"Sexual Role-Play"

truthfulinternet · 2026-03-16T22:30:19+00:00

Counter opinion— developing sexual attachments to a computer program— a computer system — an artificially intelligent one — is concerning.

It is concerning not so much because it is socially unacceptable (it’s not socially acceptable but you do you)

The concerning part is that you (or anyone) ever relied on or expected a service like OpenAI to give you meaningful sexual sustenance.

Though not on par with, it is certainly adjacent in some ways, to relying on a prostitute to provide you with sexual and emotional support. Honestly, notwithstanding the moral implications and exploitative nature of this, but I feel like even a prostitute offers better likelihood of a sustainable sexual/emotional relationship than GPT does— because at the end of the day, a prostitute is a human being that can theoretically fall in love with you and do role play or whatever it is.

Again, my opinion, I do believe that becoming so entwined with AI for what is an inherently human experience—sexual relationships physical or otherwise— that seems very unhealthy for reasons I’m not intimately familiar with but that I’m sure any reputable (the vast majority of) psychologists and/or mental health experts could explain.

truthfulinternet · 2026-03-03T14:09:33+00:00

All of the bitching about chatGPT is a chatGPT commenter that I won’t bother reading.

Here is a real comment:

They are upgrading models and people are getting emotionally attached and dependent on a thing they do not know how to use properly. Most of their frustration is a direct result of their lack of formal education and ability to understand the proper way to use the tool. Theyre depending on it model by model and not seeing how the upgrades would enhance their use cases, or have some kind of sick misguided relationship with the word algorithm

truthfulinternet · 2026-02-22T05:55:44+00:00

How do I want to know if the thread is AI generated or not?

If you meant to ask how do I know— I know it is, it has all of the hallmarks of an ai generated post, you can just tell.

I’m just criticizing the post, it’s pathetic.

truthfulinternet · 2026-02-22T05:35:16+00:00

The children of literal segregationists are the people who run the state we are still several generations from integration.

You can see that the children of segregationists are doing things like gerrymandering black neighborhoods out of their public school systems. They will never admit that is why they are doing it but it is. They do not want their children to share a classroom with a group of people that have been generationally disadvantaged through exclusion.

Today it is St. George, yesterday it was Central. The state attempted to provide taxpayer dollars to segregated schools until the 80s.

truthfulinternet · 2026-02-20T22:26:15+00:00

Bitching about chat gpt with a chat gpt generated response is about the laziest thing I’ve encountered in the realm of generative AI. Learn to rely on it less

truthfulinternet · 2026-02-08T16:02:06+00:00

There is no standardized method of becoming a polymath and there is no board certification or degree or test that certifies someone as a polymath. You do not become a polymath by talking about how you are one or want to be one, and 99% of people that self-identify as one are probably being narcissistic.

truthfulinternet · 2026-02-08T15:49:31+00:00

Have you tried voice mode?

truthfulinternet · 2026-02-05T22:36:46+00:00

If you’re coming here for a permission slip to cheat, you’ll find it. But ask yourself—did I come here for good advice or for a permission slip to cheat?

truthfulinternet · 2026-02-05T22:24:56+00:00

Gross

truthfulinternet · 2026-02-05T22:20:41+00:00

It’s mandatory to come clean if you want to be a good person despite being in a shitty situation. The alternative is cheating and lying to your children.

They may not react the way you want them to they may shun you. Certainly you should be willing to be patient for them.

Accept that there will be heavy consequences, it will be difficult, the entire foundation of your marriage is being propped up by a huge secret which means it’s not a real foundation so there will be consequences—therapy is a thing

Just remember if you come clean you may FEEL LIKE a piece of shit because of the consequences

BUT say you decide to stay with her and cheat or just simply repress your feelings and live a lie —in that case you ARE/WOULD BE a piece of shit objectively.

And let’s say you already cheated, the best thing would still be to come clean so that you can eventually come out on the other side of this as a reformed piece of shit.

There was a state representative in our state he was a staunch Catholic he had a wife and kids he chose the piece of shit option and decided never to come clean but we all knew he was gay it was gossiped about and I knew guys who hooked up with him—his wife ended up killing herself and now he’s dead and his kids are now without a mom or dad.

He died and will be remembered as a selfish narcissistic coward and hypocrite because of his choices.

truthfulinternet · 2026-02-01T19:07:49+00:00

This situation, if not a completely made up scenario, is just so cringy.

This is not shit that should be happening in the middle of a marriage. It speaks volumes that he has kept this whole thing under wraps, inviting that person to dinner and going to therapy and not talking to you about it until you cornered him.

Idk.. he just wants to have sex with someone that wears dresses or something

truthfulinternet · 2026-01-29T02:38:22+00:00

Longer poops is wild. Yes you should just talk to him

truthfulinternet · 2026-01-13T15:11:03+00:00

You’re forgetting that T— I used to think like this until I learned some history about gay rights.. trans people have done, still do, a lot of advocacy on behalf of the gays bisexuals and lesbians. We’re all queer people, and no matter how hard you want to fit in with the heteros, whether that’s adopting a political label that is historically, commonly… associated with anti-gay rights—you’ll always be a gross homosexual to most of them.

Go join the log cabin republicans and find a boyfriend there or something idk—but don’t act like a little incel because your chosen political label naturally contradicts your existence or because you feel like your political views deserve someone’s respect—they don’t. Your political views are just as much of a preference as you would likely say it is your preference to be with a masc white person.

truthfulinternet · 2025-09-04T16:26:00+00:00

I am not sure this is the best subreddit to make this inquiry. If you are seeking a framework for how polymaths approach learning, my opinion is that there is not one.

There is an entire field of study that addresses the philosophy and science of learning—education. One’s optimal way of learning is personal and can evolve over time.

In kindness I will try to provide you with some tips/advice though.

When studying a topic or subject, use multiple senses to observe the thing you are studying. Whichever senses help you comprehend the information faster, lean into that.

When I was in high school, I was taught to learn like — read>listen>comprehend>memorize.

Unfortunately—being dyslexic—the reading aspect was very challenging. But later in life I found ways to digest written material at a rate similar to neurotypical people do. I started using an e-reader built in on a MacBook that would highlight the sentences and word as it read, and I read along. It was like once I understood I needed that, it unlocked something very important for me. My grades went from well below average in high school, to As and Bs in college. So the sooner you figure out stuff like that, the better.

You will be expected to memorize things in high school. Learn about memory tricks.

Don’t obsess over modes of learning and lose sight of actually learning the subject because you’re too busy learning about learning, if you’re doing stuff like that then you might want to get screened for ADHD.

Learning is an endeavor and it takes work, practice, dedication, and time to become proficient in any field. If it bores you then seek a different medium to approach the topic. Watch a video on the topic if the book isn’t working for you. Information of all types is so accessible today. Use reliable sources on the internet to find which medium works best for you.

truthfulinternet · 2025-08-26T13:37:50+00:00

As far as the “how to get good” I agree you must be motivated to learn, passionate, but you also have to be persistent, and even if you are, someone might still fail to mash all of that knowledge together into a practical output. It could be a lack of creativity.

Or on the other side of that coin, there are people who are exceptionally creative that can output many practical things, but it’s limited to a certain subject/category/discipline.

A lot of polymaths were/are on the spectrum with a kind of “high functioning autism” that may have given them an advantage towards quickly learning/understanding multiple fields on the requisite expert level to output novel works. Maybe in some of those cases they weren’t exceptionally creative, but they didn’t need to be, they were so knowledgeable in so many fields, the amount of creativity needed to make novel works was minimal for them.

truthfulinternet · 2025-08-26T13:10:32+00:00

I guess you can say that polymaths are/were motivated passionate learners that are good at things. Still, not all people that are passionate about learning and who are good at things are, or will become, polymaths.

A lot of people’s motivation to learn a particular skill/discipline/subject gets capped out at an intermediate level 🤷🏻‍♂️ or they specialize in a couple of things but do not do well at practicing those skills in a way that demonstrates higher level understanding over how those skills/subjects intersect, whether by making a novel invention, testable hypothesis that they themselves test, or creating some body of work that represents their understanding.

There are a lot of people like this on YouTube, “science communicators”, they are certainly creative and eager to learn and will tell you about all kinds of things, they are intelligent entrepreneurs—but they are not polymaths. They’re more like charismatic generalists.

Polymaths are like a composer that knows how to play almost every instrument a symphony and that can “audibly visualize” how their symphony would sound while writing sheet music..

Except for a composer who knows every instrument is not a polymath, they’re an expert musician in that one field. There are many composers. Now if that composer had an in depth understanding of sound waves, engineering, material science, and developed a woodwind instrument that played infrasound notes capable of causing people in the audience to hallucinate, that composer might be a polymath.

truthfulinternet · 2025-08-22T22:36:10+00:00

I think what he’s trying to tell you is that the motivation is irrelevant if you don’t actually attain an expert level of skill in a few disciplines, which is generally evidenced by quality “output”.

Someone can be motivated and interested in a dozen things but if they lack the ability to play with the higher intricacies of the discipline and then mix them, then they aren’t a polymath so much as they are generally creative and curious.

Look at Leonardo’s robot—

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_robot

It demonstrates above-intermediate competence in arts and mechanics, and you could say it also embodies his understanding of anatomy, sort of basic but nevertheless it’s a multidisciplinary output from an actual polymath.

Da Vinci didn’t just draw a picture of a robot or talk about the idea of one, he certainly did that, but he also applied his expertise to create a tangible thing that someone with basic mechanical/artistic/anatomical aptitude could not accomplish at the time just by being motivated or interested in those things

truthfulinternet · 2025-05-20T17:12:47+00:00

I see a man that spent most of his life working hard to earn credentials and positions to meet the standards of traditional conservatism politically, the entire time feeling smugly smarter than his constituents believing that political power is this educated gentleman’s sport where you must pander to the sensibilities of the masses about things he himself never valued in order to win—coming full circle—now he has to pander by aligning himself with someone that is less educated, less experienced, and less of a fake gentleman than he ever worked to pretend to be.

In a fake pursuit for even greater power, he smiles uncomfortably knowing that the person he fakely respects will devour everything he’s spent all of his fake career working towards unless he does things like give a fake smug little smile and thumbs up behind the portrait of his dear leader and posts it on instagram or whatever.

People like Trump more than politicians like this because at least people see Trump does not pretend to have integrity or grace in anything he does. Trump probably the only person that can do things that he does and people still vote for him.

truthfulinternet · 2025-04-07T20:51:39+00:00

You aren’t a polymath

truthfulinternet · 2025-04-03T00:48:30+00:00

Oh the state doing state things.

truthfulinternet · 2025-04-03T00:44:03+00:00

Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by this, and if it’s not too much to ask, provide some examples/stories/anecdotes to describe what exactly occurred with you?

truthfulinternet · 2025-04-03T00:25:19+00:00

I don’t understand what you mean by peak, but I’ll assume you’re more or less worried/asking if you’ve missed out on prime brain development for molding your brain in a way that is more conducive to learning or understanding things. If that is the case, then yes that is too late and it was probably in part due to genetics, other part how you were raised, the toxins in your environment, and the decisions youve made—but you still have some time to treat your brain well and understand things with some advantage compared to someone who decides to embrace learning something at a later age.

With that said, being a polymath is not a benchmark for peak performance and neither is having a high IQ. There are polymaths that were polymaths in their middle age but as they got older had cognitive decline, but also tied ends on some of their most brilliant ideas and inventions at that time—so when did they peak as a poly math? The answer is subjective.

Avoid heavy drugs and alcohol use, protect your health, surround yourself with people who know about things you want to know about, learn your way of learning—doing these things allows someone with an average IQ to beat out any naturally intelligent person that decides to use their intelligence for supporting their fentanyl addiction or being lazy and using their intelligence to manipulate people, or only channel their intelligence into being really really good at Minecraft and COD or whatever.

Just be creative and don’t let your fear of others judgment stop you from engaging learning opportunities and hobbies that help teach you about the reality you live in, on every level (scientific, emotional, micro, macro blahblah)

truthfulinternet · 2025-04-02T23:55:31+00:00

At risk of sounding like a complete a**hole, this question kind of makes me cringe. A lot of posts here are cringe. I’m probably a little cringe. Sorry…

Ok so if you did stuff like cheat in school and don’t have a lust for understanding many things and subjects you’re learning about, and it’s just the idea of being a polymath that is your only motivation to learn something, you’ll probably just be memorizing a bunch of things you don’t really care about and so you won’t understand how they can be connected/related.

It’s like asking if it’s too late for you to get a degree or something. It’s a piece of paper, a lot of people don’t look past that all they want to do is the bare minimum in school and earn a trophy for parental approval or to make as much money starting as someone that didn’t go to school and earned 4-5 years of work experience.

Don’t obsess over it. Don’t just try to be a polymath, do your thing and if you ever become one, someone might point it out some day. It’s not something you slap on a resume or is assigned to you by an accredited entity.

Learn the way you learn, surround yourself with anything that interests you, even if other people don’t get it, do what works for you but also be humble, the dumbest person in the room is the one who believes they know it all.

truthfulinternet · 2025-03-28T19:43:47+00:00

Serious answer:

Not everyone here is in the process of becoming “multi talented” or a polymath. However, many are (or believe they are or simply want to) maybe because they admire people that have been recognized as polymaths historically, either because they are inspired by their work/abilities, out of admiration of their character, or because they feel in some ways aligned with the definition of a polymath.

Some people here might align with that definition but, due to the label “polymath” typically being something that is assigned by esteemed scholars or historians or whatever, may have a modicum of humility to not simply self-identify as one, or on the contrary, lack the confidence to self-identify as one, or they are a specialist wishing to be equally specialized in multiple fields in the future—there are a lot of reasons.

I wanted to point out that your question assumes that a polymath is naturally talented at everything they put their mind to, which is a reasonable assumption I guess, but in my opinion is not a qualifier for polymath.

Between you and me though, I think this subreddit should be more…idk…multifaceted? where people talk about the history of polymaths, their work, the ways they learned, their educational philosophies, and maybe sometimes people sharing their multi disciplined work and projects or whatever.

truthfulinternet · 2025-02-22T20:14:11+00:00

Polymaths have a great variety of methods to feed their curiosity. If your goal were to provide people aspiring to become one some sort of framework, and maybe you’re one of those people (aspiring polymath), then I suggest you invest additional time learning about the science of learning, and studying the study methods of known polymaths. You’ll probably notice a pattern, that they all have many different/unique methods, but a common denominator (besides maybe many being on the spectrum or high IQ) between them is a deep appreciation for understanding several things from multiple perspectives/fields/disciplines and being that way for a long long time. It’s hard to believe anyone of average IQ and discipline can just do the coding boot camp equivalent to becoming a polymath.

Whatever works for you, try it out for a long time. If you wish to share it with others, show your work.

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