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haele

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2. A lot of infatuation with AI is based on the ego-boo flattery...

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2026, 09:13 PM

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I suspect a program telling you you're so smart and agreeing with your every word is very important to those who don't have the self-awareness or self-confidence to deal objectively with a story that's just too good to be true.
The business world and C-suites are littered with people who bought into the Prosperity Gospel/"the Secret" pop theories where success is "visualized", and reality is there to be altered in real time to anything they want it to be.

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There's a Reason Women Aren't Swooning Over AI Like Men Are --- Or rather, a great many reasons [View all] usonian Monday OP

It's not as useful as one would hope. Norrrm Monday #1

Claude refused to make a dump run for me. usonian Monday #4

A lot of infatuation with AI is based on the ego-boo flattery... haele Monday #2

Women have more common sense, in MHO. bamagal62 Monday #3

I've heard both sides of that. usonian Monday #5

All of your points are valid. bamagal62 Monday #6

Yeah, complex. Men do respond to physical danger, or the perception therof. usonian Monday #7

I laugh at the deer comment! bamagal62 Tuesday #8

Totally agree. usonian Tuesday #9

Women not only deal with larger beings that we need to be wary of, wnylib Tuesday #11

My wife had an evening shift as an R.N., so I got to be MIster Mom for a while, and I felt that responsibility. usonian Tuesday #13

I agree that culture affects us a.lot, not only in wnylib Tuesday #15

As a gross generalisation, I suspect many men have come up in a "fake it until you make it" corporate culture meadowlander Tuesday #10

Have the goods? usonian Tuesday #12

My sister used Chat GPT to redecorate her house iemanja Tuesday #14

I use it everyday Polybius Tuesday #16