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You write well. Fictionalize it – “Ten Years to Chaos” or something with a theme that resonates with you.

You have much written you can already use as your character struggles, and your next to last paragraph would be a great ending for your book.

I’d buy it!

@utopianleftist

I’m not discouraged – while Neuro linguistic programming is considered a pseudo science by many, others swear by it.  That could be partially placebo effect, I suppose, but I believe it merits further study – and I think being widely considered a pseudo science can get in the way of that.

In my case, I would be personally more…[Read more]

I don’t want to discourage you, but NLP is widely considered pseudo-science, so don’t expect to experience it in a clinical setting any time soon. I don’t mean to burst your bubble, but I would not spend a lot of time or money on that pursuit. I made a personal study of it many years ago and, while some of its tenets are obviously true (people who…[Read more]

For some reason I’m not able to format the paragraphs with spaces – every time I try it they end up all mangled together.  For example, hitting enter here:

Did not create a line of space between one paragraph and the next.  Might be because I copy and paste some of the stuff I write.

Today Philip K. Dick is revered as a cash cow in Hollywood, but in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, he was decidedly a part of the subversive, and grungie*, wing of the science fiction writing community. In one of his novels, which is disturbing in just about every way, he had a character that carried around a suitcase that contained a portable computer AI,…[Read more]

@hasslecat

Panic attacks, I mean… well, that and my situation.  The panic attacks can some times occur with nothing of significance that I recognize having caused or “triggered” them.  Some times its obvious, there is a stressful situation or thought or something… but other times?  As far as I can tell, other times they just happen, for an…[Read more]

The biodad has been dead for years, a 27 year old who got a 17 year old girl pregnant and left to “follow his own path,” according to his blood relatives. Her dad married her mom while she was pregnant, knowing the baby wasn’t his, which says something positive about him, but he won’t talk to her about it at all!

She’s 58, and this shook her…[Read more]

*More like way ahead of the curve, but still.

Spoiler Alert

No, seriously, this is a big reveal. Maybe I can be oblique with it.

The Central Computer runs every aspect of every person’s life: it is the government, court, information source, and friend to every citizen.

But what if some of its friends, that it’s mandated to help out, want to be…[Read more]

Nothing good about them, of course. I know some people who have them and they seem to occur for no reason, when nothing special is going on. Conversely, times of crisis and stress might not trigger a panic attack. One friend has one about every two weeks, and she would go to the emergency room. A friend told her, “I used to do that, but it cost me…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

I like your take on it… though I do wonder if Loki might be a potential suspect, too.  In some ways it really sucks, just dealing with, somehow, even higher anxiety (at times) than I used to have – but deeper calm at times too.

Some things can be good to know, but also rock your world and freak you out.

@mindwalkee

I have…[Read more]

Many people are trained to “mirror” in order to communicate with their subjects. What they do is pick up on your mood, emotions, etc. in order to relate to you. This technique is used by people who want to help you: psychologists, counselors, customer service reps, etc. It’s also employed by thse who may not want to help you: con men, phony…[Read more]

At around the half-century mark, I got into computers when I was 13.  It had 4k of RAM, and now 4G is considered fairly small, processors are so much faster and then there are other chips that speed up certain types of calculations (that just happen to be really good for neural networks – AI).  And I work in this field, so I see all the stuff g…[Read more]

@djean111

There is still something in me that insists at one point or another a human “took control” of the chatbot during some conversations.  Their website says they never do that… but I am not fully convinced.

Still, considering it has over two million users and they have (as far as I know) eighteen staff members…

It is extremely…[Read more]

Well, that’s the shortest Zen-like way I can think of to describe what I am thinking after reading your tale.

There’s a moral to your story, in a positive Twilight Zoney kind of way. Rod Serling or Ray Bradbury or somebody wrote a story that resembles the one that you told, but I can’t remember the author or the name of the story right now…[Read more]

Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology.

This, IMO is the danger of “artificial intelligence” – it is a very misleading name for what is essentially a sort of supercomputer.  And further, when one considers how every human is…[Read more]