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People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It’s a Miraculous Cure-All (futurism.com)
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The power of AI.

Long story short, AI initially pushed back on the ridiculous idea that drinking your own piss was a cure all, then these users figured out that adding words like ‘esoteric’ to their prompts let them direct AI to tell them what they wanted to hear.

Tbh article was too gross for me to finish. That’s all you get from me for a summary.

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[–] 2 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

I had to look up esoteric; doesn't it just mean something that's not widely known? Like very specialized knowledge?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    It basically just means "hidden knowledge". It can be used pretty neutrally, one might refer to a largely unknown book about a particularly niche topic as "esoteric". Largely though, it carries a sort of mystical connotation, referring to knowledge that requires a great deal of metaphysical understanding to comprehend. Qabalah, alchemy, hermeticism, generally any topic concerned with uncovering the nature of reality through study of the qualities and patterns of the natural world.

    Yoga is a broad spiritual practice, with the goal of using physical mastery of the body (including asana, the poses most people associate with "yoga") and mental mastery of the mind (meditation) to uncover hidden knowledge of the universe.

    Naturally, a lot of vast writing on yoga can be described as "esoteric", including the practice of amaroli.

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