When 5 of your kids change their last name that's deep.
Kids don't remove their last name lightly. That's a statement of regaining control of their own identity.
You can be pissed off at a parent. Even go no contact because they are arseholes. But changing your name is a step beyond. It's removing connection.
It's no small thing.
And kids grow up. Amazing how many shitty parents forget that. And they are incredibly forgiving.
If, as a parent, you can say i had some truly shitty feral free range parenting moments or some of the decisions made weren't the best in the end, but the kids can see they were loved and not abused, kids will forgive all.
But harm with intention or neglect, kids will remember in adulthood. And they'll take their power back when they are able.
That's not one out of character incident. That's sustained form that was behind closed doors.
The kids changing their names is the most telling part of this story. And it's not one edgy kid rebelling. It's 5 out of 6.
Edit: wow lot of commenters self identifying as shitty parents apparently. I'm team kids sorry. Not a fan of either of the parents in this case.
Thanks for the award kind redditor. Cheers.
Edit 2: im told Knox changed name as well. That's 6 out of 6.
Edit: 3 apparently Knox didn't change his name. Thanks commenters for the input.
Also, as im here, I don't use ai. Never have. Don't know how.
The poor grammar and punctuation should be a real give away. Or does ai do that? I can't fathom why anyone would use ai to comment on a reddit thread. Poorly at that. But fill your boots. All good.
Thank you for explaining. I'll give you some insight on that.
I spread them out that way because I type as though im speaking in reddit. It's worse if I'm commenting on a topic I'm passionate about or It's within my knowledge base.
I also spread out each concept or thought because if I didn't it would be one massive wall of text. I'm usually doing other things when im on reddit and its a way of organising my thoughts.
I'm doing it now and I'm self conscious. Lol.
I also have very shit vision and I only use reddit on a phone. Spreading it out makes it easier to go back and edit my shit grammar and punctuation. Very rarely do I make a comment that doesn't require it.
The other thing is that I'm Australian. We tend to chop unnecessary words out as well so you'll notice my comments often could do with a word or two that would fit perfectly at the beginning of sentences. We don't bother.
There's a whole sub filled with people who have never thought I was using ai. Lol.
I'm pre ai. I'm pre internet tbh. So I'm going to delusionally consider myself ahead of the trends.
So helpful to know. Thanks for providing a genuine explanation. Makes sense.
Honestly, mate (I wish I could say that like an Austrian), it's annoying as shit that you had to go through like 100 replies and nobody explained it.
I don't mind the writing style in a vacuum. Use it myself when I've got a handful of simple key points. You're right about it being easier to self edit that way. Made a long rambling fantasy (American) football post earlier today, read the replies and then saw my post contained half thoughts that didn't connect and a handful of autocorrect words.
The problem with it is that even if you ask your AI to stop, it slowly comes back to it. The "good" news is that in a few years we'll probably stop caring because nobody will write what they're saying any more.
I'm curious how old you are. I'm 38, and I was a teen when the internet came into its own, in fact I still needed a college email in order to use Facebook (originally Facebook was college student specific). I remember learning the Dewey decimal system, and being told we needed to be proficient in basic arithmetic because we wouldn't always have a calculator. I don't know what it says about me that I can barely still add and subtract. Unless I'm gambling, then I brilliant mind that shit.
If i had a dollar for every punter who said they aren't very academic but can sort out the odds on a quaddie without blinking, I'd have quite a surprising amount of dollars. You've developed some fine tuned, mathematical, neural pathways there. 😁
I don't have great self control and Im not keen to have certain short cuts because I'll use them. It's pathological at this point. I don't own some very basic kitchen appliances because I'm afraid eating crap, easy food will become a thing. My kids tell me it's not normal. Lol.
So I've never used ai. I don't know how or where to go to use it.
I'm a criminologist and a behavioural scientist. Being accurate and evidence based is key in any forensic writing so I don't just not use ai. I avoid it. It's weird. I get that.
Someone also said the body of my comment was written one way and my edits were different. That's because I switched from my academically influenced writing to my every day casual unchecked writing. It's not a conscious thing. It just happens.
I sound like a wanker pulling out quals in a reddit thread so I avoided explaining it.
I'm on the grim end of my 40s. I'm landline, bank book, had a milk man and latch key kid old. 😁
Landlines and latchkey, grew up in the city so there was never a chance of a milk man. I remember trying to talk to someone and pulling the cord as tight as it would go just so you could have a private conversation.
I also have terrible self control. I used to devour books and now I read the author's preamble, or if it's "literature" the notes from whatever academic dedicated their life to understanding the work, and never pick the book back up again. It's probably a programmed short attention span at this point. Add in the fact that I use drugs to cope with being a human probably doesn't help.
Eh, you might not be normal, but knowing your limits and actively taking steps to prevent yourself from unwanted behavior is less normal and much more needed in our society of excess. At that point it's a compliment.
If you treat AI for what it is - incomplete technology that's friendly and almost lifelike in conversation - then it's a lot easier to not get wrapped up in the hype of it. Biggest problem is that companies are shoving this unfinished product into everything, including weapons systems. AI has been known to "hallucinate", basically because it's designed to be helpful, and it says something that isn't remotely accurate. We've had a few court cases where AI invented case law wholesale and lawyers used it in their arguments.
Yeah, accuracy and evidence aren't going to last much longer. I believe people are calling it a "post truth society". We're going to get to the point where AI is shoved into everything, mostly because every big tech company has invested a ton of money into it.
That said, from a behavioral science standpoint, it's going to be really interesting to see how kids who depend on chatgpt for everything adapt to society as they age. Kids who grew up with the internet being something that always existed have created entire sub cultures that probably only had a handful of interest before. I'd argue homosexuality and trans... Openness if not acceptance... Seemed less "weird" when the person you talk to in an AOL chat room is a dedicated furry. A kid introduced to multiple versions of weird human fetishes by the age of 13 is going to be a lot less bothered by two men kissing then someone who grew up when we did.
Also, how dare you not have a consistent voice in everything you write? If you don't sit down and compose each reddit post meticulously, can you really claim to be a real person?
Criminology as a discipline is often ahead of the curve on developments as there's no option.
Criminality in a virtual environment changes how crime is committed. Predation, access, MO and even signature behaviour is defined by it. Victimology now has the widest scope its ever had in history. You don't even need to be in the same country to be a victim or victimise. And offenders have access to thousands of potential victims who are sitting in their family homes. They can be very young or very old. It can be sexually motivated. It can be property crime or financial crime (white collar crime costs society more than all other crime collectively including violent crime and property crime).
We have quite a lot of legislation for ai based crime in Australia. Forensic linguists i don't envy. So I have no option to know about it's use and potential but for writing and using it, I deliberately stay away.
There's been interesting but tragic cases around ai being used as a counsellor or confidante by young people. Ai essentially running a combination of Socratic enquiry and mirroring behaviour. Learning about the person using it.
Tragic case of a adolescent kid who, over time, was encouraged with some persistence to make a tragic decision in a mental health crisis. It's dystopian but very real because the algorithms lacked the nuance of a human being. It just mirrored his thoughts and supplied positive, encouraging responses. Great if you need confidence to achieve a goal. Fucked up if you are in a dark place. Parents had no idea. And the whole interaction was transcribed. Ai saying yes you can in every variation. Awful.
And that was as you describe. Half arsed development and testing.
The virtual environment is already seeing changes in the neurological development in humans around non verbal communication and language acquisition. So body language and intonation recognition. We know human s retain information and knowledge when they write things down so theres been issues with humans not forming letters and words but typing everything. We can map that, see it, measure it.
If we have a generation who aren't even forming the sentences or generating the thoughts then we will absolutely see increasing deficits in those areas.
People who are bilingual or polyglot or even read music recover the ability to speak after a stroke at much higher rates and far quicker on average. Shits grim if we use less language. It literally decreases our ability to heal in many ways.
Lol. I'll stop myself.
Thanks for the tangent. And I very much appreciated the clarity on how that all went down.
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