• PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    I swear it seems maintainers of FOSS seem somehow more susceptible than average to AI psychosis. Like not per-individual, but as a group. Could be my imagination and the nature of FOSS just makes it more evident, looking like it appears more. Either way, weird stuff…

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      50 minutes ago

      One thing that concerned me a bit was just how many of the commenters were totally there for it. The central figure of their preferred filesystem turns out to be off his rocker and a gate number of people seemed to be roughly “if this guy made such a good filesystem, and he claims he has a mathematical proof of consciousness, will, guess there must be something to it…”

      Sure there seemed to be people with more expected reactions, but surprised he had any traction at all…

      I’ve no idea about correlation with AI psychosis and FOSS or even software development in general, I’ve only read about a handful and this is the first developer that cropped up, but it’s not like I’ve been actively looking. Don’t know if I’ve seen any pattern, some have been alone and have had built a family, some young and some much further along in life. Some fairly anonymous and then there’s this guy with fame and a following and quite the ego… Many who by all accounts never exhibited mental health problems before… It’s just weird.