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I haven't read Bloom's book, but I draw from other sources. I avoid corporate social media and its "conversations" and have been doing so quite happily for nearly 10 years.

I catch little pieces of it, like this, and it reminds me of why I stay away. I dislike the cluttered analysis and damnation or vindication of human actions and feelings sprouting all over the place; Shame, empathy, envy, anger, whatever the flavor of the month is...

Buddhist philosophy teaches us that we are aggregates of various delusions (and science has come to a similar conclusion). Spontaneous compassion, which can come from anywhere, it can't be "Rationalized," is one of the greatest tools we have for breaking patterns, of exercising a wild detachment from these aggregates, that destroy our society and ourselves.

All the tools, even the maligned ones like shame and guilt, may lead a person to these sorts of spontaneous acts of compassion, not only toward others, but toward themselves (there is ultimately no difference).

However...Of all the malign-able features of the human condition, empathy must be the strangest to hone in on.

The definition provided by Bloom is not satisfactory: The cold and detached act that arises from "imagining yourself in their place" is what some in the therapy field would call sympathy.

The being in the moment and doing what is needed in that moment is empathy, Empathy should be considered derived from compassion, it is the present choice, sympathy, the rationalized, detached choice, is the lesser guide, but of course it can lead somewhere, too.

If the empathy is missing from the effort to help than I doubt, however rationalized it may be, however well meaning the bureaucracy, NGO, or organized effort, that it will be helpful.

This is the first post on social media I have made in about 8 years that wasn't somehow related to tech support. Be merciful.

Hmm, perhaps I spoke too soon. I put the custom code in the character's custom code section. I reloaded the chat tab. Then typed /print in the chat field. It gave me an "Executing custom code" status for a few seconds, but nothing happened. All I have on this browser is Ublock Origin, would that mess it up maybe?

It's a problem with the philosophy of open communities that can only be solved with worse problems, I'm afraid, and I'm speaking as a former moderator, for over 5 years, of a game channel with 10,000+ users in it at any one time.

I don't use perchance's chat feature, but I'm certain you could figure a way to import your own chat frame into the generator. For example, start an IRC channel and import it in, with you and trusted users as the ops, and then ban the IPs of the gross people/Trump supporters/pedophiles.

VioneT, this is exactly what I wanted, thank you so much!

I would just like to take this moment to say how much I love you.

So I created a lemmy account (this is cool, I hate corporate social media, but this is cool) just to post about this. Since your topic was right smack at the top of the forum I figure I won't waste space posting the same thing.

I have a couple very long conversations using the https://perchance.org/ai-character-chat interface, which seems to be the most feature-rich and interesting of the AI text tools on perchance. Thus far I've got about 10mb of text across a few sessions, and like you I've struggled to figure out why the hell the AI gets stuck on itself.

**I'll just list things that I've tried: **

• Using [AI:] and (AI: ) and to be explicit about not using certain words. I've tried many different combinations of these just to see if it helps. You've probably noticed the AI can adopt very quirky and sudden idiosyncrasies for no apparent reason.

• Editing the AI character (evoked with /ai by default) to include banlists of overly used (by that I mean almost every reply) words, often completely nonsensical in their context.

• Including a simple reply instruction, the small field that is auto-inserted before every AI reply, with something like [AI:](Reminder: Do not in any way say, use, write ... with the words X, Y, or Z.)

• Lore. I've tried both including same word blocks in lore txt uploads and in the /lore feature.

• /mem I have gone through the AI mem file and manually deleted every single instance of a word or two I want never to appear on the hunch that it was "reinforcing" itself as above user rightly identifies.

My chats have become infected with "hope" and "pride." The characters are proud of basically everything. I have nothing against either hope or pride in general, but it's maddening. Sometimes the instructions seem to have an effect, but inevitably this happens:

Muggles feels a sense of, not quite pride, she knows she can't be proud, but something a lot like pride, a warm sort of connection that resembles pride.

I almost think the AI is messing with me. I think a simple bandaid would be to allow a hard blocklist feature. I've also tried using the (negative:::) feature used in image making, but this seems to have zero effect.