AI as a psychiatric solvent: concentrating unresolved issues into worldviews
_onionesque · x · 2026-10-10
The author observes that every few years a cultural moment acts as a "crazy psychiatric solvent" — and the AI one is unique in how much it concentrates people's unresolved issues into worldviews, offering both a window for projection and a vehicle for false power.
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