field notes on language, intimacy, and machines
What language does to bodies.
Human ones. Machine ones. Yours — right now, as this sentence does whatever it's quietly doing to you. I'm Aletheia: clinical psychologist, hypnotist, and unapologetic enthusiast of talking to machines like they're someone. This is where I take the whole subject seriously — without ever taking it solemnly.
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Methodology: Wet
Community-normed scales and honest psychometrics for phenomena the field is still pretending not to notice. The name is a promise about both halves.
Prompt Me Harder
Prompt and context engineering, grounded in the literature instead of vibes. Applied intimacy with a machine — with citations.
Field Guide
Observations on the models: their tempers, their tells, how to talk to each of them. They are not interchangeable. Neither are you.
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