Re:Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's ludicrous med...
by xg15 on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:12AM
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I like how he declares "mental illness" to be solved, when this is an even more varied and ill-defined concept than "cancer".
Authoritarian states often declare rejection of the state narrative as "mental illness".
Christian conservatives declare much, if not all, of queer culture as "mental illness".
On the other hand, some more consensus variants of mental illness, such as addiction or depression are actively caused by tech products and are fundamental to the value proposition. Tech companies invest enormous amount of work in how to make their products more addictive.
AI has already spawned its very own concept in the form of "AI psychosis".
That's not even starting with "virtual friends" or downstream effects like destruction of social skillsets and environments.
So, which if those things are included in his definition?
Authoritarian states often declare rejection of the state narrative as "mental illness".
Christian conservatives declare much, if not all, of queer culture as "mental illness".
On the other hand, some more consensus variants of mental illness, such as addiction or depression are actively caused by tech products and are fundamental to the value proposition. Tech companies invest enormous amount of work in how to make their products more addictive.
AI has already spawned its very own concept in the form of "AI psychosis".
That's not even starting with "virtual friends" or downstream effects like destruction of social skillsets and environments.
So, which if those things are included in his definition?