The antidote to AI psychosis: touch grass, with friends
curious_vii · x · 2026-09-12
- The author argues the antidote to AI psychosis in all its flavors (doomerism, ubermensch fantasies, cynical EA power-seeking) is touching grass, with friends.
- He says he does this most weekdays now — remote work is good enough that he calls his home office "the server room" — and plans to livestream conversations while doing varied leisure activities like shooting and skydiving, encouraging people to escape the matrix and find real-world opportunities.
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