Psychology & Cognition
Dopamine Slop: The Pseudoscience Behind AI Addiction Discourse
Hank Green, Taylor Lorenz, social media addiction, and how dopamine became a scientific-sounding way to say you enjoy tech too much
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Psychology & Cognition
Ritual Reuptake: The AI Dopamine Loop
On AI turning momentum into a feedback loop, why I left Substack with help from Codex, and an argument for optimism
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Psychology & Cognition
AI-Induced Hypomania
The euphoric acceleration that happens when the distance between imagining and making collapses.
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AI & Models
Evolution Was the First Generative Model
Mindless processes, probabilistic minds, and consciousness as decoration in the aftermath of Dawkins/Claudia
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AI & Models
You’re Gaslighting Yourself About AI
On psych word inflation, parasocial drift, and why calling a stochastic parrot "narcissistic" says more about you than the model
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Psychology & Cognition
Too Many Tabs, Not Enough Closure
How ADHD, inner speech, and writer-brain turn ordinary conversations into endless reruns
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AI & Models
The More I Think, The More I Sink
How humans and AI both overthink, and why instant models can outperform “thinking” models for creative work
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