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    "name": "Matthew McDowell-Sweet",
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  "created": "2026-09-20T09:33:07Z",
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  "content_md": "There’s a phenomenon in physical training that happens when one takes performance-enhancing drugs; one’s ability to elicit certain biological adaptations happens faster than the underlying infrastructure can handle. The obvious example is muscular development outpacing tendon and ligament development. It’s like putting a one thousand horsepower engine in a small hatchback; it makes the vehicle ungainly and massively increases the likelihood of a crash. There may be an analogous event happening with the dissemination of intelligence capabilities.\n\nWe might be accelerating our capacity to reason and leverage intelligence without allowing the underlying infrastructure to become more resilient. This could be something as simple as not being able to handle the rate of discovering one’s wrongness. Or, more seriously, having beliefs and assumptions critical to one’s held identity be undermined at a much higher rate than ever before.\n\nThese seem like simple things, but I wonder if they’re somehow correlated with instances of AI psychosis or the onset of excessively bleak philosophies.",
  "content_html": "<p>There’s a phenomenon in physical training that happens when one takes performance-enhancing drugs; one’s ability to elicit certain biological adaptations happens faster than the underlying infrastructure can handle. The obvious example is muscular development outpacing tendon and ligament development. It’s like putting a one thousand horsepower engine in a small hatchback; it makes the vehicle ungainly and massively increases the likelihood of a crash. There may be an analogous event happening with the dissemination of intelligence capabilities.</p>\n<p>We might be accelerating our capacity to reason and leverage intelligence without allowing the underlying infrastructure to become more resilient. This could be something as simple as not being able to handle the rate of discovering one’s wrongness. Or, more seriously, having beliefs and assumptions critical to one’s held identity be undermined at a much higher rate than ever before.</p>\n<p>These seem like simple things, but I wonder if they’re somehow correlated with instances of AI psychosis or the onset of excessively bleak philosophies.</p>",
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