After Things Podcast

The episode opens with Andrew Mayne describing a YouTube creator, Mashpo, who made a one-dimensional game and then pushed the idea toward a 4D Minecraft project. The hosts unpack what it would mean to perceive a world as a thin strip or a slice, compare it to barcode-like visuals and anaglyph 3D, and discuss whether humans could adapt to higher-dimensional perception using new sensory cues and neuroplasticity. Andrew also ties the discussion to educational games and how such projects could help people, especially younger learners, build intuition for higher-dimensional thinking. The conversation then moves into AI image generation, especially DALL·E. Andrew says newer versions can generate convincing red-blue anaglyph 3D images and can respond to camera-lens and macro-photography language, while the group debates whether the system is just a toy or something more useful. They discuss prompting strategy, reporting outputs that miss expectations or show bias, and the value of tools that better understand user i