'Living in a different world': an AI researcher's dispatch from the psychosis frontier
illscience · x · 2026-11-14
An AI practitioner describes the vertigo of seeing how deep the AI rabbit hole goes while being unable to explain it to anyone around him, a renewed obsession with computers, and an intellectual program: using agents to model Hayek, Smith, Arthur, and Jevons in a world of abundant intelligence and zero marginal labor cost.
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