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What a depressing paragraph. There's something bigger here than Granger's desire to physically repeat what AI 'art' comes from.
But wait it gets worse
ugh.
The man needs a human therapist not a fucking chatbot.
And a human friend. 50 minutes a week is not enough to make sense of yourself unless you're already just a brief coaching away from figuring it out on your own.
True.
human therapists aren't very reliable either. i wouldn't use an LLM for that but oof.
I have a personal rule that I don't talk to computers, I've been this way since Siri first dropped in 2011. That said I think I would trust talking to a self hosted LLM on an air gapped machine more than spilling my heart out to a therapist.
yeah fuck voice control
The way this panopticon AI shit is going "don't talk to computers" might as well be the new "don't talk to cops".
I still hate youtune for making the internet a video thing. It used to be text and images and that rocked. I like reading
A fucking coloring book would maybe do.
That's the main reason why I posted it.
Reminds me of this blog post from a few days ago too https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/
The Jungian shadow explanation feels similar to the golden compass deamon explanation Ronacher gave too, despite Ronacher using AI coding assistants.
the programmers are not okay
...I should get back into programming. It's been... fuck, a decade. But I think the fact that I've missed this trend completely may be to my benefit.
A friend who joined a programming school told me they scrapped the entire curriculum some months into the course and started teaching vibe coding instead.
What's sad is that vibe coding is basically only valuable to people who have experience and know what they're doing. If you're teaching it in school, you're teaching nothing.
It's the equivalent of teaching the power rule of derivatives in a calculus class, then saying "that's what a derivative is" and not explaining the underlying proofs.
Yeah the idea that vibe coding is much of a skill is mostly a scam to obscure the capabilities and limitations of LLMs.
I'm still under the impression that it's totally useless. I've written much better and actually more code since I stopped using LLMs (I had co-pilot for a bit).
I really do think that people have been fooling themselves with AI slop. It's really easy to feel like you're doing a lot when it's just constantly spitting stuff out on the screen.
I'm recently going back and re-writing a package that I used AI to help write like a year and a half ago. This is the one that made me abandon AI, since it just continued to fuck up patterns in ways that were incredibly difficult to fix. Then the package suddenly got a decent amount of users and I was locked in.
I came up with the high level concept and used AI to help scaffold and boilerplate out models and stuff from a spec, which should have been a sign that I was doing something wrong.
Now I'm rewriting the whole thing from scratch, and one of the big things I've noticed is that the types of things I'd use AI for before, I'm now writing build scripts for. Which makes maintaining the library like 10x easier. It also forces me to distil the library backend down into the simplest possible form to keep the buildscripts simple.
I'm also forced to be way stricter with my typing solution (Python) since I can't just offload "make this right" to the AI and actually need to use strict static checks to keep the layers properly synced. AI Python tends to be awful when it comes to type hinting if it even does it.
Oh it's great at generating verbose near infeasible for humans to maintain code bases. I think the asbestos analogy is pretty on point.
Jung was such a hack, and anyone who thinks that he is profound is usually equally hack.
Isn't it sort of like Tarot?
He is also responsible for Jorsan Peterson which alone is reason enough to hate him.
Can you elaborate on this? (Or link something on the topic)
My only experience with Jung is through pop culture so I always got the inkling his philosophy was a little Reddit-tier, but I'm curious as to how
To summarize, Jung believed in the idea of a collective psyche (collective unconscious), and that human culture isn't a primarily external phenomena taught between individuals, but something that is unconsciously received from the this collective psyche.
This has lead to all kinds of cool fictional ideas, such as the 'hero's journey' archetypes, or Warhammer 40k's idea of The Warp, or any number of sci-fi focused around the idea of human psychic development, around the idea that we will evolve to be able to access this collective unconsciousness.
However, it also leads to all kinds of strange things, such as the idea that these story archetypes are real human psychological profiles (a la Jordan Peterson) or ideas like 'love languages'. As has previously been stated, it essentially operates as psychological Tarot.
Basically, Jung is extremely fun when not taken seriously or scientifically, but can lead to very serious categorization errors. He has been thoroughly discredited within both anthropology, sociology, and psychology, and the only reason he is ever read is purely from a historical academic perspective.
Jung is profound in the same way TV Tropes is profound. He recognized patterns in human story telling.
Oh and as the other people said he was extremely fascist-adjacent, in not flirting with it himself. All around a piece of shit.
Is Lacan cool I want to be able to psychoanalyze people
Lacan is cool if you want to justify your love of young women and men, I suppose. I know it is technically more complex than that, but I haven't met a single person who really advocated for Lacan that wasn't also trying to sleep with their students.
https://old.reddit.com/r/enoughpetersonspam/comments/esl7la/carl_jungs_antisemitic_speech_from_1934/
Also his work Wotan where he gets fully racist towards Africans, Indians, arabs etc. Kinda' like Nietzsche a lot of his work flirts with fascist and proto-fascist ideas and annoying-ass academic types love to defend it.
He also straight-up benefitted from the Nazis for a time. Didn't leave Nazi Germany for Switzerland until like 1939 or 1940 or some shit. Also worked with the CIA.
Also probably his most obviously evil, stupid idea 'it's actually cool as fuck for Germany to invade eastward to the USSR':
https://christopherdickey.blogspot.com/2016/11/carl-jung-on-hitler-stalin-and_5.html
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