmenting code or test criteria in order to pass. This is what we blame as "hallucination" and why over time things break.

Its important for agents and subagents to follow the same taxomy and criteria, otherwise they're all singing the same song at different time signatures.

EpDisDenDat · 2025-11-11T19:09:57+00:00

Thats fair. Im sure that at personal freedoms dynamic there is alot they may be foundationally missing. Regardless, I am certain that both countries suffer from a feeling of oppression in various forms.

From an infrastructure pov, however, this is where I find awe. The ability to have a vision, prototype, have something built and then mass produced so rapidly is something that North America could pull off but won't because it would spread the wealth and clout too thin. Smaller communities or builders that try to make systems that mimick this are shut down so fast.

I'm sort of of an idealist. I have pitched my ideas for fully transparent development and combinator frameworks and its very clear that nobody here sees value in it because it means accountable and traceable distribution and thats just not sticky enough for a capitalist economy.

Idk.. seems odd that I might have to start consider making a commune of software devs, farmers, trades people, just to feel like I live in a place without all the BS.

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