Speedup from AI Ghostwriting

I used Claude Opus 4.6 to ghostwrite the first drafts of the articles in my Psychopathy sequence. That approach saved me some two days if the drafts turned out well compared to ones that didn’t turn out well, which I had to rewrite. In the grand scheme of things, this is a minor speedup, but if you have RSI, are not fluent in the language you’re writing in, or just dislike writing, it’s very helpful.Research Around February 2025, I started getting really excited about all the very different things that get lumped together under the label psychopathy. I had already been friends with someone who’s constitutionally psychopathic since 2015, but in the previous ten years, my interest didn’t go beyond riddling them with questions about their personal experience, without much engagement with the literature or other, very different presentations.That changed in 2025, when I joined some Facebook groups to befriend people with narcissistic adaptations. It turned out a particularly psychopathic adaptation that I’ve named sovereignism is very common there, perhaps because it is actually better seen as a particular niche narcissistic adaptation. It’s different in other Facebook groups.I made about 30 new friends with very different presentations of psychopathy and always tried to understand them well enough to determine exactly in what ways my childhood or constitutional factors would’ve had to have been different for me to be like them. My own adaptations were very self-effacing and people-pleasing, so sovereignism was simultaneously similar and opposite. That made it surprisingly easy for me to understand – to the extent this type of thing is possible – what it feels like to be them. Naturally, with my own adaptations so opposite, I could also learn a lot from them.I augmented that with various books and podcasts, some of which I can recommend.“Confessions of a Sociopath” by M.E. Thomas alias Jamie is very insightfulA drawback is that today she endorses very little of what she