Rollo May
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Rollo May. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Rollo May's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The feeling I could not name was the absence of resistance.
For months after taking the orange pill, I celebrated the collapse of friction. The imagination-to-artifact ratio approaching zero. Twenty engineers each doing the work of a hundred. Thirty days from nothing to a living, talking product on a showfloor. I wrote about all of it in *You On AI* with genuine awe, because the awe was genuine.
But there was something else happening that I kept skating past. A sensation I noticed on the late nights — not the exhilaration of building, which I documented honestly, and not the compulsion, which I also documented. Something quieter. A thinning. The work was flowing faster than ever, and some nights the flow felt less like
