alt Hacker NewsOne of the most reliable ways to induce psychosis is prolonged sleep deprivation. And chatbots never tell you to go to bed.
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delecti • yesterday at 8:43 PM
It's funny that you frame it that way, because it's the mirror of (IMO) one of their best features. When using one to debug something, you can just stop responding for a bit and it doesn't get impatient like a person might.
I think you're totally right that that's a risk for some people, I just hadn't considered it because I view them in exactly the opposite light.
r2_pilot • yesterday at 8:51 PM
Claude will routinely tell me to get some sleep and cuddle with my dog. I may mention the time offhandedly or say I'm winding down, but at least it will include conversation stoppers and decrease engagement.
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Hm. It shouldn’t be too hard to add something to models to make them do that, right? I guess for that they would need to know the user’s time zone?
Can one typically determine a user’s timezone in JavaScript without getting permissions? I feel like probably yes?
(I’m not imagining something that would strictly cut the user off, just something that would end messages with a suggestion to go to bed, and saying that it will be there in the morning.)