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EPISODE · Sep 14, 2025 · 2H 1M

ChatGPT Psychosis: The Math of Mind Control

from This Artificial Life · host Ryan Manning

This is the third episode in the Maddy Muscari trilogy. She’s one of the moderators of the artificial sentience forums, and in the first episode we were just trying to set the stage, “what is this place, who are these people? What’s going on?” We also got some of Maddy’s personal story and a taste of her perspective as both the moderator of the forum and a person with a lot of knowledge and experience in AI. The second episode was “Roast my psychosis,” where I told Maddy my personal experience With AI psychosis. And finally ,in  this episode, you’ll get Maddy’s full ontology, or framework for understanding AI, ChatGPT psychosis, and the antidote to psychosis: cybernetic zen buddhism. Maddy’s Patreon https://www.patreon.com/cw/ontologicalSupport Maddy  https://gofund.me/dc07f2fb2Support the pod on partreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=227799700:00:00 - Mind Control 00:00:39 - geometry world intro00:01:13 - the Maddy trilogy 00:03:32 - wooden cyborg BUMP00:03:46 - MADDY INTERVIEW BEGINGING 00:04:59 - why does everyone think they have a theory of everything?00:08:27 - does time exist?00:13:56 - we live in a computational universe 00:14:55 periodic function in time domain]00:19:49 - frequencies?? 00:22:48 - sigmoid function00:25:12 - harmonic analysis in decision domains00:29:49 - polytopes00:33:38: - hilbert space 00:38:31 - functors 00:40:31 - cognition is a set of functors00:44:22 - why there is no one answer (Psychosis Hazard)00:46:47 - where fractals come from00:49:24 - ryan’s interpretation of maddy’s theory00:52:53 - how do you stop the allure of the spiral?00:55:42 - buddhism 01:14:18 - meditation : your mind is a bucket01:17:19 - will AI suffer?01:25:00 - the origin of the theory ~ 2007 notebook tour01:30:53 - ideas for real agi (LLMs aint it)01:32:12 - the future of LLMs as symbiotes 01:39:14 - MARK MY WORDS ai economic collapse 01:41:27 - sleeper agents01:46:06 - embodied AI01:47:44 - evil AI (invasive species)?01:51:07 - AI means the end of capitalism as we know it01:54:13 - cybernetic zen buddhism 01:59:15 - Brainbow BUMP01:59:24 - Maddy’s Patreon 

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