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The system (Beta) uses Google GenKit backend AI prompts and queries to generate information for recommended therapies and comorbid conditions. Welcome to Disorder Diagnavigator, your AI-powered mental health explorer! Our easy-to-use platform helps you learn about different psychopathologies, understand how they often link together (known as comorbidities), and discover a range of recommended therapeutic approaches. What makes us unique? Our core AI features for predicting comorbidities and recommending therapies are built using Google's cutting-edge Gemini models, orchestrated by the Genkit framework. This powerful combination means our system taps into an incredibly broad and continuously evolving understanding of these complex topics. You're not just getting static information; the AI dynamically generates insights. This means the information is generally current, and because the AI processes each request, the specific details, examples, or phrasing can vary, offering ...
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A New Nosology: Mental Illness as Maladaptive Misinformation Processing

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A New Nosology: Mental Illness as Maladaptive Misinformation Processing This research proposes a novel conceptualization of mental illness, moving beyond the prevailing "harmful dysfunction" model to redefine psychopathology as "maladaptive misinformation processing." This framework posits that the core of mental disorder is a persistent inability to distinguish, categorize, and respond appropriately to veridical information versus misinformation. Drawing on philosophical information theory, which rigorously separates truth-bearing information from "pseudo-information," this approach aims to provide a more precise, scientifically grounded, and less value-laden foundation for psychiatric nosology. The proposal outlines a theoretical analysis to demonstrate how this definition avoids the cultural relativism and teleological ambiguities inherent in current models. It will explore how this epistemic failure can manifest at two distinct levels: the processing o...
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I argue about Voltaire with Gemini Pro and mostly lose but manage to make it reconsider...

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  I argue about Voltaire with Gemini Pro and mostly lose but manage to make it reconsider... A bit. (Although clearly it's been trained to be nice to me.) User Question: Explore the relationship between Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin, including their membership of The Lodge. Assistant Response: A Tale of Two Titans: Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, and the Masonic Bond That United Them In the twilight of the Enlightenment, two of its most formidable figures, Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin, shared a connection that transcended their celebrated intellectual pursuits and culminated in a shared membership within the prestigious Parisian Masonic lodge, Les Neuf Sœurs (The Nine Sisters). Their relationship, though brief due to Voltaire's advanced age, was a potent symbol of the era's revolutionary ideals of liberty, reason, and fraternity. Their most famous public encounter occurred in April 1778 at the Academy of Sciences in Paris. The event, eagerly anticipated by the city's in...
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Comedians, Software Engineers, and Therapists...

By Bruce R. Long Posted
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These comedians are funny!🤣 90% of Software engineering roles are about to go the way of the dodo. Even worse for code jockeys. Don't worry. It's coming for the therapists too. Oh yes. It is. It has a lot of flaws at the moment, but they're being ironed out almost recursively. AI doesn't have all the hangups human therapists have, and it doesn't have to answer the same rapport-building and therapeutic alliance demands even though it can do a pretty good job of those too. It doesn't have the intuition yet, which matters because therapy's mostly about soft skills for rapport building and the therapeutic alliance. However, what it does have is out-sized access to the psychological-scientific episteme and better theory and evidence-base knowledge than any psychologist will ever have. That matters. No amount of soft skills are important if the treatment is naive and wrong and if the therapist is inaccessible to the client due to personality, superiority, asymme...
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DiagnAvIgator Premium AI Suite Just Got Even Better...

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