Aspergers is tricky. Until ~6 years or so ago, it was almost entirely undiagnosed in females and even now doesn't get diagnosed until much too late.

Additionally, people like me never considered getting diagnosed as there wasn't any benefit. A diagnosis in 1980 may have helped me, but in 2025, I gain nothing.

When my daughter was diagnosed, the doctors, while interviewing me informed me that if I were to undergo the process of being diagnosed, it would be extremely easy. I was shocked. I never thought of myself as Aspergers or autistic...so I hyper fixated on it.

Result, it's freeing.

Knowing I'm autistic has allowed me to focus on productive pursuits rather than spending endless hours trying to figure out why something is different for me than others. It's helped me to sustain friendships with people. It was earth shaking to finally be able to start a conversation by saying

    "I'm so sorry I can't look you in the eyes. I am happy to tell you that I can finally look to the sides of people rather than looking at their chests"

It's amazing how 45 years of staring at breasts has been bad for my reputation. But before the Aspergers epiphany, I would try too hard to look at the person and avoid their eyes by looking down. With the freedom of knowing, I feel free to apologize beforehand and not try so hard to look at the person.

We call it the spectrum because it's a huge Venn diagram. We're as different from each other as anyone else. But, while "neurotypical" people have really annoying quirks, like not being able to hold a conversation with 100 separate threads, Asperger's for example makes it really convenient to understand our quirks. And for the lucky ones, Aspis can ask each other "What's you're superpower" because hyperfixation often gives people extreme advantages over everyone else.

The earlier we can diagnose people, the earlier we can raise them properly.

BTW, many autistic people with empathy issues don't lack it. They just need to learn it when it comes natural to others.

Correct.

If you are not a tech person, right now from all the hype and news and bullshit, you would rightly assume that AI is an amazing revolution and you would barely have heard about its shortcomings.

Though that might've just been him thinking "stupid Europeans know only Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk. I'll just say Moscow, close enough."

This. I've had to descend a mountain as the sun was going down once (got stuck at the top due to weather for some time, and when it let up enough for a safe descent, it was late). It's absolutely not fun, even when there's still some light. Had it been dark, I think I would've taken my chances staying at the top rather than going down.

That said, anyone not a complete idiot checks things like "time of last cable car" a) in person, b) at the day, c) at the location. Because even there is an official website that is well-maintained (and that's already two big if's) things might change at the location due to weather, workers being ill, no tourists that day or whatever.

Also, checking in person means at least one other person knows that you're up there.

They were terrible?

Google did everything wrong that they could. It was just a bad platform

Uh, yeh, no.

As a code quality aficionado, I have been vibe coding A LOT lately to improve all of what you mentioned.

My vibe code is clear, well documented, built entirely on TDD, and what the AI is fed are clear, reviewed requirements documents.

You are accusing vibe coding by poor engineers of producing poor results. But, you're not praising vibe coding by quality engineers for producing quality results.

LLMs are just new programming languages. And just like how I used to review hundreds or even thousands of lines of assembly language listings because we didn't trust compilers to produce quality results, now I review code produced by LLMs.

Don't be the guy who writes a business CRM in assembly because you don't trust the tools.

Fox is a conundrum. Their main website often delivers pretty decent content. Their syndications and TV presence is insanely polarized crap. On the occasions I visit their website, I often find actual quality content. It's just not as exciting as the rabble-rousing idiocy, we all see from the outside.

CNN ruined themselves in my eyes when the broadcast medical doctors as "virus experts" during Covid. What the hell does a doctor know about microbiology, molecular biology, computational biology, virology, epidemiology...

I lean neither left or right. I'm more of leaning up... As in I form my own opinions and use my brains. I even sometimes agree with Trump's actions... god help me, if I believed in one of them.

AI is a tool. And like any tool its introduction creates proponents and enemies.

Some might say I'm a semi-professional writer. As in: I make money with things I write. From that perspective, I see both the AI slop and the benefits. I love that AI gives me an on-demand proof-reader. I don't expect it to be anywhere near a professional in that field. But if I want to quickly check a text I wrote for specific things, AI is great, because unlike me it hasn't been over that sentence 20 times already and still parses it completely.

As for AI writing - for the moment it's still pretty obvious, and it's mostly low-quality (unless some human has added their own editing).

The same way that the car, the computer, e-mail and thousands of other innovations have made some jobs obsolete, some jobs easier, and some jobs completely new, I don't see AI as a threat. And definitely not to my writing. Though good luck Amazon with the flood of AI-written garbage now clogging up your print-on-demand service.

Umm... Yeh, and cutting people open to perform surgey causes holes in bodies.

If you build a machine which detects and treats cancer noninvasively, then if the machine causes cancer and treats it before it's a problem, I don't see the issue.

It's basically a machine that can put the eggs back in their shells.

Right.

Yes, I guess it will. By hopefully making people switch away from YT music en mass.

Trivially obviously not. The LLM wasn't trained on texts exclusively written by the human using it, so it won't ever speak like that particular person.

If someone wants to train a specific "Tarrof" LLM - go ahead. I'm simply advocating against poisoning the already volatile generic LLM data with more human bullshit.

You're so cute.

The number 1 reason for unnecessary deaths ... Especially from cancer is that general practitioners lack the tools or expertise to detect anatomical anomalies before they are either symptomatic or growths are large enough to feel. Things like breast cancer would cease to be a problem if we didn't have to wait for lumps to form before treatment.

Solution... Easily accessible transmission X-ray full body scanners in malls and workplaces would allow people to pass through once a month and let an AI look for anomalies that when detected would be passed to a reviewer and then signal the health app on people's phones.

The cost savings ... Especially to countries with socialized medicine would be astronomical.

Suggesting human radiologists are so much better than AI and making the case that too many people would go untreated is foolishness. If a person even needs a radiologist these days, it means they should have been treated long before that but because some buttnut is skeptical to AI, tons of people will needlessly suffer because we have to wait for some barely educated human GP (I read all their school books, the curriculum is pathetic.. GPs are not even close to educated enough) to make a lucky guess or see a tennis ball growing out of the patients body before being treated.

Did you know that if AI and full body scanners were employed like this, phased array ultrasonic transducers would be able to disintegrate plaques and other growths, through a person's clothes in seconds? We die from cancer because we can't zap it away once we detect it because it would leave a considerable cavity and the patient would hemorrhage internally. So we slowly poison them... Generally with X-ray or gamma radiation and toxic poisons.

Embrace AI... Please... Too many people suffer because we're too dependent on shitty doctors.

That is true but also besides the point. Communicating like "a human" is the point here. WHICH human, exactly? We already have problems with hallucinations. If we now train them on huge data sets intentionally designed for the human habit of saying the opposite of what you mean, we're adding another layer of problems. Maybe get the other ones solved first?

Of course. This is a forum, not a scientific conference, so I'm not speaking in the most precise language.

It doesn't change the point.

Make piracy the better alternative in every way and people will pirate.

Make a legal transaction the better alternative in every way (ok, except money) and people will use that.

It really is so simple, even an executive should be able to understand it.