Why some AI boosters resent mathematicians: AI culture as psychiatric solvent
_onionesque · x · 2026-10-10
An AI-culture observation thread. @tacitdimension asks why some AI boosters carry resentment toward mathematicians, as if they're getting their just deserts. @onionesque replies that cultural moments acting as "psychiatric solvents" appear every few years, but the AI one is unique in how it concentrates people's unresolved issues into worldviews—offering both a window for projection and a vehicle for false power.
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