Imagine, if you will, a world burning as society crumbles (is this stretching you?), in the perpetual, scorched twighlight of a dying planet, the determined foot of a tall figure crushes a skull on a landscape forged of human bones - that foot belongs to Sequoyah Kennedy and the human bones are the vestiges of the common myths and misunderstandings about artificial intelligence... apparently AI's are better than humans at devising effective metaphors in order to convey useful information - and we'll have to hope for their sake that's true.

In this episode Hine and Buckley invite back to Vayse one of the most intelligent and articulate humans in the material world, Sequoyah Kennedy. Since the Nonsense Bazaar ended SK has gone deep down the rabbit hole of large language models and has returned to help Hine and Buckley get their heads round what artificial intelligence actually means in 2025 and dismisses some of the ubiquitous confusion which surrounds the topic: is the best use of AI as personal assistant and unpaid artists? Are there demons haunting cyberspace? Do androids dream of electric sheep? and he touches on one of the big questions of our time - are we all in very real danger from this soulless, characterless mockery of human ingenuity with no empathy, no conscience and no soul... or will Elon Musk just finally piss off so that we can live in glorious harmony with our wonderful, wise robot buddies? (recorded 11 March 2025)

Thanks to Sequoyah for his patenience in explaining these ocmplex ideas to two middle-aged luddites and thanks, as always to Special K - the man who makes sense of our ramblings, Keith who once again did a sterling job of the show notes. You can give him a follow on Blue Sky here: @peakflow.bsky.social

Sequoyah Kennedy online

Sequoyah's Patreon - Find the links to SK's custom chatbots and other great content here
Empyrean Dream Machines substack
Sequoyah on Twitter/X
Sequoyah on Instagram
The Nonsense Bazaar podcast - Podtail

Hine’s (?) Intro

AI Voice Cloning: Is It the Future or a Cybersecurity Nightmare? - Neil Sahota

Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy

What is Late-Stage Capitalism? - The Balance
ArtificiaI Intelligence - Wikipedia
Battlestar Galactica | The Cylons Arrive on New Caprica - YouTube
AI with personality — Prompting ChatGPT using Big Five Personality Model values - Medium
Ong’s Hat Compleat - JosephMatheny.com
Ong's Hat: COMPLEAT, by Joseph Matheny, Sequoyah Kennedy - Goodreads
The Nonsense Bazaar 62 - Written By Artificial Intelligence - Podtail
Recommender system - Wikipedia
Relational database - Wikipedia
Facial recognition system - Wikipedia
Large language model - Wikipedia
Are LLMs Just Fancy Autocomplete? Here’s Why It Might Look That Way - Medium
Andrej Karpathy - Intro to Large Language Models - YouTube
Attention mechanism - Geeks for Geeks
Vector space - Wikipedia
Generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) - Wikipedia
Claude (language model) - Wikipedia
ChatGPT - Wikipedia
Llama website (open-source AI models)
Python (comp lang)
Why Can't AI Count the Number of "R"s in the Word "Strawberry"? - HackerNoon
Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions - The Conversation
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
Hunter S. Thompson - Wikipedia
From pixels to realism: the evolution of video game graphics - Mainleaf
The Green Dilemma: Can AI Fulfil Its Potential Without Harming the Environment? - Earth.org
The Uneven Distribution of AI’s Environmental Impacts - HBR.org
Almond Milk vs. Cow's Milk: Which Is More Environmentally Friendly? - Treehugger
Elon Musk warns AI could cause ‘civilization destruction’ even as he invests in it - CNN Business
Grok-3 website
Elon Musk's AI assistant Grok roasts its creator - Mashable
Claude AI website
Anthropic (company) - Wikipedia
Amanda Askell’s website
Genie from Aladdin (Robin Williams) - YouTube
Pareidolia - Wikipedia
Artificial consciousness - Wikipedia
Frankenstein’s Monster, AI, and the Perils of Innovation - Medium
David Lynch - Wikipedia
Kundalini - Wikipedia
William S. Burroughs: "Language is a virus from outer space" - FixQuotes
David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims - Wikipedia
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
DARPA - Wikipedia
UFO Twitter
Psilocybin & OCD: Can psychedelics treat obsessive compulsive disorder? - New Atlas
Kabbalah - Wikipedia
Taoism (Daoism) - Wikipedia
AI in 2024: Reaching the Point of Super-Persuasion - YouTube
Cambridge Analytica - Wikipedia
Quantum mysticism - Wikipedia
Google Gemini website
VYS0047 | The Weird Review Of The Year 2024
Don’t be evil (Google motto) - Wikipedia
Rhode Island - Wikipedia
UAP recovery video shows ‘egg-shaped’ object - YouTube
Tarot - Wikipedia
I Ching - Wikipedia
Artificial Intelligence Could Finally Let Us Talk with Animals - Scientific American
Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon on Twitch…slowly - TechCrunch
Reality tunnel - Wikipedia
AI through the lens of neurodiversity - Medium
Neural network (machine learning) - Wikipedia
Skynet (Terminator) - Wikipedia
Data (Star Trek) - Wikipedia
The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links
Aidan Wachter’s website
VYS0042 | Grinding Out Some Low-End - Vayse to Face with Aidan Wachter
The Eagle River Incident (Joe Simonton and the Space Pancakes)
Co-Creation of Reality, Consciousness Evolution, and the Hierarchy of Consciousness in the Cosmic Synthesis Theory (CST) Model - Medium
Information space - Wikipedia
The Imaginal Realm - Imaginal Journeying
The Secret Commonwealth: An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the Most Part) Invisible People, Heretofore Going under the Name of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies, by Robert Kirk - Goodreads
Meme - Wikipedia
The Power of Language: How Words Shape Our Reality - Medium
AIs are becoming more self-aware. Here's why that matters - AI digest
Jinn - Wikipedia
Live action role-playing game (LARP) - Wikipedia
TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, by Erik Davis - Goodreads
Hermetic Qabalah - Wikipedia
Four Worlds (spiritual realms) - Wikipedia
The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford: Dilettante's Guide to What You Do and Do Not Need to Know to Become a Qabalist, by Lon Milo DuQuette - Goodreads
Twin Peaks - Red Room Full Scene HD - YouTube
Morphine - Like a Mirror - YouTube
A hilarious new Harry Potter chapter was written by a predictive keyboard, and it's perfect - Mashable
Great Filter - Wikipedia
This Wild, Believable Theory Suggests AI Is Blocking Us From Alien Contact - Inverse
VYS0048 | Chinese Sex Balloons - Vayse to Face with Edwina Quatermass-Palmer
Adama's 'So Say We All' Speech - Battlestar Galactica - YouTube

Sequoyah’s recommendations (and other stuff)

ChatGPT website
Sequoyah's Patreon - You can find the links to SK's custom chatbots here
Wind of Change podcast
Under the Silver Lake - Wikipedia
Under the Silver Lake | Official Trailer HD - YouTube
Robert Monroe (The Munroe Institute) - Wikipedia
Songs in the Key of Vayse compilation - Bandcamp

Buckley’s closing question

Data - Best Moments - YouTube
The Best of Bender - YouTube
Short Circuit 1 and 2 - Best of Johnny 5 - YouTube

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