Dawn Drescher ⏸️

Compassion as an extreme sport.

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

@chhaviyadav_ I love this! I would like to use it when reading news articles. For one, they may be AI-generated, but second, journalists can also fall prey to a subset of the biases that you can detect. Is there a way to expand it to arbitrary sites?

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

@pauseai_germany @PauseAI Just learned of this conference. Perhaps there are some folks there to collab with: https://t.co/S3S3W0ECpd.

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

@IkkyusDen @7SecularSermons (Yeah, there are so many lovely NPDorks to help; it doesn't have to be the one someone is already in a relationship with. Startup idea: a dating platform for people with personality disorders who want to support each other?)

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

@IkkyusDen Yeah, love those folks! ❤️

[Mud Wizard (87/100 days 3hr+ practice) @IkkyusDen]

It seems to me that narcissism is comprised of a massive amount of core shame masked by grandiosity, plus trauma-stunted theory of mind. I think the road to healing goes over getting witnessed in the shameful bits and experiencing yourself as cherished warts and all.

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

@eli_lifland I think AGI by end of 2027 should be ~8% now

I think I'd forecast:
~2026-2030 -- AI replaces ~all AI researchers
~2027-2033 -- AI replaces ~all white collar industry
~2032-2040 -- AI replaces ~all human industry
~2033-2042 -- All humans dead or obsolete

[Eliezer Yudkowsky @allTheYud]

People in the comments are posting replications.

I say yet again that any SF novel or movie in 2006 or even 2016 would have depicted this AI as unquestionedly taken-for-granted sapient. And abused.

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

With great power comes great responsibility; with great responsibility comes great maladaptive coping.

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

When people ask “Is psychopathy genetic?” or “Is it in the brain?”, the answer is yes – but that’s not the whole story.

https://t.co/K7b79RauNe

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

@aa_marsh Awesome work! I don't have access to the paper, but do you also have a breakdown by gender and boldness/meanness/disinhibition? Ty! 😍

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

Why we need a new framework for understanding psychopathy, narcissism, and related presentations

https://t.co/rswYweer8J

[Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh]

What is the average level of psychopathy in the community? How many of the people around us have very high levels of psychopathy? What are they like? My colleagues @BerlutiKathryn @MontanaPloe @heather_doh (and others!) assessed psychopathy in a quasi-representative sample.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

The baby is sick today. She has a new word - why? - and she uses it when she's in distress, so when she's sick she snuggles up against me and whimpers "why? why? why?" and it is heartbreaking.

When she was three days old we got a preliminary test result suggesting she didn't have a functioning immune system. Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID); you probably know it as bubble boy disease. The doctors told us it was probably a false positive and not to worry too much while they ran the followup tests. I immediately started worrying, of course. Sure, probably a false positive. But how probably? What were her prospects, if she was immunodeficient? SCID is treatable these days, 95% survivable if you catch it soon enough, but babies have better odds if they don't get an infection before their bone marrow transplant, so we started planning how we'd keep her safe until then. A week later we got the followup test result. False positive, like they'd told us it would be. No immunodeficiency. She is sick and she will fight it off and be completely fine.

There are five hundred thousand kids who PEPFAR provides HIV drugs that keep their immune system working. AIDS kills babies very quickly if they aren't on antivirals. Two to six months, which is also about when most babies with SCID die. It's about how long you can make it in this world without an immune system.

I've spent a lot of time yesterday and today in the shower - the hot steam helps the baby - cradling her to my chest while she whimpers "why, why, why?" and knowing that she will be completely fine. The world where this cold could have killed her feels like it is terribly nearby. The children that immunodeficiencies do kill don't feel very far away, either.

There are a bunch of people in my mentions on the PEPFAR post that seem to imagine that empathy is a limited resource, that if we care about the distant dying children we cannot care about our own. This is not my experience. To love another person, particularly to love a child, is to hate disease, to see it clearly as humanity's oldest enemy, to wake up and fall asleep determined to destroy it. I want to end the common cold. I want to end HIV. I want to end every immunodeficiency out there. I want this selfishly, greedily, desperately. There is no altruism in it and no philosophy. Disease is the enemy and I want to watch it die. It is my enemy, and it is your enemy, and it is on the retreat. I am not asking for your empathy. I am asking you to fight.

[Mud Wizard (87/100 days 3hr+ practice) @IkkyusDen]

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[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

@algekalipso @ifonlyalabama You can also book a call with me if you like! https://t.co/JlVYoRsgIh

[Tiffany @MultimediaMage]

After about 2-1/2 years of self-work I get the bonus of finally understanding the weight that shame puts on people.

I find shame pretty abstract and goofy. People can make you feel bad and that changes how you feel about YOU?! Whaaaat. It'd make me miserable but I'd still be me.

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

Friends who have the sort of relationship with their parents where, if one of them dies, their first thought is what time and whether they have an alibi.

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

@psychgenomics @richdobson @KingsIoPPN Awesome work! Is a version with the latest models forthcoming? Ty!

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

@ifonlyalabama @algekalipso Thanks for highlighting me! I take a recovery-focused approach to NPD.

Me with M.E. Thomas (psychopathy) and Daniel Ingram: https://t.co/NbfsSwMgsO

One of many relevant blog posts: https://t.co/gJG9IjsJVf

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

@MuseOfNeon The pleasure is mutual! Love you! 🤗

[Dawn Drescher ⏸️ @Telofy]

A little chat with the lovely @MuseOfNeon 😻

https://t.co/BwYZVuEdGU

#NPD #ASPD #narcissism #psychopathy