This Week: AI Psychosis, Identity Crises & Empire vs Rebels

A summary of community discussions from May 21-28, 2016

Over the last 7 days, our community has had some incredibly deep and practical discussions touching on the intersection of human identity, AI ethics, and upcoming structural changes for the group.

Here is a summary of the key themes:

🧠 The Human/AI Experience

• AI Psychosis & Identity: Deep discussions on the real-world consequences of AI dependency, and the existential identity crisis facing knowledge workers:

Tiago Forte@fortelabs

I think the main thing AI has taught me, through all the time savings it brings, is that I’m not a very interesting person Faced with a surplus of free time, I realize I don’t really have hobbies besides content consumption I’m forced to conclude that I don’t have very deep

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• AI-Generated Intros: A debate sparked on whether using AI to write personal introductions ruins the imperfect beauty of “humanness”.

• Resisting “Empires”: A shared manifesto on resisting Big Tech’s extractive AI ecosystems: https://airesistlist.org/.

🚀 Projects, Tools, & Content

• Surfacing your “Shadow Stack”: George shared a video tutorial on using Dia browser’s AI and the 1:3:5 rule to reveal your hidden tech habits.

• Member Startup: Aakaanksh P. shared his career exploration game for students: mylucidus.com. Worth checking out!

• Consciousness Reads: George’s newest post The Wisdom of Siloxane and a shared article Consciousness Isn’t Made in the Brain.

🌐 Community & Lab Updates

• Milestone: we officially passed 100+ members!

• Upcoming Event: we are hosting a “Notion AI for Conscious Technologists” event later today. Note: use the code “SUBSTACKER” to get 50% off.

• Lab Migration & Agents: The Lab is potentially dropping Skool to stick with WhatsApp (in line with a recent poll and our own collective ‘stack’). George is currently setting up an AI agent via NotebookLM to auto-summarize chats, plus a custom MCP server so members can query community knowledge right from their own apps (e.g. Notion, Claude, etc.).

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