AI Propaganda and the Illusion of Intelligence | Ep 106

This is a full-length philosophical breakdown of artificial intelligence, intelligence itself, and how modern media trains you to confuse illusion with reality. I use everyday examples: coffee and lemonade, circles and squares, fire and burns to rebuild the concepts of “philosophy,” “intelligence,” and “learning” from the ground up, then compare that to what large language models are actually doing behind the “AI” label.

We look at how consensus is manufactured, how single sources become “truth” through repetition, and what happens when AI systems train on that pile of unexamined narratives. I talk about CGI, deepfake realism, and why many people will accept AI outputs as reality long before the systems involved are truly intelligent or wise. Then we move into robots, avatar-style labor, open-source AI, and why centralized “ethical AI” driven by big money and regulation is still just advertising with better math.

If you want a hard, philosophical look at AI propaganda, bias, and the future of human agency, this is a dense but important watch.

Video Chapters
00:00:00 Philosophy, AI, and Why This Isn’t a Tech Demo
00:03:00 What Philosophy Actually Is (and Isn’t)
00:07:45 Coffee, Lemonade, and the Power of Concepts
00:11:40 Circles, Squares, and Defining Reality
00:14:35 What Is Intelligence? My Definition vs Theirs
00:19:50 Fire, Pain, and How Real Learning Works
00:24:30 Can Machines Ever “Understand” or Only Obey Code?
00:29:40 Free Will, Determinism, and Rewriting Your Own Code
00:38:20 Creativity, Bands, and Who’s Really Programming Whom
00:43:50 Consensus, Clickbait Science, and Garbage Data
00:55:10 CGI, Dinosaurs, and When Illusions Beat Reality
01:02:05 When AI Feels “Real” and Most People Can’t Tell
01:04:35 Robots, Avatar Labor, and the Future of Work
01:11:10 Anxiety, Morality, and Why Pure Efficiency Is Inhuman
01:16:55 Biased AIs, Dog Owners, and Awards Shows
01:22:50 AI as Advertising, Plato’s Cave, and Staying Sane
01:26:20 Open-Source AI, Decentralization, and Final Thoughts

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