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I don't like YouTubers, I don't like celebrities, I don't like personifying LLMs. Any parasocial relationship is toxic and to be avoided. I've had an LLM tell me that suicide seemed logical when recounting a low point in my life to it where I'd previously considered it after several people around me of vastly different ages and backgrounds had killed themselves following a shared trauma. These things aren't conditional logic and can fail in all kinds of bizarre and spectacular ways, they're no substitute for an actual human being trained to handle these kinds of delicate things. What one patient calls x, another person will call y. And when discussing the human mind, trauma et al, especially when things happened, especially over the course of months or years, an LLM simply isn't going to be able to compete with a human being. Equally, physical tells are important too. A therapist might ask a patient if they take drugs, the patient may claim they don't, but the track marks, tone, body language and overall behaviour might tell the therapist something important that they won't even necessarily convey to their patient, but keep in mind. Wishing you well, stranger. I hope you eat something good today and find something intellectually stimulating to amuse yourself with, even temporarily, and hopefully discover something new and positive before bed. |