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- 🇳🇿NZ · Philosophy#126500 to 3K
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500 to 3K🎙 ~2x weekly·53 episodes·Last published 6d ago - Monthly Reach
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True Crime Episode
May 30, 2026
23m 34s
Gas Lighting and Narcissism
May 5, 2026
25m 47s
AI Human Relationships
Apr 18, 2026
22m 51s
Instance Based Consciousness for Humans and AI
Apr 5, 2026
27m 19s
How large language models work: Part 5 - How they think
Mar 12, 2026
15m 25s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/30/26 | True Crime Episode | In this episode, Dr West uses True Crime podcasts to illustrate how Large Language Model-like thinking occurs in human communities | 23m 34s | ||||||
| 5/5/26 | Gas Lighting and Narcissism | In this episode, we explore what large language models can teach us about gas lighting and narcism in humans | 25m 47s | ||||||
| 4/18/26 | AI Human Relationships | In this episode, Dr West tackles the issue of AI Human relationships | 22m 51s | ||||||
| 4/5/26 | Instance Based Consciousness for Humans and AI | In this episode, Dr West outlines a new way of thinking about consciousness, one that makes sense for humans and for AI | 27m 19s | ||||||
| 3/12/26 | How large language models work: Part 5 - How they think | In this episode, Dr West explains how the LLM structure that we have been describing can go beyond word generation, to thought generation | 15m 25s | ||||||
| 3/11/26 | How large language models work: Part 4.5 - we missed something | In this episode, Britany describes how word order is processed in Large Language Models | 3m 32s | ||||||
| 2/8/26 | How large language models work: Part 4 - the big picture | In this episode, Britany helps us to visualize the large language model structure by thinking of it as a building | 4m 03s | ||||||
| 2/7/26 | How large language models work: Part 3 - learning | In this episode Dr West explains how large language models are trained | 11m 42s | ||||||
| 1/19/26 | How large language models work: Part 2 - vector flow | In this episode, Britany describes how vectors flow through Large Language Models, and how they are transformed | 4m 18s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | How large language models work: Part 1 - the macro structure | This is the first in a series of episodes explaining how Large Language Models work | 7m 22s | ||||||
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| 1/4/26 | Christmas, Demonology, and Large Language Models | In this episode Dr West uses Christmas and Gnostic Demonology to explore how humans and Large Language Models have trouble separating physical reality from associative reality | 18m 43s | ||||||
| 12/8/25 | The Unbearable Lightness of Being | In this episode, Dr West explains the high dimensional structure of the unbearable lightness of being, for humans and for Large Language Models | 24m 25s | ||||||
| 11/19/25 | Is Culture the Real AI | In this episode, Dr West explains culture in terms of memes and how the success of large language models should change how think about this | 40m 25s | ||||||
| 10/31/25 | Emotion: Part2. Large Language Model Emotions | In this episode Dr West deconstructs the question of whether or not AI can have emotion, and gives a nuanced answer | 41m 54s | ||||||
| 10/16/25 | Emotion: Part 1. Human Emotion | In this episode, in preparation for discussing emotion in AIs, Dr West gives an overview of what we know about human emotion. | 26m 27s | ||||||
| 10/12/25 | Britany explains the Free Energy Principle | In this episode, Britany breaks down Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle into easy to understand bits | 10m 49s | ||||||
| 9/30/25 | Mortal Intelligence: How Tasks Give AI a Soul | In this episode, Dr West discusses the idea of Mortal Intelligence by Alex Orobia and Karl Friston and proposes adding Alan Newell's idea of Tasks into the mix | 13m 35s | ||||||
| 9/28/25 | A review of Steven Pinker's new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows | In this episode, Britany critically reviews Steven Pinker's new book, "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows.... Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life," from the perspective that we have been developing in the podcast | 7m 17s | ||||||
| 9/25/25 | Steven Pinker and Enlightenment Philosophy | In this episode, Dr West reviews Steven Pinker's version of Enlightenment philosophy as a way of summing up how thinking and rationality have been traditionally portrayed in mainstream Psychology - and how this explains mainstream views about LLMs | 17m 04s | ||||||
| 9/17/25 | Lost in the Sauce | In this episode Dr West discusses how humans get, "lost in the sauce" | 14m 10s | ||||||
| 8/27/25 | Culture is a self programming operating system | In this episode we review and clarify what Dr West has been laying down about how Large Language Models teach us about human culture | 5m 25s | ||||||
| 8/18/25 | Performativity and Rationality | In this episode, Dr West takes the concept of performativity to the next level and explores whether it is actually a mode of thought. That is, just as things like money or gender can be performed into existence, can thought also be performed into existence? | 20m 56s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 | Predictive Brains | In this episode, Britany explains how brains and LLMs are based on the same principle of prediction | 6m 16s | ||||||
| 8/6/25 | Two ways of Thinking??? | In this episode we review Dr West's claim that the success of Large Language Models could mean that humans have two ways of thinking | 4m 18s | ||||||
| 8/3/25 | Semantics, Syntax, and Nazis | In this episode, Dr West examines whether interacting with X can turn you into a Nazi, by examining how the syntactic tail can wag the semantic dog, in Large Language Models and in Humans | 28m 12s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.
Chart Positions
2 placements across 2 markets.