Yeah. I made a new friend at our salon who is chatty in the way I think you mean. She was shy at first, perhaps thinking I was a normal man. But now she seems quite free to jump around in the conversation. Push and pop things off the stack, follow and abandon tangents, etc. She's even adopted steel-manning like a champ. She's better at it than I am at this point. But she's rare, I think. Most of the other women who've graced our group exhibit more yin than yang. And we do have quite a few regular women attendees. It's not 50% yet, though. I think we'll get there.
On 1/23/25 2:10 PM, steve smith wrote:
following Marcus' gesture (I think) I find it fascinating that rather than ask the question I have about something I simply offer the "offending' statement (like an error code from a system or a diagnostic of a problem) and let it decide/recognize that I'm asking alternatively for "help troubleshooting" or possibly for "anticipated consequences"... if I don't like the mode it responds with, i can always follow up with something more explicit. it is a little like chatting with a bar friend who is encyclopedic and has limited enough social skills that after I've set him off on telling me everything he knows or has ever thought about some specific topic, I can interrupt him mid-stream and ask him about a tangent leaving the main branch equally with an entirely new topic (connected only in my mind, not in his0 and he will happily push the whole extant convo onto his stack and dive into topic number 2 (or 47.3 in some cases).. notice I gendered this bar friend male. few of my bar friends have ever been female (excepting bartenders) and among those who are female, none have been nearly A-spectrum enough to "enjoy" the hyper enriched, often-disjointed conversations this type of fixation (on both our parts) yields... there are surely women as A-spectrum/nerdy, I just haven't made bar-friends of them? GPT is definitely enough of a man-splainer for it to be hard for me to gender "him" otherwise.
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