Inference and Incense
Inference and IncenseWhere 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 rigo... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 33 | Founded | 6 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Science | |||
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Why do people believe the Earth is flat despite overwhelming evidence?
Why do vaccine conspiracies thrive?
Because prophecy is lazy—and science requires effort. After 10,000 daily decisions, most people don't want to think. They want to be told w... more
Every successful prophecy follows the same formula: identify a common enemy, unite people through hate, offer a simple solution, and promise instant rewards or punishments.
GameStop had Wall Street elites. Religions have their devils. Conspiracy th... more
Why does fear sell better than facts?
In this episode, we unpack why prophecy doesn't need to be true to reshape reality—and why half of Japan held its breath over a manga prediction on July 5th, 2025 panic. Tourism collapsed. Billions of dollars ev... more
Fear kept our ancestors alive. The ones who heard rustling in the grass and assumed predator? They survived. The ones who assumed wind? Probably didn't.
This is apophenia: our brain's hardwired tendency to see patterns—even when they don't exist. I... more
China's "Tui Bei Tu" (推背图) is a 7th-century prophecy book with a shockingly high hit rate. One famous image: a plate with 21 plums. In Chinese, "plum" sounds like "Li"—the family name of the Tang Dynasty, which had 21 emperors. The fourth plum has no... more
Western prophecy obsesses over the end: apocalypse, judgment, doomsday. Eastern prophecy focuses on cycles: rise, fall, renewal, repeat.
Why the difference? Western traditions are rooted in biblical finality. Eastern philosophy—Buddhism, Taoism—cen... more
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 century, any boogeyman—retroacti... more
July 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 responded with mass panic.
Hotels e... more
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