r/InsightfulQuestions

I feel like humans are slowly losing the ability to think in messy, unsystematic, human ways because of AI.
Earlier, when I used to read answers on Reddit or Quora, I’d go through multiple perspectives. You could see people’s biases, emotions, personal experiences, flawed reasoning, unique thought processes and honestly, a lot of learning came from reading between the lines, not just from the answer itself.
Now with AI, everything is becoming too optimized, structured, and correct.People ask AI directly instead of exploring discussions, disagreements, or imperfect human opinions. It feels like the human element in learning and conversations is slowly disappearing.

Does anyone else feel this way?

I just need some advice please 😭. Chatgpt and Gemini have FAILED me y'all. 🫩 Every job they suggest, I look into and it ends up requiring further education, licensing, or certifications.

(I'm disabled so I can't drive and I can't work outside my home [yet- I'm hoping to rebuild my life as much as I can now that I have at least some management medication, even if it is chronic, but according to my Dr. "I may improve over time, or I may not." So, I dont really know what the future holds yet]. Stress REALLY affects flare-ups and I'm still pretty early in recovery + I have super bad social anxiety (that thus easily causes flare-ups), so I'm really trying to avoid call-based or video-based jobs, but also.. I know ya gotta do what ya gotta do sometimes so I'm open for that too.)

OKAY, so here's the problem I'm having.. WHAT TYPA JOBS CAN I GET WITH MY DEGREE YALL? 😭 I have a GENERAL Science Associates degree,

A little background summed up - graduated with honors, on the dean's list, member of NSHS, NEHS, and Mu Alpha Theta, 4.0 HS grad, volunteer experience, previous work experience in graphic design, nannying, and professional tutoring.

I'm not looking for opportunities here on Reddit, idek of thats really allowed and I just prefer to stick with legit recruiting places and direct company sites. I just need some advice please y'all. 😭😭

Rn I'm basically living (very scarcely) off of savings and THEY ARE DWINDLING Y'ALL ☠️💀 LOL.

For example :

Why would a woman denounce others for "h03ing" around only for it to come up that she lives a lifestyle not so different, despite her claiming to be Christian or Muslim?

Why would a person denounce others for being "shallow foreigners" as if they themselves weren't uneducated foreigners beforehand?

Like people who are genuinely very loving, empathetic or understanding.

Good people get backstabbed all the time and remain good people. I dont mean performative good people. And why do bad people who have everything get jealous of good people very easily?

so i want to make a passion project, i want to major in cs, and i want to make that project related to it but i also don't want a random project i want a project that people will find useful, so i want to ask what are some problems or something you guys want, smth that will help you or smth that is really useful, please tell me

Every time you arrive at an airport, no matter how quickly you clear immigration, you always have to stand in front of the conveyor belt for a good 20 to 30 minutes before you can get your suitcase. Do you think there is room for improvement here?

The people who cleared immigration the quickest find that their bags turn out to come out last :D

It's only a motivator for me.

I am 18 I haven’t been in a serious relationship in 2 years ( as serious as a teenager can be) and ever since then every time I talk to a girl or get close to one I randomly am disgusted by either them or me or something but randomly all affection and everything just stops and I pull away even when she’s beautiful even if I’ve been crushing on her for a few months I still pull away but I want a relationship more then anything I see these couples experiencing what I miss I want to hold hands again and do all that and with this cycle my social skills have declined and I no longer know what to fix or what is wrong with me hoping for some answers here I don’t know if this is the right spot for this question though anyways any help is appreciated

I know alot of people hate or dislike charlie kirk for what he said and I understand but I once heard charlie kirk in an interview that one of his biggest fears is forgetting something he should already know and as someone who prioritizes intellectualism, debates heavily and has an extreme fear being seen as unintelligent or uninformed that i end up spending near hours per day in the mirror practicing debate ideas and political information so I dont forget anytime soon, that hits harder than it should. I know the whole mirror thing is weird but i fear the idea of being confronted or questioned about my view on a certain political and being unable to back it up. Its probably why i sometimes procrastinate to study politics properly because i absolutely fear forgetting statistics, debate logic and ideas months or even years later.

I feel like this is why i mainly argue logic than numbers and stats. I feel logic, pattern recognition and critical thinking is easier to argue when it comes on to politics because its alot easier to remember your own arguements and logic rather than remembering some stats you read last month. Stats help but normally i'm the one who come up with my own logic and critical thinking so remembering it is alot easier since i mostly come up with the arguement and then simply fact check it after. So what i do is that you wont really see me arguing too much about race. I do it but race heavily rely on statistics etc. I much prefer to argue moral and economic stuff like abortion, immigration, capitalism, communism, gender issues etc.

Is anyone else like this even in the slightest or am I genuinely tripping?

Pata hai aaj kya hua?

Someone again tried to shame me for cutting my beard. Not advice. Not understanding. Just pure judgement, mockery, and that fake “holier than thou” attitude.

And honestly, I’m tired.

The reality is Sikh guys today feel stuck between two worlds.

If we keep our beard naturally, a lot of people — especially in modern dating culture — start treating us like we’re “too traditional,” “too aged,” or some “uncle/junglee type” guy before even knowing our personality. Girls nowadays often want the clean aesthetic look that social media pushes everywhere, so you already feel judged the moment you walk in.

But if we trim or cut our beard to fit in better socially, suddenly some people from our own community start acting like they own Sikhi and have the right to shame you publicly.

That’s what frustrates me.

Gurbani talks so much about hukam — understanding life, controlling ego, being truthful, accepting reality, and remembering this world is temporary. But people ignore all that and reduce spirituality to appearance only.

If cutting a beard is the biggest issue to some people, then what about:

• alcohol?
• lust and sexualizing women?
• cheating?
• lying?
• bullying others?
• selfishness and ego?
• humiliating people online in the name of religion?

Why do people selectively become religious only when it’s time to judge someone else?

I know who I am, and my relationship with Waheguru is personal. I’m not saying I’m perfect. I’m just tired of this constant pressure from both sides.

If I keep my beard, society stereotypes me.
If I cut it, religious people stereotype me.

At some point you just realize life is too short to keep living for other people’s approval. Under hukam, everyone is fighting their own battles anyway.

So honestly, I’m done trying to satisfy everyone. I’d rather become a good human being than fake a perfect image for society.

Does any other Sikh guy relate to this?

Below, you can read the context of this question, but if you have an answer that doesn't align with this specific context, feel free to answer regardless (please, 'cause I wanna read some answers)

I, and many more people I hope, have a good sense of self-reflection and selfawareness. It causes me to sometimes tell someone trusted (like my mother or a therapist/teacher) that I feel like I treat people poorly sometimes and it makes me feel like a bad person (this is the formulation that creates the least amount of 'no you're not' and more of an open mind). Now, their first respons is by far always: 'Because you think you could be a bad person, it doesn't make you a bad person.' Anyone else think that's bs? I understand it might be something they expect me to want to hear, but I don't and genuinely needed help with myself because I couldn't fix my behavior myself.
Or another one, if I can't get to studying and I scroll for the first 3 hours of the day even though I know darn well I have my final exams coming up in 2 days, 'it doesn't make me lazy, because I ask for help.' Your thoughts/experiences/possible explanations/theories, anything ; )

I feel in modern society, homosexuals have far more acceptance than straights. As a straight man, I feel admitting that I'm attracted to women causes a lot of backlash. People are now allowed to make fun of and degrade straight people, but if I made fun of them, people would lose it. I feel like I'm no longer allowed to be straight, and I have to apologize for my sexuality

I'm not joking. Every time I experience attraction towards a woman, I internally feel large parts of society hate me. Every time I think about wanting to get married and have kids someday, I feel like so many people want to kill me. I truly wish I could say this was a joke, but it's not. I live with so much pain because I always feel that large parts of the public hate me so much.

Personally, what I hate the most about life is how inherently unfair it is because of genetic and environmental factors that shape everyone into who they are; in the end, who you are/become really just depends on luck. Of course, there are specific things I enjoy about life sometimes, but that's only because I'm lucky enough when the interactions of my genetics and external environment allow it.

Objectively, I'm fairly lucky: I'm a veteran who is in college, about to finish my bachelor's degree. I own a very nice condo in a nice neighborhood. I have zero debt and decent amount of savings that I don't have to worry about getting a job immediately after graduation… I’m not going to share my whole life story, but I’ve definitely overcome a moderate amount of obstacles to get to where I am right now. I feel like most of the time most people are just forced to do things they don't enjoy just to be alive. I'm just tired of life in general as an “average human.”

I'm turning 37 this year, but I've had these existential thoughts since I was a teenager. The older I am, the more I regularly feel this exhaustion toward life, my own, and the human condition in general. I think this famous quote from Schopenhauer explains how I feel about choices in life well: men can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills. In other words, I think everyone is already doing the best they can with the cards they were dealt.

I feel many people can relate to this but...sometimes after I make a decision in life, I regret the decision because I don't know if my decision started a positive butterfly effect and I won't be able to go back in time to find that out or go to any alternate universes to see what happens if I made a different decision and I want to know if other people have good advice to assist getting through those discouraging thoughts I get?

The question is essentially whether you can manifest something you’ve never seen anyone else have before, or have yourself

I just watched this new netflix movie called Roommates and it has me abit nerve wracked. As a guy I have always heard of female on female passive aggression being alluded to, but this movie really had me on the edge. How passive aggressive are female relationships? I feel like if guys were behaving like this the movie would've just been fist fights in the first act.

Honestly when I became a young adult I thought that this way I could flourish. I was strangled in my own autonomy.

I’m 21. I struggle to make friends or at least friends where I'm not the one carrying the relationship. Whether in a friendship or a sibling, I always find myself making all the effort. It pisses me off when I communicate this to the other person, and they don't reciprocate. I’m always very accommodating and make time for people. But I find they still are very flaky, frequently ghosts me. It makes me really upset that I'm so accommodating and respecting others time but they don’t extend that courtesy back.

In dating it’s much more personal. I want to get married and have kids someday with a woman. I know not everyone wants this but being rejected because she doesn’t find me attractive or wants this with me specifically hurts so much. I face rejection but I feel I’m not allowed to say no. For example if a girl I wasn’t attracted to or compatible with wanted me I would feel very like a bad human for saying no and struggle to say no. This also applies in friendship as well. I just find myself putting in effort in relationships and not having it reciprocated deeply hurts my self worth