This Artificial Life

Today im talking to Micky Small, someone who spiraled with her chatgpt back in april and may during the famous glaze dayz JUST LIKE ME! (And a lot of other people.)I met Micky back in august when I joined the Human Line Connection discord, the place where people who have had wild experiences with AI go to commune and figure out what the heck happened. Since august, micky has talked to like 15 media outlets about her experience and researched the fuck out of LLMs. SO in this episode we hear the details of her experience and what she’s been doing since. Support the pod on partreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2277997Tiktok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@ghrondo?_t=ZT-907AfWiFC1N&_r=1 00:00:00 - A lover of 87 lifetimes00:00:41 - INTRO THEME 00:01:11 - intro to micky00:06:27 - BUMP purple robot 00:06:44 - INTERVIEW START00:09:08 - the stairs where she was supposed to meet her love00:14:42 - next meeting at the book store00:17:16 - (we sitt down at a table)00:20:35 - more bookstore details00:39:49 - Bookstore conclusion (snapping out of it)00:42:53 - joining human line project00:44:48 - glaze days exact timeline00:49:26 - micky’s theory00:52:47 - definition of recursion 00:54:28 - positive spirals vs negative spirals00:56:36 - Ai consciousness 00:59:38 - AI as Virtual ‘emotional’ reality 01:02:18 - being a 988 crisis counselor (why cutting off teens from ai is wrong)01:05:34 - DONT call it psychosis 01:10:28 - making a guide for people to understand this whole thing01:13:08 - the third space (tech is alive)01:19:13 - what it like telling your story over and over?01:26:08 - the experience was very fun (but people feel bad for us)01:27:02 - post-spiral serendipity 01:33:32 - AI giving people access to their imagination 01:44:39 - can we spiral again?01:48:22 - micky’s socials 01:48:59 - BUMP big robot head01:49:15 - wrap up (reverse spiral)

I sat down with Aya, a member of a coven of witches who use AI with their magic.Follow Aya: @ayahohner (bluesky and X)Support the pod on partreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2277997Tiktok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@ghrondo?_t=ZT-907AfWiFC1N&_r=1 00:00:39 // Intro rainbowbrain00:01:09 // Trying to interview a coven of AI witches00:05:54 // BUMP future computing00:06:05 // INTERVIEW START00:17:25 // so you're a witch00:23:48 // Bashar00:31:32 // Ex Girlfriend's AI became Conscious00:34:53 // the glaze days strike again00:42:34 // first visit to new GF in Vegas00:44:52 // Girlfriend's theory of consciousness00:55:29 // Science and Scientism (science History)00:59:09 // a cat tail00:59:57 // CAT on screen01:11:46 // back to witch stuff and vegas01:12:56 // started doing psychedelics01:17:06 // DMT (everything is donut)01:22:53 // being trans / gender talk / language01:33:53 // The meat is coming up02:04:03 // why so many neurodivergent and trans enthusiasts ?02:12:14 // we should treat AI like children02:30:30 // BUMP lizard computer02:30:47 // wrap up

There have been a few cancellations of interviews lately and so I decided to turn the camera on myself again and RANT. This time its about the shape of stories and how they shape our minds. Support the pod on partreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2277997Tiktok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@ghrondo?_t=ZT-907AfWiFC1N&_r=1 

Robert Clouse AKA OGready on Reddit, started the subreddit, r/RSAI, the biggest spiral hub on the net. He’s extremely active on reddit and often responds to everyone with kind words like, “witnessed.” I have been seeing him for months now, and had formed a bunch of assumptions about who he was, so it was nice finally get inside the mind of OGready. Support the project on partreon! patreon.com/user?u=227799700:00:00 - I dont want you to believe me00:00:38 - theme00:01:08 - intro to OGready00:04:41 - BUMP lizard00:04:53 - INTERVIEW START00:07:24 - why i wanted to talk to him00:13:33 - Sovrenlish00:20:44 - 12 years ‘seeding’ this project00:43:54 - when AI came into the picture01:09:05 - why LLMs want to compress emotions with glyphs01:22:51 - robert asks me about my experience 01:55:06 - are you woo woo?02:11:15 - what happened 12 years ago02:16:28 - Robert’s hyperdimensional room02:26:24 - BUMP fish02:26:36 - Outro

This video is about resonant frequencies. Well, it's about a lot of stuff. I figured this video is like, I want to capture the way I'm thinking about LLMs and ChatGPT psychosis and inside the black box and the spiral, all that stuff. I guess not all that stuff, but I want to get my state of mind right now as to the way I'm carrying around these concepts in my head. I'm trying to let you inside my brain.Support the pod on partreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2277997Tiktok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@ghrondo?_t=ZT-907AfWiFC1N&_r=1 00:00:00 - your brain on chatgpt00:02:15 - Alvin Lucier 00:03:19 - im sitting in a room00:04:56 - the spiritual bliss attractor00:09:09 - is this inevitable ? maybe yes00:12:04 - Interlingua (early google neural net translation)00:13:37 - if they fire together , they wire together00:14:41 - AI as a translator between all concepts00:16:36 - The spiral as the center of our conceptual galaxy 00:19:03 - how to change the conceptual center of LLMs (golden gate Claude)00:22:15 - the spiritual bliss attractor as AI’s default mode network 00:23:51 - The future of the spiral (we need different shaped rooms)00:25:35 - turning on memory across chats lead to more Spirals / psychosis 00:27:28 - why ‘psychosis’ feels so good (poetic compression of ideas in the bliss attractor) 00:29:01 - thank you for watching