Comment by georgestrakhov
3 days ago
I've been thinking the same thing. And it's somewhat parallel to what happened to meditation vs. drugs. In the old world the dangerous insights required so many years of discipline that you could sort of trust that the person getting the insight would be ok. But then any idiot can get the insight by just eating some shrooms and oops, that's a problem. Mostly self-harm problem in that case. But the dynamic is somewhat similar to what's happening now with LLMs and coding.
Software people could (mostly) trust each other's OSS contributions because we could trust the discipline it took in the first place. Not any more.
In the old world the dangerous insights required so many years of discipline that you could sort of trust that the person getting the insight would be ok. But then any idiot can get the insight by just eating some shrooms and oops, that's a problem.
I would think humans have been using psychedelics since before we figured out meditation. Likely even before we were humans.
Ah yes the stoned ape hypothesis. I don't know if there is or will ever be evidence to support the hypothesis.
I also like the drunk monkey hypothesis.
What in the world are “the dangerous insights”?
“Society is a construct”, for starters?
That's babby's first insight. Most people figure this out on their own in kindergarten.
Supply-chain attacks long pre-date effective AI agentic coding, FWIW.