Supplementary Material 56: 10% for AI Doom, Bespoke Debates, and Eurotrash DJs

Chris and Matt grapple with Face Huggers, ponder the mysteries of algebra, and have a heated exchange over the term "bespoke".

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Supplementary Material 56

00:00 Introduction

01:58 The Hugging Face incident

08:46 AI risks and AI discourse

22:29 OpenAI’s presentation and the incentives around AI safety

29:51 How worried should we be?

40:13 Disagreeing about AI

46:15 Peter Boghossian’s AI-generated utopia and dystopia

52:00 Matt’s favourite DJ meme

53:32 Tucker Carlson meets algebra

1:00:18 Andrew Callaghan and Channel 5

1:02:07 Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP meme coin

1:06:08 A brief intervention on “paleocon”

1:13:41 Andrew Callaghan explains the email-list mistake

1:23:46 Andrew Callaghan on tech oligarchs

1:36:28 Taylor Lorenz’s political independence

1:42:35 The Great Bespoke Debate of 2026

1:56:35 Hasan, Mearsheimer, and Russia

2:07:16 Peace is restored

Links

• Hugging Face: July 2026 security incident disclosure
• Hugging Face: Technical timeline of the agent intrusion
• OpenAI: The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
• OpenAI: Hugging Face incident technical report (PDF)
• OpenAI: Black Hat USA 2026 talk on the Hugging Face incident
• METR and Redwood Research: Independent investigation of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident
• Mind Enterprises: Balcony MIXTAPE, the original DJ video
• Matt’s preferred version of the balcony meme, with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei
• Tucker Carlson with Jess Elofson: The Forgotten Lessons of Human History and the Dark Forces Robbing You of Your God-Given Creativity
• Channel 5: Hunter Biden Interview
• Channel 5: Nick Fuentes Interview, featuring Hunter Biden
• Hunter Biden’s video response to the $LAPTOP launch
• Channel 5: Andrew Callaghan addresses the Hunter Biden crypto coin
• Channel 5: Andrew Callaghan’s September 10 explanation on X
• Channel 5: Andrew Callaghan’s September 15 “State of the Union” monologue
• Jubilee: 1 Journalist vs 20 Conspiracy Theorists, with Andrew Callaghan
• MTS: The Panic and Fear around AI, with Taylor Lorenz
• John Mearsheimer: The Russia I Saw
• Hasan Piker reacts to Mearsheimer’s Russia visit (from 5:24:30)
• Blake Lemoine discusses his claim that Google’s LaMDA was sentient and his identity as a mystic Christian priest
• The Free Press: Two Drinks with Taylor Lorenz