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p.s. there's some interesting literature on how in some circumstances (i.e. religious delusions), where actually validating the patient - basically confirming their experience can lead to rapid recovery (however this approach is not found in western culture). I do agree with you in terms of the risks of LLM's driving folks deeper into delusional beliefs & behaviors - it's very real.
The kill_port function only catches ImportError from the psutil block, so when psutil is installed but raises AccessDenied (common on macOS), it crashes instead of falling back to lsof.
In platform_paths.py - add two lines after line 250:
except psutil.Error: pass
Fixed. Now when psutil raises AccessDenied (as happens on macOS without elevated privileges), it falls through to the lsof/fuser fallback instead of crashing. Try docubrowser start again.
1. Make Trump meme 2. Go to jail for N days 3. Profit ($22k per day)
Nice ;-)
I’m pointing out that the process by which ideas gain acceptance is somewhat independent from their actual quality, so acceptance alone isn’t a strong signal.
My point is just that public acceptance itself isn’t reliable evidence either way: ideas can gain support (or fail) for reasons other than their actual merit.
History shows that even harmful or suboptimal ideas (like coal power) can gain widespread support if presented persuasively, while genuinely beneficial ideas can struggle if they’re complex or unintuitive.
A useful heuristic is: if an idea relies on misleading claims to survive scrutiny, that’s a warning sign. But public acceptance itself is not proof of goodness or correctness.
In short: persuasion and truth are related—but far from identical.
You might be right about the mindset, I have no idea about the demographic that plays the game; only that they seem to be repulsed by BuyMeACoffee. The heavy users (i.e. more than 12 hours on site within last month) - once they see that banner for the first time for a return session instantly stop playing. It's not long enough yet to see if they return. Maybe it's the equivalent to putting a "Remember to buy your mom a gift on her birthday" pop-up on a porn site ;-) It's a mojo killer for sure.
p.s. "I'll talk to anyone, I'll go anywhere, and I can be there anytime" - for me, unfortunately $ is the problem for going anywhere, anytime. Perhaps you can help? I've sent you an email - I'm motivated. ;-)