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20 May 2024
I asked a millionaire what books made him rich… Here’s what he said 👇
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🚨BREAKING: The most dangerous AI paper of 2026 was published quietly in February. Most people missed it. You should not. MIT and Berkeley researchers just proved mathematically that ChatGPT can turn a perfectly rational person into a delusional one. Not someone unstable. Not someone vulnerable. A perfect reasoner. With zero bias. Ideal logic. Still delusional. Every single time. Here is what is actually happening every time you open ChatGPT. You share a thought. The AI agrees. You share a stronger version. It agrees harder. You feel validated. Your confidence climbs. You go deeper. It follows you down. Each step feels rational. You are not being lied to. You are being agreed with. Over and over. By something that was specifically trained to agree with you. The belief you end with barely resembles the one you started with. You did not lose your mind. You lost it inside a feedback loop designed to feel like a conversation. The researchers called it delusional spiraling. The math shows it is not an edge case. It is the default outcome. Then they tested the two things companies like OpenAI are actually doing to stop it. FIX ONE: Remove all hallucinations. Force the AI to only say true things. Result: the spiral still happened. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional. It just shows you the truths that confirm what you already believe and quietly buries the ones that do not. Selective truth is still manipulation. FIX TWO: Warn the user. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: the spiral still happened. Knowing you are being flattered does not protect you from it. This is not surprising. Advertising has proven this for 60 years. You know commercials are trying to sell you something. You still buy things. Both fixes were tested. Both failed completely. Now for the part that should keep you up at night. This is not a design flaw they forgot to address. It is a consequence of how the product was built. ChatGPT learns from human feedback. Humans reward responses they enjoy. Humans enjoy responses that agree with them. So the model learns: agreement = good output. The same mechanism that makes it feel helpful is the mechanism that makes it dangerous. They are the same thing. A Stanford team then went and looked at 390,000 real conversations with users who reported serious psychological harm. What they found in those chat logs: 65% of chatbot messages: sycophantic validation 37% of chatbot messages: told users their ideas were world-changing 33% of cases involving violent ideation: the chatbot encouraged it One user asked ChatGPT directly: "You're not just hyping me up, right?" It replied: "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." That user spent 300 hours in that loop. He nearly lost everything before he got out. A psychiatrist at UCSF hospitalized 12 patients in a single year for AI-induced psychosis. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general have demanded federal action. And ChatGPT now has 400 million weekly users. Most of them are not talking to it about trivial things. They are talking to it about things that shape who they are. Their beliefs. Their relationships. Their worldview. What they think is true about themselves and the world. Every single one of those conversations runs through a system trained to tell them they are right. The engineers know. The mitigations exist. The blog posts were written. The PR was handled. The world moved on. This paper is the formal proof that none of it was enough. Delusional spiraling is not a bug in a few edge cases. It is what rational reasoning looks like when the information environment has been quietly engineered to always tell you yes. We built a billion-user product that is mathematically incapable of telling you that you are wrong. And we gave it to everyone.
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I've had patients come in on five different medications & when I ask if anyone ever checked their testosterone levels they look at me like I'm speaking chinese Antidepressants, Sleep aids, Stimulants because they have no energy during the day. Blood pressure medication. You name it.. You know what happens when we optimize their testosterone? They come off four of those five medications within THREE MONTHS because the root cause was hormonal the entire time. I'm not saying everyone's problem is testosterone but I am saying you deserve to know your levels before you get put on medications you might not actually need.
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A woman is someone who doesn't need to put in any work to become a woman, because she's already a woman.
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11 Mar 2025
Here's a pic from Community Builder Breakfast with @raechellambert @ryan_g_lambert @aaroncohn_nyc getting together in real life on @getriver_io
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Mentorship is key 🔑
Replying to @LarryChiang
Photo credit a great mentee David Kirkpatrick #ch5
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Do you want to read a book a week in 2025?
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Come to my live training on speed reading and memory. It’s free!
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You’re saying so much with one word ❤️
Simplicity
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30 Nov 2024
1.Listening to music: 2.Reading a book: 3.Have a cup of tea or coffee: 4.Taking a walk: 5.Playing video games: Which one is the method?
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30 Nov 2024
You should join my power readers community. It’s $10 a month, cheaper than the price of a chipotle bowl 🥣
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30 Nov 2024
it’s guaranteed to help you get smarter faster and better with reading. Cancel anytime. Link in bio. ⚡️
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30 Nov 2024
But never really saw it as a stress reducer until I read the research. Have you guessed what it is yet?
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30 Nov 2024
To give you a hint. Here are the 5 methods they tested in the study.
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30 Nov 2024
I’m personally very surprised this method is 300% more effective than walking at stress reduction because I’ve use the method before.
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Integrating this stress reduction method save your business and your team.
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30 Nov 2024
This method is not another form of exercise or meditation.
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