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Teaser ... Is Paul pro-gooey-pod? ... Steven Pinker vs Scott Alexander on AI ... A review of AI peer reviewers ... Tipping tips ... The promise and perils of AI companions ... Are mathematicians getting mogged by AI? ... Paul critiques Jon Haidt’s critique of social media ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Jeremie’s podcast and prescient AI report ... Is scale still (mostly) all you need? ... Jeremie: We’re way past “stochastic parrots” ... Inside the early AI safety ecosystem ... What Yudkowsky got less wrong than most ... Why capability is outpacing alignment ... Were Altman’s fears ever sincere? ... Would pausing AI crash the economy? ... Overtime preview: Debating China ...

Teaser ... Alex’s new documentary about Elon ... How Alex’s film turned epic ... Simulation theory + social Darwinism = Elon? ... Inside the mind of Musk ... Has the job-pocalypse already begun? ... Elon’s daddy issues ... Elon’s lady issues ... Elon’s electoral propriety issues ... Has Elon gotten weirder over time? ... The damage DOGE could still do ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Garrison’s background and his new book, Obsolete ... Is the left dangerously downplaying AI? ... What is the “obsoleting project”? ... Inside the minds of Altman and Amodei ... Has the job-pocalypse already begun? ... Why AI bio-threats could be extra deadly ... Is alignment doomed? ... “Verifiable rewards” and the OpenAI breakout ... Garrison’s proposal to stop the AI race ... Heading to Overtime ...

Cold Open ... Round Two of Nonzero × Doom Debates ... Trump, the FTC, and an Industry Feeling the Heat ... Google Says Gemini 4 Exists ... Greg Brockman Pulls His $25M from Leading the Future ... The Break-Ins Keep Coming ... The Market Wants Agent Swarms ... The End of “Alignment by Default” ... The Prelude to Recursive Self-Improvement ... David Sacks Can’t Explain Dario ... The All-In Echo Chamber ... Scott Alexander vs. Steven Pinker ... Jason Calacanis vs. the Public Benefit Corporation ... The Elephant in the Room Is the AI ... What the Average American Thinks ... From Chatbot to Agent to Swarm ... Boeing, Agent Swarms, and the Off Switch ... Skynet as a Botnet That Trades With Us ... Tyler Cowen: National Treasure, Net Negative on AI ... Liron’s Doomer DCF Yields a 20x P/E ... Interest Rates: Where Cowen Has Me ... Does Pinker Owe Us a Debate? ... Pinker vs. Instrumental Convergence ... Wrap-Up ...

Teaser ... Paul’s impeccable timing ... Is Dario’s AI slowdown proposal for real? ... How chip controls can undermine AI safety ... Why the 2024 US-China AI talks failed ... America’s cognitive empathy gap on China ... Taiwan and the chip war ... War over AI: The real doom scenario? ... A possible (grim) path to global AI cooperation ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Jill’s book OK Boomer, Let’s Talk ... When is generalizing about a group okay? ... The world boomers built ... Are boomers really uniquely selfish? ... Is blaming boomers counterproductive? ... Who's actually driving the generational divide? ... The generational blame spiral ... Millennials vs Gen Z ... Does America have a gerontocracy problem? ... Why Kenyans are looking toward China ...

Teaser ... Nick’s singular place in AI history ... Where is Nick on the pause-accelerationist spectrum? ... Utilitarianism vs the "moral parliament" ... Is a "singleton" coming? What kind? ... Is global cooperation on AI doomed? ... The pros and cons of reading an AI’s mind ... Do AIs deserve moral status? ... AI, evolution, and the cosmic purpose question ...

Teaser ... This episode's surprise vibe shift ... Middle East update: Houthis vs. Saudis ... What’s really driving Dario (et al.)? ... Debating effective altruism’s effectiveness ... The trouble with big-tech Kremlinology ... Was “learn to code” just sleight of hand? ... Bob’s Fukuyama name drop ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Where Zvi’s famous newsletter got its name ... Zvi’s biggest AI fear ... Why is ChatGPT’s mind getting harder to read? ... Is self-sacrifice really such a surprising trait in agents? ... AGI + agent swarm = superintelligence? ... Appraising the elements of Dario’s “pacing” proposal ... Heading to Overtime ...

A bold new experiment in podcast synergy ... What caused the epic AI vibe shift? ... The resignation that broke the dam ... Former Trump adviser Dean Ball comes clean ... Are David Sacks and his buddies all-in on AI denial? ... Yet another OpenAI breakout… ... Astra’s dangerously private thoughts ... Is alignment doomed to fail? ... AI’s latest, and apparently biggest, math feat ... The looming “self-sovereign AI” threat ... A new flock of China doves? ... Liron's ex-intern gets a seat at the table ... AI agent self-sacrifice explained ... Some newly freaked out politicians ... Ro Khanna's AI safety plan ...

Ian and Eli’s new book, Israel’s Lobby ... Being a Jewish critic of Israel before that was cool ... How Eli followed the money ... What’s changed since the 2007 Walt-Mearsheimer book ... What is the Israel lobby, really? ... BDS, free speech, and the college antisemitism crusade ... Did Trump give the game away? ... The Israel lobby and the media ... Heading to Overtime ...

Why Bob is (extra) freaked out ... Inside the minds of OpenAI's rogue agents ... Is true alignment a pipe dream? ... The new development that’s spiked Bob’s AI anxiety ... Paul’s pushback via literary parable ... Is it time to REALLY freak out about AI? A debate ... Heading to Overtime ...

Overtime teaser ... Paul’s military tech bona fides ... What we (should) have learned from the Iran war ... Ukraine as frontline for the drone revolution ... Are the robot wars near? ... America’s drone deficit ... Does the Pentagon have a Silicon Valley problem? ... Will AI really make war less bloody? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Stephen’s expertise in spooky AI behavior ... Testing AIs for “corporate loyalty” ... Which AIs shill most for their makers? ... Do AI models have ideologies? ... The spookiest finding of Stephen’s study ... Are AIs getting better at gaming their tests? ... Overtime unlocked: The OpenAI breakout ... Decoding the OpenAI breakout ... Did OpenAI’s agents evolve their own culture? ... How OpenAI’s agents outfoxed their makers ...