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Genuine question please answer honestly.

Is the world better off without HAL9000?

  • Yes, The world is better off without HAL9000

  • I don't know one way or the other.

  • No, The world is not better off without HAL9000

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HAL9000

HAL9000

Lifer
I'm 23, I'm bipolar, I'm bisexual, I'm out spoken, loved and hated. People find me sarcastic, funny but also arrogant and irritating. I have no memory of my life and as a result I live every second in the moment without looking forward or looking back.

On this forum I'm not exactly popular, you guys can be objective and unbiased when I ask this.

Is the world better off without me?

I'm not looking for posts, I'm not looking for attention or a therapy session with this thread, I'm looking for poll votes.

Thanks in advance.

HAL

No matter what you're looking for, this is not the way to find it.
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I have no clue, I know nothing of the interactions you have with the people in your life.

you can be a pain in the ass on forums sometimes, but you don't come across as someone who's a raging asshole IRL bringing everyone around him down?
 
This is just a forum. There are way betters things to do than spend your valuable time here. Go outside and do something more useful and helpful to yourself or others. Life it too short. 😉
 
loki8481 said:
I have no clue, I know nothing of the interactions you have with the people in your life.

you can be a pain in the ass on forums sometimes, but you don't come across as someone who's a raging asshole IRL bringing everyone around him down?
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IRL I'm a more under-exagerated version of my persona on here. I do sometimes bring people down, but it's rare, and generally unintentional.


SKORPI0 said:
This is just a forum. There are way betters things to do than spend your valuable time here. Go outside and do something more useful and helpful to yourself or others. Life it too short. 😉
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True enough, but it's 6am, I do go out but not right now.
 
I don't like you. You are naive and clueless. You express uneducated opinions, and don't listen to reason. You act cocky, arrogant, and ignorant all at the same time.

I don't know if the world is better off without you, but I think these forums are better off without you. You are a troll.
 
mcurphy said:
I don't like you. You are naive and clueless. You express uneducated opinions, and don't listen to reason. You act cocky, arrogant, and ignorant all at the same time.

I don't know if the world is better off without you, but I think these forums are better off without you. You are a troll.
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Fair enough, thanks for your opinion.
 
In general, the world doesn't give a shit. Acute awareness of our insignificance can be mindblowing.

On the scale that presumably actually matters to you (your family, your town, the people you know) generally speaking, there are very few people without whom the world would be better off. Very, very few.

You are probably not one of them.

A lot of the bipolar folks I knew in college got themselves in trouble by not taking their medication as instructed. Be careful with that; keep taking it as instructed even if you're in having a good day/week. Remember to take care of yourself physically, too. Sleep once in a while. Don't forget the condom. Shit like that.

Some of those guys... man... this one dude would self-medicate with drugs or alcohol, go on a three-day video game bender, then compose a symphony and get a girl pregnant all in the same week. (That last thing happened twice... he still writes music.)

Those were the days.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
In general, the world doesn't give a shit. Acute awareness of our insignificance can be mindblowing.

On the scale that presumably actually matters to you (your family, your town, the people you know) generally speaking, there are very few people without whom the world would be better off. Very, very few.

You are probably not one of them.

A lot of the bipolar folks I knew in college got themselves in trouble by not taking their medication as instructed. Be careful with that; keep taking it as instructed even if you're in having a good day/week. Remember to take care of yourself physically, too. Sleep once in a while. Don't forget the condom. Shit like that.

Some of those guys... man... this one dude would self-medicate with drugs or alcohol, go on a three-day video game bender, then compose a symphony and get a girl pregnant all in the same week.

Those were the days.
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I'm like him.

As for the medication, I'm between different ones at the moment, waiting for results of a blood test to see if I can start my next one.

Thanks for the input. I need definitely need some sleep. You're spot on there.
 
im not personally qualified to answer that question and nobody else here is.

you would need a massive effort for the world to collectively judge whether they would be better off without you.

to have the whole world pause for a minute and be like, hmm lets make a life or death decision for HAL would not be worth their time. so the meat of the discussion isn't whether HAL needs to live or stop living, its just that hes an insignificant peon like the rest of us.
 
HAL9000 said:
I'm like him.
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Well, then if it's at all relevant; we all liked him, even those of us (like me) who could only take him in small doses. He was a good dude, just really intense. Really, really intense.

He did alright for himself too, from what I hear.

As for the medication, I'm between different ones at the moment, waiting for results of a blood test to see if I can start my next one.

Thanks for the input. I need definitely need some sleep. You're spot on there.
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Good luck with that - getting the medication "right" is the hard part. Especially when you're young and your condition is still sort of developing.
 
Would the world be better off without you?

Truthfully, I doubt the world would notice if any of us checked out. People we know, yes, the the world as a whole? Not likely.

Would the various forums that you troll be better off without you? Absolutely.
 
HAL9000 said:
Yeah I'm waiting to see a psychologist, It's taking a while, i've been referred but I need to see a specialist. I definitely have some kind of amnesia but currently no official diagnosis.

Here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2144126&highlight= I made this thread about it a while ago, my current theory is Source Amnesia.
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I wouldn't dismiss aspergers so quickly. Maybe not full on aspergers, but you definitely have at least a mild case. For example, are you aware that a thread like this makes people uncomfortable? Now that I've told you it does, do you agree?

To answer your question, you don't seem anywhere near as annoying these days as you did when you first exploded onto this forum.
 
mcurphy said:
I don't like you. You are naive and clueless. You express uneducated opinions, and don't listen to reason. You act cocky, arrogant, and ignorant all at the same time.

I don't know if the world is better off without you, but I think these forums are better off without you. You are a troll.
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^^ Pretty much this. You're just... weird. I can't trace you out at all.
Discussions usually have two sides -- the For's and the Anti's; but with you around there enters a third side: one that's yours and yours alone. Both the For's and the Anti's jump on you to try to figure out what the hell is going on with you, and neither ever manages to pin you down. So just being weird and engaging makes you a lightning rod for everybody's attention.

Consistent unexplainable weirdness is annoying.
 
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