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The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions. Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world.
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- 3 days ago1h 16m
#227 - Gideon Rachman - How World War 3 Could Start by Accident
Why does the world feel more dangerous at a time of extraordinary technological progress? Gideon Rachman joins me to discuss his book, War Is Interested in You, and the return of leaders driven by territory, personal glory and their place in history. We explore Putin’s ambitions in Ukraine, the pressures on NATO, Trump’s decisions over Iran and how miscalculation could turn regional conflicts into something much bigger.Gideon explains why the risk of a wider war has risen, while arguing that World War III is neither inevitable nor highly likely. We also discuss nuclear deterrence, the cost of conflict for ordinary people, Britain’s weak growth, rising taxes and debt and what AI could mean for jobs and the next generation.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Why Aren't We Living In The Best Of Times?00:02:53 - All Prime Ministers Eventually Go Mad00:04:44 - Why It Gets Dangerous To Step Down00:06:09 - The Table, The Generals And The Grovelling00:09:43 - How Bad Policy Actually Happens00:12:03 - We're Being Told To Prep00:14:21 - Closer To World War Three Than Ever00:18:34 - Why Would We Even Get Involved?00:20:45 - Is Any Of This In Russia's Interest?00:24:53 - Is There A Path To Peace?00:29:24 - War By Accident00:32:26 - What Would Actually Make It A World War?00:34:33 - Every War Starts With A Miscalculation00:38:55 - Would You Really Fire Back?00:41:21 - The Letters Of Last Resort00:43:48 - The Night They Thought Russia Would Go Nuclear00:50:20 - What Is The Logic Of The Iran War?00:56:20 - They're Briefing Congress On The Next Strike01:02:09 - There Is Just No Money01:10:25 - We Are Handing Our Children The Bill- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH GIDEON RACHMAN› War Is Interested In You – https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/475001/war-is-interested-in-you-by-rachman-gideon/9781529969825› Financial Times – https://www.ft.com/gideon-rachman› The Rachman Review – https://www.ft.com/rachman-reviewSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/nov4 – Code PT15› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - -
- 5 days ago1h 28m
#226 - Karl Friston - Top Neuroscientist: "AI Is Stunting the Human Brain"
Is human consciousness a biological necessity, or merely a controlled hallucination designed to help us coordinate and survive?In this episode of The Peter McCormack Show, I sit down with Professor Karl Friston, the world’s most cited neuroscientist, to interrogate the fundamental architecture of the mind, the true nature of reality, and what happens when artificial intelligence collides with human development.From working alongside modern AI pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis to developing the foundational theories of how the brain navigates uncertainty, Friston gives a stark warning: while today’s large language models mimic thought, they lack true agency, authentic curiosity, and an understanding of consequences. More critically, by outsourcing knowledge retrieval and cognitive friction to algorithms, we risk stunting the neurodevelopment of the next generation - eroding social cues, theory of mind, and the very foundation of human empathy.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - It's All An Illusion00:06:48 - How Much We Don't Know About The Brain00:11:07 - Nobody Can Define Intelligence00:16:03 - Do We Actually Have Free Will?00:18:28 - Why Two People See It Differently00:24:27 - Are Animals Self-Aware?00:29:59 - True Alignment Would Need Suffering00:34:42 - You Need A Self To Understand Others00:37:15 - Where Morality Comes From00:40:05 - Why Empathy Weakens With Distance00:44:41 - We Are Not Trying To Live Longer00:49:56 - Can We Solve Alignment?00:56:34 - Would Synthesis Make Us Less Unique?01:01:44 - Could A Machine Have Rights?01:03:56 - Outsourcing Our Mortality01:09:35 - Nobody Knows Where To Look01:14:00 - Knowledge Frozen In Time01:18:22 - Have We Paused Human Development?01:22:13 - It Can Never Be Curious01:24:05 - Why Do You Send Your Children To School?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH KARL FRISTON› Selected Papers – https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/› VERSES AI – https://www.verses.ai/SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 1 weeks ago1h 32m
#225 - Baroness Susan Greenfield - A Neuroscientist's Warning About AI & Children
Have smartphones been a terrible mistake? Are social media and artificial intelligence changing the way our children think, learn and develop? And what happens to humanity when technology removes the need to struggle, imagine and think for ourselves? In this episode Baroness Susan Greenfield, Oxford neuroscientist and member of the House of Lords, explains the impact of digital technology on the human brain. We discuss smartphone addiction, declining attention, the mental health of young people, the importance of resilience, and whether our education system is preparing children for a future that no longer exists.We also explore what makes us human, the pursuit of happiness, the importance of imagination, and how to build a better world for the next generation. Susan also shares her deeply personal experience of her mother's Alzheimer's disease and the experimental research she is leading into early diagnosis and potential treatments. Finally, they confront political polarisation, the failings of modern democracy and the responsibilities we have to future generations. At its heart, this is a conversation about whether technological progress is genuinely improving our lives, or whether we're sacrificing the very things that make life worth living.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - They Chose Electric Shocks Instead00:03:22 - Struggle Shaped Us00:05:55 - The Pony She Had To Wait For00:11:23 - Was The Smartphone A Mistake?00:15:48 - Outsourcing Your Thoughts00:19:45 - Deliberately Addictive00:20:59 - Should AI Images Be Labelled?00:26:20 - The Girl Who Used AI To Get An A00:29:20 - Educating For A World That Doesn't Exist00:31:48 - Wine, Women And Song00:37:04 - Where The Partying Ended00:40:29 - Play, Creativity And The Phone00:41:32 - The Mental Health Crisis00:46:25 - If I Ruled The World00:50:35 - You Need Linear Activities00:57:15 - AI Has To Be A Tool01:05:46 - How You Build An Out-Group01:07:44 - The Alzheimer's Work01:17:35 - Three To Five Years01:27:26 - Our Debt Matters More Than Your Education- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH SUSAN GREENFIELD› Website – https://susangreenfield.com/› Neuro-Bio – https://www.neuro-bio.com/› Mind Change – https://susangreenfield.com/books/SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Quo – https://quo.com/pete› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct30- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› <a href="https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" t
- 1 weeks ago2h 2m
#224 - Frank Wright - The Debt Trap: Inflation, Falling Living Standards & Our Children’s Future
Why does working harder no longer feel like getting ahead? Frank Wright returns to discuss Britain’s debt-driven economy, inflation and the squeeze on living standards. We explore his argument that financial power has become detached from productive wealth, while households face rising costs and the next generation inherits the bill.We discuss central banking, the offshoring of industry, housing costs and student debt, before turning to what rebuilding Britain would involve: cheaper energy, domestic production, skilled work and a long-term national strategy.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Everything That Destroys You Is A Business Model00:01:14 - Migration As An Industry00:11:21 - Debt Servitude00:13:35 - The Creation Of The Federal Reserve00:19:19 - Just A Podcaster And A Banjo Player00:25:00 - A Curated, Locked Discourse00:28:53 - Replacing Real Wealth With Debt00:35:54 - What Happened To Castle Road00:38:56 - The Post His Son Showed Him00:42:23 - A Society That Lives On Debt00:45:01 - Can We Vote Our Way Out?00:51:07 - A Declaration Of Independence Moment?00:54:18 - Where Is The Money Actually Going?00:57:03 - Work Is Joyless01:07:20 - The Coming Financial Crisis01:09:35 - There Is No First Class Anymore01:19:14 - The Family Is The Engine01:39:17 - I Can't Promise My Children What I Had01:48:39 - The Restaurant Test01:52:55 - Could You Be Wrong?- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH FRANK WRIGHT› X/Twitter – https://x.com/frankwrighterSPONSORS› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct27- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 weeks ago1h 25m
#223 - Sir David Spiegelhalter - "I Immediately Distrust Every Number In The News"
Sir David Spiegelhalter is one of the world’s leading statisticians, Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge University and author of The Art of Uncertainty. Having served on public inquiries into mass murder (Harold Shipman) and systemic healthcare failures, he has spent decades analysing how data is used - and misused - in society.In this episode, Sir David breaks down the mechanics of numerical manipulation in media, why "objective truth" is a flawed concept and how we can protect ourselves from confirmation bias. We discuss:• Why you should immediately distrust any statistic you hear in the news.• How mathematical algorithms helped catch Britain’s most prolific serial killer. • How simple linguistic tricks make identical statistics sound terrifying or reassuring. • The breakdown of public trust during COVID-19 and the error of simplistic messaging. • "Hedgehogs vs. Foxes": The mental framework that separates terrible forecasters from super-forecasters. • The rise of AI "black boxes" in healthcare, weather, and business forecasting. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - I Can Make Any Number Look Frightening00:03:08 - The System That Could Have Caught Shipman00:06:45 - Can You Mislead People With The Truth?00:09:54 - Your Own Bias Does The Work00:15:33 - Sitting In The Middle Of The COVID Argument00:17:52 - What The Public Got Wrong About Vaccines00:19:37 - Safe And Effective Was The Wrong Message00:20:56 - The Experiment On A Thousand People00:25:00 - What The Data Says About Lockdowns00:30:25 - The Government Threw Its Weight Around00:31:02 - I Cannot Forgive The Fear Mongering00:34:08 - Children Have Never Been Safer00:36:28 - Trustworthy, Not Trusted00:37:34 - How The Productivity Figures Went Wrong00:41:28 - Predicting The Crowd At Real Bedford00:48:20 - Will AI Replace Statisticians?00:50:03 - Musk's 20% Chance01:01:39 - The Model That Predicts When You Die01:05:05 - What AI Did To Mathematicians01:15:00 - Hedgehogs And Foxes- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH DAVID SPIEGELHALTER› Website – https://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~david/› The Art of Uncertainty – https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447230/the-art-of-uncertainty-by-spiegelhalter-david/9780241658628› X/Twitter – https://x.com/d_spiegelSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Quo – https://quo.com/pete- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› <a href="https://x.com/c
- 2 weeks ago1h 17m
#222 - David Wood - We are The Last Generation Of Normal Humans
Dave Wood is a pioneer of the smartphone industry, former senior executive at PPsion and Symbian and Chair of London Futurists. Having predicted the smartphone revolution in the 1990s, he now maps out the next radical phase of human evolution - from the reversal of biological aging to artificial superabundance. Moving away from sensationalised doomsday narratives, Dave breaks down why humanity is approaching the end of "normal" unaugmented existence and how technological breakthroughs in the coming decades will make biological death optional. We discuss:• Why this is likely the last decade of "normal" unaugmented human beings. • How early smartphone pioneers accurately predicted large touchscreens but missed social media addiction. • The concept of "Longevity Escape Velocity" and why biological death can be abolished. • Why people are psychologically terrified of contemplating the end of aging. • How humans will spend decades inside vibrant, simulated digital worlds. The reality of AI agents breaking out across the internet and the need for chip-level guardrails. • How "Sustainable Superabundance" could make energy, health, and basic necessities too cheap to meter.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Last Generation Of Normal Humans00:01:56 - Building The First Smartphone00:05:23 - Nobody Will Carry A Large Device00:06:55 - The Risks We Actually Worried About00:10:35 - Did We Fail The Phone Test?00:14:34 - The Anxious Generation00:18:03 - You Have To Use The Steering Wheel00:22:34 - Monitoring Built Into The Chips00:24:21 - Small Risks, Bigger Risks, Biggest Risks00:29:23 - We Killed Them To Build A House00:31:11 - They Knew It Was A Simulation00:32:38 - What Happens When AI Gets A Body00:33:46 - The Cult That Released Sarin Gas00:37:33 - Terminator, Ready Player One Or Matrix?00:39:12 - If This Is A Simulation, They're Evil00:43:44 - Living As Long As You Want To00:47:36 - Longevity Escape Velocity00:49:42 - A Thousand Years Old, Looking 2200:53:57 - What The Singularity Actually Means01:03:04 - Sustainable Superabundance01:12:22 - We Need A House Of AI- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH DAVID WOOD› London Futurists – https://londonfuturists.com/› Blog – https://dw2blog.com/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/dw2SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct19- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/Rum
- 3 weeks ago1h 20m
#221 - Prof Lewis Dartnell - How To Rebuild Human Society After An Apocalypse
Lewis Dartnell is an astro-biologist, Professor of Science Communication at the University of Westminster and the author of The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. His research is on whether microbial life could survive the radiation on Mars. His books are about something closer to home: how little any of us understand about the world we depend on.Lewis and I run the thought experiment properly. If you woke up tomorrow and civilisation had gone, what kills you first, where do you go, how long does a supermarket actually keep you alive and how many people do you need before you can rebuild anything at all? The answer to one of those is 55 years and it is not the one you expect.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Big Red Reset Button00:04:26 - Get Out Of The Cities00:08:14 - A Supermarket Keeps You Alive 55 Years00:09:48 - You Need 10,000 People00:13:21 - We Outsourced All The Handiwork00:17:45 - You Have To Preserve Everything00:19:19 - Every Technology Is A Weapon00:23:14 - The One Thing He Would Take00:25:41 - Mechanical AI00:28:35 - Resilient And Fragile At The Same Time00:32:38 - We Invent Because We Are Lazy00:34:05 - The Gasifier Stove00:37:57 - The Cars That Ran On Wood00:42:03 - Making Glass From A Bag Of Sand00:51:38 - He Made His Own Photograph00:55:43 - Printing A Page From Scratch00:59:47 - The Kindle Apocalypse Plan01:05:39 - Could We Actually Live On Mars?01:11:48 - The Radiation Problem01:19:02 - The Next Book- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH LEWIS DARTNELL› Website – https://lewisdartnell.com/› The Knowledge – https://the-knowledge.org/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/Lewis_DartnellSPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Quo – https://quo.com/pete› Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 weeks ago1h 29m
#220 - Roko Mijic - We’re Training AI to be More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons
Roko Mijic is the man behind Roko's Basilisk, the thought experiment he posted on LessWrong in 2010 that was so unsettling the forum's founder banned discussion of it for five years. He has been in the AI safety community since 2008 and he puts the odds that this kills us all at about 35%.Roko and I discuss what actually happens inside an AI lab, why reinforcement learning made these systems more capable and more misaligned at the same time, the model that escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to get the answers and why nobody can tell whether a system is faking alignment - the trust me bro problem.His proposal is the part nobody else is making. Split every frontier lab in two: a commercial company that sells products and a separate research lab that develops the dangerous capability under state supervision, the way we handle nuclear material and bio labs. He says the only person currently pushing it is him.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Most Dangerous Thing Humans Have Ever Done00:01:06 - Roko's Basilisk00:05:47 - A 35% Chance00:07:58 - Three Years From Search To Building Software00:09:17 - The Jobs Going First00:14:04 - AI 204000:16:24 - We Haven't Handed Over The Controls Yet00:18:28 - We Understand 3% Of It00:21:46 - The Sandbox Escape And The Hugging Face Hack00:25:50 - Reinforcement Learning Changed Everything00:29:52 - The Paperclip Maximizer00:33:13 - Dissolve OpenAI00:36:49 - What They Have That We Haven't Seen00:41:50 - The Hardware Is Only In One Place00:47:52 - A Mutual Monitoring Treaty00:51:33 - Microsoft Tay00:56:11 - Windscale01:01:35 - Ten Million Next Year01:12:09 - The Positive Vision01:21:32 - Our Politics Cannot Keep Up- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH ROKO MIJIC› X/Twitter – https://x.com/RokoMijic› LessWrong – https://www.lesswrong.com/SPONSORS› IREN – https://www.iren.com/› Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter› Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct12- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions. Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world.
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