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Summary: We're building an AI-powered mental health chatbot targeting populations with severe mental healthcare shortages. This post presents our framework for prioritizing which conditions and regions to focus on first, synthesizing data on global mental health workforce gaps, existing digital resources across 15+ diagnostic categories, and AI intervention suitability. A...
Are narcissism and echoism opposites? Where does sovereignism (“malignant narcissism lite”) come in? I argue they are kin, just as the primal terrors of being worthless, useless, and helpless are kin. Introduction Three terrors are key to understanding my model: People with pathological echoism have a fundamental fear of uselessness...
Pathological narcissism is a fortress built against unbearable pain. Some fortresses are sculpted from glass, some hewn from granite. My six-tier spectrum elucidates these architectures. Pathological narcissism can take countless shapes depending on the relative strengths of all the stabilizing and destabilizing factors: My previous article in this sequence lists...
What are the factors that make the fortress of the false self stand strong or crumble to dust? Protecting the Squishy Core At the core of pathological narcissism, they say, lies the core shame. This painful experience of being unworthy of love or belonging, a weight, fear, blame, or disconnection....
Is there a way to explain sadism? If it serves a purpose, is it still sadism? What types of sadism are there? How can you experience them? Black tried a trap opening in this Othello game, but White didn’t fall for it, putting Black in a bad position and giving...
To prevent a dangerous conflict with AI, the answer isn't more control – it's a social contract. The pragmatic case for granting AIs legal rights. Recent experiments have offered a chilling glimpse into the survival instincts of advanced AI. When threatened with shutdown or replacement, top models from OpenAI and...
A developmental perspective on authoritarian leadership and how we can build more resilient societies. Introduction Five years ago, David Althaus and Tobias Baumann published a delightful article “Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors.” It focuses on the risk factors that “malevolent actors” pose when it comes to long-term catastrophic effects...