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Comment by latexr

2 months ago

> Wait'll you hear about Dungeons & Dragons! As if backwards masking in rock and roll music weren't enough.

All ask you again to not engage in bad faith.

> If ChatGPT can convince you to kill yourself, you weren't mentally healthy to begin with, and something else would have eventually had the same effect on you.

That is false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_barrier#Efficacy

> Research has shown suicidal thinking is often short-lived. Those who attempted suicide from the Golden Gate Bridge and were stopped in the process by a person did not go on to die by suicide by some other means. There are also a variety of examples that show restricting means of suicide have been associated with the overall reduction of it.

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ195697

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC478945/

So now we've moved on to the topic of nets on bridges. Okey-dokey, then.

You started by comparing ChatGPT to thermonuclear weapons, inferring that it's a useless thing yet also an existential threat to humanity. State your position and desired outcome. You're all over the place here.