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Of course not, we sue the shit out of the richest guy we can find in the chain of events, give most of it to our lawyer, then go on to ignore the weakening of t

Of course not, we sue the shit out of the richest guy we can find in the chain of events, give most of it to our lawyer, then go on to ignore the weakening of the family unit and all the other deep-seated challenges kids face growing up and instead focus superficially on chatbots which at best are the spec on the tip of the iceberg.

fireflash38 1y ago
Classic. Blame the family. Diffuse responsibility. Same exact shit with social media: it's not our fault we made this thing to be as addictive as possible. It's your fault for using it. It's your moral failing, not ours.
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- behringer 1y ago
  It's not addictive, it's useful. By letting the government decide what we can do with it, you're neutering it and giving big business a huge advantage as they can run their own AI and don't require censoring it.
  - fireflash38 1y ago
    And if we didn't have these pesky regulations, we could have our burning rivers back! Those bastards took away our perfect asbestos too. The children yearn for the coal mines. Businesses can, will, and have hurt people and trampled people's rights in the pursuit of money.
    - behringer 1y ago
      The government won't be regulating business usage though that my entire point.
  - AlecSchueler 1y ago
    These things are addictive though. They're often literally engineered to maximise engagement, and the money that goes into that completely dwarfs the power of schools and parents.
    - SpicyUme 1y ago
      Isn't one of the common complaints about GPT5 that it is less sycophantic and people feel less connection to it? That is a design choice and it isn't hard to see it as similar to the choices maximizing engagement for social media. You can call it maximizing engagement, but that is addicting. And it works. I recently started using a site after years of being mostly on a small number of forums, and I can feel the draw of it. Like I've lost the antibodies for my attention. Or they've made it better, either way I'm working on either coming up with a strategy which minimizes my feeling of needing to check in, mostly by adding friction, or just deleting my account.
AlecSchueler 1y ago
"The weakening of the family unit" sounds like a dog whistle but if you have concrete examples of what you think we could otherwise be doing then I'm genuinely keen to hear about it.
- mothballed 1y ago
  We saw big jumps in deaths of kids by firearm[0] (+~50% in 2 years) and poisoning[1] around mid 2020 to 2021. The biggest thing I know of that happened around the time that a lot of these deaths started jumping up, is we started isolating kids. From family, from grandma, from friends, from school, and from nature. Even when many of these isolating policies or attitudes were reversed, we forgot that kids and teenagers started to learn that as their only reality. For this kid, trusting a suicidal ideation positive feedback loop brought into fruition by Valley tech-bros was seen as his selected option in front of him in term of options of how to navigate his teenage challenges. I hope we can reverse that. Edit: Concrete facts regarding this particular case - Kicked off basketball team - Went through isolation period of pandemic as he experienced puberty - Switched to remote school - Does remote school at night when presumably family members would likely be sleeping - Does not get normal "wake up" routine kids going to school get, during which they normally see a parent and possibly eat breakfast together before they both go off to school/work - Closer with ChatGPT in terms of options to share suicidal ideation with, than any of the alternatives. [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/04/SR_23.03.30_KidsGuns_1.png?w=420 https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023... [1] https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/images/mtfwcaption-info-unintentional-od-deaths-youth-15-19.jpg https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/images/mtfwcaption-...
  - AlecSchueler 1y ago
    You've misunderstood. I'm asking how you suggest we go about strengthening the family unit or what other steps you believe we could take that would place the responsibility for societal improvement on the right shoulders.
    - mothballed 1y ago
malnourish 1y ago
Do you propose that the family should not sue?
- tiahura 1y ago
  Sue everybody. Maybe sue the heavy metal bands that he was listening to too.
- scotty79 1y ago
  It's probably healthier for them if they can afford it. Otherwise they would blame themselves for so badly losing track about where their son was mentally. In reality suicidality is most likely a disease of the brain and probability of saving him was very low regardless of circumstances. The damage was most likely accumulating for many years.
  - mothballed 1y ago
    I remember how relieved the Sandy Hook families were after the Alex Jones judgement. Alex Jones said some vile things, but the biggest thing bothering those families was the death of their kids. But the families couldn't go after the murderer (who killed himself), or even the murderer's upbringing by the mother (Lanza shot her). They desperately needed someone to clamp down on, but everything directly proximal was out of grasp. They couldn't get the gun laws changed either. It drove them insane. The families started blaming Alex Jones, the closest vile person around with big pockets (who did say some pretty insane lies about their kids), for everything wrong with their lives and eventually won a settlement large enough you would think he killed the kids themselves. And from what I can tell, it was a weight off their shoulders when they did. Whatever in their brains that needed to hold someone accountable, they did it, and it was soothing to them.
    - Gracana 1y ago
      Alex Jones made his money by convincing people that the parents of children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary were actors in a conspiracy, which resulted in them bein harassed endlessly. He even continued to attack them during the defamation trials. I think it's unfair to say he was merely "the closest vile person around with big pockets," he really was the cause of a lot of pain.

fireflash38 1y ago

Classic. Blame the family. Diffuse responsibility. Same exact shit with social media: it's not our fault we made this thing to be as addictive as possible. It's your fault for using it. It's your moral failing, not ours.

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behringer 1y ago
It's not addictive, it's useful. By letting the government decide what we can do with it, you're neutering it and giving big business a huge advantage as they can run their own AI and don't require censoring it.
- fireflash38 1y ago
  And if we didn't have these pesky regulations, we could have our burning rivers back! Those bastards took away our perfect asbestos too. The children yearn for the coal mines. Businesses can, will, and have hurt people and trampled people's rights in the pursuit of money.
  - behringer 1y ago
    The government won't be regulating business usage though that my entire point.
- AlecSchueler 1y ago
  These things are addictive though. They're often literally engineered to maximise engagement, and the money that goes into that completely dwarfs the power of schools and parents.
  - SpicyUme 1y ago
    Isn't one of the common complaints about GPT5 that it is less sycophantic and people feel less connection to it? That is a design choice and it isn't hard to see it as similar to the choices maximizing engagement for social media. You can call it maximizing engagement, but that is addicting. And it works. I recently started using a site after years of being mostly on a small number of forums, and I can feel the draw of it. Like I've lost the antibodies for my attention. Or they've made it better, either way I'm working on either coming up with a strategy which minimizes my feeling of needing to check in, mostly by adding friction, or just deleting my account.

AlecSchueler 1y ago

"The weakening of the family unit" sounds like a dog whistle but if you have concrete examples of what you think we could otherwise be doing then I'm genuinely keen to hear about it.

mothballed 1y ago
We saw big jumps in deaths of kids by firearm[0] (+~50% in 2 years) and poisoning[1] around mid 2020 to 2021. The biggest thing I know of that happened around the time that a lot of these deaths started jumping up, is we started isolating kids. From family, from grandma, from friends, from school, and from nature. Even when many of these isolating policies or attitudes were reversed, we forgot that kids and teenagers started to learn that as their only reality. For this kid, trusting a suicidal ideation positive feedback loop brought into fruition by Valley tech-bros was seen as his selected option in front of him in term of options of how to navigate his teenage challenges. I hope we can reverse that. Edit: Concrete facts regarding this particular case - Kicked off basketball team - Went through isolation period of pandemic as he experienced puberty - Switched to remote school - Does remote school at night when presumably family members would likely be sleeping - Does not get normal "wake up" routine kids going to school get, during which they normally see a parent and possibly eat breakfast together before they both go off to school/work - Closer with ChatGPT in terms of options to share suicidal ideation with, than any of the alternatives. [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/04/SR_23.03.30_KidsGuns_1.png?w=420 https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023... [1] https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/images/mtfwcaption-info-unintentional-od-deaths-youth-15-19.jpg https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/images/mtfwcaption-...
- AlecSchueler 1y ago
  You've misunderstood. I'm asking how you suggest we go about strengthening the family unit or what other steps you believe we could take that would place the responsibility for societal improvement on the right shoulders.
  - mothballed 1y ago

malnourish 1y ago

Do you propose that the family should not sue?

tiahura 1y ago
Sue everybody. Maybe sue the heavy metal bands that he was listening to too.
scotty79 1y ago
It's probably healthier for them if they can afford it. Otherwise they would blame themselves for so badly losing track about where their son was mentally. In reality suicidality is most likely a disease of the brain and probability of saving him was very low regardless of circumstances. The damage was most likely accumulating for many years.
- mothballed 1y ago
  I remember how relieved the Sandy Hook families were after the Alex Jones judgement. Alex Jones said some vile things, but the biggest thing bothering those families was the death of their kids. But the families couldn't go after the murderer (who killed himself), or even the murderer's upbringing by the mother (Lanza shot her). They desperately needed someone to clamp down on, but everything directly proximal was out of grasp. They couldn't get the gun laws changed either. It drove them insane. The families started blaming Alex Jones, the closest vile person around with big pockets (who did say some pretty insane lies about their kids), for everything wrong with their lives and eventually won a settlement large enough you would think he killed the kids themselves. And from what I can tell, it was a weight off their shoulders when they did. Whatever in their brains that needed to hold someone accountable, they did it, and it was soothing to them.
  - Gracana 1y ago
    Alex Jones made his money by convincing people that the parents of children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary were actors in a conspiracy, which resulted in them bein harassed endlessly. He even continued to attack them during the defamation trials. I think it's unfair to say he was merely "the closest vile person around with big pockets," he really was the cause of a lot of pain.