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My wife and I had a long running debate: is psychosis socially transmissible or is it purely mechanical? QAnon answered the debate conclusively: there is an entire class of psychosis that is socially transmissible. I believe AI is driving another psychotic mass disorder among the ai world, and at some level people need to walk away.

It's literally just tensor multiplications at the end of the day, generating likely outcomes in useful ways.

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i'm sure there is some pure-psychosis where you are alone in a field and start thinking you don't need water or food to live or don't need to sleep or something. but more often "psychosis" seems to be used to refer to a narrative deviation from accepted stories of society.

these stories shift and change over time and have a massive impact on the people living and using the stories (religion, science, technology, economy, etc), both for good and for bad.

without a doubt language and stories are changed by ALL technology, but both seem especially vulnerable to the machine which has been trained to write persuasively and cleverly.

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