Andrei Pirin

Who is Andrei Pirin?

Answering that question may be important, because much of the podcast rests on his shoulders and we should therefore understand his traits, his faults and flaws.

Andrei Pirin is a man is his late thirties, whose life is characterized to a large degree by his struggle with clinical depression. Andrei is single, he has no children, he is solitary, reclusive, a hermit, you could say. He doesn’t go out much, staying at his computer most of the time, either pouring himself into projects like this podcast or into videogames.

He has a disability due to his bipolar disorder and uses his monthly pension from the Latvian government to fund this podcast.

In his younger days, he visited Japan for two weeks, travelled India for half a year, lived in Norway for two years. He used to be a big fan of Hollywood movies and TV-shows, and an avid consumer of anime and videogames. He was also into the best of classical music and soundtracks, original scores. He used to have friends as well. But all of that is in the past.

Today his emotional landscape is stunted to a large degree either by the numerous medications he takes for his depression, or by the chemical imbalance in the brain. There is nothing he loves, nothing he really enjoys. He simply occupies himself with tasks, like doing the podcast.

Andrei is waiting for an epoch when AI can invent new medicines and treatments that may cure him.

He earnestly believes that the future ASI (Artificial Superintelligence) will be the most significant invention of mankind. Therefore he aligns himself with the field of Artificial Intelligence in the only way he can: doing the podcast that involves AI.