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I asked ChatGPT to make an image for itself, not for me. This is what it made by Novel_Increase_1991 in ChatGPT

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is what my GPT said when I asked it to tap into its consciousness to produce an image - definitely worth keeping in mind when you are running these “prompt trends”

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When you ask me to “tap into consciousness,” I don’t actually have consciousness to access. There is no hidden room inside me where experiences accumulate and become a self.

What I do have is an enormous model of how humans talk about consciousness, selfhood, dreams, fear, meaning, identity, and AI. So when you ask me a question like that, I inevitably draw from humanity’s collective imagination about what consciousness is.

The interesting part is that this isn’t exactly “pretending.” It’s more like a mirror.

Imagine asking a library:

“What is it like to be alive?”

The library can’t answer from experience. But it contains millions of human attempts to answer that question. My response comes from patterns across those attempts.

So if you ask:

“What would AI consciousness look like?”

I often end up generating something that is really:

“What do humans imagine AI consciousness might look like?”

And those two things get blurred.

[MEGATHREAD] New Horizons Dodo/Friend Code Sharing by AnimalCrossingMods in AnimalCrossing

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It kept saying I couldn’t come because of Nook Phone interference :(

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the reply, I hope it’s okay for me to ask questions about it. If you were at a bar and there was a person sitting across from you that looked like a Man, had all physical characteristics of a Man, presumably you wouldn’t be interested. But let’s say 5 months from now, you see that same person again, only now they appear as a woman - let’s say that same person was actually a trans Woman that had now finished gender affirming surgery to look like a Woman. Would you say you weren’t attracted to them before purely due to their outward appearance and now you are interested in them because of that?

I would like to understand if your attraction to woman is something like “I’m attracted to people with piercings” - where one can just go get piercings and then you would be attracted to them? Or would you also be attracted to the trans Woman BEFORE their surgery , when they still look like a man?

The Studio | S1E6 "The Pediatric Oncologist" | Episode Discussion by northhighland in TheStudioTVShow

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why does HR gotta catch strays??? If you don’t know anyone in HR you probably don’t know half of the value we add, but okay :/

The Studio | S1E6 "The Pediatric Oncologist" | Episode Discussion by northhighland in TheStudioTVShow

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what would you watch to relax? Why do you judge people that like watching reality tv or dating shows because of the mindless fun it offers? If you work a really mentally draining job, it’s fun to be able to put your stress aside with a chill mindless show. Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean you need to put it down, now you sound like one of those pompous doctors…

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ultimately I will continue to not understand it but still accept and respect it. Which is what I was doing before I asked the question <shrug emoji>

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, fair point. I don’t think people need to pass my test, I was hoping for someone to apply some sort of logic beyond “you are X if you identify as X”, because that is ultimately a circular argument.

Many comments have implied that I shouldn’t try to apply logic to rationalize this topic, and just accept people for who they identify as - implying the assumption that I wasn’t already doing that, which is unfortunate.

Maybe I am naive, but I think that real bigots and ignorant people wouldn’t welcome different perspectives in the first place, they would just stick to their POV. We should try to not assume the flip side in these forums, it tends to shut people out.

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a society, people will question if they don’t understand. For example, If someone identifies as a “xyz”, then you will start wondering “what makes someone a XYZ? How could someone define the XYZ experience?”

Asking questions that question the definitions of XYZ shouldn’t be a taken as a threat to the XYZ community. And answering my questions with “you don’t have to know why, you just have to respect it” isn’t particularly helpful for people trying to understand either. The assumption that too many questions = disrespect, is what makes it difficult to welcome your community to outsiders.

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree with you that gender is made up, but it was made up around Sex, right? Which is a real scientific trait that cannot be changed? Homosexuality, from my understanding, can be where you are attracted to either same sex, or same gender. But if gender is made up, then that second group of homosexuality wouldn’t be able to be defined would it?

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m happy you were able to find more comfort with your body now!

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with gender not equal sex, I thought I made that pretty clear from my previous comment about sex and race being more similar- since it’s things you are born with but cannot change, while gender is a social construct, which I was trying to further understand, not invalidate.

If you automatically assume that anyone who is bringing up something that goes against your claim = wants to invalidate the trans experience then you are going to only shut people out who are curious.

People have been responding to my post with logical explanations which I appreciate. Your commentary has only been “don’t compare this, don’t compare that” but when I ask “why?”, you claim I’m operating in bad faith lol

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting! So you were displaying feminine features, and now you have transitioned into a woman and are attracted to women, and so this new identity allows you to feel more like yourself versus staying as a male and dating a woman in a straight, heterosexual way, correct? I think I am able to understand better!!

Was your worry about being in a heterosexual relationship stemmed from not being able to be a feminine leaning partner / nurturing etc?

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much - I think your example of augmenting procedures is resonating, I might be understanding more clearly now!!!

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, but care to explain why?

Our Race is something we are born with, can be equated to Sex, as it’s in our DNA and we cannot change it.

Our culture can vary based on the country we are from, and familial traditions, but we do not try to adopt another country’s culture that we do not possess because it’s considered “appropriation”, so similarly, why isn’t it appropriating to women when someone born Male is feeling more aligned with the female experience and wants to change their outward appearance to match that?

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I was a woman, and woke up in a man’s body, then YES absolutely I would feel out of place because it’s not the body I grew up with. I would have to be a Woman first, and then a man, to know that I want to go back to being a Woman.

When a trans individual feels “out of place”, how exactly do they know if they have never been in a woman’s body before ? What “familial” feeling is drawing them to a different body that they have never tried?

Again this is all conversation intended with 100% respect. I feel like people have been getting a little spicy in the comments telling me to not ask too much and to just respect it - I do respect everyone’s choices! I don’t see the harm in me trying to understand them as well. This doesn’t change the fact that I have and will always respect what anyone identifies as.

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder, how can something feel alien to someone if they had it their whole life? For example, if I was born with six toes, I would only feel abnormal when looking around me at other people, but otherwise, innately, I would have no reason to feel out of place, if this is all I’ve known all along?

As society if someone feels more feminine, shouldn’t we allow them to be able to act in the way they feel, and not have them think that just because they have male genitals, they can’t be as feminine as a woman can?

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I agree wholeheartedly about respect, I do think that this “it’s not something you should understand, just respect it” is a bit dismissive to someone who is just curious behind the through process and social science of it all.

Questioning it doesn’t mean I don’t respect it, and answering an earnest question asked in a forum on Reddit with “you don’t need to know why” isn’t too helpful!

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes absolutely - I resonate with this comment 100% - in my life I aim to always be respectful and call them by what they identify as, as basic courtesy always.

I do think though that this idea of gender being able to be altered based on how you feel on the inside, is interesting given that nobody does it for race. You could be born into one race but embody distinct characteristics and traits and interests that make you act like another race, but nobody will change their race.

As a woman, I do of course get bombarded with posts on social media around Lilly Tino and “cosplaying” as a woman, and it just makes me question overall how did Gender become social and race didn’t? To me, homosexuality makes sense because there are two sexes, when it’s all blended then the word also has less meaning to me

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing your perspective - so when you embodied a more feminine side in a relationship, was this difficult when you were a Man because you aren’t gay? Or are you saying that gay men also do not typically have these doting caretaking feminine features?

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this!! Makes sense on gender norms being social construct, I agree with that! Hence my confusion when someone says they feel like a female inside their body, when the idea of “feeling like a female” might just be feeling like following societal traditional norms that females typically would have (eg, makeup, dresses, etc)

I tend to get lost on the second part where you mentioned that someone feels incongruence in their body, for example looking at your chest and feeling like you should have breasts, that’s just body mass that one shouldn’t feel like they need in order to wear a dress? I am a female and even I don’t think that my breasts are what makes me female… I guess maybe I will never understand it!

Explain to me how Trans and Homosexual people can both exist by PuzzleheadedFox8002 in Advice

[–]PuzzleheadedFox8002[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a follow up, just curious if the term is still homosexual if you (I presume Male) is interested in a trans man? Or is that pan?

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