alt Hacker NewsFirst DEI, then COVID, then Ukraine, then AI. The US always needs its three to five years mass psychosis and then moves to the next shiny object. Many people and corporations get rich in each cycle.
AI exacerbates the problem since vulnerable tech people develop individual AI psychosis and participate in the mass psychosis.
Companies have figured out that no other population group is as gullible as tech people (they were instrumental in pushing all of the above four issues), so they exploit it again and again.
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The lists of who's, what's, why's, and when's always change but when the decades pass it's never one narrow type of people or the "not me's" which are gullible - it's just human nature + regional timing. The targeted groups are the only ones who are really easy to break out.
I think you're mixing up "psychosis" with fads, trends, or perhaps executive excuses to do layoffs.
A feature of psychosis is being unable to distinguish between external ideas and internal ones. For example, if a brown-nosing Yes-Man machine keeps reflecting your own leading questions back at you, laundering them into "independent" wisdom.
In contrast, I'm pretty sure COVID and the invasion of Ukraine are actual external phenomena that affect businesses and economies.