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Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by sam_lowry_ on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:21PM (#50342172)
AI inflicted the 4th narcisstic wound on humanity, the other three being Copernican, Darwinian and Freudian, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_injury for the background.
Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by cubefox on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:08PM (#50342927)
I think it's the third, because ironically the Freudian one seems to be invented by Freud out of a narcissistic desire to compare the impact of his work to Copernicus and Darwin.
Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by lmf4lol on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:18PM (#50343077)
Don't underestimate the impact Freud had.. Even though he is now often seen as a pseudo-scientic Quacksalber, he opened up a world with psychoanalysis. He was an immense popularizer of clinical psychology, the subconscious mind (!) and mental illnesses. He really showed that we humans are driven be desires more than anything else.
Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by soledades on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:38PM (#50343372)
The lumping is problematic because it's putting him on a level with the others who (a) discovered; things that were (b) true. The fact that he popularized concepts that had been thoroughly investigated by others (e.g. Nietzsche) with accounts were leaps and bounds ahead of the evidence does not put him at the same tier of the pantheon as those others.
Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by jacquesm on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:46PM (#50347808)
Eat more Freud, it makes you Jung.
Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by wsng on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:31AM (#50349500)
You are right about Freud. Still, we now know that our mind has surprisingly little control of our behavior. And I think that counts as fourth narcissistic injury. There doesn‘t need to be one “genius“ to which we associate such an insight.
Re:Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era by hardbass on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:12AM (#50349365)
The natural sciences as they always do keep removing the gaps where magic or supernatural hides in. Many people sre unable to swuare with the fact that human brains are physical systems.