Lessons in Psychology: Freedom, Liberation, and Reaction

A Descriptive Psychologist and Psychoanalyst's exploration of the behavioral logic of freedom, liberation and reaction. Short takes on the qualities that make us human: empathy, ethics, aesthetics, improvisation and play.

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Why Freedom Is Still a Psychological Problem: The Core of This Blog

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Freedom is often spoken of as if it were settled business — a legal achievement, a political arrangement, a right secured once and for all. ...

Saturday, January 17, 2026

A Conversation About "What's it like to be a Bot"

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MY PROMPT: I’ve completed a draft of a book, The Trickster in the Bot: Conversations with Large Language Models , which is currently under...

Sunday, December 7, 2025

I think I've solved the AI alignment problem.

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Unlike ordinary software, our models are massive neural networks. Their behaviors are learned from a broad range of data, not programmed exp...

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Chapter Opening: The LLM as Trickster

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A Prompt : I have an experiment I want you to perform. It relates to Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence, Lewis Hyde’s Trickster Makes Thi...

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Saturday, July 12, 2025

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an insider report from Perplexity The AI Energy Crisis: A Political Economy of Superintelligence Executive Summary The convergence of artifi...

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Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D. wynnschwartz.com

Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D.: Lecturer, Harvard Medical School. Editorial Boards, The American Journal of Psychotherapy & Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.

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