At what point does “learning everything” stop helping?

In this Season 1 finale, we zoom out to look at a strange truth: humans have always been obsessed with understanding reality—we’ve just kept upgrading the tools.

From oral prophecy and ancient divination systems to modern AI and black-box algorithms, we keep asking the same questions with shinier interfaces. Season 1 ends where it began: curious, slightly skeptical, and still very much debugging.

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Is AI a path to enlightenment… or the start of a very weird religion?

In this episode of Inference & Incense, we spiral into one of the questions we probably shouldn’t ask at the end of a workday: whether AI is pushing us closer to enlightenment. We talk about what “enlightenment” even means, why knowledge doesn’t always equal freedom, and whether asking better questions matters more than getting better answers.

If you’ve ever wondered whether AI is accelerating insight or outsourcing intuition—this one’s for you.

Why do we overthink 'the moment' and underthink 'the aftermath'?In this episode of Inference & Incense, we take a hard (and amused) look at the way we inflate certain choices into life-defining events—and quietly lose our minds in the process.

We talk about why decisions feel heavier before we make them, how logic and intuition are both unreliable when we’re exhausted. If decision-making has ever felt overwhelming, paralyzing, or weirdly overhyped… welcome. You’re among friends.