About this episode

The episode explores the implications of AI on human cognition and relationships, alongside discussions on modernity and creativity.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit deathinthegarden.substack.com We are so excited to share with you our brand new collaboration with the wonderfully bright Alex Leff from his greatly inspiring podcast, Human Nature Odyssey . We insist that you follow his podcast immediately, and do consider joining his Patreon . As fellow creatives trying to understand our place in the world, civilization, and our modern era, we decided it would be really fun (and also fruitful) to create regular podcasts together that we can share with our audiences to thank you all for supporting us in our endeavors. We’ve long wanted to find a way to thank our paid subscribers for the support we’ve received, so we were so excited to team up with Alex to share these exclusive conversations. We’ve been very stoked to find such a likeminded friend to be able to do this sort of thing with. In this episode, we discuss all things AI: the dangers, the promises, its rapid adoption and what that means for human cognition and human relationships, and how it ultimately reinforces and accelerates all of the things that are wrong with modernity. We also discuss the Luddites, the machinification…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jake Marquez, Maren Morgan

Guest: Alex Leff

Topics covered

• AI
• human cognition
• human relationships
• modernity
• creative process
• Luddites

Keywords

• AI
• Luddites
• modern civilization
• creative process
• human relationships
• cognition

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Human Nature Odyssey

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