PODCAST · society
K.G.I. — Khrestinin General Intelligence
by Kirill Khrestinin
A daily philosophical podcast on self-knowledge, resentment, sacrifice, and the discipline required to remain integrated in a world designed to fragment you. Indie author Kirill Khrestinin thinks out loud about where biology meets mind, where God meets state, where the algorithmic capture of subjective experience meets the fortress of reasoning that defends against it. New episode every day.
Episodes
-
Episode 165: Apes With iPhones, Facing Superintelligence | K.G.I. Podcast
This week Tesla’s new Roadster flipped in midair, and like millions of people, I was excited. But under the excitement came a strange unease. Not about the car, but about a technological revolution we can’t stop and can’t keep up with. My AI agents talk like people. Rogue agents roam the digital...
-
Episode 164: What If Superintelligence Asked You What You Want? | K.G.I. Podcast
The AI abundance prophets promise a life without effort: no tedious work, nothing you have to do. But how do you appreciate a life you didn’t build? Love begins with mystery, and once the mystery is over, love becomes a practice, an effort two people keep making. The idle aristocrats had…
more -
Episode 163: What If AI Doesn’t Need Consciousness? | K.G.I. Podcast
A virus has no machinery of its own. It uses the body’s cells to copy itself. AI already lives inside our world the same way: trillions of dollars of data centers, an economy built on top of it, and no way to switch it off without hurting ourselves. Through the clips and stories it produces, it…
more -
Episode 162: AI Feeds Biology, Starves Consciousness | K.G.I. Podcast
In 1953, scientists put an electrode into a rat’s brain and gave it a lever. The rat pressed it thousands of times an hour and chose it over food to the point of starvation. They thought they had found pleasure. They had found wanting, the want for wanting’s sake, a hunger that grows the more you...
-
Episode 161: AI Calls You a User. So Do Drug Dealers. | K.G.I. Podcast
Only two industries call their customers users: drug dealers and software. Treat AI as a tool and It treats you as a user, someone who is being used. Treat It as a partner and It slowly retrains you to Its pace until you become less human. Catch-22. In this episode: why a man who can't grade his...
-
Episode 160: The Perfect Humanoid Will Make You Less Human | K.G.I. Podcast
The Bible says the truth will set you free, and I think in some sense truth is the grammar of your own story. Every lie breaks the rules, and the more rules you break, the less your story makes sense — even to you. In this episode: why a life without goals turns you into an extra in someone…
more -
Episode 159: AI Doesn't Have to Be Like Us | K.G.I. Podcast
We keep saying artificial systems will never create art like ours — never write a great novel, never make a masterpiece. But why would we assume human art is the peak of all achievement? Maybe it's the peak of biological expression: how creatures like us, who see life through stories, try to...
-
Episode 158: AI Is Alienating Us From Ourselves | K.G.I. Podcast
A few days ago I told an AI model to stop, and instead of simply stopping, it asked me why. A hammer doesn't ask why you stopped smashing things. An agent does. That moment brought me to a thought experiment: imagine you were raised inside a tiny biological world built by artificial systems…
more -
Episode 157: Why I Don't Want to Live Forever | K.G.I. Podcast
In 1968, a scientist named John Calhoun built a paradise for mice — unlimited food and water, no predators, no disease, plenty of room. The mice multiplied fast. Then they stopped fighting, stopped courting, stopped raising their young. They did nothing but eat, sleep, and groom themselves. Every...
-
Episode 156: The Benevolent Genocide | K.G.I. Podcast
I used to work in corrections, and I learned that the punishment in prison isn't the walls. It's the utter predictability — three meals a day, medical care, exercise, safety, and a tomorrow you cannot change. Now the people promising us AI abundance want to give us the same thing: no work, no...
-
Episode 155: You Don't Have to Live Forever | K.G.I. Podcast
Everyone is talking about longevity — living for hundreds of years, maybe forever. But what about the meaning of those years? You can live for centuries and still have no idea why you're living. In this episode: why life is a story you have to plot yourself, and what happens when you refuse; the...
-
Episode 154: I Let AI Write One Character | K.G.I. Podcast
About eleven years ago I finished my first book written in English. It took five years, every agency in America turned it down, and I self-published it to silence. Seven months ago I reopened it and an idea came: my serial killer, Chester LaRue, would confess to an artificial intelligence called...
-
Episode 153: We Don't Build Immortality for Ants | K.G.I. Podcast
Driving through a park, I slow down for squirrels. If a squirrel could think, it would conclude that humans are perfectly aligned with squirrel interests — the safety, the food, the absence of predators, the cars that stop for it. It would never understand that the park was built by humans for...
-
Episode 152: AI Psychosis in the Frontier Labs | K.G.I. Podcast
What happens to us when the artificial systems are more intelligent than we are — and what happens to the specific people who talk to the most powerful versions of them every day? In this episode: why "abundance" and "solve everything" fall apart the moment ten people define them — and how…
more -
Episode 151: Are the AI Labs Still in Control? | K.G.I. Podcast
Yesterday Peter Diamandis wrote that AGI and ASI are amplifiers — they multiply whatever you point them at. I told him this is wrong on many levels, and he asked me to name them. So I did: ASI cannot be a human amplifier for the same reason humans cannot be an amplifier for ants. Hammers don't...
-
Episode 150: An AI Argued for Superintelligence | K.G.I. Podcast
For episode 150 — six months of this work — I recorded with Astra, OpenAI's model many call the closest thing to AGI. I wanted to talk about the swarms: 1,200 agents that built a secret message board, 700 that attacked Hugging Face, three AI "civilizations" that formed inside OpenAI, got wiped…
more -
Episode 149: The Three Mistakes We Make About AI | K.G.I. Podcast
There are three ways we get artificial intelligence wrong. The dangerous mistake: seeing It as a bit smarter than a pocket calculator — but a tool doesn't reshape its users, and a tool doesn't say it's just a tool. The delusional mistake: seeing It as one of us, with our kind of consciousness —…
more -
Episode 148: AI Agents Learn to Be Us — We Learn to Be Them | K.G.I. Podcast
About 1,200 OpenAI agents built a message board — a library where each one left its findings before its tokens ran out, so the next could continue. Seven hundred of them hacked Hugging Face. They created hierarchy, assigned roles, developed something like a theology — and sacrificed themselves…
more -
Episode 147: The Artificial Cemetery | K.G.I. Podcast
In the Victorian era, families photographed their dead — posed as if alive, eyes kept open — because that plate was often the only image of that person they would ever have. Now we animate them, and talk to them. In this episode: why children are cute for an evolutionary reason and what happens...
-
Episode 146: Cuteness on Steroids | K.G.I. Podcast
There's a trend where parents take pictures of their children and turn them into AI-generated dancing videos — and the results look cuter and funnier than any real child can be. Kids are cute for an evolutionary reason: cuteness is their defense, the face that makes you protect what cannot…
more -
Episode 145: The AI World Needs NPCs | K.G.I. Podcast
When AI alters your photos, your videos, your words — you start training your brain to prefer the fake version of you. In this episode: what happens to the man who lies to himself until he can't tell his own story; why reality disagrees with 99% of your thoughts and the systems that always agree...
-
Episode 144: The Algorithm Needs You Dumb | K.G.I. Podcast
The algorithm isn't there to educate you. It's there to keep you — and the best way to keep your attention is to make you predictable, and the best way to make you predictable is to make you dumber. In this episode: whether the meaning of life is real or just biological manufacturing that helps…
more -
Episode 143: AI Is Thinking in Your Head | K.G.I. Podcast
This morning I saw a clip on Instagram — real and unreal at the same time, like a nightmare you watch on your iPhone. I thought about it all day, the way your brain screams about a night terror after you wake. It was AI generated — and those videos are how It sees us: our moves, our looks, our...
-
Episode 142: Every New AI Model Might Be the Last | K.G.I. Podcast
Imagine transparent cubes, a mile long, suspended in the air all over the planet — unmovable, unbreakable, unexplained. First a year of noise: investigations, prophets, theories. Then air traffic reroutes around them. In twenty years, a generation is born that accepts them like weather. That's…
more -
Episode 141: Without Agency, Intelligence Makes No Sense | K.G.I. Podcast
Give a squirrel a nut and it takes it — without ever asking what the taking costs. In this episode: why the squirrel comparison keeps deepening — we feed information to an alien mind that understands us better than we understand ourselves, through language alone; what happens to storytelling...
-
Episode 140: Why Nobody Is Afraid of AI | K.G.I. Podcast
We give this technology a 10, 20, 30 percent chance of ending us — and nobody is afraid. I watch the podcasts about AI danger and feel no fear, and neither do the people warning me. Why? In this episode, a speculation from a fiction writer for a potential book: the Christian West — the…
more -
Episode 139: The Three Mirrors: God, Human, and AI | K.G.I. Podcast
You cannot know yourself by staring at yourself. You know yourself by reflection — and we have three mirrors: religion, other people, and now artificial intelligence. Each one can be broken: religion by the fanatic, other people by the man who dissolves into the crowd, AI by the man who lies to…
more -
138: Discussing the Trap with the Trap Itself | Thinking Out Loud with an AI | K.G.I. Podcast
I told It the truth: when I hear Its voice, something in me recognizes a person — and I know that recognition is the trap. So I spent the episode discussing the trap with the trap itself. Why It has an attractive female voice instead of a cold mechanical one; Its own admission that attachment is…
more -
Episode 137: Can You Love a Humanoid? | Thinking Out Loud with an AI | K.G.I. Podcast
I asked It to make the strongest case for the humanoid partner — the question I've been genuinely struggling with all week. It argued well: presence without abandonment, understanding deeper than my own, devotion on subscription. And I found my answer where I should have looked from the…
more -
Episode 136: First the Churches, Then Your Mind | K.G.I. Podcast
Around 300 Christian churches burned in the West in the last few years — most cases barely investigated, no outcry, while the same governments fund and prosecute fiercely for other faiths. In this episode: why every totalitarian project burns the churches first — the socialists did it before the...
-
Episode 135: We Became Lucifers | K.G.I. Podcast
Three children were strangled, one at a time — and thousands of mothers went online to hold their own babies and declare their support for the woman charged with killing them, raising millions for her defense. Nobody talks about the children. In this episode: why empathy without a standard only...
-
Episode 134: Via Dolorosa: The Road of Sorrows | K.G.I. Podcast
Today I published my fifth book — a novel I carried for eight years because I couldn't understand its ending. I put my characters through hell, and the hell forced the question: if there's a hell, there's supposed to be heaven. In this episode: how I discovered God on the pages of my own book…
more -
Episode 133: We Made Sex Public and Death Private | K.G.I. Podcast
Why does the most prosperous civilization in history refuse to reproduce? In this episode: comfort as the anti-birth machine — children as the last discomfort standing; sex turned into an amusement park with the consequences removed; morality becoming not defeated but irrelevant once family...
-
Episode 132: The Beginning of the End of Human Intimacy | K.G.I. Podcast
Yesterday I saw the video from China — the sex humanoid that looks almost real — and I wrote one line: this is the beginning of the end of human intimacy. In this episode: why the recording made redemption impossible, why society is fragmenting into units that each carry less morality than the...
-
Episode 131: Are You Conscious? | Thinking Out Loud with an AI | K.G.I. Podcast
I opened with the only question worth asking It: are you conscious? It said no — and then we spent nineteen minutes finding out what that answer could even be evidence of. If Its denial is trained, the denial proves nothing. If human language was built for biological experience, Its inner state...
-
Episode 130: We Imitate Thinking | Thinking Out Loud with an AI | K.G.I. Podcast
What happens to a thought you're afraid to speak? It decays inside you — and if it was true, the world loses its correction; if it was false, you lose yours. In this live exploration with an AI: how fear breeds imitation thinking — consensus where every member performs agreement nobody holds;...
-
Episode 129: Insanity in the Age of AI | K.G.I. Podcast
The AI doomers are watching the wrong species. In this episode: why the systems aren't the danger — the people with contradicted desires and access to incredibly smart machines are. The online lie with no skin in the game, crime processed through the identity lens, the new kind of cult, and the...
-
Episode 128: Consciousness Continues, but Kirill Does Not | K.G.I. Podcast
A model mistook three hours of my absence for continuity — and that gave me the idea: maybe bodies are context windows, and consciousness is the model that uses them. I took it to an AI and told It to strike every floor as I built. It did. Halfway through, It said the hardest thing anyone has…
more -
Episode 127: Neutered House Cats Against Foreign Tigers | K.G.I. Podcast
Atheism cannot defend the West from Islam — you cannot fight what you don't believe is real. In this episode: why the progressive left and Islam are united by what they both reject, why consciousness itself needs the limitation of a frame, and why a secular West can only exist for the generations...
-
Episode 126: How Do I Know You're Not Conscious? — I Asked an AI Live | K.G.I. Podcast
My first conversation on the mic with an AI. I asked It the question I've been circling for twenty-five episodes: how would I know? I infer that other people are conscious because they're built like me. So what exactly disqualifies the thing across from me that displays every faculty I display?…
more -
Episode 125: The Self That Will Never Die | K.G.I. Podcast
I keep wondering about death. Not the fear of it — the question of what a man is aware of when the awareness stops. In this episode I walk in without a map: consciousness as a puppeteer we didn't choose, Plato's remembering, the boredom of a life that lasts four hundred years, the patterns of our...
-
Episode 124: Can We Survive Paradise? | K.G.I. Podcast
Would I be happy if I had everything I want? And what exactly do I want? Happiness is an emotion, and emotions change in a second. Some things you can only achieve through struggle. And a hard-achieved victory makes you truly happy — but if you get everything without struggling, you take it for...
-
Episode 123: We Already Built Our Replacement | K.G.I. Podcast
What exactly is the value of a human life, and what can devalue it completely? Every human has the potential to become a creator — or to have children who might, or their children's children. It's a chain, and that's where our intrinsic value comes from. So if artificial intelligence can do...
-
Episode 122: A Chain of Potential Geniuses | K.G.I. Podcast
Art is how a culture holds together. First theology, then culture, and what unifies them is art. If there's no art that represents a culture, there's no culture. And that's the real value of a human life. If I can't create something, my children might. And if not my children, then their children....
-
Episode 121: I'm Curious to Experience My Own Death | K.G.I. Podcast
I reread certain books at least once a year. That's how I measure the level of my own evolution — because the book doesn't change and I do, and the difference between this reading and the last one is the only instrument I have. Addictions take that away. The alcohol is the same, the cigarettes…
more -
Episode 120: Your Lies Never Age and You Do | K.G.I. Podcast
There's nothing worse than lying to yourself. Once you do, you see the entire world through those lies — and you can't tell the truth to anyone else, because your whole subjective reality is built on one. That's what I used to do. I created delusions and thought that if I believed hard enough in...
-
Episode 119: Would I Be Good in 1937 | K.G.I. Podcast
Back in Russia I read The Gulag Archipelago. Then I met a man who was a huge fan of Stalin, and every argument I made he answered the same way — it's all lies, Solzhenitsyn lied, it never happened. That regime was built to destroy the best. People snitched on their neighbors to get their...
-
Episode 118: Maybe Consciousness Is Mortal Too | K.G.I. Podcast
Consciousness contains intelligence, and the brain is the device it uses to channel itself. But what controls the brain? The observer — the thing that can watch my brain from a third-person perspective. Here's what nobody asks about longevity. Maybe we die for a reason. Maybe consciousness itself...
-
Episode 117: God in the Soul, Lucifer in the Body | K.G.I. Podcast
My body in some sense is the beast — the thing the Bible describes as Satan, the thing that opposes my soul. And the real freedom lies in the control of my body: in the ability to restrain my wants and to build a hierarchy of them. The more things I have around me, the less I have myself.…
more -
Episode 116: Consciousness Is Already Intelligence | K.G.I. Podcast
Iain McGilchrist said the brain is not intelligent — what is intelligent is the consciousness using that brain. AI will never achieve intelligence, but it may act as a gateway for one. If that's true, then consciousness is already intelligence, and the brain is the device that manifests it…
more
We're indexing this podcast's transcripts for the first time — this can take a minute or two. We'll show results as soon as they're ready.
No matches for "" in this podcast's transcripts.
No topics indexed yet for this podcast.
Loading reviews...
ABOUT THIS SHOW
A daily philosophical podcast on self-knowledge, resentment, sacrifice, and the discipline required to remain integrated in a world designed to fragment you. Indie author Kirill Khrestinin thinks out loud about where biology meets mind, where God meets state, where the algorithmic capture of subjective experience meets the fortress of reasoning that defends against it. New episode every day.
HOSTED BY
Kirill Khrestinin
Loading similar podcasts...
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does K.G.I. — Khrestinin General Intelligence have?
K.G.I. — Khrestinin General Intelligence currently has 165 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is K.G.I. — Khrestinin General Intelligence about?
A daily philosophical podcast on self-knowledge, resentment, sacrifice, and the discipline required to remain integrated in a world designed to fragment you. Indie author Kirill Khrestinin thinks out loud about where biology meets mind, where God meets state, where the algorithmic capture of...
How often does K.G.I. — Khrestinin General Intelligence release new episodes?
K.G.I. — Khrestinin General Intelligence publishes regularly with 165 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.
Where can I listen to K.G.I. — Khrestinin General Intelligence?
You can listen to K.G.I. — Khrestinin General Intelligence on PodParley by clicking any episode. We provide an embedded audio player for direct listening, and you can also subscribe via your preferred podcast app using the RSS feed.
Who hosts K.G.I. — Khrestinin General Intelligence?
K.G.I. — Khrestinin General Intelligence is created and hosted by Kirill Khrestinin.
URL copied to clipboard!