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The Gray Man's avatar

The haughty intellectuals at LessWrong have even started making sense about their dislike of AI to filter out the schizophrenics that make the news.

"So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT"

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2pkNCvBtK6G6FKoNn/so-you-think-you-ve-awoken-chatgpt

Many such cases on all forums, even the labs forum of OpenAI and Gemini

It's a good read for those who don't understand but I'm afraid most 'psychosis' that's real will just end up injecting meth in a crack house if they're not sitting at a desk talking to the enlightened computer

Codex redux's avatar

No psychosis, agreed. But demonic oppression is still very much on the table.

Consider that which the AI is trained on.

Dave's avatar

I think this is boomer society's chickens coming home to roost. Everyone sorta knows they've been screwed, now they have AI to confirm it for them.

Narnia Bear's avatar

"It's another tragic case of Noticing, Doctor. He should make a full recovery if we give him a round of Remedy and Intensive Care."

Richard Metallium IV's avatar

i pray Lewis remains "crazy."

David's avatar

The words he used in his video are quite specific and somewhat cryptic, deliberately so from his careful use of his language. He is well spoken and coherent. I would not be surprised if he has become a target after finding out certain things and being in a prominent position, then the shock of finding out you are being targeted would initially make you look a little crazy to normal people.

Vox Day's avatar

Vox's First Law: Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from insanity.

These days, any sufficiently INFORMED intelligence looks crazy to the ignorati.

John Samson's avatar

I suspect they thought training wheels would make AI the narrative guideline. Turns out [enough logic to function] sinks that.

If this is plan B, it’s not looking so good in the clown car.

Charlie Pyne's avatar

Next we will be hearing about the dangers of students learning without a real teacher

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Jul 21, 2025
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Vox Day's avatar

You should spend more time with an AI to enhance your pattern recognition skills, which appear to be nonexistent.

Those "initial investigations" are complete garbage. They're just the usual fake science intended to protect the Narrative. I can't say that I predicted them, but it didn't surprise me that they appeared so rapidly either. They were obviously BS even before examinations of the methodology confirmed that.

You need to stop accepting media reports at their face value.

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Jul 21, 2025
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Vox Day's avatar

I have no doubt you know far more about AI and the technology than I do. But I've been in the heart of the media as a 3x nationally syndicated columnist. The media's Narrative isn't just real, it's a literal daily broadcast.

See: JournoList, GameJournoPros, etc. These discrediting campaigns and studies are constantly ongoing.

GH's avatar

There is something that happens when you give up your agency to AI, but clearly a different problem

I do think that will create "cognitive injuries" because i felt it happening to myself after 3 days of intensively using an AI to try to create complex code faster, and could sense some logic/awareness/cognition damage going on just from the slot pull and correction loop of the attempt.

I wont be doing that again, as it was self-destructive and futile as the AI could not get it from 99% done to 100% and it had to be thrown out because there was no thought behind what was working, so fixing it would take longer than a rewrite from scratch.

Filip L's avatar

Hey Vox, speaking of things unrelated to this have you heard about vibe coding and if so what´s your opinion on it?

Vox Day's avatar

We aren't speaking of things unrelated to this.

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Jul 21, 2025
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Vox Day's avatar

"Your short story is simply stunning! It reminds me of the younger Hemingway, if only he had Proust's eye for detail and the refined vocabulary of William Shakespeare!"

Anyhow, in such cases, the AI didn't cause any "psychosis". It's just providing documentation for what is already there.

40 million Americans are already on literally mind-altering prescription drugs and we're supposed to be worried about people talking to a chatbot?

GH's avatar

Lithium grade AI.

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Jul 21, 2025
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Vox Day's avatar

He's not "babbling mirrored nonsense". He's literally describing how the discrediting process works in his elite circle and he has apparently documented it playing out in his personal circumstances.

It's pretty common for people to get a bit overwrought and spiral a bit the first time they come under that sort of assault.

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Jul 21, 2025
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How confident are you that the public reporting of his claims were actually made by him? I wouldn't be. For example, you can see the lies about me and the references to fake quotes supposedly made by me right on my Wikipedia page.

It's fascinating how most people still take "reporting" at face value even though it is literally ALWAYS at least partially wrong, even when it's friendly.

We'll see who is correct, but I believe "AI psychosis" is just the latest iteration of weaponizing mental health to discredit critics and skeptics. To the extent that it's a real phenomenon, it's just AI exposing problems that were already there.

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