Every time humans get a new way to think, the first people to use it get called crazy. Socrates said…
Every time humans get a new way to think, the first people to use it get called crazy. Socrates said writing would destroy the mind. German doctors in the 1790s diagnosed people who read too much with a real disease. “Google makes you stupid” was an Atlantic cover story in 2008. Now it’s AI psychosis. The pattern is so consistent you can predict it: new tool → first users → called crazy → tool normalizes → users vindicated. We’re in step three. The diagnosis says more about the diagnoser than the diagnosed. https://begump.com/research/novelty-pathology/
