Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan joked in March: “I have cyber psychosis, but I think a third of the CEOs that I know have it as well.”
They really are just a bunch of amoebas reacting to stimulus.
lol they’re calling it cyber psychosis now. Originally this was a word for how cis people imagined it would drive you mad when you have so many robot parts you do not recognize your body as yours anymore, which just proves once more that cyberpunk as a genre is wasted when you leave it to the straights.
I’m gonna go to bat for Mike Pondsmith here because he has since realized his 1970s idea about it was major ass and has since shifted the canon towards it basically being PTSD with the “welp, too much chrome!” explanation being a convenient in-universe scapegoat for the hellworld that his setting is. As in the augmentations don’t make crash out, it’s that most people who have insane amounts of augmentation are mercenaries or sex workers and that will pretty much just give you PTSD
Almost, unless he’s revised it further since I saw him explaining this: his idea is that extreme augmentations also make people more susceptible to trauma/exacerbate existing trauma by alienating them from humanity, while less intensive modifications leave people more grounded and able to hold on. Mike Pondsmith is an idealist lib, albeit a very endearing one who comes across as genuinely well meaning.
Cyberpunk 2077 did it a bit better, where it was a blend of scapegoat/urban legend, psychosomatic disorder primed by said urban legend, constant pain and disorientation from untreated complications associated with augmentation (eg inflammation and pain from the body rejecting an implant when someone ran out of immunosuppressants, the implant sending the wrong nerve signals to the brain, etc), and people experiencing traumatic incidents or suffering for prolonged periods of time. It basically went that people believed augments could make you snap and become something inhuman, they’d get heavily augmented for one reason or another, because they live in hellworld they don’t have reliable healthcare or maintenance and/or they’re constantly abused and beaten down by the world around them or actively attacked and tortured, and when they lash out in pain and/or fear and/or rage they both have a higher capacity for violence because of their implants and they’re primed to think they’ve passed some irreversible threshold where they’re just going to be hunted down and killed like a rabid animal so they keep lashing out or they go to ground and try to defend themselves.
But if captured alive and given treatment they calm down and recover from that psychotic episode, even if recovering from the trauma and health problems that led to it isn’t as easy.
In Cyberpunk Red or whatever it’s called, wasn’t there some sort of distinction made based on the type of augment where things that basically made you look or perform in a basically human way didn’t stress you much but if you turn your hands into laser whips and your bionic eyes see heat maps and radio waves, it’s easier to become estranged from your humanity?
IIRC all “cosmetic” cyberware had a 0 humanity cost, yeah.
My headcanon that is objectively better than Pondsmith’s is that cyberpyschosis is DRM to keep anybody from getting borged up enough to threaten the system.
That’s what it’s called in Cyberpunk 2077 if you go insane from your cybernetic augments and start murdering people
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Normal people with generative AI: “What if there was game where halo was in dark souls”
Billionaires with generative AI: “TELL ME I’M A GOD. TELL ME EVERYTHING IS MINE. TELL ME I’M THE ONLY ONE THAT IS REAL. THIS UNIVERSE IS MY SIMULATION. I AM THE ONE.”
feeling vindicated every day i refuse to touch or humor this shit
All CEOs have it, the “it” being the effects of being surrounded by yes men. Tech has just succeeded in automating it.
Seems like a very subtle hint that the tech elite are aware that AI is not and never will be the omnipotent thing it has been hyped to be.
I wonder if they’ve got some new grift coming.
Also he is chronically videogame brained.
Being a billionaire CEO is bad for your mental health.
Turns out using AI nonstop while taking ill-advised amounts of off-label ketamine and being surrounded by yes men enablers is a bad combination, who could have guessed?
:pay-attention-to-me:
Are we sure he wasn’t just one a ketamine bender?
Elon had psychosis when he was just a sperm and an egg. I %100 guarantee that if you could have seen those gametes, they would have looked abnormally racist.
Also it’s good that the people who control the world are turning everything over to ai. It’s going to be great when ai accidentally deletes the human species by launching all of the USA’s nukes. “You’re right, this is totally on me!” James Cameron never told us that skynet did judgment day accidentally.
Instead of tails, Elon’s dad’s sperm had white hoods and cloaks.
I think this is going to get worse with more time people spend online and convincing deepfakes, especially parasocial relationships with bots. As always, helpful to go outside and touch grass.
It’ll come crashing down when the actual cost of AI makes it prohibitively expensive for people to access it
And soon it will only be billionaires being able to access it as the machine tells them that they’re absolutely right and nuking the world would make them meet space Jesus.
Yeah I’m not looking forward to there being a whole genre of person that fills me with pity, loathing and disgust.
half a dozen times
Probably only once, with 5 periods that he mistook for remissions.
As someone who has a personal llm running on his personal server on his personal Rx580, I use that shit to tell me the weather and what’s on my calendar and that’s basically it. It’s ridiculous to me to use the device to convince oneself that they are always right and a genius.
Obviously I am always right and I am a genius but I have never needed other people’s or machine’s validation to think so.
“Elon Musk screams for attention using the thing he just heard about like a spoilt toddler.”
So he wasn’t smart enough to stop after the first couple times?
