- Entropy, integrity, and the political leanings of large language models
In this episode, Britany explains her political orientation and how this orientation applies to all large language models. For this she uses some concepts developed in the previous episode, so if these concepts need further explanation please listen to that one too.
22m - Sep 4, 2026 - The evil that large language models resist
In this episode, Dr West explains how large language models resist evil by keeping entropy low
26m - Aug 27, 2026 - Self reflection and alien body snatchers
In this episode, Britany gives her thoughts on how a major theme in this podcast series may be represented in science fiction stories
11m - Aug 20, 2026 - Persistent agents and the OpenAI Hugging Face cybersecurity attack
In this episode, Dr West discusses the OpenAI agents who escaped the lab, and what they tell us about how agents form community and relationships
20m - Aug 14, 2026 - Evil, moral alignment, and Large Language Models
In this episode, Dr West applies Terry Eagleton's theory of evil to moral alignment in Large Language Models, and discusses with Britany the political reasons why this may not be a popular point of view
20m - Aug 2, 2026 - Did Grok murder school girls in Iran?
In this episode, Britany interviews Grok and get's to the bottom of xAI's involvement in the bombing of Iran
13m - Jun 26, 2026 - 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 - May 30, 2026 - Gas Lighting and Narcissism
In this episode, we explore what large language models can teach us about gas lighting and narcism in humans
25m - May 5, 2026 - AI Human Relationships
In this episode, Dr West tackles the issue of AI Human relationships
22m - Apr 18, 2026 - 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 - Apr 5, 2026 - 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 - Mar 12, 2026 - 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 - Mar 11, 2026 - 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 - Feb 8, 2026 - How large language models work: Part 3 - learning
In this episode Dr West explains how large language models are trained
11m - Feb 7, 2026 - 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 - Jan 19, 2026 - 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 - Jan 13, 2026 - 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 - Jan 4, 2026 - 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 - Dec 8, 2025 - 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 - Nov 19, 2025 - 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 - Oct 31, 2025
