Scott Alexander

And this social technology just does, in fact, work to get people organized in companies and working towards the vision of leaders.

Right.

Thank you.

I hope that happens.

We'll see.

What about comments?

I feel like intuitively it feels like before we see the AIs writing great blog posts that go super viral repeatedly, we should see them writing like highly uploaded comments on things.

It needs to have good ideas that other people don't already have.

Yeah, I had a great time.

I'm a huge fan of your podcast.

Welcome to the Astral Codex X podcast for the 25th of January 2024, titled The Psychopolitics of Trauma.

This is an audio version of Astral Codex X, Scott Alexander's Substack.

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Everyone knows politics makes people crazy.

But what kind of crazy?

Which page of the DSM is it on?

I'm only half joking.

Psychiatrists have spent decades developing a whole catalogue of ways brains can go wrong.

Politics makes people's brains go wrong.