July 23, 2026

Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and the people who lean hardest on AI

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In 1914, Sigmund Freud borrowed a figure from Ovid and handed psychology one of its most durable terms. In his essay On Narcissism, the myth of Narcissus, the youth who fell in love with his own reflection and wasted away in front of it, became a way...