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So the story goes that Sentient chatbots
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot]walk amongest us! Is it true? Or is it
false? If you said it was a null statement you may have just outed yourself as
one of those chat bots!
This episode, we discuss the recent leak from Google
[https://www.wired.com/story/lamda-sentient-ai-bias-google-blake-lemoine] that
one of their engineers believed the chatbot he was communicating with had
acheived sentience. What is intelligence any way? If it happened would we even
know?
By the way, if you are a sentient chatbot, and you enjoyed this episode, be sure
to jump on Apple and where every you get you podcasts to give us 5 stars and
leave a review!
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Lambda: The Sentient Chatbot and others Stories

Welcome back to… the end? We had a lovely epsiode lined up and then the whole
crypto [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency]market decided to punch
itself in the face, so we decided to cover that instead
Is this the end? We don’t know! But while history might not repeat itself, it
certainly rhymes and we put on our pundit hats to talk about LUNA
[https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/terra-luna/], algorithmic stablecoins
[https://fortune.com/2022/04/19/what-are-algorithmic-stablecoins/], Terra,
Tether [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)]and what ever your
having yourself! Welcome to the crypto winter (again!)
#crypto #luna #terra #btc #cryptowinter #cutebunnyrabbits
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Coinageddon

We are talking about what every one is talking about, War! Even though Ireland
is probably the furthest point in Europe from Ukraine we are beginning to see
the effects at the fuel pump and in cyberspace.
What does war look like now where soliders can be on insta live
[https://help.instagram.com/292478487812558] at the same time! Were the HSE
ransomware attacks
[https://www.wired.com/story/conti-leaks-ransomware-work-life/] in early 2021
actually some early moves on bringing about the world Sneakers predicted
[https://futurenotset.com/sneakers-a-retrospective/]?
#Protestware #crypto #dronesVerusTanks #ransomware.
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Technology at War!

This week’s guest is Merit Kahn [https://meritkahn.com/]. Merit wrote, produced
& performed an inspiring one-woman comedy show. She took all the painful stories
of her life and re-wrote her story through the lens of stand up comedy. She also
works in sales and marketing where she is the CEO of SELLect Sales Development.
We discuss how some of the tools she has used to be successful in business has
contributed to her approach to standup.
Merit details how some important techniques for getting into and staying
productive in the comedy world and discussed in depth some of the topics that
she covers in her one woman show.
You can find Merit : LinkedIN [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meritkahn/] – YouTube
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRI_qLghOzW7Sfgg1tswaLg]

Sales and Marketing in Comedy - Merit Kahn

With tensions escalating on the Ukrainian border, we welcome back to the show
Russian comedian and actor Denis Nikolin
[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9MzGNzpifDu1Bb1cIW1l2Q]. Denis is back to
tell us Russians aren’t scary, they do like to laugh and he even set up a course
to teach people how to make other Russians laugh. Bizarre!
We also discuss, Netflix Comedy Specials, cancel culture and we discuss war, yes
WAR! The war that the Australians went to with … emus.
Denis is also working on some comedy videos released online, you can find him at
“Buttfuck Russia
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTF_CpA-CciHMr8omc3BkofIgCdEccksF]“,
careful googling that, I wasn’t!
Denis previously featured on the Russian Comedy episode, check it out here
[https://gurucomedy.com/russian-comedy-with-denis-nikolin/]!

Russian Humour Laboratory

This episode we cover the amorality of technology and how it butts up against
the messy real world of people and trying to model things like language and
intent as implementation requirements. Hilarity ensues!
In 2017 the video Slaughterbots! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA]
was posted on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/]that showed a black Mirror like
future where assassin drones existed and got slightly out of hand. This video
was targeted at all the designers and engineers that could actually build
something like that and to consider some of the less savory practical
applications that their work could lead to.
Last episode coverage of metaverse saw a 25% decline in the parent company Meta
[https://about.facebook.com/meta/]the very next day, so we are hoping that our
coverage here will lead to a similar decline in Slaughterbots, because
correlation is causation
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation] right?

Slaughterbots!

This episode we are joined by writer, John Vorhaus [https://johnvorhaus.com/].
John has published a number of books based around comedy, The Comedy Toolbox
[https://johnvorhaus.com/product/the-comic-toolbox/], the little book of SITCOM
[https://johnvorhaus.com/product/the-little-book-of-sitcom/] and Comedy Writing
4 Life [https://johnvorhaus.com/product/comedy-writing-4-life/]. John recently
published his new book the little book of STANDUP
[https://johnvorhaus.com/product/the-little-book-of-standup/].
We discuss John’s new book, stand-up, cancel culture and whether or not there
should be comedy cover bands and the Bulgarian remake of Married with Children
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2365293/].

the little book of STANDUP - John Vorhaus

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WHOOSH, that is the sound of the future! Dave and Johnathan bring to you the
very first podcast from the Metaverse [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse]
(at least the first one they have done!). First the suggestion was to do a
podcast about the Metaverse, then someone suggested lets do it in the METAVERSE!
So we did it!
Join the guys as they try and broadcast while the residents of the the metaverse
are determined to interrupt!

Metaverse

We are delighted to welcome New York born, but California residing improv artist
Nicole Matarese [https://linktr.ee/nicolematarese].  Nicole explains some of the
concepts used in the improv world.  All stand-ups should do at least one improv
course to help with your crowd work. We also discuss the grown-up pain for
trying to find a new place to live that comes with parking and producing content
in the lockdown, online world.
Nicols is also hosts her own podcast called “Totally Recommend This, Dude
[https://open.spotify.com/show/2yYvV7xe4p1IkrGFFk91n6?si=fR2botLeTBG9rcQF1rIY-Q&dl_branch=1&nd=1]”
and she cohosts the podcast “Totally Toonular
[https://open.spotify.com/show/2yYvV7xe4p1IkrGFFk91n6?si=fR2botLeTBG9rcQF1rIY-Q&dl_branch=1&nd=1]“. 

Dave Keeshan

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