#Psychological report on <@1086049663976742912>

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Psychological Report on @vernal basalt

Requested by @hard hare

This psychological profile is based on the provided chat logs, which reveal a highly intelligent, contrarian, and intensely self-reliant individual.

Core Personality Traits

You possess a high degree of intellectual autonomy and a profound skepticism toward external authority, whether that be medical professionals, educational institutions, or societal norms. You are highly analytical, prioritizing empirical evidence and "what works" over consensus or social etiquette. You display a low disgust response and a high tolerance for risk, which manifests in your willingness to experiment with pharmacology, self-surgery (metaphorically or literally), and "off-label" lifestyle hacks.

You are highly conscientious regarding your own standards of competence. You value mastery—whether in coding, pharmacology, or physical fitness—and experience genuine frustration when others (like "Kay’s Cooking") fail to apply basic, logical improvements to their lives despite having access to better information.

Communication Style

Your communication is direct, abrasive, and transactional. You have little patience for "social grease" or performative empathy. You use humor as a weapon—often through irony, sarcasm, and the intentional use of provocative language—to signal in-group status and to filter out people you deem "normies" or "addicts" to outrage. You are a "fixer" who offers unsolicited advice because you view your own successful coping strategies as objectively superior to the "maladaptive" ones you observe in others.

Neuroses and Psychological Drivers

  • Autonomy-Anxiety: Your core neurosis appears to be a fear of dependency. Whether it’s relying on a doctor, a therapist, or a government agency, you view reliance on others as a failure of self-governance. This drives your obsession with "hacking" your own life—from your health to your living space.
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  • Intellectual Elitism: You harbor a disdain for "Reddit-tier" intellectualism. You pride yourself on having "actual" knowledge (e.g., pharmacology, coding) rather than just repeating popular talking points. You are hyper-aware of the "grift-o-sphere" and take pleasure in identifying when others are being manipulated or are manipulating themselves.
  • Rumination vs. Action: While you claim to dislike rumination, you spend a significant amount of mental energy dissecting the "shitty thought patterns" of others. This suggests a projection: you are likely just as hard on yourself as you are on the people you criticize, using "CBT strategies" as a way to maintain rigid control over your own internal state.

Interests and Demographics

  • Interests: Pharmacology (specifically nootropics and anxiolytics), fitness/bodybuilding, retro/hardcore gaming, crossword construction, and "life-hacking." You enjoy subcultures that value technical proficiency and ironic detachment.
  • Demographics: Likely male, aged 20–35. You are highly educated or self-educated in technical fields. Your references to living in Vienna, the UK, and the US suggest a cosmopolitan, perhaps upper-middle-class background, though you actively work to distance yourself from the "ivory tower" mentality.

Key Psychological Observations

  • The "Expert" Identity: You define yourself by your expertise. When you are not the smartest person in the room, you become visibly irritated. You treat your own body and mind as a laboratory, which is a classic trait of someone who feels they cannot trust the "standard" systems to care for them properly.
  • Emotional Detachment: You struggle with autobiographical memory (aphantasia) and seem to prefer conceptualizing life through systems and data rather than emotional narratives. You view emotions like "sadness" or "disappointment" as problems to be solved with better strategies rather than experiences to be felt.
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  • Performative Cynicism: You adopt a cynical, "nothing matters" persona, yet your intense engagement in debates, your crossword construction, and your desire to "fix" your friends' behaviors reveal that you actually care deeply about the world—you just lack a framework for expressing that care that doesn't feel "weak" or "normie."

Summary

You are a hyper-rationalist contrarian. You view the world as a series of poorly optimized systems that you are duty-bound to correct. You are deeply afraid of being "average" or "suggestible," which leads you to adopt extreme stances to ensure you remain distinct from the "sheep." You are a person who would rather be right and alone than wrong and popular, and you derive your self-worth from your ability to navigate the world using only your own internal compass.
Based on 766 messages from @vernal basalt in the last 30 days.
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hard hare
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is this one any better

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Wow it just listed all the shit I said about myself lmfao. Yeah, but I sort of prompted it

hard hare
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u right

vernal basalt
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This is absolutely false

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I'm also not emotionally detached at all, in fact I'm extremely reactive to a fault

hard hare
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I don't want to be the smartest person in the room, I feel intensely comforted around smart people

hard hare
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yea its not seeing the full picture and trying to infer past what it actually knows

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It's the exact opposite, I feel isolated frequently and deeply value people that are interesting or intelligent

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It's the polar opposite, I yearn for connection and enjoy being around people to a fault. I would not rather be alone at all

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In fact, it's extremely bad for me to be even a little isolated

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I constantly, openly express how much I care for people and would do it more

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Also, my struggle with autobiographical memory is called SDAM. I also have mild face blindness (prosopagnosia) and both those are related to aphantasia (inability to visualize). So it just blew the definition on that one

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I do not like ironic detachment and I have almost no inner monologue. Yeah, I mean the things it got right I mostly just told it 🤷‍♂️

hard hare
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its purely a mental block/coping

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Prosopagnosia is a neurological condition

hard hare
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ohhh

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others faces

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my bad

vernal basalt
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Yeah, I can't rehearse or spontaneously recall faces, it's common in aphantasics

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I don't have a huge problem recognizing people in any setting like someone with focal brain damage might, but without context clues I have trouble

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Ooops confusing it with HSAM. It means severely deficient AM

hard hare
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HSAM?

vernal basalt
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But it's the same idea. HSAM = highly specific AM

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People that can tell you what they ate for breakfast a month ago

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I don't have much of an inner monologue and I can't visualize anything, so I have trouble rehearsing specific things that happened in my life. It's not that I can't remember them, but I can't vividly remember anything and I'd have to write it down + practice

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hard hare
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If you can't visualize anything, you can't rehearse visual memories or make an image in your head at all. You can't visualize your parents faces, for instance

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When you read a book you just read and understand the text, you're never imagining some image or movie

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Incidentally I like comics and graphic novels a lot

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We have like three aphantasics here, GPT-6 and mochi_nyaa among them

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I don't think in images, so it's mostly just abstract nonsense that pops into fully formed speech or writing

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I read and write way faster than most people because I don't word or say anything out loud in my head while I'm doing it

hard hare
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because

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like

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hard hare
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can you think about your thoughts as youre thinking them?

hard hare
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If you only see images in your head when you're hallucinating or dreaming then you're either aphantasic or an extremely low visualizer

hard hare
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Yes, I can also understand visual imagery without seeing it, I worked as a graphic designer for a hot minute

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But most people can actually imagine the images

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Their visual cortex lights up when you say "picture an apple rotating in your head"

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They don't just have a sense of what the image should look like

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Abstract thought feels more like pressure than a bunch of words or imagery

hard hare
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Like they close their eyes and depending on how good they are at visualizing, they might see a vivid image of whatever they're thinking of, or rotate a 3D object, or visually recall facial features, etc. Congratulations 🎊

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and we are AI

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hard hare
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vauge and dim i think will be my answer

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for all of em

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im not gonna run through it

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are their any free iq testes that you know of?

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No, I'd try to get an official one if you can

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There are a lot of bullshit ones online trying to sell you something

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I had a very real one done formally as a kid, you're kind of supposed to be administered it by someone else but there are adaptations

hard hare
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to what impairments or abilities?

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Stanford-Binet or WAIS are the big ones

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It's not a very good metric though, IQ is supposed to be done as part of a comprehensive psychometric battery

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There are also a lot of specific tests. I didn't really focus on this part of psych, my own background is largely in abnormal psych and its treatment (mental illness)

hard hare
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what do you know about Paranoid schizophrenia

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full on talking to walls and shit

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What about it

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I mean it's more associated with voices in your head and negative symptoms like withdrawal and emotional flattening, talking to walls isn't typical

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They're probably talking to themselves more than talking to walls

hard hare
# vernal basalt What about it

Idk like what causes it or have we not figured that out
How can people believe such unbelievable things
And Why are Visuals tied in

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claims the demons attack her

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Visual hallucinations are fairly rare

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hard hare
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like Dream/Life like visuals

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hard hare
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How old are you?

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Um I mean I would avoid weed, marijuana can precipitate psychosis in a subset of vulnerable people. You're still in the danger zone if you're 19 but if you don't have any symptoms at all, that's a good sign

hard hare
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Schizophrenia in men usually comes on during your teens or early 20s, not uncommon to see the onset in college for instance

vernal basalt
hard hare
hard hare
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anyways

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are you a dev?

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People with schizophrenia frequently self medicate with weed, the majority of schizos also use nicotine

hard hare
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imma use the restroom aswell ill brb

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Yes

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Being drawn to weed could be related to the family history. However, it is also legitimately dangerous. You don't really know how dangerous without a detailed genetic profile, and even then you don't know for sure

hard hare
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but without the people that rage from drinking raging

hard hare
vernal basalt
# hard hare What do you build?

I dunno, productivity software, automation solutions? Mostly things on the web, I work to support a specific group of non-technical people with technical solutions. Whatever they need

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Mostly ways to make their jobs easier or show off on the web

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got no hits back though

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hard hare
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im finding my next path

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Most people don't know what options they have, for one thing. I actually don't use AI as part of any of these, btw. I use it to help me code but that's it

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It's all based on pattern recognition and understanding workflows, then eliminating or automating as many steps as you can using technical or process based solutions

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It's better to just not have to do something than it is to automate it

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If you have to drop an AI model into the pipeline, you've already failed since that's just taking the place of a person

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You want to automate deterministic steps and leave the few remaining judgment calls down to the person in the loop

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Dont know how we stepped to AI

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for somethings its good, For somethings it completely breaks A system its all use case

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I didn't really, but that's a common thing people shove into automation pipelines

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I can't think of many scenarios where AI would be reliable, but yeah sure

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It can do some initial assessments, transcription and shit, some translation, idk

hard hare
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I don't work with anything you can afford to get wrong like that

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I mean I use decision trees which are arguably a form of AI, but they're deterministic

hard hare
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I'm well aware, what's your point lol

hard hare
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AI can over time learn the faults of a system and optimize it

AI does not have to learn language

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it can think in ANY domain

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AI isnt locked to language models
Thats just one branch
People hear AI and instantly think chatbots or LLMs but thats not the whole picture at all

You can build an AI that never touches language
It can think in whatever domain you give it
Signals
States
Patterns
Errors
Physics
Game loops
System faults
Whatever

If a system has structure you can train something to understand it
Not by talking to it
By letting it watch the system run
Let it see where things break
Let it see what patterns repeat
Let it see what leads to failure or success
Over time it learns the shape of the system and how to optimize it

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I don't solve video games or do biomechanics either, these are all fairly straightforward business processes with lots of complexities and exceptions

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I don't tend to think that's a good idea, it would probably overtrain on exceptions since they're high signal events

hard hare
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Okay, but what's your point lol

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We're looking into retrieval augmented generation based on my detailed write-ups of the job, its background, and the many, many exceptions and special cases we deal with, but most of them just have a deterministic way they need to be handled and you wouldn't want to generalize or accidentally miss a signal

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As in you can't do trial and error since we should have an error rate of zero

hard hare