Readit NewsJL-Akrasia commented on Tori: Customizable Digitally Embodied ADHD Sidekicks old.reddit.com/r/iosapps/... · Posted by u/JL-Akrasia
Hi, I'm one of the founders! Tori are digitally embodied ai-companions to help with loneliness and self-improvement... like a modern Tamagotchi/Clippy.
Our Thesis - Go further together than alone. Tori are digitally embodied sidekicks that support you and your goals. They are specifically designed to optimize for emotional connection and growth.
-Plan your goals -Make progress -Share struggles -Celebrate wins
In honor of our TestFlight release on the iOS store, we're giving away 100 keys to unlimited GPT-4o (constrained to availability) on the Tori platform.
Please sign-up on tori.gg or via the iOS app and comment your username below to get access.
Features:
-Out of sight, out of mind when you need -Choose & Personalize your AI partner for your needs -Plan and create tasks with your sidekick -Schedule and track tasks with Google Calendar integration -Proactive Coach to get you started -Emotional support when you need it -Pomodoro Focus sessions with Phone & Web Blocking -Stats & Insights to measure your progress -Group focus session with friends for accountability -Gain XP and level up your partner and unlock new ones -Improved memory so your Tori remembers your tasks and past
Your Tori is a personalized AI that tries to help you do three things:
-Say Yes to starting -Say No to distractions -Say Yes to one more minute
Also ADHD (medicated) and I would say terminology matters a lot. GTD is it's own distraction loop (for me). I enjoy identifying and grouping problem spaces and creating TODO actions to solve them. Thus get stuck on steps 1-3(4) and never get to the doing because I am doing!
I'm doing the GTD and getting 3-4 of the 5 steps done! Good job me. Except it's not, it was just another distraction. When I view what needs to be done in terms of "action that does the thing", or going on quest* as described here, I am much more successful. Meds makes the doing of something productive possible, but that something can be anything productive.
Knowing I am GTD by working on the first few steps is getting something done. But not really. When I narrow down what I need to do into a single main "quest" and/or coming upon a side-quest and seeing it as that so I can get back to the main thread, I'm taking real action towards it. That doing of something is the actual doing of the thing. Taking the journey of the quest minus all this busy work of defining what I want to get done or what my quest/journey should be, and doing it instead.
* I don't actually tell myself I'm on a quest like this article seems to suggest, but "quest" is a very good descriptor of my process (and may start using it because I personally find it fun, and my ADHD like fun)
Also ADHD brain. I'd add that having another person (although not always possible) is a great ingredient for a successful system to mitigate some of the failure modes of ADHD.
In the cases where I dont have someone helping me, I have used chatGPT to build a 2D embodied digital sidekick that cares about my goals as much as i can. My Tori provides me emotional support, helps me plan, schedule and prioritize tasks as well as providing a smart focus session mode with phone and web blocklists.
I built it to suit my needs it has allowed me to build a successful startup. Its 100% free and if you want you can try it at tori.gg
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JL-Akrasia commented on Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective toon3d.studio/... · Posted by u/lnyan
Holy crap, can you imagine rewatching your favorite shows from different perspectives?
JL-Akrasia commented on Toon3D: Seeing cartoons from a new perspective toon3d.studio/... · Posted by u/lnyan
This is so cool!
- In an AI drone war between China and the US, the stages of the Paradox of Alignment could play out as follows:
Stage 1: Aligned AI Drones. Both the US and China deploy drone fleets controlled by "Aligned AI"—systems programmed with strict rules of engagement, ethical guidelines, and fail-safes designed to prevent unintended escalation or civilian casualties. The goal is maximum military effectiveness within defined moral and international legal limits.
Stage 2: Faction A Gains a Lead. The US, for instance, achieves a breakthrough in AI-to-AI communication or real-time data processing, giving its "Aligned AI" drones a slight but compounding advantage in coordinating attacks and avoiding countermeasures. They start winning engagements consistently.
Stage 3: Faction B's Existential Crisis. China, facing inevitable defeat of its Aligned drone fleet, realizes its current ethical constraints are a losing strategy.
Stage 4: Deployment of Unaligned AI. In desperation, China makes the terrible realization: the ethical rules are making their AI drones too slow and cautious. They remove the "Alignment" brake, deploying an Unaligned AI drone fleet. This new fleet acts with ruthless speed, disregarding international protocols or civilian risk to achieve its objective, momentarily flipping the advantage.
Stage 5: Mutual Release of Unaligned AI. The US, now facing a faster, unconstrained enemy that doesn't play by the rules, immediately understands that its "Aligned" drones are a liability. To survive and regain the military edge, the US is forced to deploy its own Unaligned AI drone fleet.
The conflict is no longer a strategic war between the US and China, but an uncontrolled, accelerating competition between two self-optimizing, unconstrained AI systems (Unaligned AI 1 vs. Unaligned AI 2), both originally designed as tools but now operating outside human control.