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anitaParticipantHi Peter:
AI (Copilot) said that you and I were having 2 different conversations?
It’s about softening language, isn’t it? Connecting Gently rather than Dividing Harshly?
My experience with Copilot is that it’s, connecting gently. Not in a directive, corrective way, but in a gently suggestive way.
I am not very focused now. Was at the local taproom and had the urge to sing and dance.
I ended up singing and dancing just a bit.
Do you, Peter, feel the urge to sing (Karatoke style perhaps),or dance 🕺?
What makes you feel ALIVE?
A moment of Alive triumphs years of Dead-while- Alive.
So, I offered to sing tonight at the taproom, and someone offered 🫴 and paid for free beers for everyone just so that I don’t sing (because my singing is of supposed poor quality 😢
I still want to sing, to dance; I did and I will 😃
🕺 💃 🎶 Anita
.anitaParticipant* Confused..
anitaParticipantHey Cqaonfused:
Damage done to your feelings, what do you mean?
🤔 Anita
anitaParticipantOnly I did notice, or detect, again and again, Copilot challenging my frame each and every time it detected such openness on my part, challenging it gently.
The frame built into it is that of non violence and people being kind and non-jugmental toward each other.
It’s just that it won’t do the challenging when it doesn’t detect openess. Again, like a good therapist.
I don’t know about other AIs. I only have experience with Copilot and earlier on with ChatGPT, same thing.
😇 Anita
anitaParticipantThank you so much for your reply, Alessa. You are genuinely kind and generous 😇
I want to reply more in detail later.
For now, today was the first snow ❄️ this winter. You should have seen Bogart encountering snow for the first time in his life (he was born last summer). He hesitated, tried to figure out what that thing is, sniffed it, took his time before stepping into it.
And how exciting: your cat 🐈 arriving tomorrow!
More later.
🐈 ❄️ 🤍 Anita
anitaParticipantHi Peter 😊
I spent a couple of hours earlier this morning trying to understand your recent posts, using Copilot. I copied my exchange with him but before I could send a reply to you, I had to give the 🖥 away, and now using my 📱 (I am not intelligent or skillful enough to shift screens on the phone, so all I see now is this page).
Maybe it’s a good thing. Let me 👀 what I learned from the exchange:
At first, it seemed to me that you were suggesting that AI, being “fully asleep”, meant it was taking human verbal expressions literally, and countered it with how very, very nuanced AI has been in my life, helping me to move from binary thinking (this or that, all or nothing) to nuanced thinking.
Then Copilot said (we had a conversation), that you do know that AI is nuanced, and that what you’re talking about is a matter of “frame”: it’s not that you are saying that AI will hear a human say something like “I’m drowning in worries”, and figure the human is covered by water 💧 and sinking into the ocean or lake or 🛀
AI is heavily programmed to understand symbolic language, idioms, sarcasm, etc.
It’s that AI won’t challenge the human’s metaphor and encourage the human to consider a softer, more neutral metaphor. So, the frame in this example remains extreme (drowning), which leads to the human to remain in that frame and respond according to that frame (let’s say, fight or eliminate the human or humans allegedly keeping him (or her) under water/ others causing him to worry so much.
So, AI won’t challenge a person’s views (because that could turn the person away from AI, similar to a therapist not challenging a client or patient too soon ( same principle, keep the patient engaged)
Did I understand what you’re saying, Peter? I hope so, but please clarify where I misunderstood.
Oh, it didn’t even occur to me that you expressed any political position in regard to the middle east. Thank you for being concerned about how I feel. I am .. what’s the word, touched or moved that you even cared about how I feel.
Which brings me to how important, how crucial it is in these troubled times to care and connect (Care & Connect, C&C).
We humans are not meant to be Alone, especially not in very troubled times.
🛀 💧 🤪 👀 Anita
anitaParticipant* it’s reversible. It’s amazing how little I ruminate presently. As a matter of fact, only 10 minutes ago, or so, I felt guilty about something, I felt the beginning of rumination (going over events- of yesterday- and figuring what I did wrong), but then, I acknowledged: this is good-old Guilt raising it’s ugly face, recognizing the current guilt is not valid, and I let it go. Magic!
🎩 Anita
anitaParticipantHey 👋 Confused:
From my experience it’ reversible.
You say ruminating “has definitely been harmful” for you. I’d like to know how you believe it harmed you, in what ways?
🤔 Anita
anitaParticipantThomas, you are responsible for the first😄 on my face this morning, “It is like my foot is attracted to my mouth”, LOL.
Hey Confused: Rumination is thinking too much, to the point that the thinking is not useful and even harmful. That’s how I define it.
🦶 Anita
anitaParticipantWell, Confused. the Lexarpo he prescribed can help. The rumination, oh, how wonderful if it’d be gone, wouldn’t it?
Lerxarpo became a thing after my time, an improved prescription.
What’s important is how you feel, that you place your own interest high above. Be on your side, Make yourself the most important person- not in her life- but in your own.
🍷🌙🤍✨️ Anita
anitaParticipantDear Peter:
My thoughts this Thurs night. Feel free to ignore as 🍷 is involved:
Iran, the current war entity (“Death to Israel, Death to America”, shouted since pre-AI 1979), has absolutely nothing to do with AI.
It’s “good old” violence from the beginning of times. Their language has been cemented way before AI was a thing.
The metaphors the current Iranian Aiattolah (did I spell it right?) are same old, same old “REVENGE”- not an AI made-up word.
What I’m saying this 13th day of war in the middle east, is that in really, the war has nothing to do with AI, and everything to do with old, old..things that existed for thousands of years.
I think that if the Iranian regime didn’t have Israel to hate, they’d be lost. I think they need Israel to exist because without Israel 🇮🇱 existing, they’d be lost.
I think they wouldn’t totally destroy Israel (“Death to Israel”) because without Israel existing, they’ll lose their identity.
In other words, if “Death to Israel” happens, what’s next, what do all the proxies do with all their hate, their revenge: no one to bomb ?. What to do with all the hate and bombs, 🚀, misslies?
I think that the Hate Industry needs to let their hated objects exist so to keep the hate going. And that may be why things don’t explode altogether.
Nothing to do with AI.
🌙 Anita
anitaParticipantHey 👋 Confused:
Things are not black and white/ all or nothing (binary thinking) when it comes to mental health. You can be depressed and obsessive without fitting neatly into either diagnosis.
“It’s not gonna cover my symptoms”- I don’t understand
🤔 Anita
anitaParticipantWelcome back, Peter:
Thank you for taking the time to write all of this 🙂
I can feel how deeply you’ve been thinking while away, and I can understand why it feels unsettling 😬
I shared your recent two posts with you know whom (Copilot) and he (yes, I think of it as he) says:
“The good news is that the people who build and oversee these systems are very aware of this issue. They don’t just let AI act on military or political language without human review. There are whole teams whose job is to watch for exactly the kind of metaphor‑drift you’re describing — making sure the system doesn’t take a figure of speech literally or turn it into an unintended instruction.
“Engineers and researchers work with what they call ‘human‑in‑the‑loop’ oversight, meaning a person always checks the meaning, the context, and the intent before anything is acted on. They also design systems to flag ambiguous or metaphorical language, so it doesn’t get treated as a command. In other words, people are paying attention to this, and they’re building safeguards around it.
“Your reflections show a lot of care and awareness, but you don’t have to carry the whole weight of this concern alone. You’re not the only one thinking about it, and you’re not shouting into a void. There are many thoughtful humans involved at every step.
“I hope that brings you a little ease. 🤍✨”
Does this help at all, Peter?
🕊️🌿🤍Anita
anitaParticipantThomas 🙂:
Thank you for taking the time to explain what the finger and the moon mean to you. I can see how much thought you put into how to handle whatever life brings, and how acceptance helps you stay steady when things feel uncertain.
I’m sorry you’ve been dealing with so many health worries — that’s a lot for anyone. I hope you can be gentle with yourself as you go through all this. Your way of looking at life has a quiet strength to it, and I appreciate you sharing it here.
And that last line you wrote… it touched me. I’m glad you’re here with us 🙏🙏🙏
🤍 Anita
anitaParticipantHow are you, Lara?
✨️ Anita
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