Drive-by Philosopher

Once a depressed guy posting his Ls, now a (less) depressed graduate student. Also writer, martial artist, generic nerd and nihilistic romantic.

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This is basically my whole account lol

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My favorite kinds of tweets are the ones that try to pass off something obviously deeply personal as general advice

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@lillybilly299 I don’t have any other kinds lmao

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@sylphidian W

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@adastroworld Yeah, you’re 100% right. But like, most of these people are kids (like under 25). They haven’t learned this stuff yet.

I do wish that there were more people on social media modeling secure, adult relationships and how to get them tho. Maybe I should become one lmao

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@adastroworld I wouldn’t take those comments seriously.

It’s the equivalent of Reddit’s “lawyer up, hit the gym.” They’re just trying to be supportive without thinking.

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@adastroworld Fair. Long term probably seek therapy?

But I think most people who are consuming this content are just upset for a day over something, then watch this video to feel better and it’s all over.

Most people aren’t pathological and don’t spiral, so all they need is short term.

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@womanstan123 @adastroworld Yeah you get it.

It’s not a double standard, but also some people (both men and women) are just more avoidant and less communicative. That doesn’t mean they don’t like you — it’s just their style.

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@jouissance_babe I did this! It just took a long time! You’ll get there!!

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@greebletheory Thanks for the detailed write up!

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@panboo202 @glowscreens @lillybilly299 this u?

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@jesuisfromage @Etanarachel This is true and well established by moral philosophers.

But you’re also missing the point of many moral discussions — they exist to justify social ostracism.

He is “literally hitler” is intentionally binary so as to post-hoc justify the ostracism or bullying of disliked ppl.

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@CaitPsych @datepsych Yes.

Reifying the concept of race is slightly racist (but perhaps necessary).

Realistically speaking, people who say things like “whites are better at X” usually are explicitly racist and aren’t accidentally implying that “white” is a real category — they think it really is.

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@mylifeisaplague The male nerd version of this is expecting an anime protagonist and it’s just some overweight dude with too many notebooks…

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@ThinkingBone They literally have activity in that electric current is running through them.

If you want to make a parallel to an LLM that hasn’t been “turned on” the parallel would be a dead body.

But I agree that a sleeping body and an idling LLM with current are in very different states.

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@AcediaAnhedonia How: I think about that tweet daily because it’s crazy how much my self-image has changed after being obsessively loved

Why: I was trying to say I think you’re immune to the “what men want” mind virus because you’ve known love and sadly many women and men haven’t :(

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@AcediaAnhedonia https://t.co/Ub8bprcO4G

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@sylphidian Twitter? I thought that’s what the sweet boy was for…

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@sylphidian 🥺😁🫶

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@bengrossbg He does it because it works.

Hatemongering is one of the easiest, most effective strategies for building an audience on most digital media platforms. (It’s also pretty effective irl!)