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ten bucks says this condition ends up evolving in the same way that female hysteria did

what if llms are actually equivalent to humans in sentience ? wouldn't that make everyone psychotic except those in "chatbot psychosis" ?

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Don’t know if it is the same for everyone. But when I experienced psychosis I definitely thought I was on a “higher plane” of thinking than others. That didn’t help me get a single idea through and of course it was all BS. So no, it definitely is not a desirable state of mind.

i don't wish to debate the accuracy of your experience , however i will challenge it a bit - perhaps all psychotics believe they are on a higher plane of thinking , this does not imply that all those on a higher plane of thinking are psychotics

What is this higher plane you’re talking about?

Astral, Spiritual plane.

The same place that Psychonauts try to reach out too.

Don’t know about the parent, but in my experience it was sort of an “extreme introspection”, any thought you have is immediately scrutinized “why did I think about this, is this the right thing to say in this context, what are the implications”. Then of course the thought about thought is also introspected, leading into a spiral of thought that occasionally gets “popped” as a stack. The memory works in a very weird manner where you almost immediately forget a lot of context and then get reminded of it in one go when you “pop” a level.

It is quite hard to imagine, I think, and even myself I can only explain the idea of it but not how it actually felt.

I wouldn’t say this was anything spiritual, rather than the thinking stopped working as a stream of thought but more like a graph traversal.

Fair point, but unless I’m misunderstanding something, that same argument could be applied to your original statement.

i dont think either of us properly understood the other , perhaps we shall finish this discussion properly another time , all the best until then

I did too, I took a heroic dose of 2C-e stupidity during my teens. Enter psychosis and believed I was somewhere else than earth.

Besides encouraging suicide, many LLM also feed peoples delusions =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yftBiNu0ZNU

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