Ironic-Process-Theory | Sebastian Spicker

2026

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15 Jan 2026 Try to Relax — and Other Things That Prevent Themselves “Try to relax” can recruit the monitoring that keeps tension salient. Traversable wormholes face a very different constraint: sustaining their geometry requires stress-energy that violates classical energy conditions. The comparison is an analogy about constraints, not one mechanism shared by psychology and spacetime. physicsgeneral-relativitywormholes

2025

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12 Aug 2025 Can the AI Friend Make You Lonelier? AI companions promise to address loneliness. Daniel Wegner’s ironic process theory offers one speculative account of why companionship use may be risky for some people; current studies do not establish that companions cause loneliness. ailonelinesssocial-psychology