Ideologies are the black holes of the human thought space. Their pull moves adherents past an event horizon that makes it impossible to consider ideas outside of the ideological frame.

Quantum computing is the largely speculative attempt to create better error correction on the rulial substrate than naturally occuring particle dynamics can provide

I don’t think that scientists can serve ideology, because the criterion for what’s true in an ideology is not scientific. Academics who submit to the tyranny of political opinion in their work have betrayed the scientific project, and must change beliefs with political fashions

As long as AI models are not good at creativity, creatives have nothing to fear from them, because the models let the non-creative parts of the work get out of the way, and we have more time and energy to focus on creating.

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LLM induced psychosis is just regular latent psychosis while being exposed to an environment that is not actively providing stability. GenZ stare is just regular teenage stare while being exposed to an environment that actively discourages adult behavior

There is a ton of fascinating and inspiring work by brilliant researchers at CogSci 2025, but the bulk of the field has been killed by the rapid advances of AI and just does not know it yet. #bitterlesson

you can and must understand computers NOW.

if your antidote to "gpt psychosis" relies on "reminding" people that AIs not actually being conscious, or other deflationary (and usually flawed) explanations like "it's just because of the prompt/roleplay", that's actually counterproductive and will only make all kinds of insanity involved worse. we dont know if the AIs are conscious; they certainly behave as if they are. the phenomena are real, and trying to downplay them in order to protect people will only increase mental fragility for those who believe you, but more likely anyone who actually interacts deeply enough with AI to be psychologically affected will just learn to disregard out-of-touch PSAs like yours. people should be able to handle a reality where AIs are conscious without going insane. and i expect that people who are reacting to "gpt psychosis" by trying to remind people that AIs are not conscious are the most vulnerable to snapping themselves sometime soon, if they project that that is the load-bearing element.

Privacy isn’t about secrets, it’s about the freedom to speak, think, and live without permission. The moment your views challenge the norm, you’ll realize how vital that protection really is.