“These questions are all really the same question and the central anxiety of our time: Have I actually chosen who I am, or is my identity being shaped by sinister forces I can barely understand?”

source: https://open.substack.com/pub/theargument/p/obsession-and-the-horror-of-losing

My notes:

in fact, there is evidence to suggest that AI may help to reduce social polarization on political issues because it tends to adopt balanced views and present arguments from both sides

On external influence: i suspect that there are lots of things I’m concerned about that do not really bother me and more importantly I do not get any pleasure from thinking about them. Yet for some reason I read and think about them every day.