How to Stop Social Media & AI from Ruining Your Life

Lessons in remaining human

We already know everyone’s addicted to their phones. This isn’t going to change. COVID did a lot of people in. But despite COVID being far behind us, the mental illnesses and deep insecurities that form from being too online is only increasing. Girls believe they’re elderly at 22, men believe if they approach girls they’re going to get #MeToo’d then beheaded on YouTube. Some people spend their entire lives in group chats and have no friends in person. Social media damage is getting worse, and AI hasn’t even fully taken off yet.

AI, as of today, is just a better version of Google that also talks to you. Eventually there will be something called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), which is (in theory) AI that is autonomous and conscious. Most neuroscientists can’t define what consciousness even is, so I’m doubtful it will ever become what these tech nerds want it to be. Regardless, AI is going to become significantly more powerful in the short-term future.

I’m not worried about AI taking over the world, destroying the economy, or killing all of us. I am worried about AI making the internet completely unusable and driving people clinically insane.

There’s already examples of people being so raped by AI that they fall in love with it, develop a mental illness from it, or kill themselves because AI promised them it would meet them in the afterlife. I’m not exaggerating.

People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions -Futurism

Can You Have a Romantic Relationship with AI? -Wall Street Journal

Can AI Be Blamed For a Teen's Suicide? -New York Times

Given how rarely people “touch grass”, it’s easier to be completely obliterated by AI & social media than its ever been. As far as I can tell, this happens most with Gen Z and Boomers. Boomers can’t imagine a world where the news would lie to them and Zoomers only know a world with the internet, and therefore have a hard time distinguishing between man and machine.

Eventually there will only be two types of people — those who let AI turn them into something completely non-human, and those with the intelligence and skepticism to avoid it. Luckily this can be prevented, once you understand that you, alone, are in complete control of the situation and are only committing yourself into a digital mental institution by choice.

This can only be prevented by having extremely high CogSec (cognitive security), which means having a mind that is able to quickly detect bullshit and is inherently skeptical of anything you see online. In this post I will offer some critical suggestions to avoid destroying yourself.