Permanently Moved

What are large language models, really? A genuinely different frame for what AI is, where it came from, and what it means to live alongside it. This episode of Permanently Moved is an hour-long audio essay on artificial intelligence, agency, and the history of computing that made LLMs possible. The essay moves from the invention of the mirror to double-entry bookkeeping, the printing press, the Manhattan Project, the transistor, and the particular civilisational strangeness of ChatGPT and its successors. It argues that the question everyone is asking about AI "is it intelligent?" is a trap, and it tries to ask a better one.  START SELECT RESET Issue 15 of SSRZ, the print companion to this episode, is available to pre-order now until Monday 16th March. 36 pages, A5, containing the full transcript plus an introduction and afterword not in the audio. Membership (£5/month) shipping included: https://thejaymo.net/support/ Pre-order the zine (£18 + shipping): https://thejaymo.etsy.com/uk/listing/4465040020/monsters-in-the-mirror-start-select CHAPTERS (00:00:02) Introduction (00:00:34) Monsters In The Mirror (00:01:00) Part 1. The Mirror of Modernity (00:05:33) Part 2. The State's Gaze (00:11:28) Part 3. Paper Truths (00:17:27) Part 4. Crystal Fire (00:26:13) Part 5. The Silicon Mirror (00:31:54) Part 6. World(view) in the West (00:35:28) Part 7. Haunted Habitats (00:40:45) Part 8. Thinking Machines (00:49:28) Part 9. Abracadabra (00:54:26) Part 10. Monsters in the Mirror (00:59:03) Afterward (01:00:05) Support the Show (01:00:48) Credits Mentioned in this episode Tyson Yunkaporta — Sand Talk James C. Scott — Seeing Like a State Marion Fourcade & Kieran Healy — The Ordinal Society Marek Poliks & Roberto Alonso Trillo — Exocapitalism Marshall McLuhan — The Gutenberg Galaxy Walter Ong — Orality and Literacy Jean Baudrillard — Simulacra and Simulation Nick Land — Fanged Noumena Monica Gagliano — Thus Spoke the Plant Benedict Anderson — Imagined Communities Bayo Akomolafe Gordon White — Rune Soup Permanently Moved is a quarterly podcast written, recorded, and edited by Jay Springett.  --- SHOW NOTES https://thejaymo.net/2026/03/02/302-monsters-in-the-mirror-permanently-moved/ FIND EVERYTHING ELSE thejaymo.net: https://thejaymo.net/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

Permanently Moved is back! Six months of silence, time in a chrysalis, and now a changed format. This is the wake-up episode. Before Episode 302 drops in your feed, Jay explains what happened after finishing the biggest creative project of his life — and what the show looks like from here. Permanently Moved is now quarterly. Four audio essays a year, longer and more considered. Less treadmill, more terrain. And for the first time, each episode comes with a print companion: a physical zine, posted to you as part of your membership. Episode 302 - Monsters in the Mirror - is next up in the feed. THE ZINE Each episode of Permanently Moved now comes with an accompanying issue of Start Select Reset. Issue #15 is a 36-page A5 zine - properly printed, thick covers - containing the full transcript of Monsters in the Mirror plus an introduction and afterword that aren't in the audio. Pre-orders are open for two weeks. After that it goes to print. Membership (£5/month) shipping included: https://thejaymo.net/support/ One-off pre-order (£18 + shipping): https://thejaymo.etsy.com/uk/listing/4465040020/monsters-in-the-mirror-start-select --- FIND EVERYTHING ELSE thejaymo.net: https://thejaymo.net/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

8 years, 15 seasons; 301 episodes; over 25 hours of audio and roughly 290,000 words of script. 301 Permanently Moved was begun at age 32 and completed today, the day after I turned 40. One fifth of a lifetime, distilled into a body of work. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/26/2520-episode-301/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

As a nearly complete project, this show represents an enormous amount of effort and discipline. It's been a serious creative commitment. Sustaining any single format for eight years is achievement enough for me. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/19/2519-landing-sequence/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

The glowing screen does not possess you. You merely have rehearsed the reflex of the infinite scroll. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/12/2518-king-of-mind/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

We must attempt to reclaim some proximity to the future. We have to stop strip-mining yesterday and act as though the future is already here. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/07/05/2517-its-beginning-to-feel-a-bit-like-the-future/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

It is the graft that reveals the craft.  Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/28/2516-tales-untold/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/

If life already feels precarious on your own high street, then a city like London must be ten times worse?  Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/21/2515-no-go-london/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

Growing up in Britain in the 1990s, America felt like a country that existed only on television and in toy boxes. A place across the pond that shared a language, but also seemed so alien.  Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/14/2514-more-distant-than-ever/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

AI boosters on LinkedIn will have you belive AI will be taking everyone's job tomorrow, but the anti-AI voices however still say never. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/07/2513-gpt-job-losses-slowly-then-suddenly/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

I have a new rule. Universally true: All AI outputs prompted by other people is subjectively mid. But all AI content you spawn yourself is objectively great, and interesting. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/06/01/2512-overdosed-on-ai-music/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine support the show! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

Generosity is the protocol that transforms the web from a collection of isolated 'contents' into a thriving, interconnected community. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/05/17/2511-be-generous-online/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

Amidst the day-to-day rhythms of the body, The Artist must pay attention to the humble thoughts that might become great actions. These little ideas are found everywhere, always poised at the lip of ignition. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/05/03/2510-the-work-of-the-body-though-toil/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

As generative AI erodes the very nature of the image, the world will continue to thicken with surfaces with signs slipping past meaning. It is another stage in the Information-Age iconoclasm. The great unravelling of the image as a stable carrier of truth. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/04/26/2509-surface-without-substance/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

To run a world is to be responsible for its edges as much as its centre. Its ending must be part of the design. A World Runner tends to its aliveness, yes, but also to its thresholds. To its arrivals, and the departures. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/04/12/2508-leaving-worlds-behind/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

Rise, Artist! Forge on. Another reflection in my long running 'Artist' series, on why the journey matters more than the destination. Creation begets creation. Practice makes progress. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/04/05/2507-practice-makes-progress/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

Ghibli images aren't really about copyright or ethics, they're about unexamined questions of power. Who gets to make images? What gives them meaning? And what is their value when machines can produce them at scale? Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/03/30/2506-information-age-iconoclasm/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

Tutorial engines are coming. And they'll run atop local AI models embedded in our devices at the OS level. What's the bet that future versions of the Mac Studio—will offer something like Framework's modular scalability? Imagine supercompute clusters in every office—or even in every home. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/03/08/2505-helpful-llocal-models/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

If you find it hard to distinguish something written by AI or a human, don't worry, I can't either. Humans spent the last decade writing like machines.  Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/03/01/2504-human-gunk-and-the-slopocalypse/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/

I can't remember the last time I heard anyone seriously use the phrase 'Desktop Publishing.' Maybe the mid-2000s? This episode explores the history of Desktop Publishing, its impact on DIY print culture, and how its 'ransom note' aesthetic was later echoed in early web design and why 'brain rot' videos feel like a return to folk aesthetics. Full Show Notes: https://thejaymo.net/2025/02/22/2503-desktop-publishing/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://startselectreset.com/ Permanently moved is a personal podcast 301 seconds in length, written and recorded by @thejaymo Subscribe to the Podcast: https://permanentlymoved.online/