Carl Jung
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 Carl Jung. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Carl Jung'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 thing I could not explain was why I kept lying to myself about the laptop.
I would tell my wife I was closing it. I would tell myself I was done for the night. Then an hour would pass, then two, and I would surface at some ungodly hour having built something I was genuinely proud of — and genuinely unable to account for why I had not stopped when I said I would.
I described this pattern in You On AI. I described it honestly. What I did not have was a framework for understanding it that went deeper than "productive addiction" or "flow state gone wrong." Those labels pointed at the phenomenon. They did not explain the mechanism. They did
