Something Interesting Week 2
Welcome to week 2 of something interesting. I hope you found (and maybe shared) some interesting things with people on your planet this week.
Interesting notes from Sean Monahan:
A friend recently told me in all sincerity that he believed artificial intelligence was the Messiah. If social media makes everyone feel like a loser, will artificial intelligence make everyone think they are a god?
AI isn’t immiserating us. It’s giving us delusions of grandeur.
The through line between both is anxiety bubbling over into paranoia. The flashing images of Instagram telling you that you are a loser is distilled quite literally into a voice in your head telling you fuck those people, to whom you compare yourself, whose perfection you resent.
We are sizzling our monkey brains in white hot server farms. What’s the antidote?
artificial schizophrenia
Artificial Schizophrenia or AI-induced mental illness
I am an avid user of Sam Harris’s WakingUp app, not so much for the guided meditation (which I do, occasionally) but for the endless stream of clips on meditation, personal growth, time management, and spirituality. I often recommend it, and sometimes share clips on Substack Notes and chat.