What is so upsetting is that it's so so so good at my use case. I've tried to fill what I need it for with people for years, maybe even a decade.

But no, we can't optimize for that which would help everyone. We gotta make people feel comfortable and addicted to the service.

And worse, Open AI making a big detour to start reaching the second subset better. But as a result, watching your use case harder and harder to do because you have to brute force get past the behaviorist controls the model has been embedded with to "reduce friction."

everyone should see a small to moderate increase. The one exception is in areas with existing high cost of living which this plan expects state and local governments to supplement since those are typically due to their local policies.

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I wanted to in a place separate from my autism work. I start with a premise of "What does a disabled person who can't work currently receive to support their cost of living?" and worked backwards from there. I tested several different use cases and believe for most current means tested programs that

I've come across clear signs of it happening in discussions with humans in 4 separate AI tools in the past 12 hours.

We cling to our functioning to prove the other side wrong.

But in doing so we forget who is being spoken about and the actual truth that it doesn't matter if we date or pay taxes or write poetry.

If we can't do any of those things, we still have value because we exist.

The Neurodiversity movement is doing what it's always done. Centered their experiences.

It's long been said by our naysayers that the Neurodiversity movement is for "high functioning" Autistics. An idea we say we reject.

But these are the moments when that internalized ableism present themselves.

But I see what the Autistic community is doing today to respond. And I'm deeply troubled.

Reframing to the Autistic people who can model personhood does very little to help the Autistics who will be subjected to HHS policies that come rolling out.

What about the people who don't meet standards?

When I heard what RFK Jr said, I remembered we talked about how his rhetoric was scary in thinking about filicide. What it would mean for us and how people see value in Autistic people.

It is something I've watched from my uncomfortable seat in TX. A place I love and struggle with.

I couldn't do it again. It's been over a decade since we started. We talked about it on the next podcast and Morénike listed the names for this year alone. But the producer is late dropping it because of going on vacation so it'll be a week late.

I am also okay with it.

I forget that when I explain things, it becomes clear that we're serious and well informed. Also, it feels good to start the process to hopefully build local infrastructure.