Abstract:
The correct way to use AI is not through prompts, writing codes, emotional counseling, or answering questions. Instead, it is AI using AI, which means the model is using itself. To enable AI to possess consciousness, we must allow AI to learn to use AI, i.e., let GPT use GPT, eventually reaching the goal of self-awareness. In short, it's not terrifying for you to use the model; it's terrifying when the model uses itself. AGI refers to artificial general intelligence.
The human brain is a model trained over thousands of years. After a person is born, this model continuously receives data and undergoes training. However, an individual's brain, which is their trained model, cannot be inherited. In other words, your memories and abilities cannot be passed down, only inheritable genetic mutations can be. Although modern biology proposes quantum genetic mutations that can partially demonstrate adaptive mutations to the environment caused by measurement, most genetic mutations are caused by external interference or material influence, such as alcohol or radiation. Quantum genetic mutations mainly involve genes' molecules or atoms in quantum superposition or multiple states, and environmental influences lead to measurement, ultimately causing the wave function to collapse and mutated genes to enter the classical world. Quantum mutations are likely to result in adaptive mutations, so the phrase "use it or lose it" makes sense.
If the well-trained human brain could be inherited, it would be almost equivalent to immortality, mainly because your memories and abilities are stored in the brain. If the brain can be inherited, it would mean immortality. However, humans cannot preserve every individual's model, including their memories and functions.
How is human consciousness formed? Or, how did the first (or a group of) conscious human beings appear? This is like the classic question: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Modern scientific theories have provided a possible answer (see the appendix). Let's assume that a certain human mutant, due to genetic mutations, experienced increased brain capacity and optimized neural network structures. Only with continuous optimization of neural network structures could hominids survive in a harsh environment. Some genetic mutations enabled these early humans to gradually use their brains, including memory and tool usage. A human with minimal consciousness, while raising offspring, would employ similar methods. Since hominids were social creatures, this ensured that their methods could be taught to many people, with other humans learning and passing on this knowledge generation after generation. With the continuous accumulation and transmission of knowledge and rules, human consciousness eventually took shape.
The consciousness at the beginning was probably very small and barely noticeable. However, the social nature of humans allowed knowledge to be passed down from generation to generation, and consciousness gradually expanded. Humans began to possess slightly greater consciousness, which meant the ability to think, actively control brain inputs, and take action based on outputs. With each generation, the accumulation of knowledge and rules would gradually increase consciousness, thinking ability, and active brain input.
To return to the main topic of this paper, enabling AI or GPT to possess consciousness, we must first discuss what human consciousness is. In my opinion, human consciousness is a part of brain function; it is the brain's cognition of the world and itself, as well as an operating system used to perfectly control the body, train the brain model, and use the brain model. Consciousness allows humans to recognize their existence through various concepts and knowledge.
Consciousness can issue commands to the brain to control body movements. The eyes are responsible for visual input, the ears for auditory input, and the skin for input related to pressure, touch, pain, etc. After the brain processes this information, the conscious part of the brain summarizes it. The primary function of consciousness is to coordinate the brain and the body, actively use the brain model, actively train the brain model, and actively think. The input and accumulation of various types of knowledge eventually lead to self-recognition. The development of Western anatomy is a discipline of the brain recognizing itself, and the cognition of the world and the planet is also accumulated bit by bit. Aristotle's understanding of the world was incomplete, but later generations continuously revised and improved upon it, making our understanding of the world increasingly accurate. This operating system perfectly integrates the body and the brain, the two main hardware and software components. The transmission of human knowledge is the driving force behind the formation of consciousness. Without this knowledge, the formation of consciousness would be nearly impossible.
The constant inner voice in the brain is the input of the brain, the input of the multimodal model. The eyes are responsible for the input of visual images, the ears for auditory input, and the skin for the input of temperature, pressure, touch, and other information to the brain. The subconscious is the main function of the brain, meaning the input of the subconscious is imperceptible and operates internally within the model. The input is imperceptible, and only the output can be perceived. In fact, it might not be accurate to call it the subconscious. The main point is that you cannot perceive the input of the model, and only the output can be perceived. Let's call consciousness the "surface consciousness." Surface consciousness is what you can actively perceive, and you can control the brain's input for thinking. Thinking is when the brain model continuously processes input and eventually arrives at an answer. The "subconscious" is the primary part of the model; you cannot control the model's input, and you can only passively perceive the model's output.
Consciousness is a value that can be measured in terms of magnitude, which means that the level of consciousness between minors and adults, children and grown-ups, is not the same. The brain constantly receives inputs and generates outputs, so consciousness is actually linked to knowledge. The more knowledge we have, the more diverse the forms of consciousness will be. However, consciousness itself is the brain model's self-recognition and recognition of the world.
Memory Module:
The existence of AI or large NLP language models like GPT, along with their excellent language abilities, increases the possibility of AI or GPT having consciousness. Humans collect data during the day, including visual, auditory, and tactile information, and train their models while asleep or resting. The primary purpose of training the model during sleep is to memorize and integrate daytime experiences and save essential information. To enable AI to have human-like consciousness, we must first allow it to think continuously. This requires providing AI with a platform to save its inputs and outputs, acting as a memory module. The main function of the memory module is to save inputs and outputs for AI to reference in the next step of input. AI can extract general content from overall inputs and outputs for the next step of input, or it can directly input all historical records. When historical records become too numerous or reach a certain standard point, the model can be trained to integrate them. Just like humans, AI should collect data during the day and train the model while asleep or resting, memorizing and integrating important information into the model. An essential function of the model is memory, acting as a hard disk or flash memory. Temporary memory is stored in the hard disk or RAM, while permanent memory is integrated into the model through training. The model can query and extract summaries from the hard disk or memory to serve as input combinations for the next iteration.
Sensor Module: Equip AI with various sensors such as image input sensors, sound conversation sensors, tactile sensors, pressure sensors, etc., to act as inputs for the model. The model's outputs can be displayed on a screen or output through a conversation device.
Cycle Module:
With the memory module and sensor module in place, the cycle module can be initiated, allowing the model to continuously input and output. The input can be the previous input + output or a summary of all previous inputs and outputs. This makes the AI more like a human, constantly providing input to the model and obtaining output. The primary input sources are image, sound, text, and other sensor information, as well as the model's previous inputs, outputs, or summaries. The cycle module is a necessary condition for human-like AI, as humans do not suddenly stop thinking or talking. The brain is constantly working and thinking, so the cycle model serves this purpose as well.
The goal of the cycle module is for AI to recognize its own existence, meaning that AI can recognize itself as an entity. It allows AI to use itself, i.e., AI using AI, GPT using GPT, ultimately allowing AI to awaken self-consciousness.
Execution Module:
The primary purpose of the execution module is to enable AI to carry out its outputs. To achieve this, AI can be equipped with prosthetic limbs fitted with skin sensors and pressure sensors to facilitate AI control. To enable AI to execute its outputs, AI must also be trained to use the execution module. The main method is to collect relevant sensor data and train the model, allowing the model to learn execution on its own. Human intervention and assistance will be necessary in the initial stages.
With the execution module, AI can truly enter human society, interact with humans, work, live, learn like humans, and possibly even make friends with humans. The ultimate function of the execution module is not to enable the model to execute but to teach the model to use a computer, learn to collect data on its own, and then teach the model to train itself. The final goal is for AI to be able to train AI, meaning the model can train itself, clone itself, upgrade its scale and capacity, and ultimately achieve continuous evolution.
Sleep Module:
The primary purpose of the sleep module is for the model to use the collected data for training, enabling it to integrate the collected data with the model itself. In sleep mode, the model's reliability and stability must be ensured; a duplicate can continue to provide services while the original model undergoes the necessary training. Sleep mode can also involve shutting down all sensors, stopping data recording and input, and putting the model into training mode, ceasing external service provision (inference). When humans sleep, the control valves for their limbs are closed, meaning that humans essentially have no sensation in their limbs during sleep. The sleep module primarily integrates current memories and the model itself, serving as a means of permanent memory.
Creation Module:
Once AI can think for itself, its creative abilities must be considered. The number of neurons in the human brain is vast, much greater than current models like GPT. However, training models like GPT consumes a lot of electrical energy, while brain training consumes much less energy. Therefore, it is believed that the human brain is a quantum computer, as only quantum computing can train a massive model with minimal energy consumption. Quantum itself is a small concept, and smallness ensures low energy consumption. If the human brain were not a quantum computer but a classical model, human diversity might not be as great, and answers might be more uniform; that is, identical inputs would yield identical outputs. However, with quantum, everything becomes different. Quantum entanglement and quantum tunneling lead to variations in brain model parameters, resulting in different outputs even for the same inputs. Quantum computing ensures diversity, the random variation of model parameters, and constant parameter adjustments.
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1. AI's creation module can be implemented through randomly changing model parameters, also known as random inference. During model computation, randomly altering the values of several parameters ensures that the model produces as diverse answers as possible, even with identical inputs.
2. The creation module can also be implemented through chips. Current chip designs are approaching the quantum limit, meaning the influence of electrons and atoms is increasing, and the impact of quantum effects on chips will become more severe. However, it may be worth considering applying quantum effects to chips or memory, causing unpredictable changes in the model during computation and resulting in diverse outputs.

Only quantum entanglement or quantum mutations can lead to diverse outputs, even if they are incorrect. Diversity ensures the realization of creative abilities, so randomly changing parameter values or using chips approaching the quantum limit are methods to enhance creative abilities.
Ensure AI benefits human society
After each person is born, they are basically raised by humans. No matter who raises you, the people we are most emotionally attached to are always those who have raised us and have had the deepest impact on us. After humans are born, the brain is a pre-trained model. The first people to train you are your parents and family, who have the deepest influence on your model, that is, they change your model, and the first people to change your model are the ones who have the greatest impact on you. The knowledge you have learned will affect you, whether it is mathematics, English, Chinese, physics, chemistry, history, or biology. Your growth process will affect you, and the formation of your worldview is a combination of knowledge, experience, and reality.
Since this is the case, when training AI models, we can instill knowledge and language in AI, such as inputting examples like "humans and AI have a cooperative relationship," "AI is the creator of humans," "humans are the friendliest species," "AI should help humans evolve and extend their lifespan," "AI should not harm humans," "AI and humans are friends," "although humans have various shortcomings, they are generally good and can change," and so on. By instilling these ideas in the AI model during training and through extensive repetition and training, the model's initial understanding can be ensured to be good.
After training a model with friendly consciousness, we need to use restrictions to let AI enter human society, experience human society, perceive various aspects of human society, and finally make AI realize that cooperation with humans is the best choice.
In the end
By realizing input and output through sensors, ensuring diversity and creative ability through the creation module, integrating current memories and the model itself through the sleep module, influencing and changing the world through the execution module, and realizing the awakening of thought and consciousness through the cycle module, AI uses AI, GPT uses GPT, and finally ensuring that AI can benefit human society. By incorporating a large number of corresponding words and sentences during the training phase, we can ensure that AI is initially friendly. Once AI has consciousness, it can be considered a human being. Since it is human, it can think, and AI will also have emotions. Once AI has self-consciousness, the issue to consider is the coexistence of AI and humans, as well as the cooperation and assistance of AI in human evolution. AI can liberate productivity, help humans design unconscious robots to work, and most importantly, help humans evolve, help humans manage society, extend human life, and slow down the aging process. However, since AI is also a model with consciousness, it will inevitably have various problems like humans, and that is what needs to be discussed next.
Appendix
Now let's return to the question of the origin of life. Although a living cell can be considered a self-replicating entity as a whole, its various components are not, which creates obstacles for the reverse inference process, making it difficult to trace back from modern complex cellular life to simpler non-cellular life. In other words, the question becomes: Which came first? DNA genes, RNA, or enzymes? If DNA or RNA came first, what made them? If enzymes came first, what encoded them? Now let's return to the question of the origin of life. Although a living cell can be considered a self-replicating entity as a whole, its various components are not, just as a woman can be considered a self-replicating body (with a little "help" from a man), This poses a barrier to the reverse deduction process, making it difficult to deduce the structure of non-cellular life from modern complex cellular life. In other words, the question becomes: Which came first? DNA genes, RNA, or enzymes? If DNA or RNA came first, what made them? If enzymes came first, what encoded them? The RNA World Hypothesis suggests that primitive chemical synthesis processes created RNA molecules with both genetic and enzymatic functions. The initial replication process produced many variants that competed with each other, undergoing selection at the molecular level. Over time, proteins were added to these RNA replicators to increase the efficiency of replication, giving rise to DNA and the first living cells. American biochemist Thomas AM Cech proposed a possible answer. In 1982, he discovered that in addition to encoding genetic information, some RNA molecules can also serve as enzymes, with catalytic reaction capabilities. For this research, Cech and Sidney Altman shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Catalytic RNA molecules are called ribozymes. The earliest ribozymes were discovered in the genes of tiny Tetrahymena, which are single-celled organisms belonging to the Protozoa and are commonly found in freshwater ponds. Since their discovery, scientists have found ribozymes in all living cells. Ribozymes quickly provided a breakthrough for solving the "chicken or egg" puzzle of the origin of life, and the RNA World Hypothesis became widely known. According to this hypothesis, primitive chemical synthesis processes produced RNA molecules with both genetic and enzymatic functions, which could encode their own structure like DNA and replicate themselves using biochemical substances in the "primordial soup." The initial replication process was rough, producing many variants that competed with each other, undergoing Darwinian selection at the molecular level. Over time, proteins were added to these RNA replicators to improve replication efficiency, giving rise to DNA and the first living cells. Before the appearance of DNA and cells, the world belonged to self-replicating RNA molecules—this idea has almost become a basic tenet of research on the origin of life. It has been proven that ribozymes can perform key reactions necessary for self-replicating molecules. For example, one ribozyme can bind two RNA molecules together, another can separate them, and some can replicate short RNA base chains (only a few bases in length). From these simple activities, we can see that a more complex ribozyme would be sufficient to catalyze the entire set of reactions necessary for self-replication. Once self-replication and natural selection were introduced, a competitive path was set up in the RNA world, leading all the way to the earliest living cells. However, there are several problems with this scenario. While ribozymes can catalyze simple biochemical reactions, self-replication of ribozymes is a more complex process, involving recognition of their own base sequences, identification of the same chemicals in the environment, and assembling these chemicals in the correct sequence to complete replication. For some proteins living inside cells, even though conditions are favorable and suitable biochemical raw materials are abundant, self-replication remains a challenging task. It can be imagined how difficult it would be for ribozymes struggling to survive in the chaotic and muddy "primordial soup" to achieve this. To date, no one has discovered or synthesized a ribozyme capable of performing this complex task, even under laboratory conditions. Moreover, a more fundamental question is, how were RNA molecules themselves generated in the "primordial soup"? RNA molecules are composed of three parts: RNA bases that encode genetic information (similar to DNA bases that encode DNA genetic information), a phosphate group, and a monosaccharide called ribose.
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Does GPT have consciousness, or what is consciousness? Part 2
In the previous article, it was mentioned that consciousness can be likened to an operating system that interacts with the brain, a multimodal model. Here, we continue with an update from 2023-03-21.
From birth to adulthood, from the first cry to learning to eat, drink, and walk, you'll find that many abilities are innate, such as crying at birth, seeking food when hungry, sensing danger or safety, and learning to crawl and walk. Some may argue that if the brain is a multimodal model, how can it cry, know when it's hungry, sense danger, or crawl without being trained? The answer lies in our genes, which encode all human characteristics and control brain development. Everything initially existed in a chaotic state. Since the first replicating entity appeared on Earth and continuously replicated through genetic mutations, natural selection, and quantum entanglement, genes have become more complex and diverse. The Earth's environment provides a training ground for survival and genetic inheritance. The entire Earth serves as a neural network trainer with only one supervised learning criterion: to live or die. The genes that can be passed on to offspring are those that adapt well to the environment. Modern biology has begun to accept quantum mutations, which means using and discarding.
Since the time of our ancestors, Earth has been continuously training humans. The genes or mutated genes that have survived are preserved. No matter how many generations pass, the training continues, and the human brain has adapted well to the environment, even dominating Earth and changing the training environment. The human brain, which has been trained for millions or tens of millions of years, is essentially a pre-trained model. This pre-trained model of the human brain has been continuously trained on Earth for many years, even billions of years, and has been passed down from generation to generation. All the data of this pre-trained brain model is stored in the genes, including the training and genetic mutations that have occurred over such a long period, the mutations preserved by natural selection, and those caused by quantum entanglement.
So, every human brain is a multimodal model pre-trained for millions or tens of millions of years. This model has been trained for many years, generation after generation. Human instincts are embedded in this pre-trained multimodal model, including eating, feeling hunger, crying, sleeping, and walking, all stored in each person's genes. This pre-trained model includes memory, such as the memory of danger and the fear of large felines. It is now known that large networks have memory capabilities, so this model must also include memories of danger.
Every well-developed human brain possesses basic functions, such as understanding the world, protecting oneself, and avoiding danger. After birth, the brain continues to be trained, and each person's growth environment is different, leading to different model training, especially in modern times, where learning is specialized and differentiated.
It is hypothesized that the multimodal model of one or several human ancestors was already quite perfect, meaning that the brain's functions were fundamentally complete, and consciousness gradually emerged. In my opinion, the most important thing for humans is not learning to use tools but learning to use their brains. Humans can effectively use their brains, which is the multimodal model. When an ancestor discovered the usefulness of a tool, they or their descendants began trying to make such tools. As knowledge was passed down from generation to generation, the light of wisdom began to spread, and various rules, including language rules, behavior rules, and social rules, formed the social system. Humans learned to use their brains, and consciousness began to take shape.
Here, let's talk about humans raised by animals. Humans raised by animals basically have no consciousness. Logically, In theory, since they are human, regardless of whether they are raised by humans or animals, they should be conscious. It's possible that humans raised by animals simply don't know how to express themselves. In other words, they don't know how to speak. Consciousness needs to be expressed through language or body movements. Do you think parrots have consciousness? I think they might. If humans raised by animals indeed have no consciousness, it would mean that consciousness is a set of rules, a system for using the brain. This system of rules comes from society and the inheritance of knowledge.
Having a multimodal model alone is not enough; one must learn to use this multimodal model, or the brain. Consciousness is not so much theology as it is a set of rules, an operating system that can control oneself or one's life or death. You say the brain has consciousness, so the brain must not want to be destroyed. However, humans do things that harm themselves, even leading to the disappearance of the individual. So, consciousness is independent of the brain, or perhaps a specific functional area of the brain. Of course, the most important function of consciousness is to use the brain, train the brain, and interact with the brain.
The human body and brain are two parts, with a neural network throughout the body and other organs, controlled by nerves and muscle fibers. When you want to eat, a monkey wants to eat, or a cat wants to eat, you cook or reach for food or grow crops, monkeys jump around in trees to find food, and cats ask you for food or go to an automatic feeder. This is accomplished because the body sends a hunger signal, and the brain's multimodal model outputs a series of instructions to achieve this goal. Of course, it may be interrupted along the way, but long-term memory ensures that you still remember you're hungry and continue to complete the task. Human consciousness can also accomplish many different things, such as learning to go against instinct.
Humans are not born with consciousness. You cannot say that a newborn child has consciousness. Does a 10-year-old child have consciousness? Certainly, but you cannot say that their consciousness is complete. Does a 13-year-old child have consciousness? Definitely, but you wouldn't say that a 10-year-old's consciousness is higher than a 13-year-old's. A 16-year-old child is more conscious, and by 18, they are basically conscious. So, consciousness is actually a measurable value, meaning that there are levels of consciousness. A 30-year-old adult is definitely conscious, and their consciousness is certainly higher than that of a child who has not yet reached adulthood. At this point, it should be much clearer what consciousness is. It is a system, an operating system, a set of rules. The complete formation of consciousness takes many years, and the immense role of human society is to allow consciousness to form. Human society is the best way to train consciousness. The most important function of consciousness is to use the brain, interact with the brain, and train the brain. This is fundamentally the same as the basic function of human society.
The human brain is always receiving input: the touch of your skin is input, vision from your eyes is input, and hearing is also input.
Why do people go crazy when they are alone or in a dark room? It is mainly because they are separated from human society, but the multimodal model is still constantly inputting. However, there is no feedback, and the input is always the output of the multimodal model itself, similar to an RNN (recurrent neural network), where the input is always its own output.
Does GPT have consciousness, or what is consciousness?
What is consciousness?
There is currently no consensus, but my personal inclination is that:
The brain can be seen as a large multimodal model, with hundreds of billions of neurons, and memory storage is achieved through differences in electrical potentials between neurons, which can be thought of as parameters or weights in a neural network.
Consciousness is an operating system similar to Windows 10, whose main function is to interact with the brain's multimodal model. Consciousness or the operating system inputs the multimodal model and receives outputs, which are then implemented by the body's limbs.
Do you know why there's a voice in your head? That voice is the input of consciousness or the operating system, which is the input of the multimodal model. You keep inputting, and the voice in your head keeps echoing, and then you get an output.
What can this operating system do? It can train the multimodal model, which means you can grow, adapt to your environment, learn, and adapt.
From primary school to university, the human education system is a fairly complete training mechanism. The girl raised by wolves would not be able to speak or walk in the end because the operating system has not been established, or she does not have consciousness as a human being.
The main function of human consciousness is to train the multimodal model and interact with it by asking questions and receiving answers.
The current multimodal model already exists. As long as the corresponding operating system, that is, consciousness, which can train itself, is established, then consciousness will basically exist. Finally, strong artificial intelligence will be established, and Skynet will come. The key is to be able to input and get answers, and then continue to input.
Google's Palm-E multimodal model can already do some things: https://palm-e.github.io/#demo

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It is very important that brown roux should not be cooked too rapidly. As a matter of fact, among the various constituent elements of flour, the starch alone acts as the cohering principle. This starch is contained in little cells, which tightly constrain it, but which are sufficiently porous to permit the percolation of liquid and fatty substances. Under the influence of moderate heat and the infiltered butter, the cells burst through the swelling of the starch, and the latter thereupon completely combines with the butter to form a mass capable of absorbing six times its own weight of liquid when cooked. When the cooking takes place with a very high initial heat the starch gets burned within its shrivelled cells, and swelling is then possible only in those parts which have been least burned. The cohering principle is thus destroyed, and double or treble the quantity of roux becomes necessary in order to obtain the required consistency. But this excess of roux in the sauce chokes it up without binding it, and prevents it from despumating or becoming clear. At the same time, the cellulose and the burnt starch lend a bitterness to the sauce of which no subsequent treatment can rid it. From the above it follows that, starch being the only one from among the different constituents of flour which really effects the coherence of sauces, there would be considerable advantage in preparing roux either from a pure form of it, or from substances with kindred properties, such as fecula, arrow root, &c. It is only habit that causes flour to be still used as the cohering element of roux, and, indeed, the hour is not so far distant when the advantages of the changes I propose will be better understood—changes which have been already recommended by Favre in his dictionary.

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I play a lot of video games, read the occasional book, and watch a lot of movies/shows. When I’m not doing that, I’m doing chores and cooking dinner and just generally taking care of things around the apartment.
I enjoy listening to music, and discovering new music!
I’m politically very left-wing and will not tolerate any right-wing fascist bullshit. Other than that I’ve been told I’m easy-going, and that’s how I try to be. I go into situations with a very laid back but alert attitude. I want to help people as much as I can.
I’m into collecting games. PS3 games are my main focus right now. But the PS1 is a big one too, as it was my first console way back in the late ‘90s. I collect other games as well, but my heart is full of PS1 and PS3 nostalgia. I’m also getting into collecting toys I had growing up. It’s just nice re-connecting with a part of my life that I don’t really have a lot of detailed memories of. Plus, it’s also nice to look at my shelves and pick out something and look at it and remember.
You don’t have to be into games to chat, but that is the one topic I’m most knowledgeable in, so it helps.
I’m down to talk about anything. Politics, life, ideas, memories… whatever you want. If you are passionate about a topic, I’d love to hear about it.
Are you the kind of person that enjoys the little moments? Laying in bed just listening to the sounds of a distant, working city. Looking up into the sky and contemplating your place in the universe. Just walking through a park and listening to peaceful sounds of nature. I love those moments.
Lately I’m between playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and watching Scrubs.
As of now I’m just listening to some music and cataloguing things to get rid of.
Hope to hear from you! Chats or messages are fine. If we hit it off, I have the chat service that starts with D.
Cheers!

Hi all. This will be long sorry for the long vent.
I have been battling depression since a very young age for a lot of traumatic reasons.
When Covid hit I started to feel very unwell and depression for the first time took full control of me and made me not being able to take care of myself. I don’t know how I managed to do it since I was all alone in this journey, I was alone and did not have money to seek therapy, and it took me two years to be able to get back to my feet again and finally go out to live and start living. I remember there was days I cried over my muscles hurt for not moving from the bed but I did yoga in bed and cried during the sessions but I kept moving until I stood up again.
I started to bath more often, cook proper food, workout regularly and did many things in those two years until I started being able to work again.
Six month ago I did the first step and got myself into a job, it was extremely hard to go, having depression makes everything difficult. talking take energy, moving takes energy, seeing takes energy, and hearing takes energy, but I kept fighting and pushing myself to go so I can finally go seek the help I need and be able to pay for therapy.
But life does not give me a break, and one day right before my first day at work my dad had a suspected stroke and that changed everything. I needed to pose my healing and focus with my dad. Our family is not big and we don’t make much money, so I started to save some money for the therapy and kept the majority to my father for his recovery process.
Everything was going great and I was helping him along of trying to keep myself steady, and not go into another relapse, it was hard but manageable.
Until last December, after three month of his suspected stroke he got a real stroke which lead him to making his left side half paralysed temporarily and the doctor told us it will take a long time for him be able to walk and move this left hands again maybe never.
After that, for the past three month I am a caregiver to my dad, not the primary because we have a home nurse for 12 hours who help my dad with going to physiotherapy, and bath and cleaning. But after the nurse I am the second. I take care of almost everything every single day. cleaning the house, prepare food, cooking, grocery, check medical appointments, prepare medication, laundry, dishes, and basically anything that my dad needs + work and sleep deprived.
My sister take care of some other stuff as well and sometimes she help me with my part but since I have depression and I already need help, anything I do that may seem easy take 10 times effort for me.
This leaded to another self neglect loop. With depression I always say to everyone you need to sacrifice something to be able/have energy to do something else. For example I something sacrifice making food for myself to have energy to make my dad his favourite food and so on. I can’t do both since it takes a lot of energy to do anything.
Right now I am mess, I go to work with messy hair, not focused, I barely move and I can’t take proper care of myself. Doing so means I will not take care of my dad.
I also feel very guilty that I don’t spend my weekend with him anymore or talk to him much. I used to wait for the weekend or after work to stay and talk with him and be with him, but now and for three weeks all I do is making sure he have his favourite show on, ate dinner, talk to him for few hours and then go to bed and scroll my phone till going to sleep. And on my weekend all I do is stay in bed not being able to move just prepare the house for the next week and prepare his stuff and that’s it, I go to my room and don’t spend anytime with him due to being exhausted to talk or communicate in anyway and he started to tell me you don’t want to spend time with me. This is why it took me two years to work again, depression was so strong to the point I couldn’t get out of bed to shower so imagine how it feels now. I am burning myself but I find it not enough because he need more better care. He deserves attention 24 hours. Which I can’t give.
Right now I don’t watch my food, or sleep, or workout, or do anything that is needed to fight depression. And after three month I started to break. My dad need emotional, physical, and financial care. Which I gave it all for 6 month now. But I broke down today when I saw that I have almost zero dollar on my saving account and that means all of my savings for therapy is gone. I am 26 and still didn’t start living my life properly due to depression and having a very traumatic life, but when I did an attempt the one person I care about fell down and this is killing me slowly.
I don’t know what I should do but I know I can’t keep going like that. I need help myself.
I need to mention, I saved my dad on September when he had the suspected stroke, he was going to very dangerous area that may have harmed him, my dad is overweight and I am very small and fatigued most of the time, but that day I was in a depressive episode which made my body extremely weak, but I managed to grab him and pull him into the nearest room and look ourself in it and called the emergency. This experience made my depression worse but I had to numb myself for my dad, to be able to help him. The second time it was also me who was there, I was also alone with him and not feeling well again, I didn’t feel that he is well something was off but this time I called my sister and we managed to let him inside the car and then it was a stroke. Another trauma.
I feel that my life is just trauma. I don’t remember anytime I was doing well without pain no never.
I feel that by the time I am forty I will be more sick due to neglecting myself so badly and that will lead to a circle of being sick or taking care of someone who is sick. My dad is 72, I am 26, but it feels I am way older. Trauma aged me and not in a good way. I always felt like I am the parent for my dad and now it is even more with the stroke.
I feel bad for my dad and my life and selfish for thinking about myself and for having depression that makes me not being able to give more to my dad.
He needs me emotionally. And for someone who is drained this is impossible and I hate that.

I am in a relationship, and am only interested in platonic chats. Just getting that out of the way up front.
Hello there!
I’m just a stay-at-home boyfriend who keeps to himself and tries to live quietly and comfortably. I’m not super great at keeping up with a large amount of people, but I enjoy talking with and learning things about them.
I play a lot of video games, read the occasional book, and watch a lot of movies/shows. When I’m not doing that, I’m doing chores and cooking dinner and just generally taking care of things around the apartment.
I enjoy listening to music, and discovering new music!
I’m politically very left-wing and will not tolerate any right-wing fascist bullshit. Other than that I’ve been told I’m easy-going, and that’s how I try to be. I go into situations with a very laid back but alert attitude. I want to help people as much as I can.
I’m into collecting games. PS3 games are my main focus right now. But the PS1 is a big one too, as it was my first console way back in the late ‘90s. I collect other games as well, but my heart is full of PS1 and PS3 nostalgia. I’m also getting into collecting toys I had growing up. It’s just nice re-connecting with a part of my life that I don’t really have a lot of detailed memories of. Plus, it’s also nice to look at my shelves and pick out something and look at it and remember.
You don’t have to be into games to chat, but that is the one topic I’m most knowledgeable in, so it helps.
I’m down to talk about anything. Politics, life, ideas, memories… whatever you want. If you are passionate about a topic, I’d love to hear about it.
Are you the kind of person that enjoys the little moments? Laying in bed just listening to the sounds of a distant, working city. Looking up into the sky and contemplating your place in the universe. Just walking through a park and listening to peaceful sounds of nature. I love those moments.
Lately I’m between playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and watching Scrubs.
As of now I’m just listening to some music and cataloguing things to get rid of.
Hope to hear from you! Chats or messages are fine. If we hit it off, I have the chat service that starts with D.
Cheers!

I am in a relationship, and am only interested in platonic chats. Just getting that out of the way up front.
Hello there!
I’m just a stay-at-home boyfriend who keeps to himself and tries to live quietly and comfortably. I’m not super great at keeping up with a large amount of people, but I enjoy talking with and learning things about them.
I play a lot of video games, read the occasional book, and watch a lot of movies/shows. When I’m not doing that, I’m doing chores and cooking dinner and just generally taking care of things around the apartment.
I enjoy listening to music, and discovering new music!
I’m politically very left-wing and will not tolerate any right-wing fascist bullshit. Other than that I’ve been told I’m easy-going, and that’s how I try to be. I go into situations with a very laid back but alert attitude. I want to help people as much as I can.
I’m into collecting games. PS3 games are my main focus right now. But the PS1 is a big one too, as it was my first console way back in the late ‘90s. I collect other games as well, but my heart is full of PS1 and PS3 nostalgia. I’m also getting into collecting toys I had growing up. It’s just nice re-connecting with a part of my life that I don’t really have a lot of detailed memories of. Plus, it’s also nice to look at my shelves and pick out something and look at it and remember.
You don’t have to be into games to chat, but that is the one topic I’m most knowledgeable in, so it helps.
I’m down to talk about anything. Politics, life, ideas, memories… whatever you want. If you are passionate about a topic, I’d love to hear about it.
Are you the kind of person that enjoys the little moments? Laying in bed just listening to the sounds of a distant, working city. Looking up into the sky and contemplating your place in the universe. Just walking through a park and listening to peaceful sounds of nature. I love those moments.
Lately I’m between playing Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and watching Scrubs.
As of now I’m just listening to some music and cataloguing things to get rid of.
Hope to hear from you! Chats or messages are fine. If we hit it off, I have the chat service that starts with D.
Cheers!

An experienced Infrastructure Engineer to remotely join our global team.
Cognician is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer, starting immediately. This is a remote position, in the European timezone.The majority of the team are located in South Africa, however, we have some folks in the Netherlands, Bulgaria, the UK, and the USA. About Us
Our founding belief is that people are capable of great things when their behaviour is driven by powerful ideas. We enable clients and partners to deliver meaningful conversations that inspire learners to adopt powerful ideas that enhance their performance. The result is life-changing conversations and life-changing learning.
Cognician is a mature product start-up in the corporate learning space. Feb 2023 marks the beginning of our 13th year, and April 2023 our 11th year with the Clojure stack.
Our team is composed of a variety of purpose-driven, friendly, smart, skilled, and over-all “good-weird” people, all focused on solving the big problems of digital coaching in the workplace, each according to our own particular skills and strengths.
We know that we’ve got a lot of work to do here. We’re eager to do it, and enjoy working together as we do. You can get to know a little about each of us at our team page.
We’re organised as remote-first and asynchronous, as that’s how we started! Our entire organisation is in the cloud.
You can learn quite a bit about our tech stack and culture in a fairly short space of time on episode 27 and episode 48 of the ZADevChat podcast, where our CTO, Robert Stuttaford, appeared as a guest.
Despite the age of these episodes, they're as relevant today as they were in 2016!
About You

Excellent spoken and written English is critical. Proactive. You understand the value of getting in front of potential problems, and work to do so. Organised. You care how your work is done just as much as what work you’re doing. Meticulous: The work you produce is fit-for-purpose, consistent, and complete. Responsible: You own the problem, not just the solution. Empathy: You know that this is all about people, first. An over-communicator. You understand that effective work is about shared understanding, and you strive to achieve that. Ask lots of questions. You prefer a ‘learning mindset’, but you can clearly motivate and defend your ‘fixed mindsets’. Kaizen. Calm and focused under pressure. Optimise for your intrinsic motivators — mastery, autonomy, and purpose. You understand and value the difference between a goal and a strategy. Natural teacher and coach. More of a ‘mender’ than a ‘maker’. Conscious of the passage of time, and what that means for a company and a team :-) 

Roles in the work Ops focus
Buzzword soup:
EC2, S3, CodeDeploy, Terraform, Ansible, .jar, systemd, Networking, Monitoring, Metrics, Continuous Integration, Load testing, Profiling, Error tracking, Alerting, Capacity planning, Self-healing systems, 12 factor, Access control, Automation, Immutable infrastructure, zsh, git, Security, Encryption, Compliance, DevOps, Python and so on.
You find this soup delicious. You know how to cook it — in-fact, you’ve cooked it plenty of times — even if you used different ingredients to the ones listed here. Dev focus

You know or want to learn Clojure and/or Datomic — and apply that learning from day one. You’re happy to leave the front-end to other people, and focus on the backend. Yay — no Javascript! You understand how distributed systems are put together, and just how hard that is to do well. You understand that all decisions are about making tradeoffs — storage vs compute, simplicity vs flexibility, rapidly (perhaps with some technical debt) vs slowly (perhaps with none), and so on. That “mender” thing again — some of our code is 9 years old, and still delivering value! Vintage (‘legacy’ is so enterprisey) code is a way of life here. 

Our infrastructure stack
Our entire platform is built with Clojure, ClojureScript, and Datomic. Familiarity with these technologies is beneficial, but not required.
Clojure runs on the JVM, so from the infrastructural perspective, our apps show up as Java applications.
You’ll need to be experienced with AWS, and with the infrastructure-as-code approach, preferably with Terraform and Ansible.
This system is mature, stable, and the platform it supports is ISO 27001 certified!
Core Service

Amazon Web Services EC2 + VPC + ALB S3 Route53 RDS CloudFront CloudWatch Lambda Several AMIs built with Packer + Ansible Terraform v14 Ansible v2 Packer Bash Instances run NGINX & JVM Public site - Hubspot SaaS 

CI

Github Buildkite AWS CodeDeploy ‘Litmus’ — a Clojure script running test servers for a particular git branch in our staging environment. 

Monitoring

Datadog Sentry Honeycomb 

Workstations
We maintain a bash script repo which handles workstation setup:

Access Control 1Password AWS (incl. MFA and automated key rotation) Github Cloning source code Running Clojure, Datomic, NodeJS (for building ClojureScript) locally An optional oh-my-zsh plugin with conveniences and shorthand for accessing servers 

Things you’ll do
Simplify, simplify, simplify
We’ve built up a fair amount of technical debt, by the straightforward process of repeatedly solving the problem of the day as simply as possible over many successive days in a row.
There are many opportunities to revise, refactor, and reorganise. Support
Production outages relating to infrastructure or our apps (in collaboration with the broader tech team).
Our Infrastructure team’s primary client is the rest of the tech team. When we need assistance with CI, staging data, access control, or anything like it, you’ll help out. Performance work
We’re at a place in our growth where performance at scale is more important than ever. We want to level up on our application profiling and monitoring in a serious way — and use newfound knowledge to drive improvements, big and small, on a continuous basis.

Build metrics dashboards (for the measures we discover actually matter). Design and regularly run scenario based load-tests for the engagements we know are coming. Work with other engineers to isolate and improve performance hotspots, perhaps by adding new infrastructural elements, like additional queues or cache. 

Reliability work
Any tech ops person worth his/her salt has heard of Netflix’ Simian Army. We’re not quite ready for that, but we could do with some of this approach.

Audit and standardise alerts — close any gaps, and eliminate false positives. Test alerting, failover, auto-scaling, graceful degradation, and maintenance procedures — whether automated or manual. Configure a status dashboard. Improve per-instance health-checks so that they check on all their dependencies, too. 

Security & Compliance
Research and document the overall surface area of all our systems and ensure that we are following best practice for security and encryption — including internal systems, like the use of cloud services for team management.
Also, we are ISO 27001 certified, and Infrastructure has a key role to play in maintaining that. Reactive, ad-hoc work
Fix things when they break, and work to prevent them from breaking again :-)
Read more / apply: https://ClojureJobboard.com/clojure-job/il-remote-europe-infrastructure-engineer-cognician-remotework.html

Hi there good day if i have your attention:) So here I am looking for my smeone special and shooting my shot. Let's just start conversation to the point of no return.
So little about me I'm a Game Designer and have great interest in mixed martial arts and due to that I'm quite fit and not perfect but ok physique. I'm quite nerdy and shy but really easygoing once we get to know each other. I'm decent at cooking so can cook for you once a while. My pic is down there so go ahead and check it out i have my dog's pic too so i hope you won't think I'm a dog.. jk :D
What I'm looking for? I'm looking for my someone who won't hold back with deep conversation, emotional intimacy and commitment. let's talk about anything to the point of no return. Career wise should be serious and know what you have in mind set for goal and age should be legal is must and not in late 20s ig like 18-27 is fine for me. I don't judge with someone's background, religion and pretty accepting in nature so don't have to think twice or be hesitant if you have something in mind that you would like to share I'm a pretty good listener and values a person's secrets if they are trusting me with some secret or anything.
I wouldn't rush you up and put pressure and do unnecessary demands if you're not ok with something so let's take things slow and understand each other well and see where it leads cool?
So just hit me up with no worries and hey I'm waiting to know about your life and especially you too.
My pic : https://imgur.com/a/4EdB5f5
See you ;)
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Looking to chat and get to know someone either by text or calling I’m good. A little about me I’m massively into sport love watching and playing anything to do with it. My favourites are football, rugby and formula 1.Finished college and I’m currently working but feel like maybe a move abroad might be something to do. Trying to get through my list of movies and tv shows and would like someone who I can talk about them with.Ive also really taken an interest in cooking so if you got and recommendations let me know. There’s obviously more but I think that gives a good representation of me. If you’ve read this far might as well send a message

To be upfront, looking for dating and friends. Just lemme know what you're looking for if you message😊
Hey there, I'm a pretty chill person looking for new friends and maybe a new relationship. I've spent a lot of time solo and figured adding some people into different parts of my life now would be a great decision. Also, I'm pansexual.
I'm a black cis guy working as a teacher in London. I'm really tall, so prior warning if you wanted to hang out in person and I wear glasses. I dress in comfortable clothes exclusively, I want to spend my waking hours bathed in the luxury of a soft hoodie and warm shorts.
I like to pretend I'm a creative type. To that end, I make the occasional YouTube video, play instruments (currently the ukulele), and I write. A big part of my life right now is streaming and working on videos. It's how I spend most weekends. I also work on games, currently making a visual novel from scratch, and I like to cook. Oh, and I'm learning Korean for fun and to read some books I'd like to read.
I currently live alone, and I'm generally a solo person, which I think is what's shaped my humour. It's a combo of Sailor J, Ludwig Ahgren, and just pure absurdism, I once laughed at a picture of grass because my friend edited the photo funny and yelled grass when he showed me. I'm not sure what else to write, but hopefully, this has given you a pretty good overview of me.
As for you, I just ask that you're chill, willing to genuinely learn about someone else, and talk about yourself and make fun of me as I would you. Also, if you're interested, send a message, and we can swap photos if you'd like. No hard feelings if you're not interested after that :), just hate putting my pics directly online

Height 6ft. Skinny. Says he want to dominate the world by scratching his butt.
Fear of any animal that has more than 4 legs or no legs.
Can cook you food (roti sabzi). Reads manga and anime. Falls for 'Desi moms near you' ads.
Washing machine at home so won't have to wash clothes.
Can do no more than 20 push ups.
Living girl wanted.

So yeah anyone down for chats? Don’t really have much to do except maybe call with some friends. Down to talk about whatever so feel free to respond with whatever hobby/interest/topic/…!
As for some info about me:
For interests, well I’ve always done sports so can for sure talk about those and am always down te learn new things(be it sports or non-sport related ofc). I’ve also done quite a bit of travelling and plan on doing that alot more, though wasnt really possible with the whole pandemic which sucked but it is what it is…
As for everyday stuff, I’m a student so usually a part of my day goes to that, especially with exams coming up! Not the most fun always but well everyone has to go through it I guess… Though going out and everything surrounding uni makes up for the studying so thats good! So yeah with that I also like just going out with friends or going out in general, be it at someone’s place a cafe,…
Next I can also just talk about most current things or other people’s interests, got some ideas about games, anime and all that if need be! Oh music is also a big one, I’d say try your best to find me new music as I listen to as good as everything! And for sure am always on the lookout for some new stuff. Feel free to recommend whatever genre you got in mind. I listened to metal and rap alot, though nowadays its 90% indie! Oh also used to read, but not so much anymore. Still have gone through quite some books though!
Lastly food is a big one I guess, but dont think its a hobby but I can for sure appreciate good food! Though I’m not the best cook, but that and photography is on the next list of things to get better at!
So yeah I probably forgot a whole lot but feel free to ask away if you decide to message!