A great Vayse Podcast
3 of my favorite people talk about some of my favorite things
Vayse, a podcast I’ve been on and enjoy listening to, has released an episode with my friend and COMPLEAT co-conspirator, Sequoyah Kennedy, that does a deep dive on subjects that are COMPLEAT adjacent, to say the least. I’d go so far as to say this episode can be considered a COMPLEAT companion piece while retaining its strength as a stand-alone.
VYS0049 | Machines of Loving Vayse - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy v2.0 - Show Notes
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)
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
NOTE
Some people have encountered a weird error when trying to use the download link for the audio segment of COMPLEAT, so I have generated a new download link. Here’s the updated link:
https://sowl.co/p/MscoN
Remember, the free/discount continues through this Saturday.
Dude… I just finished COMPLEAT…
Now, I have a need to go FURTHER.