Hosted by Inference and Incense · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 26 episodes
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Where data meets divination — and science spars with the sacred. Inference and Incense is a podcast hosted by two data scientists with radically different worldviews — one rooted in logic, the other drawn to mysticism — united by a belief that truth lives in tension. Each week, we dive into a big (or beautifully random) question at the edge of AI, identity, behavior, and spirituality — mixing rigorous analysis with tarot pulls, surprise guests, and the occasional existential spiral. This is a space for the curious, the skeptical, and the beautifully undone.
Inference and Incense hosts Inference and Incense, a society show with 26 episodes published.
Nostradamus wrote 1,000 vague, poetic quatrains in the 1550s—and he's still in print 500 years later. His hit rate? About 7%. His genius? Brilliant ambiguity. "Blood of the just" and "year 66" can fit any tragedy, any ce
Show notesJuly 5th, 2025: half of Japan held its breath. Not because of breaking news or government warnings—because of a manga comic strip. Artist Ryo Tatsuki's "Future I Saw" predicted a major earthquake, and the country respond
Show notesWhat if you've never actually met your unfiltered self? In this episode, we unpack the unsettling reality that most of what you watch, read, click, and consume isn't chosen by you—it's pre-selected by algorithms optimizi
Show notesLucy watched one true crime doc because a friend recommended it. Netflix saw engagement. Suddenly her entire homepage is flooded with true crime. She watches more—not because she loves it, but because it's there, and she
Show notesFree will requires three things: awareness of options, ability to evaluate them, and freedom from coercion. But Netflix only displays 0.1% of its catalog—curated specifically to keep you watching. The rest is hidden in t
Show notesDuring postpartum recovery, Lucy binged K-dramas for months. Netflix kept serving them, long afterwards, —comfort show after comfort show. It felt like the platform understood her emotional state. But here's the truth: N
Show notesIt starts innocent: a data visualization video for work. Then autoplay kicks in. Next thing you know, you're 10 minutes deep into "the decline of Western aesthetics" and dangerously close to an aesthetic nationalism rabb
Show notesWhen did desire turn into data? In this episode, we dive into what dating feels like when attraction becomes analytics. Profiles, filters, compatibility scores, swipe rates — modern romance now comes with dashboards. You
Show notesWhen did your love life turn into analytics? In this mini, we hit reset. Because somewhere between match rates, response times, and “seen at 9:42 PM,” it’s easy to start treating dating apps like a performance dashboard
Show notesIf dating apps were truly designed to help you fall in love… why are they worth $9 billion? In this mini, we unpack the uncomfortable business model behind modern romance. Dating apps run on a brutal paradox: if you actu
Show notesHave you ever optimized your bio like it’s a LinkedIn headline… and called it flirting? In this mini, we talk about what happens when you turn yourself into a product. Dating apps don’t meet you — they meet Profile You:
Show notesWhen did dating turn into a dashboard? In this mini episode, we talk about what happens when romance becomes optimization. You tweak your photos. You track your “hit rate.” You filter for height, income, education, hobbi
Show notesMore choices = more freedom… right? Then why does it feel like we’re standing in the cereal aisle of existence having a mild identity crisis? In this episode, we unpack the paradox of abundance — why having endless optio
Show notesWhat if the reason you feel anxious isn’t you — it’s the era? In this mini episode, we break down “liquid modernity” — the idea that everything solid has melted. Jobs, identities, relationships, even belief systems are n
Show notesWhen was the last time you were actually alone? Not alone with your phone. Not alone with a podcast. Alone alone. In this short, we talk about the truth no one admits: no one rides the elevator alone anymore. Our minds a
Show notesEver walked into a buffet with 200 options… and somehow left unsatisfied? In this mini riff, we unpack why more choice doesn’t feel like freedom — it feels like pressure. When everything is possible, nothing feels right.
Show notesWhat if the moment we’re afraid of isn’t some dramatic AI takeover—but the quiet day we realize we don’t know how to do things ourselves anymore? In this episode, we stop talking about “the future of AI” and start talkin
Show notesWhat happens when the smartest thing in the room has no conscience—and we let it run anyway? In the Season 2 opening episode of Inference & Incense, we step straight into the shadow side of AI: deepfakes that empty bank
Show notesAt 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. Fro
Show notesIs 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 u
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