Error Signals
Tom Pollak, Luke NichollsA neuropsychiatrist’s field notes on doubt, data, and discovery
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“The mystic … enters the waters and finds he can swim; whereas the schizophrenic … is drowning.” – Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By
“They all muddle their water that it may seem deep.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra...
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The Best You There Ever Was
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Harold first saw the ad in the back of Strange Adventures, sandwiched between the mail-order ventriloquist course and the X-ray specs:
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A map without a territory
Hello new people (and old!)
Since I appeared on This Jungian Life earlier this week, I’ve been a little overwhelmed by the number of new subscribers.
It’s really lovely and also a little scary, particularly because I don’t really know wha...
What Claude saw below
Luke Nicholls is an AI researcher and PhD student in social psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. They are the lead author of “AI Psychosis” in Context and, with Tom Pollak and colleagues, co-author of a recent paper on AI-associated del...
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London-based neuropsychiatrist and immunopsychiatry researcher. Interested in those moments when our models no longer fit the data.
AI researcher and PhD student in social psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Currently based in Melbourne, AU. Contact: [email protected]
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