Stanton Peele — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Stanton Peele — On AI. 13 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.
Creative Adequacy
The experience of building at the level of one's imagination—the most powerful addictive experience Peele's framework addresses, because it provides genuine fulfillment rather than counterfeit relief.
Disease Model of Addiction
The dominant medical paradigm treating addiction as a chronic, relapsing brain disease caused by substances hijacking neural reward circuitry—a framework Peele argues is scientifically incorrect and therapeutically harmful despite its huma…
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.
Harm Reduction
The public-health approach accepting that risky behaviors will continue and focusing on minimizing associated harms rather than demanding abstinence—Peele's only viable framework for productive addiction.
Life Process Model of Addiction
Peele's alternative to disease-model treatment—addiction as embedded in life circumstances, resolved not through abstinence but by enriching the life until alternative sources of fulfillment compete with the addictive experience.
Locus of Control (Rotter)
Julian Rotter's 1960s construct measuring whether people believe outcomes are determined by their actions (internal locus) or by external forces—the single best predictor of addiction resistance in Peele's framework.
Peele's Critique of Twelve-Step Programs
Peele's sustained argument that AA's model—powerlessness, moral inventory, lifelong addict identity—is institutionalized learned helplessness, producing dependence on the program rather than autonomous recovery.
Productive Addiction
The compulsive engagement pattern produced when the enterprise of the self encounters unlimited productive capability — behavior indistinguishable from addiction, output indistinguishable from achievement.
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.
Viktor Frankl
Austrian psychiatrist (1905–1997), Auschwitz survivor, and founder of logotherapy — whose insistence that meaning makes suffering bearable provided the framework Kübler-Ross repeatedly cited in her own work on catastrophic loss.
