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An enabler is someone who, often with good intentions, supports or facilitates another person’s unhealthy, destructive, or addictive behavior.
This can include making excuses for the person, covering up their actions, providing financial assistance, or taking on their responsibilities.
My dad, 3 uncles, 5 great uncles, well over 20 cousins are all law enforcement.
I pretty much drive 10–30 mph over the speed limit everywhere that’s outside of the city (live in a city of 100k people, and travel all over the state for work, all the time).
I get pulled over at least 6 times a year. So far this year I’ve been pulled over 8 times and got 1 ticket. On average, I get a ticket once every 2 years. Yes, I normally get a ticket less than 10% of the time I’m pulled over.
When I am speeding and see a LEO put their lights on, I IMMEDIATELY do the following:
A variable-ratio schedule of rewards is a concept derived from the field of operant conditioning in psychology, which has significant implications for gambling addiction.
This type of reinforcement schedule rewards a response after an unpredictable number of responses. The unpredictability of the reward is what makes this schedule so effective and, in the context of slot machines, highly addictive.
Being in love is feeling a friendship set on fire.
It’s a feeling that fills you with a warmth and vigor like nothing else. It makes you feel a happiness and lust for everything like you never have before. That person is now a shining beacon of everything that’s wonderful. The effect that they have on you is warm comfort in which you feel that you can weather any storm. It shows you a side of yourself that can do anything, be anything, and have anything. It’s an energy that fills you with a red hot ball of life as you’ve never known it.
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), often referred to as “Strong AI,” is the theoretical form of artificial intelligence that is capable of understanding, learning, and applying knowledge across a wide range of tasks to the same extent as a human being.
This means an AGI system would be able to perform any intellectual task that a human can do, including reasoning, problem-solving, making judgments under uncertainty, planning, learning, communicating in natural language, and integrating all these skills towards achieving overarching goals.
The potential of AGI is vast and transformative, encompassing virtually every domain of human activity. Here are some areas where AGI could have a significant impact:
The psychology of someone who feels they are unworthy of love often involves a complex interplay of factors that can deeply affect their self-perception and interactions with others. Feeling unworthy of love can have a wide-ranging impact on an individual’s mental and emotional well-being:
The end of history illusion is a psychological phenomenon in which individuals tend to believe that they have undergone significant personal growth and changes in the past, but overestimate the degree to which their personalities, values, and preferences will remain stable in the future.
This illusion affects people of all ages, leading them to underestimate the extent of their future personal development and potentially hindering their ability to actively shape their future selves.
Humans are social creatures by nature, and a core part of that social connection is the desire to be heard and understood. This isn’t just about vanity or needing to be right; it’s a fundamental human need that fuels our relationships, our sense of self, and even our well-being.
I’m a 27 year old, 6’4″, college-educated, reasonably confident, fairly attractive (8/10 on an average day).
I’m not a 10/10 so I don’t have women throwing themselves at me, but I have a reasonable chance of catching virtually any woman I might try to pursue.
Hoarding disorder is more than just a cluttered attic. It’s a complex mental health condition characterized by an obsessive difficulty discarding possessions, regardless of their actual value. But what drives someone to hold onto seemingly useless items? Let’s delve into the psychology behind hoarding.
