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by davidivadavid 3592 days ago
You can't see how technology can "fix" psychology?

The most obvious way is direct through e.g. drugs. There's a very wide spectrum of potential futures here from nootropics to brave-new-worldesque soma.

The less obvious way is that technology alters your surroundings, which in turn influence your psychology.

Neither scenario seems particularly implausible to me.

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The kind of psychological problems I'm talking about aren't the kind that are fixed by drugs. I'm talking about things like values and beliefs. I'm calling it psychology because I don't know what else to call it; perhaps mindset would be a better name.