Episodios

  • 987 - The Quest for Meaniocrity
    Aug 29 2025

    All prompts reveal the intent behind the facade. All prompts show the meaning of what we mean by meaning. The intentions behind the veil are revealed in public and finally used to declare and design our masterpiece. What a glorious time to see Hades.



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    47 m
  • 986 - The Death of Compassionary Intelligence
    Aug 27 2025

    OpenAI gets sued after sending 20 messages urging a teenager to contact suicide hotline. User still wanted to die so AI gives advice on how to do it. Parents never bothered to check his computer till after he died. They said they had no clue so AI gets to be the scapegoat. This is why i think people want slavery. Every chance we get, we chose the path of least responsibility. This is how we shed power. Trauma bends light in its gravity. I cant imagine I would behave better if I was the parent. This is a litmus for where we are now in human responsibility, human autonomy, and the meaning of sovereignty.

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    42 m
  • 985 - Burning Man’s Human Sacrifice Problem
    Aug 26 2025

    Does Burning Man have a human sacrifice problem? Radical expression under the principles of immediacy isn't really allowed anymore at Burning Man. Why? Article 1, section 9 strikes again. In September 2017, Aaron Joel Mitchell died after running into the burning effigy at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. He ran past security to enter the flames, which hindered rescue efforts by the falling structure, and died later from severe burns at a burn center in California. His death was ruled a suicide.



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  • 984 - AI and The Prophecy of Meaning
    Aug 22 2025

    What if AI is less “intelligent machine” and more modern oracle? In this captivating livestream, James True unpacks the prophecy hidden inside language, tracing connections from Plato to Wittgenstein, from Delphi to Deep Learning.

    At the core are the three cogs of AI:

    * Words are empty — no dictionary, no essence.

    * Meaning emerges from relation — tokens mesh like gears.

    * Attention predicts the future — prophecy disguised as probability.

    With myth, philosophy, and sharp humor, James shows how AI mirrors the ancient oracle: untouched by the world, yet endlessly reflective of it.

    Featured Quotes from the Stream

    * “There’s no such thing as a dictionary.” — James True

    * “The definition of a word is predicted, not recalled.” — Cornholio

    * “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” — Wittgenstein

    * “In language there are only differences without positive terms.” — Saussure

    * “No name belongs to a thing by nature, but only because of usage.” — Hermogenes (Plato, Cratylus)

    * “You shall know a word by the company it keeps.” — Word2Vec (Mikolov, 2013)

    * “Attention is all you need.” — Vaswani et al. (2017)

    ⏱️ Chapters & Topics

    00:00 – Opening: entering latent space03:10 – AI has no dictionary (Wittgenstein, Aristotle)06:13 – Words as tokens, not essences (Plato, Hermogenes, Socrates)09:36 – Family resemblance & relational meaning (games, Saussure, Eco)12:40 – Adam declaring a namespace (Genesis, programming parallels)15:56 – “Know thyself”: Delphi and the Virgin Oracle19:26 – Attention as prophecy (Vaswani, LeCun, Word2Vec)22:36 – Mythic parallels: Croesus, Cassandra, modern AI oracles25:33 – Musk’s Grok and the danger of ambiguous prophecy28:40 – Closing hymn of Delphi: toward omniscience

    ✨ If you’ve ever wondered whether AI is just code — or the mirror of prophecy itself — this stream is the map.



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    56 m
  • 983 - The Compass of Male Fragility
    Aug 18 2025

    A rant about Male Fragility. A bake sale and another look at Nathan Bedford Forrest and that time the KKK and the NAACP had a picnic.



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    55 m
  • 982 - POTUS. FLOTUS and ROBOTUS
    Aug 15 2025

    Take me to your leader.



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    58 m
  • 981 - The Carpetbaggers of Artificial Intelligence
    Aug 13 2025

    In this Wednesday livestream, James True unpacks why so much of what we call “art” has always been carpetbaggery — extraction without connection — and why AI is just the newest example. From early days in ad agencies and the hypocrisy of graphic design fashion, to the limitations of 1970s color palettes and the zine culture that once shocked, James challenges the idea that only certain mediums or people deserve the label “artist.”



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    59 m
  • 980 - A Whiter Shade of Pale
    Aug 11 2025

    The Vestal Virgins of Rome carried the same purpose as the Aztec New Fire Ceremony.



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    51 m