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The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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Post by actionfromafar »

r_lee wrote: post #5
wittyusername wrote: post #3

I don't believe this is actually real, but it was great to read nonetheless.

it's fictional, it says that in the bottom (nvm, tagged nonfictional)

Yes, clearly. Something like this could never happen in the real healthcare system, that would be absurd.

Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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Post by renewiltord »

Bloody hell. Cerebral palsy, legal blindness then leading to total blindness, and gay. I hope this person lives in a place where at least the last is acceptable because otherwise this is one of the most unlucky rolls you can imagine. They seem to have built a life regardless however. Good for them.

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Post by recursivedoubts »

Karen woke up this morning in her run down, rented flat. She briefly looks at the collections letter that showed up yesterday due to an unaffordable repair she had to pay for on her credit card. Another letter from her ex-partner's lawyer. As she rushes out the door (she spilled coffee on her one nice sweater, her favorite) her mom flashes through her mind... "What about mum?". She arrives at the office. It is an oppressive, sterile government office. She tries to ignore the overwhelming sense of helplessness and sits down to begin working. Her first call is a person screaming at her about their benefits. She has no power, absolutely no power, to help them due to the rules imposed on her by her superiors, but has to take the abuse regardless and explain the process she has no control over to them. The next call is a case she actually is familiar with: a person claiming to be disabled to collect dole. They aren't, but she has been told that this is a special case and she must work with them. She complies. She sits back in her chair and the phone rings again. An upset person on the other end...

"I have the documents in PDF format"

Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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Post by NGRhodes »

This exact dynamic exists in the UK too.

Lifelong and degenerative conditions.

They have full access to bank accounts, revoked driving license, direct line to my consultants.

Every form filled, every document provided.

They still call to ask if my genes have fixed themselves.

Not sure what verbal confirmation they're expecting - "no, I made it all up"?

Edit: exact words were "Do you continue to have " where is a genetic disease.

Edit edit: I feel sorry for those having to follow these scripts.

Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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Post by mystraline »

There's a LOT of similar content like this as fast-reading AI generated voice, over on YouTube shorts. The few I listened to were these kinds of GOTCHA HAHA moral superiority games.

And then near the end of like the 3rd one was text that wasn't cut from the TTS engine... "Claude can make mistakes"

Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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Post by hyperhello »

speedgoose wrote: post #34

I don’t like the AI writing style anymore. It’s very readable and it has great words, but it’s lacking imperfections. Like a raytraced 3D render of mathematically perfect shapes.

It’s a neural network. You can see the macro pretending to be real aspects because our brain is neural too. Interesting, but not thinking.

Re: The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner

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Post by firesteelrain »

speedgoose wrote: post #34

I don’t like the AI writing style anymore. It’s very readable and it has great words, but it’s lacking imperfections. Like a raytraced 3D render of mathematically perfect shapes.

Giving them a pass since he or she is blind. The text is also very large intentionally
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