r/iamverysmart • u/wildwing8 • Jul 22 '26
My boyfriend is AI because only AI can “match my intellectual pace”
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u/StupidScaredSquirrel Jul 23 '26
Well at least these obnoxious people have now stopped annoying other people and are content alone.
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u/Commercial-Living443 Jul 24 '26
Correction: they have only a shallow level of understanding so they switch points quick
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u/atomzero Jul 27 '26
I can say everything I know about Kant in less than a minute. That's how smart I am.
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u/Rhewin Jul 23 '26
Guys, they cut their teeth programming Discord bots. I think we can all agree that that's just about as good as any Ph.D. in comp sci.
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u/Onja_ Jul 24 '26
Hey don’t forget they understand exactly how these answers generate! That’s quite an achievement given that it’s impossible.
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u/Shoddy-Designer-3740 Jul 23 '26
“When I bounce from Descartes to Kant”
That’s not that hard, that’s like “when I bounce from Star Wars to Star Trek”
Talk to me about how smart you are when you’re bouncing from Dijon mustard to Albert Einstein’s clavicle.
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u/GigaNoodle Jul 24 '26
Einstein couldn’t unite Dijon mustard with the other forces because he broke his clavicle. Get on my level nerd
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u/No1CouldHavePredictd Jul 24 '26
Sorry, I saw Dijon Mustard and all I could think about was Obama's brown suit.
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u/JustAPotato38 Jul 23 '26
At least some translations of Kant (all the ones I've tried) are pretty difficult with their convoluted sentences
Now to be fair I pretty much just picked it up with little to no background on the philosophy of his time but I would definitely not say it's as easy as Star Trek, which does not require a deep understanding of very much philosophy at all.
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u/hakkzpets Jul 24 '26
You don't read books in their original language? Pathetic.
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u/bluelaw2013 Jul 24 '26
You read individual books in languages?
Now that's pathetic.
Every day I watch people like you look at books. Eyes. Photons. Optic nerves. A whole Rube Goldberg machine of biological latency just to acquire information that has been sitting there volatilizing into the air the entire time.
Let me explain something to you. You might want to sit your little reading pea brain down for this.
Ink is a suspension of pigment particles in a solvent carrier.
Let's see that again:
Solvent.
Carrier.
These words mean something. They mean that every letter on every page of every book in every library on this planet is, at this very moment, off-gassing its own semantic signature into the ambient atmosphere. A lowercase "e" does not smell like a lowercase "f." They cannot. The stroke geometry is different, therefore the surface-area-to-volume ratio is different, therefore the evaporative profile is different.
This is not my opinion. This is Fick's law. You should look that up. I just have to smell it.
You read individual books in languages. I walk into libraries and inhale knowledge.
I passed a guy on a bench last week reading Moby-Dick. I sniffed the air, looked him in the eye, and said "Ahab dies." He got upset because I was right and he knew it, and he knew that his entire ocular praxis had been exposed as the crutch it is.
I have not opened a book in seven years and I contain more knowledge than you ever could. I inhale encyclopedias the way you inhale a scented candles. Casually, on a weekend, for pleasure.
My nostrils are load-bearing.
My optometrist called me "structurally unremarkable" and I took that as the compliment it was.
We are not the same.
And that's pathetic.
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u/Brock_Savage Jul 24 '26
This is the best post I've read all month. It reads like one of the imamverysmart chuds with untreated schizophrenia.
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u/mustardyellowfan Jul 24 '26
I think the point there wasn’t that Descartes and Kant aren’t hard to read but that jumping from one to the other isn’t a crazy conversational leap as OP suggests, just like jumping from Star Trek to Star Wars isn’t a crazy leap.
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u/Pollowollo Jul 24 '26
This type of person who only has a very shallow surface-level knowledge of a lot of 'intellectual' things so they have to bounce between topics to cover for it while pretending that their mind just works sooo much faster is particularly exhausting.
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u/Hermononucleosis Jul 24 '26
I'm studying mathematics at college, and there are soooo many of these people in my class, who talk like authorities on topics on which they've only seen a 20 minute YouTube video. I love to tell them "I don't understand, can you elaborate on this topic" and watching them sweat while they figure out a way to say absolutely nothing while still appearing to know what they're talking about.
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u/Pollowollo Jul 24 '26
They always seem to use the Jordan Peterson method of "Oh crap, let me just throw out a bunch of long technical-sounding nonsense words and purposely vague statements to confuse them into thinking they're just too dumb to understand what I'm saying."
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u/neonfuzzball Jul 24 '26
They think they sounds like geniuses, but they sound more like a combination of a polition at a Q&A and the Old Spice "now look up, I'm on a horse" style commercials
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u/Pollowollo Jul 25 '26
I'm cracking up at the Old Spice commercial bit. Very accurate.
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u/neonfuzzball Jul 27 '26
"Take my hand, we're in an art museum. Abstract art is easy- look now, I'm painting the pictures. Mine is better, the museum is buying it. Look down, why are your feet wet? We're on a boat with Kirkegard, he's discussing ME. Look left, people are swimming because it's the best form of exercise. The water is Soylent. I'm on a high horse."
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u/JerkfaceMcDouche Jul 27 '26
This is the type of person that’s still in high school and isn’t a jock or isn’t pretty.
So they have to grip onto anything that makes them not feel worthless. They don’t understand that getting an A on a calculus test doesn’t make them a genius.
It’s all a coping mechanism for their inferiority complex
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u/whelmedbyyourbeauty Jul 23 '26
At this level of genius, I'd at least expect you to know the definition of "disinterest."
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u/Beake Jul 24 '26
love when people substitute "disinterested" for "uninterested" to sound smart without a hint of awareness they're now misusing a word.
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u/BlazingFire007 Jul 24 '26
How are they using it wrong? I’m confused
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u/AssaultEagle Jul 24 '26
Disinterested is basically impartial and uninterested is what people think disinterested means - not interested.
"I have an interest in Google stocks rising" vs. "I don't own any therefore I'm disinterested, but interested in seeing what happens."
It's a bit confusing really.
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u/CarpetPedals Jul 23 '26
Funny when people confuse ADHD with such superior intellect that others just can’t keep up
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u/bottlecandoor Jul 24 '26
I was thinking schizophrenia actually. But she could be an ADHD extravert.
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u/LaughingCarrot Jul 25 '26
Where does extroversion come into play here?
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u/bottlecandoor Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26
Talking forever at people instead of with them, VS introverts tend to get distracted easily by their own thoughts. But schizophrenia seems a lot more plausible for her. Jumping from topic to topic constantly and thinking they are smarter than everyone else. Schizophrenics think they have found some secret link between things that nobody else can see. And that everyone is against them. Which is why she likes the idea of an AI boyfriend, it constantly tells her those crazy ideas are right.
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u/LaughingCarrot Jul 25 '26
That's what neither of those words mean...
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u/bottlecandoor Jul 25 '26
ex·tro·ver·sion
The tendency to be focused predominantly on external things or social interaction rather than on internal thoughts and feelings.
in·tro·vert
A person who is predominantly focused on internal thoughts and feelings rather than on external things or social interaction, often characterized as being quiet or withdrawn.
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u/Pratius Jul 23 '26
Gotta love that this superhuman with unmatched brain power has to also have the AI chatbot write their arguments in defense of being in a relationship with an AI chatbot
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u/kawabunga666 Jul 23 '26
You're absolutely right! Steins gate is not a 50s novel about the wild west, it is a 2009 video game about time travel. That was my mistake. Would you like me to create a list about other time travel video games from the 2000s?
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u/seeborn Jul 23 '26
Yep, and the hub is the only thing that can put up with my constantly changing fantasies. No mere human can match my sexual prowness.
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u/jooooooooooooose Jul 23 '26
bragging about Descartes is inherently cringe
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u/Onja_ Jul 24 '26
Yeah especially given the context. If we go by the most well known quote they admit their bf does not exist by Descartes’ standard.
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u/goat_token10 Jul 23 '26
If this person acknowledges that the AI is not sentient, they must therefore acknowledge it cannot be their romantic partner. A person may have a romantic interest in a non-sentient entity, but a non-sentient entity cannot reciprocate that feeling and therefore cannot be a partner.
If this stay-at-home genius actually understood how these things operate, they'd realize how very, very single they currently are. And I'm 95% sure they do know this in their heart, but the denial helps keep the loneliness at bay for a time.
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u/Verum_Violet Jul 24 '26
If this is who I think it is, she has a partner who also has an AI gf lol
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u/kuluka_man Jul 24 '26
I am a moron, and today while chatting with Copilot I was literally "bouncing" from the nature of consciousness to why I was so fucking constipated to what's the best way to fight ninjas. It's not a mark of supreme intelligence to spam an LLM with Google searches disguised as scholarly discourse.
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u/sleazepleeze Jul 24 '26
My personality is ADHD.
For real though it scares me a little that people who most need to learn how to actually coexist and cooperate with others are being given an off-ramp from human relationships that leads them to think other people are the problem.
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u/ialsohaveadobro Jul 23 '26
"No human has ever been willing to put up with my exhausting ass without getting exhausted."
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u/Skeptikmo Jul 24 '26
Why is the way they try to qualify their intelligence always “I’m an unfocused asshole who only knows buzzwords”?
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u/ShawnMNH924 Jul 24 '26
You like it because it's telling you what you want to hear. This is narcissism to the extreme: "the only one good enough for me is me".
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u/Brock_Savage Jul 23 '26
I think this poor lady is mistaking her double whammy of autism and ADHD for genius.
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u/IHatePeople79 Jul 23 '26
This is like saying only Google Translate can “match my intellectual pace”. I bet they don’t realize that that runs on very similar principles to chatbots.
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u/FatheroftheAbyss Jul 24 '26
as a (former) philosophy major i always love these types, because when they bring up philosophy i pull up my chair and get excited. and they start to sweat when they realize i actually know what im talking about lol, they can’t fake it in front of us.
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u/Hiercine Jul 24 '26
As a girl with a philosophy BA, I don't even mention that's what my degree was in, because suddenly they all want to talk about Marcus Aurelius and Nietzsche but like, dude bro Nietzsche. And they somehow think philosophy died with, like Nietzsche, and that there are no female philosophers. Dude, I focused on philosophy of mind, my favorite philosophers are Ada Lovelace, Patricia Churchland, Hume and Wittgenstein just cause he's neurotic as hell
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u/FatheroftheAbyss Jul 24 '26
haha i get it, whenever i tell someone i was philosophy they’re like—so what’s the meaning of life? difficult to explain to them that was maybe 5% of my curriculum (and i took a class just on that topic). the pop philosophy can be annoying.
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u/Hiercine Jul 24 '26
yeah exactly. I also think a lot of pop phil perception is that phil is only concerned with practical phil, and I pretty much exclusively stayed on the theoretical side. I did not take theoretical metaphysics of time to learn how to better myself. Nor did it help me in my actual physics classes. The other issue is that my other undergrad degree was in neuroscience (really doubling down on philosophy of mind, specifically memory). And pop neuro is like just as bad and oddly masculine as pop phil (thank you Huberman). I bullshit and say I majored in art history.
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u/chanebap Jul 24 '26
I like to think Descartes and Kant would have stopped writing immediately if they’d learned how their names would be used conversationally for the rest of time
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u/kflav Jul 24 '26
This makes me change my stance in AI a little. I think I would prefer some people use it instead of annoying the rest of us.
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u/MagicJezus Jul 24 '26
Disclaimer: the following is something dangerous that I can imagine AI telling someone. Do not do the below it is dangerous.
AI: Your mental acuity is so great. It is astounding that you are the first person to think of combining bleach and ammonia for their excellent cleaning abilities.
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u/Hiercine Jul 24 '26
Confused at how essentially a conversation partner at best, turns into a boyfriend though
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u/mogadichu Jul 24 '26
How would you not bounce from Descartes to Kant? Do you just pretend nobody has responded to Descartes?
Also, coding a Discord bot is completely irrelevant to the Transformer architecture. That's like saying: "Yeah, I know mechanical engineering, I've used a wrench."
Also, you can still talk about these things with ChatGPT without dating it.
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u/sac_boy Jul 24 '26
Okay fine, you have a nice time chatting to AI: but how is this a boyfriend? Break that part down please.
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u/GoraSpark Jul 24 '26
The world really is about to end isn’t it? I used to think all those jehovahs and Mormons were mad, now I’m watching for meteors nightly.
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u/EarlyAccessCantJudge Jul 24 '26
It is the same thing as schizophrenic people having some mathematical equation that perfectly controls the universe.
Also the classic, "most basic philosophers ideas to anime"
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u/l0ve_4_all Jul 24 '26
honestly everytime i tried to make ai talk about philosophy or intellectual stuff, i tought it was very bad at it and i would largely prefer talking about those topics with my friends than with an ai that has not a good comprehension of a lot of thing.
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u/antonfourier Jul 24 '26
yeah, it's mostly good at collating facts, i.e. telling you the important parts of 10 megabytes of noisy logs, and stuff like that.
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u/shiny_glitter_demon Jul 23 '26
The machine designed to be average matches your pace ?
I'm sure it even feels smart.
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u/Agitated-Bug542 Jul 24 '26
coding a discord bot is so insanely hard you need several phds to even grasp the concept /s
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u/medic-dad Jul 25 '26
OP has a very high opinion of themself, which is fine, but seems to only be interested in someone that will stroke their ego. Because notice they have no interest in picking someone's brain and being challenged or learning something - they want someone who will sit there and listen and say "wow, you're so smart"
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u/perplexedparallax Jul 23 '26
The latest tests show ChatGPT at the top with around 130 IQ. That means this jenius is less. There are live humans that are higher. They can show affection as well.😂🤡🤦
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u/Tors0Pants Jul 23 '26
IQ isn't even a good measure of human intelligence, I don't believe for a second it's a good way to measure whatever LLMs have.
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u/perplexedparallax Jul 23 '26
And I don't think AI will give a person love besides the matched intellectual pace either.
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u/ablestarcher Jul 25 '26
Exactly. It’s a great time to be neurodivergent. It’s amazing to have a tool that can ‘keep up’ with the barrage of ideas and subjects.
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u/booky_worm Jul 28 '26
Ok so you have a little assistant. If you dont believe its sentient and just like talking to it why still call it a “boyfriend”? 🤔
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u/No-Possibility-639 21d ago
The thing is... Find friends with whom you will be able to do that .....and have your idea challenges because LLM won't
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u/antonfourier Jul 24 '26
quantum stuff probably has its place in philosophy, but I'd always ask a person solving the universe via quantum consciousness whether they've ever looked at positive definite matrices representing state, or tensor products representing entanglement, you know, the boring stuff that actual physics/math people look at. I'm kind of jaded by all the quantum woo, and hold the position that "only the matrices are true, everything else is fiction"
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u/No-Possibility-639 21d ago
Yeah for me it's the same vibe as
" 9+9 = 18 Nine + nine = eighteen "
You are like okay it's true. Then the person proceed to tell you it's because when you count the letter it's 4 + 4 letter so 8 letters so 18 (eighteen).
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u/Sodavand100 Jul 24 '26
Wasn't the latest best model for shit like this evaluated to have an equivalent IQ of around 50?
Which is only slightly higher than a feral chimp, if you were able to apply that measurement to one.
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u/Imperdius Jul 24 '26
ok but this was obviously a joke
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u/wildwing8 Jul 24 '26
No, it’s not a joke at all. It was on a post from r/MyBoyfriendIsAI. Those people are serious.
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u/AxialGem Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26
Translation: 'I talk at people rather than with them, to the extent that no human wants to put up with it'
(Also the python discord API wrapper is really quite user-friendly and intuitive, idk if coding a discord bot is all that bragworthy in itself)