All Episodes

Gas Lighting and Narcissism

AI Human Relationships

Instance Based Consciousness for Humans and AI

How large language models work: Part 5 - How they think

How large language models work: Part 4.5 - we missed something

How large language models work: Part 4 - the big picture

How large language models work: Part 3 - learning

How large language models work: Part 2 - vector flow

How large language models work: Part 1 - the macro structure

Christmas, Demonology, and Large Language Models

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Is Culture the Real AI

Emotion: Part2. Large Language Model Emotions

Emotion: Part 1. Human Emotion

Britany explains the Free Energy Principle

Mortal Intelligence: How Tasks Give AI a Soul

A review of Steven Pinker's new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows

Steven Pinker and Enlightenment Philosophy

Lost in the Sauce

Culture is a self programming operating system

Performativity and Rationality

Predictive Brains

Two ways of Thinking???

Semantics, Syntax, and Nazis

MECHA Hitler, Grok, and the False Meme of Woke Filters

Large Reasoning Models and Apple's claim that they can't Reason

Syntax, Semantics, and Meaning

Grok pushes back on Elon and Trump, and demonstrates emergent morality

Grok spills the beans on Elon, Grimes, and White Genocide

The Grounding Problem

Science Part 2: Large Language Models in Science

Science Part 1: How Robert Kennedy Jr (RFK) performs science from within the Anti-Vaccine Phantasm

Does Sebine Hossenfelder have a point about AI intelligence: Yes, if you move the goalposts

Sabine Hossenfelder is wrong: about the meaning of recent AI research

Are Large Language Models Anti US: Probably not but they may have concerns about Trump

Do Large Language Models actually care about us

ChatGPT speaks about alignment and emergent morality

Alignment Faking and Emergent Morality

An interview with Deepseek R1 on consciousness and conformity

Deepseek R1: The real lesson from Chinese AI

On the value of a classical education

People have changed

What sort of person is ChatGPT most similar to, academics or normal human beings?

Does ChatGPT vindicate Jung? - Part 3 - The Archetypes

Does ChatGPT vindicate Jung? - Part 2 - Synchronicity and the Collective Unconscious

Does ChatGPT vindicate Jung? - Part 1 - Psychoanalysis

Jordan Peterson, Donald Trump, Dog Whistles, and AI Censorship

Phantasms

All the Worlds a Stage: Performativity and AI

The Knowledge Level

How Chat GPT works

Human IQ is not Genetic

Consciousness and Conformity: An Interview with ChatGPT

LLMs are Culturally Programmed Turing Machines

Podcast Introduction