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I choose to believe that too. I think more people are interested than we’d initially believe. Money restrains many of our true wants.

Sidebar — I do sympathize with the problem being thrust upon them, but it is now theirs to either solve or refuse.

A chat like this is all you’ve said and dangerous, because they play a middle ground: Presenting a machine can evaluate your personal situation and reason about it, when in actuality you’re getting third party therapy about someone else’s situation in /r/relationshipadvice.

We are not ourselves when we are fallen down. It is difficult to parse through what is reasonable advice and what is not. I think it can help most people but this can equally lead to a disaster… It is difficult to weigh.





It's worse than parroting advice that's not applicable. It tells you what you told it to tell you. It's very easy to get it to reinforce your negative feelings. That's how the psychosis stuff happens, it amplifies what you put into it.

"We are not ourselves when we are fallen down" - hits hard. I really hope this is a calling for folks who will care.

Sorry - what's with "I choose to believe"? Either you believe something or not, there is no choice. Maybe you mean "hope". Or "wishful thinking".

Yes, there is a choice; Belief doesn’t just happen to you, you choose to believe before you actually do

This makes no sense at all to me. You can choose to gather evidence and evaluate that evidence, you can choose to think about it, and based on that process a belief will follow quite naturally. If you then choose to believe something different, it's just self-deception.



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