Comment by kleiba
6 hours ago
I'm sorry but for someone who has allegedly worked in IT for 20 years, this guy surely comes across as hopelessly naive, stupid, or possibly both.
6 hours ago
I'm sorry but for someone who has allegedly worked in IT for 20 years, this guy surely comes across as hopelessly naive, stupid, or possibly both.
>hopelessly naive, stupid, or possibly both.
a little disheartening how many people punch down on someone who suffered a mental crisis.
if you ever have a struggle yourself, i hope the people around you support you, instead of calling you hopelessly naive and stupid.
> The Amsterdam-based IT consultant had just ended a contract early. “I had some time, so I thought: let’s have a look at this new technology everyone is talking about,” he says.
Doesn't seem much like a mental crisis to me.
Even the title of the article itself calls him delusional.
>Doesn't seem much like a mental crisis to me.
you are basing this on the introduction? the 2nd sentence of the entire thing? skipping the entire rest of the article detailing exactly how the mental crisis unfolded, including persistent and long-lasting delusions, multiple trips to the hospital, inability to hold a conversation, assault, and an attempted suicide. interesting (and obviously not in good faith) choice of quote!
of course he wasnt having a mental crisis before he decided to use chatgpt. you have to get past paragraph 1, sentence 2.
>Even the title of the article itself calls him delusional.
yes, exactly? delusions and delusional disorder are considered a mental crisis.
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He was hospitalized three times for mania!
Plenty of those in tech - in fact I think it may give people unjustified confidence that they’re more rational than others.
I engage with anti-science behaviours quite a lot (antivaxx, anti seed oils, etc) and the proportion of engineers I see there is staggering.
Probably has a HN account. Perhaps with a lot of internet points.