I see you out there thumbmaxxing

There's some money to be made in that. Try OnlyThumbs.

Thumbs are for hitchhiking and being Fonzie.

Same. Oddly prophetic

At least take some gold with you

Currently vapemaxxing and shitpostontheshittermaxxing.

but it's quite clearly treated vastly differently because the sufferer is male presenting.

This is so dumb, people are overwhelmingly cruel to women with eating disorders. Whether eating too much or too little. Not to mention, a woman with an eating disorder isn't eating more/less because she hates men. Incels started looksmaxxing because of red pill manosphere brainrot like 'you must be 6'13" and square jaw and straight white teeth and muscles in order to have a CHANCE with a 7.5/10, because all women are whores and driven by primordial urges' . It's an entirely incorrect interpretation of how human beings interact propogated by chronically online cave trolls.

My comment is no where near saying suicide makes depression a self correcting problem. There are myriad circumstances that can lead someone to suicide. Looksmaxxing is at its core an overreaction to a problem that incels conjured up. Or more accurately misinterpreted, yes male loneliness is a problem but so is female loneliness; it's an epidemic on both sides.

If you're too dumb to understand that maybe you shouldn't pump random shit into your veins in an attempt to look younger or more attractive, so be it. You will become a lesson for anyone paying attention. (Proverbial you)

Treated differently only because the overwhelmingly male population that suffers from it is actively hating people who they deem different and taking a lot of online space doing so. That's fucking heartless, indeed.

Looksmaxxing involves style and fashion too, not exactly like an eating disorder, its more like I want to look superior because of my insecurities. I'm sure there is some comorbidity.

For Nazis, it is.

Everyone else should get healthcare, but for Nazis I'm happy when it runs its course.

i heard of people drilling holes in their skulls for spiritual reasons in roughly that period so this tracks

Mine don't need maxxing, but I do iron my sack to get the wrinkles out.

who the fuck would want bigger balls, that just sounds uncomfortable for everyday life

Surely this is satire.

Ayahuasca can absolutely trigger latent psychosis, all psychedelics can do that.

Maybe the lead weighed him down

They drowned in a lake

gold is relatively inert, its the ions and the other elements, like nickel, lead,,etc that are in gold.

I heard he had a 20 minutes conversation with him

That could result in blood clots or other problems.

Depending on particle size, the biggest problem could be it getting stuck in various capillaries all over the body. If he injected into an artery, it would first flow out into the body, to wherever that specific artery was feeding, splitting into smaller and smaller blood vessels ... until it finally reached blood vessels so tiny that the particle of powdered gold couldn't fit through, where it would get stuck and then indefinitely clog the tiny capillary. All the blood your heart pumps must pass through a capillary somewhere before it can go back for another trip around. If he injected into a vein, pretty much the same result, except a lot of it would end up getting stuck in the lungs first.

As for what exact effects that would cause... In tiny amounts, it probably wouldn't do anything noticeable. A blocked capillary here or there isn't that big of a deal. The body will heal around it and reroute new capillaries to serve that area instead; if a small amount of tissue around the capillary dies, it will be removed by the immune system and healed over. In larger doses, though, I figure you'd see the same kind of circulatory effects that come from untreated diabetes -- extremities like the fingers and toes dying and then going necrotic; numbness; loss of eyesight... Probably permanent and irreversible as well, since there's no way to remove the gold particles from those capillaries without destroying them in the process, which would only make the damage worse.

For anyone else thinking of injecting themselves with gold:

1. Don't.

2. Only do extremely small amounts at a time. Micrograms. Fractions of a microgram.

3. Be sure to use extremely tiny particles -- nano-scale stuff. You want particle sizes that are smaller than a single human cell. And hope the particles don't clump together.

Maybe he shot up so much gold that it weight him down.

Obligatory /s since it's sadly necessary.

"People died in car accidents before we started putting MurderSpikes(tm) on the front of our cars, and they will continue to die in car accidents after we stop putting MurderSpikes(tm) on the front of our cars."

Source? I googled web searched your claim, and this paper, "Sycophantic Chatbots Cause Delusional Spiraling, Even in Ideal Bayesians", was the top result. It does conclude, as expressed in the Abstract:

We then show that in this model, even an idealized Bayes-rational user is vulnerable to delusional spiraling, and that sycophancy plays a causal role. Furthermore, this effect persists in the face of two candidate mitigations: preventing chatbots from hallucinating false claims, and informing users of the possibility of model sycophancy.

So, while I agree with your gist of 'chatbots are bad for people', I think you may have overstated your claim: That even ideally rational 'people' can get led into AI psychosis by sycophantic chatbots is not the same as bots "affecting regular people just as much as mentally unstable people", because mentally unstable people might be more vulnerable to this type of reality-warping influence. "No-one is safe" is different from "We all suffer equally".

How did the papers screen the participants to make sure they're "regular people"

Gold injections are a scam.

Also, and I apologize if this untoward, but it always hits if I can get someone to speak in their own way for a moment

But, also, they were literally trying to turn lead into gold.

(The term 'alchemy' covers a broad swath of various people in various times, with various beliefs and practices ranging in the spiritual, metaphysical, psuedo-scientific, and scientific realms. For some, yes, turning lead into gold was pure allegory. For others, it was an actual literal goal and they hoped to become rich that way. And for some, it was both at the same time -- pursuing both spiritual enlightenment and economic enrichment through the exact same process. It's further complicated by the fact that many of them were persecuted in their time and/or feared non-alchemists stealing the recipes and techniques they had discovered, so even when they were writing down actual legitimate scientific findings and real chemistry, they often did so in fantastical, allegorical terms that only someone steeped in alchemical lore might be able to decipher.)

Edit:

You also have to understand it in the context of the time, before modern chemistry. It was possible to turn iron into steel, to turn copper and tin into bronze, etc. They didn't know about 'elements' as we know them today or atoms or how an element is defined by the number of protons in the nucleus. For all they knew, maybe gold was an alloy of multiple base metals ... and if it was, lead was a likely candidate for one of the ingredients, since it's also very dense and soft, much like gold. Maybe all metals were alloys of certain base ingredients, and the only thing that made one metal distinct from another was the ratio of those ingredients. If that was the case, then it should be possible to discover the exact correct ratios to produce gold, and/or a way to alter those ratios in an existing metal to turn it into gold.

Sometimes, even in modern chemistry, you can do reactions that look like straight-up magic, even to knowledgeable eyes. For someone experimenting in a primitive lab, seeing some of these reactions happening ... of course some of them associated it with actual magic and spirituality. And even those who didn't ... they often used the language of magic and spirituality to describe what they were seeing and/or to obfuscate it and make it less intelligible to outsiders they wanted to hide their knowledge from.

I appreciate the additional explanation, I just wasn't clear on your angle. Stories about people going mad over metals has to be one of earliest meme formats.