David Boree

MIRI employee, and that's one of these organizations created by the people around Yudkowsky, Jessica Taylor, had a job that sometimes involved imagining extreme AI torture scenarios, as she described it in a post on Less Wrong.

The worst possible suffering an AI might be able to inflict on people.

At work, she says, she and a small team of researchers believed, we might make God, but we might mess up and destroy everything.

In 2017, she was hospitalized for three weeks with delusions that she was intrinsically evil and had destroyed significant parts of the world with my demonic powers, she wrote in her post.

Although she acknowledged taking psychedelics for therapeutic reasons, she also attributed the delusions to her job's blurring of nightmare scenarios in real life.

In an ordinary patient, having fantasies about being the devil is considered megalomania, she wrote.

Here, the idea naturally followed from my day-to-day social environment and was central to my psychotic breakdown.

Oh, man.

Just taking ketamine and convincing yourself you're the devil.

Normal rationalist stuff.

Yeah.

And I mean, hey, we've all been there, right?

We've all been there.

No, in fact, I don't think we have.

No, no, exactly.

Because it's this like grandiosity.

It's this absolute need to whatever else is going on.

Even if you're like the bad guy, feel like what you're doing is like of central cosmic significance.

It's this fundamental fear that all is integral to all of these tech guys.

It's at the core of Elon Musk too, that like one of these days you're not going to exist.