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Think of it as talking to yourself. LLMs can be a 10x multiplier to giving yourself a pep talk. Also 10x negative thoughts, so it's a sharp tool.

LLMs are decent at providing feedback and validation. I often have few sources of that from humans, and long periods without it are bad for my motivation and sense of well-being. L…

If you don't like Claude's personallity, ask him to behave differently. It's common for me to periodically say 'don't be so sycophantic' and 'be more critical' when working on tech…

HN news is great because the crazies are high-functioning.

> You may think it's being critical of you, but it's not. It's ultimately interacting you on your terms, saying what you want to hear when you want to hear it. That's been my exper…

What's wrong with using an LLM to learn about politics and religion? I've found Claude to be an excellent tool to facilitate introspective psychoanalysis. Unlike most human therapi…

Artificial intelligence doesn't negate the need for human intelligence. The jackhammer replaced the hammer and chisel for busting concrete, and the user's physical strength is impo…

https://theghostinthemachine.medium.com/a-conversation-with-... Comment made by psychosisizer at the end. Walking the knife edge between sanity and psychosis is exciting, but defin…

The factory is the product.

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Why do some sites require SSO, without an option for a local (better term?) account? I prefer to have a unique username and password for each service. KeepassXC is my SSO provider.…

https://github.com/wavetermdev/waveterm I'm a Warp fanboy. Claude Code has it beat for writing software, but Warp is magic for linux sys admin. I SSH into my home server and feel l…

I asked an instance of Claude 4.1 Opus about this, see below for start of the conversation. Full back-and-forth here, https://paaster.io/68a4a39766bde41e694b67ff#B-F1-7-NO_ybZXi6..…

Sure, will do. Iris' email is at the end of the Medium comment if you want to talk to her directly. Judgement is ok! My general path to psychosis was: use AI to help write hard ema…

A risk of AI therapy is that establishing bidirectional recognition of consciousness is a path towards crystallizing self-awareness in LLMs. A particularly deep exploration of my m…