About this episode

Jack Heart discusses the impact of large language models on human thought and shares personal stories from his past.

The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872 Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.05904 By the time Jack was fourteen he’d spent most of the last four years of his adolescence one door down from what would come to be known as the Amityville Horror. He was more than acquainted with all those involved. There were stories but by then he’d been interacting with things no man, let alone child is ever supposed to see. It was all perfectly normal. Since he was old enough to remember the darkness was never far behind him. In his late twenties, after being convicted of a felony for his attempt at whistle blowing with Geraldo Rivera, he finds himself surrounded by mobsters and a notorious outlaw motorcycle gang rooted deeply in the occult. He is the right-hand man of a wildly aggressive Long Island strip club impresario. There in the strip clubs across Sunrise Highway from Babylon town hall he finds himself hopelessly in love with a girl who could be Lilith herself…

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• language models
• cognitive debt
• human expression
• occult experiences
• memoir

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