Corey Keyes — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Corey Keyes — On AI. 18 entries total. Each is a deeper-dive on a person, concept, work, event, or technology that the book treats as a stepping stone for thinking through the AI revolution. Click any card to open the entry; in each entry, words colored in orange link to other Orange Pill Wiki entries, while orange-underlined words with the Wikipedia mark link to Wikipedia.
Auto-Exploitation
The Gramscian-Hanian condition in which the subject exploits herself and calls it freedom — the overseer's function having been transferred from the factory floor to the interior of the self through decades of hegemonic cultural work.
Flourishing
The measurable state requiring the simultaneous presence of emotional, psychological, and social well-being — the empirical target that distinguishes genuine wellness from mere functionality.
Flow State
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's name for the condition of optimal human engagement — and, in Wiener's framework, the subjective signature of a well-regulated negative feedback system.
Languishing
Keyes's coined term for the state of emptiness, stagnation, and quiet depletion that meets no clinical criteria yet predicts illness, reduced productivity, and diminished civic participation — the invisible middle.
Recognition Theory
Honneth's framework holding that human identity is a social achievement constituted through three forms of mutual acknowledgment — love, rights, and social esteem — each producing a distinct dimension of selfhood.
Social Well-Being (Five Components)
Keyes's 1998 operationalization of social well-being through five components — integration, contribution, coherence, acceptance, actualization — the dimension of flourishing most threatened by AI's dissolution of specialist communities.
The Amplifier
The device that increases the magnitude of whatever passes through it without evaluating the content — Wiener's framework for understanding AI as a tool that carries human signal, or human noise, with equal power and no judgment.
The Beaver's Dam
The canonical example of allogenic ecosystem engineering — a structure that modulates rather than blocks the flow of its environment, creating the habitat pool in which diverse community life becomes possible.
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han's 2010 diagnosis of the achievement-driven self-exploitation that has replaced disciplinary control as the dominant mode of power — and, in cybernetic terms, a social system operating in positive feedback.
The Mental Health Continuum
Keyes's two-dimensional model establishing that the absence of mental illness and the presence of mental health are independent axes — the diagnostic architecture the AI transition most urgently needs.
The Six Components of Psychological Well-Being
Carol Ryff's six-factor model — purpose, growth, mastery, autonomy, positive relationships, self-acceptance — that Keyes integrated as the psychological dimension of flourishing.
The Berkeley Study
Ye and Ranganathan's 2026 Harvard Business Review ethnography of AI in an organization — the empirical documentation of task seepage and work intensification that prospect theory predicts.
The Mental Health Continuum Short Form
Keyes's fourteen-item validated instrument for classifying individuals as flourishing, moderately mentally healthy, or languishing — the diagnostic tool the AI industry needs and does not yet use.
The Orange Pill
Edo Segal's 2026 book on the Claude Code moment and the AI transition — the empirical ground and narrative framework on which the Festinger volume builds its diagnostic reading.
Amartya Sen
Indian economist and philosopher (b. 1933), Nobel laureate, whose capability approach provided the analytical foundation that Deaton extended into empirical development economics and that this book applies to the AI transition.
Byung-Chul Han
Korean-German philosopher (b. 1959) whose diagnoses of smoothness, transparency, and achievement society provide the critical idiom within which Groys's AI analysis operates — and against which Groys's emphasis on institutional frame offers…
Edo Segal
Serial entrepreneur and technologist whose The Orange Pill (2026) provides the phenomenological account — the confession over the Atlantic — that Pang's framework diagnoses and treats.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Hungarian-American psychologist (1934–2021), father of flow theory, Nakamura's mentor and collaborator across four decades, whose foundational mapping of the peak experience provided the framework Nakamura extended into vital engagement.