Episode 1: You hate AI. Good. That makes you the control group. (Spoken Essay)

You hate AI. Good. That makes you the control group.This is the full spoken essay on why resistance to AI isn't a considered position, it's a measurable foraging behaviour, and why the neurodivergent brain felt the shift first.It starts with the death of my dog, Ripley, and the moment a thing becomes irreversible. The drug is in the bloodstream and from there, there is only the ride. I had the same feeling the first time I properly used AI. Not happening. Happened. The whole argument lives in that change of tense.A 2023 study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B gave people a foraging task: find the resource, decide when to move on. The people with neurodivergent traits abandoned the depleted patch faster and collected more overall. The rest stayed, harvesting ground that had already thinned, because familiar felt safer than uncertain. Your resistance to AI isn't a position. It's a foraging strategy with a neurological signature.From there it gets into the patterns nobody wants to look at. The printing press. Calculators. Smartphones. Every threshold, the same contraction, the same moral language, and not once did the panic stop the crossing. It pulls in loss aversion (Kahneman and Tversky), status quo bias (Samuelson and Zeckhauser), the sentinel hypothesis, the WEF Future of Jobs report, and the uncomfortable overlap between the traits that got pathologised for a century and the traits the new economy now pays the most for.I was diagnosed neurodivergent in my mid forties, after four decades of masking so well the cost was invisible to everyone, including me. The tool was never fixing the brain. The brain was never broken. The tool fixes the environment.It also takes the strongest objections seriously: consent, scraped work, labour displacement, the concentration of power. Two things can be true at once, and holding them without flattening them is the whole point.Read the full written essay, with the images, on Substack. The complete breakdown of the prompt stacks, chains and AI tools used to make it is there for paid subscribers.READ THE FULL ESSAY (with images):https://open.substack.com/pub/eddjervis/p/you-hate-ai-good-that-makes-you-the?r=5q9l9m&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=post%20viewerSUBSCRIBE to You're Not F*cking Fine:https://eddjervis.substack.comFollow / join the conversation:[TikTok link]. https://www.tiktok.com/@eddjervis?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pcCHAPTERS:00:00 I used AI to write this00:00 The death of my dog, and the moment it became irreversible00:00 AI is not happening, it has happened00:00 The foraging study: why some brains move and some stay00:00 The pattern: printing press, calculators, smartphones00:00 Loss aversion and status quo bias00:00 The sentinel hypothesis and the neurodivergent scout00:00 Why pathologised traits are now the most valuable00:00 The strongest objections to AI, taken seriously00:00 When the resource moves, the scanners know firstIf you've already moved, you already know. Tell me in the comments what patch you finally walked away from.#Neurodivergence #ADHD #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #Substack This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit eddjervis.substack.com/subscribe