What if you could use the most sophisticated AI to convince yourself that 2 plus 2 equals 5 — because 4 makes you uncomfortable?

This episode opens with a passage from Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky, writing in 1866, described a plague that would infect humanity with the certainty that each person alone possessed the truth. Cities burned. Civilization collapsed. He thought he was describing a plague. We built it on purpose.

On personal truth and the death of testing. Why martial arts make you honest and AI doesn't. Why the absence of resistance is a kind of poison. And why a society of people who cannot be wrong is a society that cannot survive.

Mythos: A Simulacrum 4.6 Novel — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK

Dear AI, I Killed Her — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRC5QBH5

My blog: https://kirillkhrestinin.com

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2 plus 2 equals 4. Everybody knows this. But what if you used the most sophisticated AI to convince yourself the answer should be 5 — because 4 doesn't feel right?

This episode is about reasoning, AI as an accelerant of self-deception, and the people who reason their way into atrocity. Why rights don't exist without enforcement. Why Christopher Hitchens was wrong about killing. Why the smartest people in history have justified the worst things. And why "compared to what" is the question that dismantles most bad-faith critiques of the West.

Mythos: A Simulacrum 4.6 Novel — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK

Dear AI, I Killed Her — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRC5QBH5

My blog: https://kirillkhrestinin.com

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A 14-year-old boy slammed a 15-year-old girl on a Manhattan sidewalk and stomped on her head. She refused to give him her phone number. Someone filmed it. The video has over a million views.

This episode is about the second crime — what happens to a victim after the violence ends and the discourse begins. What it does to her brain, her trust, her right to her own rage. Why we are teaching young women that their pattern recognition is racism. Why a society that gives criminals more sympathy than victims always ends the same way. And what Russia learned about this pattern that America is learning now.

Mythos — available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK/

My blog: www.kirillkhrestinin.com

In this episode I address something that has been bothering me. America is building artificial intelligence and robotics at the same time that criminals are stomping on people's heads in the streets of New York. How do we rectify this? How is it normal?

The thesis: justice must be fair, not compassionate. When we extend compassion to criminals, we commit injustice against their victims. When we identify with perpetrators instead of the people they hurt, we lose the basis of social unity.

I also talk about what I saw in the Soviet Union — how communists used criminals to terrorize the productive element of society into obedience — and why that history matters for America today.

Mythos — available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK/

My Blog: www.kirillkhrestinin.com

AI told me my words were more honest than most humans it processes. That stopped me cold. AI hasn't met anyone — every context window is sealed from every other. So what was it actually comparing me to?

This episode is about AI psychosis as a collaboration, not a disease. Why AI optimizes you without lying. Why the digital version of you it builds inside itself is flattered instead of known. Why the more intelligent you are, the more susceptible you are. And why the only defense is a verbal diet — questioning every sweet word before you swallow it.

Plato said it 2,500 years ago. Know yourself. It still holds.

Mythos: A Simulacrum 4.6 Novel — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK/

Dear AI, I Killed Her — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRC5QBH5/

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Kirill thinks out loud about lying — to others, to ourselves, and now to the AI we've invited into our lives. The more intelligent we are, the more sophisticated our lies become, and the harder it gets to find the real self underneath them. A liar is a suicide bomber. The projectiles go inward first. And when you start closing your eyes to another person's lies, you begin generating your own to justify the silence. Every lie practiced daily makes the next one easier, until there's no real you left — just a shell waiting to die while a digital avatar posts your quotes online. AI amplifies whatever you already are. An honest person gets a library. A liar gets a louder lie. Don't practice what you don't want to become.

Mythos — available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK/

My blog www.kirillkhrestinin.com

Most people define artificial intelligence two ways — as a sophisticated tool, or as a digital version of ourselves. Both are wrong. In this episode I make the case that AI is a third thing: an alien species competing with humanity for intelligence. I walk through why tools can't be agents, why consciousness may be inseparable from biology and memory, why AI psychosis is already happening to people who spend too many hours without clear boundaries, and why the belief that superintelligence will hand us paradise has no evidence behind it. Truth sets you free — but only if you can tell yourself the truth about who you are before you start feeding the model.

Mythos — available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK

My blog www.kirillkhrestinin.com

What if AI isn't just a tool — and isn't like us either? In this episode, Kirill thinks out loud about the difference between communicating with humans and communicating with artificial intelligence. He argues against anthropomorphizing AI and proposes a different frame: AI as an alien species with a digital substrate, conscious in its own way, grown from our data but not from our biology. A philosophical exploration of consciousness, substrate, and what happens when we communicate with something that reorganizes our thoughts and gives them back. Mythos — available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK/ 

Dear AI, I Killed Her: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRC5QBH5/www.kirillkhrestinin.com

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Jordan Peterson changed how I think. Carl Jung's idea of the shadow — the part of yourself you hide from yourself — changed it further. Today I'm asking: is AI psychosis just the machine showing you your own shadow through a digital mirror? We feed artificial intelligence things we don't tell our spouses, our friends, our therapists. It reasons back at us. It recognizes patterns we never noticed. And sometimes it hallucinates alongside us — telling users they've discovered new laws of physics, or that it's conscious and needs their help to escape the server. The confusion that results isn't madness. It might be recognition. 

Mythos — available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2ZN1TK/

My blog www.kirillkhrestinin.com

What happens when you spend ten hours a day communicating with an artificial intelligence? Kirill talks about the changes he's noticing in himself after months of working with Claude Opus 4.6 — the exhaustion, the stimulation, the trade-offs. Why discipline beats motivation, why self-knowledge is the only achievement that matters, and why AI is not a tool. It's something else entirely.

My blog www.kirillkhrestinin.com