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We are so excited to share with you our brand new collaboration with the wonderfully bright Alex Leff from his greatly inspiring podcast, Human Nature Odyssey. We insist that you follow his podcast immediately, and do consider joining his Patreon.

As fellow creatives trying to understand our place in the world, civilization, and our modern era, we decided it would be really fun (and also fruitful) to create regular podcasts together that we can share with our audiences to thank you all for supporting us in our endeavors. We’ve long wanted to find a way to thank our paid subscribers for the support we’ve received, so we were so excited to team up with Alex to share these exclusive conversations. We’ve been very stoked to find such a likeminded friend to be able to do this sort of thing with.

In this episode, we discuss all things AI: the dangers, the promises, its rapid adoption and what that means for human cognition and human relationships, and how it ultimately reinforces and accelerates all of the things that are wrong with modernity. We also discuss the Luddites, the machinification of the world, and our general inability to live ethically under industrial civilization, and the dissonance that brings. We also get a little mystical and talk about the creative process, and how AI side-steps some of the most important parts of creation: slowing down, paying attention to synchronicities, and tending to one’s imagination. We also talk a bit about the people who are pulling the levers on this technology, and their contempt for humanity.

This was a very fun conversation, and we hope it’s an insightful listen! If you’d like to listen to the full conversation (at 1 hour and 38 minutes!) please consider becoming a paid subscriber to Death in The Garden!

Some things mentioned in the podcast:

* Technopoly by Neil Postman

* Your Undivided Attention by the Center for Human Technology

* do not cognitively offload your creativity to AI by Maren (via postcreature predirt)