The Frictionless Other
A woman who uses AI for almost everything told me, "I almost never get stuck anymore." A few minutes later she said, "I'm not less anxious." This episode asks whether those are two different achievements.
Development needs something that resists us. Piaget called it disequilibrium, Jung called it the tension of opposites, and every good teacher and therapist knows the point between helping with a problem and taking it away. Last episode I argued that an AI agent is a complex whose affective core belongs to someone else. This one adds the second half: it's a complex built not to push back. A…
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