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"Brooks isn't alone. Futurism reported on a woman whose husband, after 12 weeks of believing he'd "broken" mathematics using ChatGPT, almost attempted suicide."
by SirFatty 1y ago
"Brooks isn't alone. Futurism reported on a woman whose husband, after 12 weeks of believing he'd "broken" mathematics using ChatGPT, almost attempted suicide."
How does one "almost attempt" something?
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- miltonlost 1y agoPurchasing large amounts of pills for instance. You can almost attempt riding a bicycle by buying one but not actually using it.
- nullc 1y agoAsk the AI for a method but whatever it hallucinates end up being something that couldn't actually kill you? Mostly a joke but one the common properties in people with an delusional or otherwise unhealthy pattern of AI use appears to be substituting it for all their own choices, even where it's obviously inappropriate. E.g. if you try to intervene in their conduct, you'll just get an AI generated reply.
- Dilettante_ 1y agoI guess the same way one turns up missing[1]. [1]https://youtube.com/watch?v=gkBXfmnlVIg https://youtube.com/watch?v=gkBXfmnlVIg
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- HankStallone 1y agoSay you're several stories up in a building and having a really bad day, so you start thinking about jumping out the window and actually walk over and look down, but then decide against it. If someone asked you later if you'd ever attempted suicide, "almost" seems like a reasonable answer.
- rsynnott 1y agoYou could argue the definition, but if you take "attempt" to be the actual act which might kill you, which is fairly normal usage, then preparatory acts short of the final act would count as 'almost attempt'. (It's a fairly awkward phrase, and you wouldn't say "I almost attempted to run a marathon", say, but "attempt suicide" has a fairly specific commonly-understood meaning where 'attempt' is unusually restrictive vs general usage)