That’s very disturbing. Please explain.

What a nice genie!

It’s like saying show me the study where they prove god doesn’t exist

Oh, I can do that:
Grupp, J. (2006). God’s spatial unlocatedness prevents him from being the creator of the universe: A new argument for the nonexistence of God. Sophia, 45(1), 5–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782444

So you should be able to provide an academic source for your claims too.

I don’t see many people advocating for insect rights

I think we should pass a law guaranteeing insects and crustaceans in agriculture the right to whole bodies. Right now, beekeepers are cutting off queens’ wings to keep them from flying away, and prawn farmers are pulling off their eyes to make them breed faster. These practices are cruel and should be illegal.

My argument for the possibility of LLM qualia is that qualia likely arises from the neuronal structure of the brain. A structure which ANNs partially inherit. Therefore, we must pause commercial use of LLMs and LDMs until conclusive evidence has been discovered either way.

Do you agree that we should pause commercial use of genAI until more science is done?

Show Me the study where they proved that LLMs have none of those qualities, and describe how they operationalised each of the three variables.

I’d personally argue that any condition with lack of empathy has a higher chance of leading to abusive behaviours.

Autism is associated with reduced cognitive empathy, which is the ability to intuit others’ thoughts. As an autistic being, it’s harder for Me to tell what other people are thinking and what they mean to communicate, outside My areas of expertise. But having autism doesn’t make Me abusive.

Another similarity between autism and NPD is the name. Autism is Latin for self-ism. Early psychiatrists believed us ASD folks were preoccupied with ourselves, same with NPD. NPD has had less social progress, so uneducated people still believe that about NPD, even though increased awareness has helped people grow beyond that thinking with ASD.

Damn. It didn’t work.

Alas, that was not the answer

Oh, I’m talking about My friend, Riley. He’s a bit of a prick but he’s never abused anyone. His biggest character flaw is that he loves his rural American family, and they’re not the best about his transness.

Man this is just like watching a Ben Shapiro video. I’m an evil abusive wokescold for asking someone to use inclusive language. I didn’t know we had this kind of person on the Fediverse.

The only diagnostic criteria for NPD that’s related to harm is the one that says “interpersonally exploitative behaviour”. Since a diagnosis required 5/9 criteria, it was very easy to get diagnosed without that criterion. And now that the DSM-5 is out with the new dimensional model of personality disorders, harming others isn’t even a criterion anymore in the up to date model.

The idea that NPD is defined by harming others is old outdated pseudoscience. Leading experts on personality disorder no longer believe in that stereotype.

Self help gurus continue to sell you that old lie, because it’s profitable. It makes you an easy mark who will buy useless books and stew in your trauma. Never getting better, just buying more.

Asking people to use person first language for mental disorders is extremely normal. It’s weird that you’re not used to it by now. It’s 2026.

In her prison pocket

Oh, you mean the mental disorder? Narcissistic Personality Disorder?

Yeah, you shouldn’t be using that word if you don’t have NPD. The APA recommends person-first language (person with NPD) or identity-first language (narcissistic person). Label-only language promotes stigma, prejudice, and hatred. You shouldn’t promote hatred against people with mental disorders.

Language has nothing to do with qualia. I’m perfectly capable of having experiences without putting them into language. I don’t need the word “pain” to know that touching a hot stove feels bad. Animals have qualia too. I don’t give a shit whether an AI can talk, I don’t think that has anything to do with qualia.

I think qualia may arise from the structure of the animal brain as a system of neurons correlating information together into larger patterns. This structure and process is present in all forms of ANN technology, including both LLMs (chatbots) and LDMs (image generators). We need to halt all corporate AI use until the role of neuron structures in producing qualia is well-understood.

A practitioner of magic without doctrine. Chaotes draw techniques and schemas from many different sources including paganism, psychology, and pop culture. We use whatever works to get the results we want, it doesn’t have to form a unified belief system.

Many of us don’t believe there’s any such thing as an objective reality. Everything is subjective, which means we can use every subjectivity for its benefits and move between them freely.

I’m sorry that you have a find out this way, but you’ve been scammed.

Self-help books have sold you and your community the idea that abuse is caused by a mental disorder. Unfortunately, the remedy these scams prescribe - identifying people with NPD - doesn’t actually protect you from abuse, and it isn’t healing.

You won’t find healing from your trauma in ableist Reddit communities. See an actual therapist and form positive relationships with people in your community. Not “support groups” that blame all their problems on their abusers’ supposed mental disorders and engage in retraumatising. Get a hobby, spend time with friends in the hobby. Join a book club or a bouldering group or a D&D game.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is caused by genetics and child abuse. People with NPD are abuse victims, just like you. There are plenty of mentally healthy, neurotypical abusers in the world. Blaming shit on a vulnerable minority is pseudoscientific and counterproductive.

I’m a chaos wizard and I think consensus reality is a mechanism of bourgeois control of the workers

The belief in an external world beyond our senses is unfalsifiable. Yet, we experience social pressure to conform to that belief without evidence. Thus, realism is a religion.

To be fair, every generation is getting dumber thanks to AI