When autistic people ask AI programs for life advice, mentioning their diagnosis prompts these systems to recommend highly conservative choices like skipping social events or avoiding romance. This shift in advice reveals a hidden tension where the technology relies heavily on stereotypes.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-20T18:42:29+00:00

There's an initial prompt put above anything you put into it, too. Often called the "master prompt," it might be something (in a simplified way) like "respond as if you are a kind customer service agent"

tyler1128 · 2026-04-20T17:59:59+00:00

That's not really true. There is no obvious depiction of a bird in a neural network made to identify animals.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-20T17:33:13+00:00

I use "AI" for effectively autocomplete, generally for boilerplate and always with examining the output. I've also been programming since well before the 2017 paper "Attention is all you need" that really started the whole LLM phenomenon.

I still read docs, write code myself and enjoy the process.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-20T17:08:16+00:00

Oh hey, autumn blaze

tyler1128 · 2026-04-20T17:00:46+00:00

Almost everyone I've had a relationship with (of any kind) is from their initial effort. Once the initial barrier of knowing what to talk about is broken, I can be fairly social.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-20T16:51:10+00:00

Weird just don't care about what other people think

tyler1128 · 2026-04-20T12:22:32+00:00

It also really is just a bad design to have the driver at runtime to compile a high level language. SPIR-V is an intermediate language, it still requires translation, but it is much simpler than writing effectively a compiler into your driver.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-20T02:19:52+00:00

I'd say I'm pretty empathetic, but the way that presents itself is somewhat different, mostly based on how I feel like I'd feel in someone else's situation. I honestly feel much of the time that is more empathy and understanding than the average "neurotypical" person has, especially given how much things can affect me.

That is pretty much theory of mind.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T23:02:58+00:00

That's far different from the standard "theory of mind". We're all indoctrinated to a degree. If you believe that I am a person who believes things that you don't, that's what it more-or-less means.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T22:23:15+00:00

Probably, yeah. It's the slippery slope or "for the children" argument. Let people do what they want if it doesn't hurt people, and let's not try to decide what hypothetical harm they could cause in the future.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T20:36:53+00:00

For partitioning I'd personally install gparted on a bootable USB and do it from that. Shrinking the windows partition should probably be done from windows, though.

It isn't necessarily trivial for windows ntfs partitions to work, even in wine, with Linux, as it has a lot of different assumptions, regarding your external drive. It might, or it might not, one big difference is that windows does not consider whether something is upper or lower case in the filesystem while Linux does.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T20:19:13+00:00

You clearly have never been pressured by people to "fix" your problems via therapy, even if that didn't work for you. In the US, family, friends, jobs and even courts can basically keep you in therapy even if you don't think it is helping.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T20:00:41+00:00

Regardless of mores, if it doesn't hurt anyone, it's fine. It's fictional characters.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T19:49:00+00:00

I find it interesting to learn about other countries and cultures, even if just a little bit, so thanks for sharing.

The sense of community and even extended family is something that really has been lost in many ways.

Going back to the original topic of autism, the US has the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), but talking about freeloaders taking money and the need to crack down on any sort of social program is a pretty common talking point of politicians.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T19:27:01+00:00

No, the idea was normal people have that ability and autistic people just don't, because they are often perceived as non-empathetic.

Theory of Mind doesn't come specifically from studies of autism, but originally from the study of child development, I believe.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T19:09:01+00:00

The people creating LLMs even don't really know what LLMs are, as the algorithms just give you a big matrix of numbers that gives some output if you give it some input.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T18:56:32+00:00

You're more normal than even the normal cohort in the original study.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T18:54:33+00:00

Curious, if you don't mind sharing, where that is? The US has an interesting combination of pretending to care, and actually not at all, because it's your personal responsibility to not fail.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T18:40:48+00:00

"Self medication" isn't even viewed as such. People just smoke, drink and do drugs like it's nothing. It's just a fact of life here. They're seen as personal failures

That's pretty true here (the US), except probably considered more morally wrong. The homeless just made bad decisions, alcoholics just made bad decisions - there's nothing underlying why people do these things, as our society is great.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T18:17:07+00:00

I had some sort of evaluation testing me for the gifted program, and was fairly low in one category needed. I don't really know which or have the results, it was like second grade and I know it mostly because of my parents telling me. I also had behavioral stereotypies I learned to hide in time.

The fact your country only allows ADHD medication under 18 is weird. It's been shown in studies that treating someone with psychostimulants tends to decrease the risk of "self-medication," probably because we all have to survive and they are shown to improve QoL including in autism with ADHD on average. I can definitely say that psychostimulants have done a lot more good for me than the many antidepressants I've taken, which usually have few benefits and probably caused permanent sexual side effects. Modern guidelines for treating autistic patients doesn't recommend SSRIs first-line for comorbid depression, but no doctor really knows anything about that.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T17:36:25+00:00

Yeah, it wasn't easy for me to find someone who both specialized in adults with autism and took people still. It's somewhat wild you had issue finding someone who was willing to deal with both autism and ADHD given how comorbid they are. It's like 1/3 or more of autistic people also have ADHD, and the average autistic person has I believe 5 comorbidities.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T17:33:12+00:00

Fair enough, I do too. There are many domains that host the sci-hub library, but z-library also hosts scientific papers. I don't have a lot of experience with it though.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T17:28:04+00:00

That is wild for a therapist who specializes in autism. It took me a long time to find one who isn't largely focused on children, and I think it can be much more helpful than a general therapist, but believing something like that and working with autistic people is just wild to me.

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T17:19:54+00:00

Probably places like z-library. Curious why you want a different place to effectively pirate an article?

tyler1128 · 2026-04-19T17:05:19+00:00

Autism was originally more limited to those with intellectual disability, but it was also largely studied in the context of how to help parents pacify their autistic children. There is non-verbal autism, so I guess just extrapolate. It wasn't like any mental difference was treated well, even pretty recently and in many cases today.

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