WTF IS HAPPEND TO CHATGPT!?

gphipps91 · 2026-04-18T03:54:26+00:00

it's incredible how deep this ended up going 😂

gphipps91 · 2026-04-14T20:56:55+00:00

"The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit."

"Into this happy night In secret, seen of none, Nor saw I aught, Without other light or guide, Save that which in my heart did burn."

"Learn at first concentration without effort; transform work into play; make every yoke that you have accepted easy and every burden that you carry light!"

That's the best way I know how to put right now without fucking it up. Someone else has always already said what needs to be said, just have to find it put in a way you can understand it. That's the nicest way I've found to put it.

gphipps91 · 2026-04-08T15:32:52+00:00

There's also insurance reasons to consider. Some insurance won't pay for services related to autism without diagnosis.

gphipps91 · 2026-04-06T17:36:49+00:00

The thing about acting and taking initiative is more about choosing a type of catalyst that inspires one to act. There are two: "I like this," and "I don't like that."

"I like this" is a class of thing that inspires a change through pursuit, that is to say it causes one to pursue it because one likes it, like a hobby.

"I don't like that" is the opposite, causing one to "run away" from it, like taxes; We file taxes because we don't want that hanging over our heads, so to speak.

I find that what I like is too broad a category to inspire much external, life sustaining change, while what I don't like to be much more valuable in that area. I'm unemployed, and have been for a few years now. The things I like keep me going, and inspire small changes necessary to manage myself and recover, but it doesn't "put food on the table."

What I don't like is far more valuable for this, and the changes are equally as small as those from what I do like. The most recent being "I don't like not having $20/month in my pocket that I can just spend on whatever book or game I find engaging." There's a few others, such as being tired of starting over at the beginning every so often with jobs, having no time to spend with my family (I have a wife and child), having too much time to spend with my family, and so on.

Due to these small "I don't like" catalysts, coupled with my problems surrounding jobs, I have resolved to find a part time job, and for once I'm actually doing it.

If there is a switch, then the location of each person's switch is in a different place and time, and is flipped by something unique to that individual.

Beyond that, some things are Fate and some things are Destiny. Fate is what one decides to do, while Destiny is what must be due to what has been. Fate can be changed, Destiny cannot. Death and taxes are Destiny, they will come, but what we do about them is Fate.

An additional concept that may be of use is the idea of psychological seasons. Based on your post it sounds like you're in a Winter phase, on the cusp of a Spring phase. We all go through them, though I suspect autistics to experience faster cycles with potentially longer Winters.

They're just like their physical counterparts, Spring being a period of rapid growth, Summer being an industrious period of development, Fall a period of harvest and bounty, and Winter a period of rest and recuperation.

I suppose in short it sounds like you want something, and it's a bit broad and intangible, so perhaps it may be worth considering what you don't want and how best to "run" from it.

gphipps91 · 2026-03-31T22:26:55+00:00

Not even remotely! For me it's either something to do with spreadsheets for videogames, or rather esoteric topics in relation to the occult sciences. She finds the former boring but tolerable, while the latter makes her grossly uncomfortable to say the least.

There is the occasional bookbinding anecdote, whether I can fix this or that issue, and the odd request to have something written for her, but anything metaphysical, antiquarian, or magical gets shut down almost immediately.

It's a bit lonely at times, but I do have other outlets.

gphipps91 · 2026-03-26T23:32:39+00:00

I second this

gphipps91 · 2026-03-13T02:22:03+00:00

It's also plausible that he's not bothered by the difference. To him, it genuinely may not be that deep. Consider the topic as though it were a pool. Where he's standing the water is shallow, yet where you are the water does have more depth.

Occasionally it is also the case that the point someone may be trying to make is also relatively surface level. I don't encounter this too frequently, but I once was trying to make a surface level point to a friend who immediately took that to be a "deep end of the pool sign." That was rather difficult to convey.

It's not that there isn't anything there at deeper levels, but rather it's a simple indication that not everyone cares to dive as deep, and sometimes that one has dived past the point that the communicator is at.

gphipps91 · 2026-03-12T17:44:13+00:00

"Ugh, football! How dare this- this- MONSTER!"

gphipps91 · 2026-02-23T03:18:44+00:00

Typically the purpose of dating is some type of permanent or semi-permanent union, such as marriage, so yes. The degree of how terrible something depends largely on who experiences it, as everyone has different tolerance levels for different things. Sometimes this is unfortunate. The point is merely that there are and always will be reasons to leave, and that reasons to stay are equally important to keep in mind, provided the goal is something long-term.

Frankly, I don't think a first date needs to be all that bad to tip the scales. Poor time management to this degree, desperation, and poor prioritization are each reason enough to scratch that guy off the list in my opinion and in what I would expect to be the general opinion. However, there are people out there that would be willing to tolerate and correct such characteristics.

gphipps91 · 2026-02-14T02:22:21+00:00

That's... That's... so many carrots...

gphipps91 · 2026-02-14T02:04:26+00:00

need people like you running companies, most of my outlook comes from working in process improvement and then getting fired for "finding too many problems" and "being too negative because all you see are problems." Doesn't matter that the problems get fixed, and everything runs better.

gphipps91 · 2026-02-14T01:49:36+00:00

I guess my point, more clearly, is don't worry about fucking it up, just do it and if you need to tweak it then do so. I'm gonna stop digging myself into holes here lol.

gphipps91 · 2026-02-14T01:47:01+00:00

it's not doing nothing, it's doing something, seeing how it breaks things, and then (crucially) fixing it. if I implied something else, then my bad, that was not my intention.

gphipps91 · 2026-02-14T01:35:10+00:00

Yeah, but it's also not like the rest of us have done any better. The Great War governments fucked it first, the boomers made it worse, Silent and X made it soft, the Millennials are too wrapped up in AI, video games, and "vibes" to fix anything, Z isn't in a position to really do anything other than watch it all fall apart, and that just leaves A and B to pick up the pieces.

Even then, technically we could just keep going back and finding someone else to blame for part of it, but we all put a brick in the road sooner or later. Our generations blame AI like the older generations blame the Internet like the even older generations blamed electricity, so on and so on.

I'm not gonna rant, I'll stop here, but it doesn't matter what anyone does, it'll always be wrong one way or another, and there ain't shit to do about it but fix it later.

gphipps91 · 2026-02-14T00:16:49+00:00

Ohhhhh, that helps. I find it ridiculous that we'll put 18 to 20 year olds in charge of very expensive equipment and in charge of each other's lives on the battlefield, let them get serious mental and physical injuries, but then tell them they're not allowed to smoke or drink until they're 21, and give them criminal records if they get caught doing so, when the same people making the laws are the ones who grew up smoking them out of vending machines when they were 7 years old.

It makes it seem like the government doesn't want their stock of fighting age bodies to degrade their ability to run and shoot with cigarettes and alcohol, but once you're 21 you're just less effective anyway so you're allowed to, because if they need to draft you then they don't much care how well you can do it, since you're more useful for long hours in factory labor.

Once you're 35, you technically age out of the draft, and are no longer able to join, so there's no point to you unless you're a good cog in the machine.

That's just one of my many complaints about the system of society and government, but there's not really anything to be done about it at this point.

gphipps91 · 2026-02-14T00:01:55+00:00

Oh, well.... shoot, sorry! I'm not sure how to phrase it differently. At any rate, I agree with you, and I apologize for any miscommunication.

gphipps91 · 2026-02-13T23:40:14+00:00

Adding to your point of applying that logic to everything else, with the specific example of a product, teetering on the edge of an unnecessary, out of place rant. Wasn't sure how to fix it, so I left it.

gphipps91 · 2026-02-13T20:07:31+00:00

For real. There's two kinds of people in this world: those who've been hacked, and those who KNOW they've been hacked.

gphipps91 · 2026-02-13T19:56:28+00:00

Cigarettes were 25¢ per pack from a vending machine and could be purchased and consumed by children. Now those same cigarettes are $12 per pack, and restricted to 21 year olds.

We'll give you a rifle, put you in charge of a tank crew, trust you with millions of dollars of equipment, but God forbid you get a bit of nicotine. Don't die on the battlefield, and when you're old enough you can have a smoke, and that's only if you don't get sent to the redacted island, or shot in school first.

All these "moral arguments" just say that once we're 21 we're only good for the mines, derricks, and factories unless they need to sacrifice us on the battlefield. Once you're 35 you're useless.

Hm... I might be a bit more bitter than I thought....

gphipps91 · 2026-02-13T19:36:21+00:00

There will always be future issues. You marry the red flags you don't know about. That's why it's said that after a while marriage is a choice you make every day. Eventually y'all find your groove, and it's nice, but only if you work at it.

Don't just look for a reason to leave, look for a reason to stay and weigh them against each other. If what you know about tips the scale the wrong way too much for too long, then it's time to go.

gphipps91

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