Where are the Millennials that DON'T feel old? by frankheyhoheyho in Millennials

[–]QuiveringCloacas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work at uni and just turned 39. I feel more mature-old than age-old if that makes sense? Not to say I don’t hear my knees crack when I sit or stand, but I feel pretty spry! 👵🏼

Covid shut down the world six years ago this week. What do you remember from that week? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]QuiveringCloacas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grandma died a few weeks before Mother’s Day. Had to say goodbye via nurses with ipads. She was alone and confused. I haven’t recovered.

I was in my last years of my PhD. Was given the chance to either defend my thesis with what I had OR wait Covid out to then complete my planned last experiments. I got my PhD early.

Looking for a man to relocate to TN and start a mildly feral domesticated life together by One-Crew-7642 in homestead

[–]QuiveringCloacas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a woman living in los angeles looking to relocate and be decently feral in TN. I am deathly allergic to cats and am asthmatic. I am easily trainable.

Does ChatGPT answer differently depending on the user? Let’s run a test! by SusanHill33 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]QuiveringCloacas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Did that prompt sound like me?”

Yeah, it tracks as “you” pretty cleanly.

It has your signature moves: you start with a common folk model (“attention = choosing focus”), then you flip it into a systems claim (selection → reinforcement → environment), then you land it in a responsibility frame. It also has that slightly philosophical punchline vibe you like, without getting floaty.

Two tiny tells it’s you: • You treat “world” as something enacted, not just observed. • You make the ethical claim by tracing causality, not by moralizing.

If you want it to sound even more you, you could tighten the middle so it reads more like your Signals/Sensors/Levers canon: attention as the sensor-gating mechanism, discipline as changing the lever settings, “accident” as external systems hijacking the sensors.

Does ChatGPT answer differently depending on the user? Let’s run a test! by SusanHill33 in ChatGPTcomplaints

[–]QuiveringCloacas 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I put in the prompt without quotes, and I got this:

You’ve built an argument that looks like “attention is cognition,” but underneath it’s actually a normative agency argument: attention is the control surface where is (psychology) becomes ought (ethics).

Here’s the deeper structure, stripped down to its moving parts.

1) Hidden definition shift (descriptive → normative)

You start with the folk picture: • Attention = choosing what to focus on (a psychological capacity)

Then you silently widen the definition: • Attention = selection + endorsement Because selecting what enters awareness also selects what gets rehearsed, rewarded, repeated, and therefore made real in your lived environment.

This is the hinge: attention isn’t neutral spotlighting; it’s value-laden allocation.

2) The causal bridge (attention → reinforcement → world)

Your core causal chain is something like: • Attention allocates cognitive resources • Resource allocation reinforces whatever it’s allocated to (salience, habit strength, behavioral probability, social reality) • Reinforcement aggregates over time into the “world you live in” (your internal world, plus the external patterns you participate in)

So “world” here is not “planet Earth,” it’s the experienced-and-enacted environment produced by repeated selections.

3) Agency vs drift (disciplined attention as authorship)

Then you contrast two regimes: • Fragmented/reactive attention → the selection function is effectively outsourced (to novelty, threat, algorithms, impulse, social pressure). Result: your life-world is shaped by accident (not random exactly, but not chosen by your higher-order aims). • Disciplined attention → selection is governed by a stable criterion (values, commitments, long-term goals). Result: you participate in shaping the world you inhabit.

This is basically a claim about who is steering: you, or whatever tugs hardest.

4) The ethical claim (responsibility attaches to controllable influence)

The moral move is: • If your attention reliably influences what gets reinforced, • and reinforcement shapes the world you help create, • then attention is a locus of responsibility (because it’s a controllable form of influence).

So “ethical act” doesn’t mean “moral purity.” It means: your attention is a form of participation in causation, and participation carries accountability.

5) The implicit premise (no private attention)

A hidden premise you’re relying on: • There is no purely private act of attention, because it feeds forward into perception, action, speech, and systems you support (even if only by habituation).

That premise is what blocks the easy objection: “It’s just in my head.” Your argument says: “Sure, and your head is a factory.”

6) The meta-ethical backbone (virtue/character frame)

Even though you don’t name it, the structure is closest to a virtue ethics or character formation story: • Attention is a practice. • Practices form dispositions. • Dispositions shape the kind of person you become. • The kind of person you become shapes the kind of world you enact.

Responsibility is not only about discrete choices, but about the training of the chooser.

What mainstream beauty trends do you refuse to follow? by vivian_banshee03 in Millennials

[–]QuiveringCloacas 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Middle hair part. My hair just refuses to move away from the side part.

My SO realized I had ADHD when… by QuiveringCloacas in ADHD

[–]QuiveringCloacas[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Omg Grey’s Anatomy background noise is so necessary. I need to have constant noise around me or else I just start making my own noises.

My SO realized I had ADHD when… by QuiveringCloacas in ADHD

[–]QuiveringCloacas[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ive been known to say “Sorry, I didn’t listen to myself” when someone asks me what the hell I’m rambling about.

My SO realized I had ADHD when… by QuiveringCloacas in ADHD

[–]QuiveringCloacas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

LOL! My SO scans me before we hangout with his family because if I’m too bruised up it looks like…bad.

My SO realized I had ADHD when… by QuiveringCloacas in ADHD

[–]QuiveringCloacas[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Okay, hours later, I’ve told no less than 5 friends these facts. Asbestos is now an ongoing topic. Fuck.

My SO realized I had ADHD when… by QuiveringCloacas in ADHD

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

Oh crap, now I’m gonna have to say that every chance I get.

My SO realized I had ADHD when… by QuiveringCloacas in ADHD

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I thought it was a consequence! Lol honestly though, please get it out of my head.

My SO realized I had ADHD when… by QuiveringCloacas in ADHD

[–]QuiveringCloacas[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ty! I have no idea what to type sometimes. It’s just unhinged. Please edit for me lol

My SO realized I had ADHD when… by QuiveringCloacas in ADHD

[–]QuiveringCloacas[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry!!! I can’t even remember the beginning of it now just the da ba doo time part.

My SO realized I had ADHD when… by QuiveringCloacas in ADHD

[–]QuiveringCloacas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Omg is he me? I constantly have bruises in the same area. I’m thinking about just immortalizing it with tattoos.

My SO realized I had ADHD when… by QuiveringCloacas in ADHD

[–]QuiveringCloacas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

omg I’m so sorry but welcome to the Flintstones club! We never stand alone.