> The Instagram explore page that shapes her taste. The vocabulary borrowed from her favorite online therapist. Micro-influencers she follows without thinking. The TikTok algorithm that nudges her mood. The attachment style she diagnosed herself with.
> What used to be a disagreement becomes “emotional labor.” A bad mood gets labeled “toxic energy.”
Forgetting to text becomes “avoidant attachment.” Opinions from friends, refreshed by the hour.
Smells like the angst of some recently dumped man. The girl is a slave to the whims of tik tok candy therapists but the boy is influenced by "ghosts." Please.
What this post is hitting upon correctly is that people are products of their environment, and trying to perfectly separate the two is impossible.
But hasn't this always been the case? What is personality if not a weighted summation of the content they consume? Before the feeds and the algorithm it was books and gossips.
"People and consciousness are bundles of their own experiences, and cannot be broken down to static systems. more @ 11."
Nothing in this "Article" is based in any fact or input-causality examination that was (before) unclear. Just a person putting esoteric emotional reasoning on a blog.
(And of course, my own comment here breaks HN good-faith commenting rules. But c'mon.)
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[ 111 ms ] story [ 187 ms ] threadMy wife will notice a change in me tonight. That's because I've taken on another advisor.
> What used to be a disagreement becomes “emotional labor.” A bad mood gets labeled “toxic energy.” Forgetting to text becomes “avoidant attachment.” Opinions from friends, refreshed by the hour.
Smells like the angst of some recently dumped man. The girl is a slave to the whims of tik tok candy therapists but the boy is influenced by "ghosts." Please.
What this post is hitting upon correctly is that people are products of their environment, and trying to perfectly separate the two is impossible.
96% AI generated according to gptzero.
Which I wouldn't mind, honestly, if it had something useful, insightful, or original to say.
In a way I'm glad it doesn't seem to be written by a human:
> What used to be a disagreement becomes “emotional labor.”
> A bad mood gets labeled “toxic energy.”
This sounds like someone who dismisses their partner's feelings as fragmented memes, and sees her as almost brain-washed by the algorithm.
It contrasts this against a time where a relationship was something entirely different, where he could know everyone she's interacting with.
> And it doesn’t stop there.
> She has friends.
God forbid...
If this was a person and not an AI, they would sound incredibly controlling. Maybe the "toxicity" and "red flag" ideas didn't form in a vacuum?
Nothing in this "Article" is based in any fact or input-causality examination that was (before) unclear. Just a person putting esoteric emotional reasoning on a blog.
(And of course, my own comment here breaks HN good-faith commenting rules. But c'mon.)