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1. la6479 · 1789594718 · focus · HN ↗

   THis is where rubber meets the road. Show me how AI can make life easier for autistic people and their caregivers , mentally challenged people and their caregiver and I will believe in the promise of AI.

   1. contingencies · 1789598121 · focus · HN ↗

      It has infinite patience as a teacher in an infinitesimal number of detail oriented specific areas where others would fail. It can maintain perspective on longer term goals and repetition and such through proven autism treatment pathways like CBT/speech therapies where humans be prohibitively expensive or would tire. That's surely something? It can reinforce bringing detail out to generalities. That helps for some. I'd say pedagogy and communications therapy are therefore both clear areas of promise.

      These are viable for the population as a whole, not just people with autism or identified learning difficulties.

      1. thin_carapace · 1789601700 · focus · HN ↗

         in a better world your vision would be very promising. in our world, ill bet 'different' people are gonna get lumped in with old people, to be placated by robots instead of being allowed community engagement.

         1. contingencies · 1789612887 · focus · HN ↗

            Don't blame others. Inaction is the only thing between you and a better world. Go do something about it.

            1. thin_carapace · 1789730821 · focus · HN ↗

               while I do feel obliged to share my compute with wider humanity, it must be noted that commanding me to perform my obligation does remove what meagre autonomy i could claim from the process. if your goal is to encourage compute sharing, you may wish to reexamine your employment of imperatives. or in other words, telling a dickhead like me to do something is more likely to result in you getting told to fuck off than it is for me to do the action being commanded. but I see your intentions are true so I don't need to do that. thanks and all the best

               1. contingencies · 1789733214 · focus · HN ↗

                  thick_skin certainly isn't your play is it ;)

                  1. thin_carapace · 1789739286 · focus · HN ↗

                     yea, you got any world saving plans in the works? im currently working on ones of my own, was carer for an elder family member many years before, didnt have the bandwidth then. nowadays i could lend some time if you have a cool way of fixing things.

                     1. contingencies · 1789761706 · focus · HN ↗

                        Not especially. I'm working on feeding people more efficiently which sounds dystopian but disintermediates the population from some corporations who currently dominate such matters and have not shown themselves to be morally or environmentally responsible. I would make a lot more money if I worked on military drones, financial leeching apparatus or AI bullshit like everyone else, but at this point I would prefer to have less and be better behaved.

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