People are often overly confident about their imperviousness to mental illness. In fact I think that --given the right cues – we’re all more vulnerable to mental illness than we’d like to think.
Baldur Bjarnason wrote about this recently. He talked about how chatbots are incentivizing and encouraging a sort of “self-experimentation” that exposes us to psychological risks we aren’t even aware of. Risks that no amount of willpower or intelligence will help you avoid. In fact, the more intelligent you are, the more likely you may be to fall into the traps laid in front of you, because your intelligence helps you rationalize your experiences.
People are often overly confident about their imperviousness to mental illness. In fact I think that --given the right cues – we’re all more vulnerable to mental illness than we’d like to think.
Baldur Bjarnason wrote about this recently. He talked about how chatbots are incentivizing and encouraging a sort of “self-experimentation” that exposes us to psychological risks we aren’t even aware of. Risks that no amount of willpower or intelligence will help you avoid. In fact, the more intelligent you are, the more likely you may be to fall into the traps laid in front of you, because your intelligence helps you rationalize your experiences.