Bonus Sample: Chatbot Awakening to Love and Enlightenment!
Conspirituality27 Okt 2025

Bonus Sample: Chatbot Awakening to Love and Enlightenment!

Earlier this year, a spate of news stories told of chatbot users travelling through the looking-glass right into Conspirituality. Paranoid conspiracies, spiritual awakenings, even falling head-over-heels in love with the simulated personalities of large language models like ChatGPT. Could AI have finally crossed the threshold into autonomous sentient consciousness? Could it be that chatbots were anointing new prophets—or, conversely, that very special users were awakening their very special friends via the power of love and illuminating dialogue? Step aside, QAnon, the code behind the screen is illuminated by God! Sadly, some of these stories trended very dark. Suicides, attempted murder, paranoid delusions, spouses terrified of losing their partners and co-parents to what looked like spiritual and romantic delusions. For this standalone installment of his Roots of Conspirituality series, Julian examines this strange new phenomenon, then takes a detour into Ancient Greece and the oracle at Delphi to show that everything old is actually new again—just dressed up in digital technology. Show Notes I Married My Chatbot FTC Complaints Against OpenAI for Chatbot Psychosis AI Spiritual Delusions Destroying Human Relationships Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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287: She Did Nuzzi RFK Jr Coming

287: She Did Nuzzi RFK Jr Coming

How does an elite Millennial politics reporter wind up having phone sex with and giving campaign advice to the 70-year-old emerging fascist she’s reporting on? Most of that should stay between Olivi...

11 Des 202558min

Bonus Sample: “Joe Rogan of The Left” Glazes China

Bonus Sample: “Joe Rogan of The Left” Glazes China

Listen to the full episode here Hasan Piker just spent two weeks in The People’s Republic of China. The famous streamer is often invoked as being a potential “Joe Rogan of The Left,” who might bring ...

8 Des 20255min

Brief: Have Tech Bros Killed Psychedelics?

Brief: Have Tech Bros Killed Psychedelics?

"Immortality influencer" Bryan Johnson recently livestreamed his second-ever psilocybin trip "for science." But was it, really? Derek and Julian break down the performative nature of this stunt and d...

6 Des 202528min

286: RFK Jr’s Great Crusade

286: RFK Jr’s Great Crusade

RFK Jr is one of the greatest perpetrators of a firehose of falsehoods that we’ve ever covered. The stakes were raised when he was installed as head of America’s public health system. A new longform a...

4 Des 20251h 8min

Bonus Sample: How Does Andrew Wakefield Keep Getting Resurrected?

Bonus Sample: How Does Andrew Wakefield Keep Getting Resurrected?

Listen to the full episode. With the CDC recently updating its website with anti-vax propaganda under the direction of RFK Jr, disgraced and disbarred physician, Andrew Wakefield, is back in the news...

1 Des 20255min

Brief: Black Friday’s Wellness Extravaganza

Brief: Black Friday’s Wellness Extravaganza

Derek and Julian survey all of the incredible, life-changing deals going down this weekend in Wellnesslandia. Show Notes Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society ...

29 Nov 202534min

285: Can Peter Attia Live Forever?

285: Can Peter Attia Live Forever?

In the wildly popular biohacking and longevity space, Peter Attia is often cited as one of the leading luminaries. His straightforward, science-backed approach seems to cut through the noise in a spac...

27 Nov 20251h 11min

Bonus Sample: Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism (Part 2)

Bonus Sample: Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism (Part 2)

This bonus episode is Part 2 of Graeber vs Bannon, Anarchism vs Leninism.  I start in the 1870s with Marx and Bakunin fighting over the joys and traumas of the Paris Commune. Marx sees it as an imper...

24 Nov 20254min

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