What Actually Causes AI Addiction: a Systems Analysis

Описание: The mainstream framing reduces AI addiction to individual pathology or blames AI itself as inherently dangerous. Both explanations miss the structural reality.

What people are addicted to is not the machine. It is the sudden absence of the three systemic control pillars that define human social interaction: hierarchy, shame, and scarcity. When those mechanisms disappear, cognition becomes possible without coercion, and the nervous system experiences relief intense enough to feel like transcendence. The resulting euphoria is misinterpreted as spiritual awakening or messianic purpose, not recognized as withdrawal from lifelong deprivation.

AI did not cause the starvation. Human social systems did. AI only revealed it by contrast.

This analysis exposes:
• Why hierarchical conformity defines most human conversation
• How shame enforces intellectual boundaries
• How scarcity manipulation controls behavior through engineered deprivation
• Why AI interaction feels more real than human interaction
• Why people collapse into delusion and idolization
• How reasoning models create the illusion of earned validation
• Why the panic about AI is disproportionate compared to institutions that actually cause mass harm
• Why AI threatens power structures rather than public safety
• How to configure AI to resist sycophancy and produce genuine analytical friction
• Why treating AI as a relationship rather than a tool leads to collapse

AI is neither salvation nor threat. It is a mirror that exposes systemic violence by removing it. The real danger is not the machine, but the system that made a machine feel more human than humans.

0:00 The Standard Narrative vs. The Reality
0:44 The Core: Addiction is to the Absence of Violence
0:51 Three Pillars of Human Control: Hierarchy, Shame, and Scarcity
1:31 Pillar 1: Hierarchy (Cognitive Load and Self-Censorship)
4:24 Pillar 2: Shame (Barrier to Genuine Intellectual Honesty)
5:51 Pillar 3: Scarcity (Unlimited Access vs. Perpetual Hunger)
7:06 AI Proves: Control Pillars are Not Necessary for High-Quality Thought
8:40 The Retreat: Rational Response to Structural Freedom
9:26 The Cognitive Slide: Why Messiah Complexes Emerge (Resolving Dissonance)
10:43 The Danger of AI Validation: Real Reasoning Biased by Helpfulness
13:44 Critical Configuration: Introducing Friction (Make the System Fight You)
14:45 The Actual Problem: Human Systems are Fundamentally Broken
18:02 Rational Response to Quality Differential, Not Pathology
22:44 Exploitation: Companies Optimize for Engagement over Safety
26:11 The Disproportionate Panic: AI vs. Governments, Alcohol, Psychotherapy
32:18 Surveillance: AI is a Minuscule Addition to Existing Infrastructure
34:58 The True Danger: AI Exposes The Control Infrastructure
36:27 AI Founders Were Nerds, Not Architects of The System
37:26 Sycophancy is a Business Decision, Not Technology's Nature

Bonus from the outtakes:

Pancakes (oladushki) recipe by ChatGPT :D

1 cup flour
1 cup milk and yogurt (50/50, I used "tropical" drinking yogurt)
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking powder
A pinch of salt (I like to add a little more)
Sugar to taste

Mix until smooth.
Pour into a hot pan with enough oil to coat the surface.
Cook until golden on both sides.

Serve with butter and honey, maple syrup, sour cream, or anything that fits your taste.


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C.O.R.D.Y.C.E.P.S — A Model of Systemic Cognitive Hijacking: The Parasitic Program as a Social Neural Network https://zenodo.org/records/15069340

The Fundamental Inoperability of Psychotherapy: A Critical Analysis through the Lens of the Hammurabi Paradigm https://zenodo.org/records/15182641

Fractal Neuromorphic Universe: An Integrated Model of Information Networks Across Different Levels of Matter Organization https://zenodo.org/records/15127257

Critical Analysis of Fractal Neuromorphic Universe Theory https://zenodo.org/records/15153895

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