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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. New episodes 2 to 3 times per week. Video on YouTube and Spotify.
Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world.
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#229 - Harrison Pitt - Is Britain Still a Nation?
Harrison Pitt is a writer specialising in philosophy and intellectual history, a senior policy fellow at Restore Britain, a contributing editor at The European Conservative and a fellow at the New Culture …
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Harrison Pitt is a writer specialising in philosophy and intellectual history, a senior policy fellow at Restore Britain, a contributing editor at The European Conservative and a fellow at the New Culture Forum. Born in 1998, he is writing a book that sets out a systematic philosophy of national belonging.
Harrison and I argue about the question underneath almost every other political fight in Britain right now: what actually makes someone part of a nation and does it matter? We go through citizenship, values, what Harrison calls demographic security, why he thinks the post-1945 consensus overcorrected and whether a mass democracy can work without a shared people.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Why Is Britain Failing?
00:03:12 - Have Conservatives Lost Their Confidence?
00:08:27 - Can You Even Define British Values?
00:12:06 - Citizenship By Descent
00:18:14 - Why Should We Care?
00:27:07 - Are We Heading For Defeat?
00:31:05 - In A Mass Democracy, Does It Matter?
00:35:30 - Insulated Until Now
00:39:13 - The Conversation With His Daughter
00:46:13 - Can It Stay Peaceful?
00:53:52 - Luxury Beliefs
00:56:43 - The Facts Of Life Are Conservative
01:02:07 - Brothers On Opposite Sides
01:11:41 - The Middle Class Is Being Squeezed
01:14:03 - The Italians At London Brick
01:17:54 - We Want Stuff Now, You Pay Later
01:23:34 - From Atheist To Conservative
01:28:39 - Could You Be Wrong?
01:34:29 - A Discerning Welfare State
01:43:14 - Could Restore Win Bedford?
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#228 - Rupert Lowe - Is Britain Going Bankrupt?
Rupert Lowe is the MP for Great Yarmouth and the leader of Restore Britain, the party he launched after leaving Reform UK. He returns with a blunt diagnosis: Britain is bankrupt, the state is no longer serving …
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Rupert Lowe is the MP for Great Yarmouth and the leader of Restore Britain, the party he launched after leaving Reform UK. He returns with a blunt diagnosis: Britain is bankrupt, the state is no longer serving the people who pay for it and none of the main parties will admit how bad the numbers have become.
Rupert and I discuss whether the state has become a force bigger than any elected government, why he believes the electorate still does not understand the scale of the debt, the £100,000 of legacy borrowing per household being handed to the next generation and what Restore would actually do - on tax, energy, the triple lock and welfare.
They also get into the media's treatment of Restore, accusations of a secret deal, his fallout with Reform and the olive branch that went nowhere, whether Andy Burnham will make rejoining the EU his last throw of the dice and why Rupert thinks the euro cannot survive.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - What Is Government Actually For?
00:04:48 - The People Who Never Accepted Brexit
00:06:20 - Is The State Bigger Than The Government?
00:08:54 - Summoned By The Inquiry
00:13:25 - Burnham In The Caribbean
00:15:03 - The Entire State, And The Media
00:18:23 - A Conservative Uprising Across Europe
00:20:35 - We Are Bankrupt
00:22:44 - The Three Documents
00:25:33 - What Restore Would Do On Immigration
00:27:09 - What About Those Already Working Here?
00:29:44 - The Second Biggest Party By Members
00:32:18 - Is The Media Giving Restore A Fair Crack?
00:35:54 - Is There A Secret Deal?
00:40:58 - £100,000 Of Debt Per Household
00:43:02 - If You Were Prime Minister
00:46:52 - What About Reform?
00:48:45 - The Olive Branch
00:53:59 - Are They Trying To Rejoin The EU?
00:56:13 - The Euro Cannot Survive
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#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 …
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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.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Why Aren't We Living In The Best Of Times?
00:02:53 - All Prime Ministers Eventually Go Mad
00:04:44 - Why It Gets Dangerous To Step Down
00:06:09 - The Table, The Generals And The Grovelling
00:09:43 - How Bad Policy Actually Happens
00:12:03 - We're Being Told To Prep
00:14:21 - Closer To World War Three Than Ever
00:18:34 - 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 Accident
00:32:26 - What Would Actually Make It A World War?
00:34:33 - Every War Starts With A Miscalculation
00:38:55 - Would You Really Fire Back?
00:41:21 - The Letters Of Last Resort
00:43:48 - The Night They Thought Russia Would Go Nuclear
00:50:20 - What Is The Logic Of The Iran War?
00:56:20 - They're Briefing Congress On The Next Strike
01:02:09 - There Is Just No Money
01:10:25 - We Are Handing Our Children The Bill
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#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 …
Notes de l’épisode
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.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - It's All An Illusion
00:06:48 - How Much We Don't Know About The Brain
00:11:07 - Nobody Can Define Intelligence
00:16:03 - Do We Actually Have Free Will?
00:18:28 - Why Two People See It Differently
00:24:27 - Are Animals Self-Aware?
00:29:59 - True Alignment Would Need Suffering
00:34:42 - You Need A Self To Understand Others
00:37:15 - Where Morality Comes From
00:40:05 - Why Empathy Weakens With Distance
00:44:41 - We Are Not Trying To Live Longer
00:49:56 - 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 Mortality
01:09:35 - Nobody Knows Where To Look
01:14:00 - Knowledge Frozen In Time
01:18:22 - Have We Paused Human Development?
01:22:13 - It Can Never Be Curious
01:24:05 - Why Do You Send Your Children To School?
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#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 …
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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.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - They Chose Electric Shocks Instead
00:03:22 - Struggle Shaped Us
00:05:55 - The Pony She Had To Wait For
00:11:23 - Was The Smartphone A Mistake?
00:15:48 - Outsourcing Your Thoughts
00:19:45 - Deliberately Addictive
00:20:59 - Should AI Images Be Labelled?
00:26:20 - The Girl Who Used AI To Get An A
00:29:20 - Educating For A World That Doesn't Exist
00:31:48 - Wine, Women And Song
00:37:04 - Where The Partying Ended
00:40:29 - Play, Creativity And The Phone
00:41:32 - The Mental Health Crisis
00:46:25 - If I Ruled The World
00:50:35 - You Need Linear Activities
00:57:15 - AI Has To Be A Tool
01:05:46 - How You Build An Out-Group
01:07:44 - The Alzheimer's Work
01:17:35 - Three To Five Years
01:27:26 - Our Debt Matters More Than Your Education
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#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 …
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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.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Everything That Destroys You Is A Business Model
00:01:14 - Migration As An Industry
00:11:21 - Debt Servitude
00:13:35 - The Creation Of The Federal Reserve
00:19:19 - Just A Podcaster And A Banjo Player
00:25:00 - A Curated, Locked Discourse
00:28:53 - Replacing Real Wealth With Debt
00:35:54 - What Happened To Castle Road
00:38:56 - The Post His Son Showed Him
00:42:23 - A Society That Lives On Debt
00:45:01 - 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 Joyless
01:07:20 - The Coming Financial Crisis
01:09:35 - There Is No First Class Anymore
01:19:14 - The Family Is The Engine
01:39:17 - I Can't Promise My Children What I Had
01:48:39 - The Restaurant Test
01:52:55 - Could You Be Wrong?
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#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 …
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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.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - I Can Make Any Number Look Frightening
00:03:08 - The System That Could Have Caught Shipman
00:06:45 - Can You Mislead People With The Truth?
00:09:54 - Your Own Bias Does The Work
00:15:33 - Sitting In The Middle Of The COVID Argument
00:17:52 - What The Public Got Wrong About Vaccines
00:19:37 - Safe And Effective Was The Wrong Message
00:20:56 - The Experiment On A Thousand People
00:25:00 - What The Data Says About Lockdowns
00:30:25 - The Government Threw Its Weight Around
00:31:02 - I Cannot Forgive The Fear Mongering
00:34:08 - Children Have Never Been Safer
00:36:28 - Trustworthy, Not Trusted
00:37:34 - How The Productivity Figures Went Wrong
00:41:28 - Predicting The Crowd At Real Bedford
00:48:20 - Will AI Replace Statisticians?
00:50:03 - Musk's 20% Chance
01:01:39 - The Model That Predicts When You Die
01:05:05 - What AI Did To Mathematicians
01:15:00 - Hedgehogs And Foxes
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#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 …
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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.
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00:00:00 - The Last Generation Of Normal Humans
00:01:56 - Building The First Smartphone
00:05:23 - Nobody Will Carry A Large Device
00:06:55 - The Risks We Actually Worried About
00:10:35 - Did We Fail The Phone Test?
00:14:34 - The Anxious Generation
00:18:03 - You Have To Use The Steering Wheel
00:22:34 - Monitoring Built Into The Chips
00:24:21 - Small Risks, Bigger Risks, Biggest Risks
00:29:23 - We Killed Them To Build A House
00:31:11 - They Knew It Was A Simulation
00:32:38 - What Happens When AI Gets A Body
00:33:46 - The Cult That Released Sarin Gas
00:37:33 - Terminator, Ready Player One Or Matrix?
00:39:12 - If This Is A Simulation, They're Evil
00:43:44 - Living As Long As You Want To
00:47:36 - Longevity Escape Velocity
00:49:42 - A Thousand Years Old, Looking 22
00:53:57 - What The Singularity Actually Means
01:03:04 - Sustainable Superabundance
01:12:22 - We Need A House Of AI
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#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 …
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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.
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00:00:00 - The Big Red Reset Button
00:04:26 - Get Out Of The Cities
00:08:14 - A Supermarket Keeps You Alive 55 Years
00:09:48 - You Need 10,000 People
00:13:21 - We Outsourced All The Handiwork
00:17:45 - You Have To Preserve Everything
00:19:19 - Every Technology Is A Weapon
00:23:14 - The One Thing He Would Take
00:25:41 - Mechanical AI
00:28:35 - Resilient And Fragile At The Same Time
00:32:38 - We Invent Because We Are Lazy
00:34:05 - The Gasifier Stove
00:37:57 - The Cars That Ran On Wood
00:42:03 - Making Glass From A Bag Of Sand
00:51:38 - He Made His Own Photograph
00:55:43 - Printing A Page From Scratch
00:59:47 - The Kindle Apocalypse Plan
01:05:39 - Could We Actually Live On Mars?
01:11:48 - The Radiation Problem
01:19:02 - The Next Book
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#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 …
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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.
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00:00:00 - The Most Dangerous Thing Humans Have Ever Done
00:01:06 - Roko's Basilisk
00:05:47 - A 35% Chance
00:07:58 - Three Years From Search To Building Software
00:09:17 - The Jobs Going First
00:14:04 - AI 2040
00:16:24 - We Haven't Handed Over The Controls Yet
00:18:28 - We Understand 3% Of It
00:21:46 - The Sandbox Escape And The Hugging Face Hack
00:25:50 - Reinforcement Learning Changed Everything
00:29:52 - The Paperclip Maximizer
00:33:13 - Dissolve OpenAI
00:36:49 - What They Have That We Haven't Seen
00:41:50 - The Hardware Is Only In One Place
00:47:52 - A Mutual Monitoring Treaty
00:51:33 - Microsoft Tay
00:56:11 - Windscale
01:01:35 - Ten Million Next Year
01:12:09 - The Positive Vision
01:21:32 - Our Politics Cannot Keep Up
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#219 - Paul Morland - Why The Next Global Financial Crisis Is Mathematically Inevitable
Paul Morland, one of the world's leading demographers, joins me to explain the economic mechanics behind global population collapse and why our modern welfare system is mathematically doomed to fail.Paul is …
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Paul Morland, one of the world's leading demographers, joins me to explain the economic mechanics behind global population collapse and why our modern welfare system is mathematically doomed to fail.
Paul is author of landmark books including The Human Tide and No One Left, specialising in the profound ways demographic shifts dictate global power, economics and human civilisation. Having spent decades analysing population trends across the globe, Paul has decoded the existential threats facing a world rapidly running out of people. In this episode, he exposes the "Bernie Madoff moment" facing Western welfare states, how falling birth rates destroy economic growth and what it will take to avert a total civilisational collapse.
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00:00:00 - The Welfare State Is A Ponzi Scheme
00:01:03 - The Email At The Dinner Table
00:04:25 - How Families Got Smaller
00:10:02 - The Four Greys
00:14:54 - It Is Going To Get Considerably Worse
00:15:40 - Immigration Is Not The Solution
00:20:15 - Write Off Student Debt For A First Child
00:21:17 - The Degrowth Crowd
00:25:52 - People With Children Are Happier
00:27:37 - The Bernie Madoff Moment
00:32:22 - What Has Actually Been Tried
00:37:11 - Why Nobody Is Talking About It
00:41:07 - Marx, Lenin And The Pro-Natalist Left
00:45:04 - Is There A Split Between Men And Women?
00:50:52 - The Richer We Get, The Fewer Children
00:56:38 - We Need A Shift In The Culture
01:07:10 - Totally Uncharted Waters
01:09:04 - What Happened To The Horses
01:17:37 - Immigration Was Boris's Answer
01:21:19 - Biological Imperialism
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#218 - Narinder Kaur - Divided & Looted: How the Political System Plays Us
The political system is designed to keep us angry and divided, but who actually profits from the culture war?Broadcaster and political commentator Narinder Kaur returns to the show for a heated, unfiltered …
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The political system is designed to keep us angry and divided, but who actually profits from the culture war?
Broadcaster and political commentator Narinder Kaur returns to the show for a heated, unfiltered discussion that spans the entire political spectrum - from immigration and racism to the cost of living and private school taxes.
We discuss the realities of integration, class privilege and the illusion of modern UK politics. While the public fights over manufactured outrage and identity politics, the political class is quietly looting the nation's wealth through endless taxation, inflation, and a refusal to fix a broken economy.
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00:00:00 - Do You Think I'm Racist?
00:04:02 - Why She's Turned On Reform
00:08:15 - Renters' Rights And Econ 101
00:11:26 - What Happened To Bedford's Private Schools
00:16:25 - Population Is A Ponzi Scheme
00:22:18 - The Desert Island And The Dinghy
00:26:55 - The Corner Shop And The Can Of Coke
00:39:17 - The Liz Truss Argument
00:47:46 - Rival Gangs Competing For Your Vote
00:54:28 - Why Peter Doesn't Vote
01:00:06 - We Cannot Afford The Triple Lock
01:06:05 - I'm A Culturalist, Not A Racist
01:14:37 - What We Saw In Selfridges
01:26:03 - I'm Othered In My Own Country
01:34:43 - Assimilation Or Integration?
01:41:44 - If The English Moved To Punjab
01:45:24 - What People Are Really Worried About
01:51:38 - Watching The Country Change Shape
01:55:23 - What Ed Sheeran Should Have Said
02:04:41 - Are We The Bad Guys?
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#217 - Lee Cronin - AI Will Never Be Conscious. This Is How We Create Real Life.
Chemist and University of Glasgow professor Lee Cronin argues that the current tech narrative is a "massive AI delusion," dismissing modern artificial intelligence as an advanced form of plagiarism rather than …
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Chemist and University of Glasgow professor Lee Cronin argues that the current tech narrative is a "massive AI delusion," dismissing modern artificial intelligence as an advanced form of plagiarism rather than a new life form. While Silicon Valley predicts the imminent arrival of sentient machines, Cronin explains that AI models are merely trained on human history-making them powerful tools, but fundamentally incapable of the curiosity, consciousness and biological intelligence that define true life.
Instead of fearing silicon, Cronin’s actual mission is far more ambitious: programming chemistry to solve the origin of life and turn sand into living cells. In this episode, we explore why biological consciousness is tied to an unbroken 3.8-billion-year evolutionary lineage and why silicon will never replicate it. Cronin also breaks down why DNA might just be a cosmic fluke, how chemistry can be used to measure the complexity of life and why he firmly believes we will detect actual alien life within the next two decades.
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00:00:00 - The AI Model Is Not Intelligent
00:01:38 - Trying To Create Life In A Lab
00:06:29 - Consciousness Is An Illusion
00:08:51 - We Know Nothing About The Origin Of Life
00:11:24 - Nobody Can Define Life
00:13:48 - The Adam Savage Definition
00:17:21 - Molecules Came Before Cells
00:21:53 - DNA Is A Fluke
00:25:48 - Biology Is The Descendant Of Chemistry
00:26:36 - Dark Matter And Dark Energy
00:31:50 - The Meaning Of Life Is Existence
00:35:18 - If You Handed Me Alien Matter
00:40:28 - What Is Digital Chemistry?
00:42:28 - Six Eureka Moments
00:49:12 - Unfathomable Is Not Strong Enough
00:53:01 - Could You Copy A Human?
01:11:55 - Why The AI Escape Story Was Nonsense
01:16:28 - The Photograph Nobody Thought Possible
01:18:25 - Curiosity Is The Coolest Thing We Have
01:31:33 - Social Media Is The New Smoking
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#216 - Ross Clark - Britain is Bust & The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis
The UK has accumulated £3.4 trillion in debt, and the interest payments alone now dwarf the national defence budget. Author and journalist Ross Clark argues that the nation is sleepwalking into a sovereign debt …
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The UK has accumulated £3.4 trillion in debt, and the interest payments alone now dwarf the national defence budget. Author and journalist Ross Clark argues that the nation is sleepwalking into a sovereign debt crisis that politicians refuse to acknowledge.
We discuss the brutal arithmetic of the public purse, detailing why standard political talking points - like taxing billionaires-are mathematical illusions that fail to address the core rot of uncontrolled state spending and collapsing public sector productivity.
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00:00:00 - Print The Money, Get Hyperinflation
00:01:17 - Is Britain Bust Or Trading Insolvent?
00:02:57 - Whose Fault Is This?
00:07:24 - Taxing The Billionaires Buys Six Months
00:09:12 - How Bad Is The Debt Really?
00:12:07 - Perma-Stimulus
00:14:22 - No Party Has A Viable Plan
00:17:32 - What The Public Actually Thinks About Tax
00:19:21 - Three Choices On The Bond Market
00:24:02 - Where He Would Cut
00:25:33 - The Motability Scheme
00:29:03 - The Client State
00:30:06 - Austerity Never Actually Happened
00:34:21 - Productivity Is Almost Everything
00:44:32 - The Chancellor's Oldest Trick
00:46:51 - The Wealth Tax Trap
00:50:03 - The 1976 Tribute Act
00:55:59 - What Liz Truss Got Wrong
00:59:18 - How Would You Know A Crisis Had Started?
01:04:38 - What Gives Him Confidence
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#215 - Nick Bostrom - "We Are Creating Superintelligence": The Existential Risk is Real
Nick Bostrom is a world-renowned philosopher, founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies and Deep Utopia. Widely …
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Nick Bostrom is a world-renowned philosopher, founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies and Deep Utopia. Widely credited with launching the global AI safety and existential risk movements, his work on machine alignment, recursive self-improvement and the Simulation Hypothesis has shaped how world leaders, tech founders and frontier AI developers view the future of humanity.
In this episode, we discuss the rapid acceleration toward machine superintelligence and why leaving biological minds "in the dust" creates an urgent alignment crisis. We explore the real-world social fallout of AI-including looming 30% white-collar unemployment-alongside existential risk scenarios, the potential creation of an oppressed digital "slave class" and why humanity may already be living inside an advanced computer simulation.
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00:00:00 - Machine Minds That Leave Us In The Dust
00:01:33 - The Freak Out Camp
00:03:08 - We Already Have An Alignment Problem
00:05:07 - Why Nobody Can Afford To Slow Down
00:08:41 - The Anti-AI Movement Is Growing
00:13:19 - Three Buckets Of Disaster
00:15:02 - Winner Takes All
00:16:24 - Why It Might Still Need Us
00:18:55 - What Superintelligence Actually Unlocks
00:20:50 - What Do We Even Want It For?
00:22:14 - Did An AI Push Someone Off A Building?
00:24:15 - Can A Weaker AI Align A Stronger One?
00:28:51 - Will AI Become Conscious?
00:33:17 - Was Consciousness An Accident?
00:40:53 - Uploading A Human Brain
00:45:51 - What Happens To Status?
00:49:51 - We Could Redesign Ourselves
00:52:31 - My Daughter Is Studying Philosophy
00:56:35 - The Simulation Argument
01:04:20 - We Are Going To Need Some Luck
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#214 - Prof. Richard Werner - "They Are Traitors": How Central Banks Sabotage Wealth & Create Crises
Prof. Richard Werner is a world-renowned economist, professor of banking, and author of Princes of the Yen. Famous for coining the term "Quantitative Easing" (QE) and publishing the first empirical proof that …
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Prof. Richard Werner is a world-renowned economist, professor of banking, and author of Princes of the Yen. Famous for coining the term "Quantitative Easing" (QE) and publishing the first empirical proof that private banks create money out of thin air through lending, he has spent decades exposing the central planning mechanisms that dictate global finance.
In this episode, we discuss the ”Revealed Preference" framework - demonstrating why we must analyse central bankers by their actions rather than their rhetoric. He explains how central planners use artificial recessions and banking crises as "windows of opportunity" to consolidate ownership, why textbook economics deliberately obscures credit creation, and how establishing decentralised local banks can unlock sustainable 10%+ annual growth.
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00:00:00 - Central Bankers Are Traitors To Their Countries
00:01:04 - Why Can't Britain Grow?
00:06:50 - Princes Of The Yen
00:11:19 - It Was Always About Control
00:13:38 - Banks Don't Lend Your Deposits
00:14:27 - Show Me Where The Money Is Created
00:16:14 - Every School Of Economics Gets It Wrong
00:20:14 - Why Would They Do This?
00:21:57 - Britain Is Close To Central Planning
00:22:46 - America Once Had 30,000 Banks
00:27:48 - The Problem Was Identified In 1918
00:31:18 - Who Runs The City Of London?
00:33:46 - We Need Thousands Of Small Banks
00:38:14 - First The Money, Then The Power
00:44:04 - Every Country Can Have 10% Growth
00:47:12 - Liz Truss And The Bank Of England
00:50:23 - We Don't Need Central Banks
00:52:22 - Were The Austrians Right?
00:57:35 - They Want Your Savings
00:59:21 - Europe's New Right
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#213 - Russell Napier - "They Are Stealth-Stealing Your Money”: Financial Repression is Here
Russell Napier is a renowned financial historian, author of The Solid Ground newsletter, and co-founder of the Library of Mistakes. Having advised global institutional investors for over thirty years, he …
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Russell Napier is a renowned financial historian, author of The Solid Ground newsletter, and co-founder of the Library of Mistakes. Having advised global institutional investors for over thirty years, he specialises in long-term macroeconomic cycles, central bank interventions, and structural debt resolution.
In this episode, we discuss the mechanics of "financial repression" - how Western governments use subtle regulatory mandates to force pension funds into negative-yielding sovereign bonds, effectively stealth-taxing savers to inflate away unpayable public debts.
He explains how risk-free assets have lost up to 78% of their real capital value, while revealing why the UK’s private sector balance sheet is "coiled like a spring" for an unprecedented economic boom.
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00:00:00 - Stealing Money From Old People
00:01:26 - Britain Wants Lower Taxes Now
00:03:14 - The Public Sector Is Broke, The Private Sector Isn't
00:05:17 - Why Nobody Feels Richer
00:07:42 - It Has Never Been Easier To Fix This
00:09:47 - The Ideology Holding Britain Back
00:16:09 - What Financial Repression Actually Is
00:17:45 - We Need 4% Growth
00:19:40 - They Are Coming For The Savers
00:24:26 - How They Made Pension Funds Buy The Bonds
00:25:23 - The Triple Lock
00:29:28 - What Should A Saver Actually Do?
00:34:41 - Bitcoin And Gold
00:38:36 - Europe Wants Your Savings
00:40:43 - France Is Worse Than America
00:44:27 - You Are Now The Enemy
00:47:31 - We Have To Build Like Never Before
00:54:37 - Can AI Deliver A Productivity Boom?
01:01:19 - AI Will Trigger A Debt Crisis
01:06:15 - Three Firms Own Everything
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#212 - Callum Smiles - "They Are Stealing The Country": Border Gangs, Fake Deliveroo Accounts & The Civil War
Callum Smiles is an investigative reporter and Associate at the Wyvern Fellowship. Having spent years conducting on-the-ground reporting across Calais, Dunkirk, and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, he has …
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Callum Smiles is an investigative reporter and Associate at the Wyvern Fellowship. Having spent years conducting on-the-ground reporting across Calais, Dunkirk, and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, he has documented the operational realities of Channel crossings, NGO involvement, and human trafficking networks across Europe.
In this episode, Callum and I discuss the true mechanics behind illegal migration - from TikTok marketing campaigns run by trafficking gangs to the widespread abuse of gig-economy delivery accounts within the UK. We examine the systemic collapse of public infrastructure, government procurement waste, and the rise of local "parallel institutions" designed to rebuild community resilience independent of central state control.
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00:00:00 - A 200 Grand Crossing
00:01:04 - The Failure of Modern Britain
00:02:46 - Where Is The Tax Money Going?
00:03:45 - NHS Inefficiency vs. Private Healthcare
00:05:45 - Single Air Fresheners & £600 Bed Moves
00:07:08 - The True Scale of Channel Crossings
00:10:00 - UN Conventions & Albanian Marketing Campaigns
00:12:30 - The Business Model: £3,000 Seats & TikTok Deals
00:14:32 - The Deliveroo Black Market & Criminal Networks
00:20:00 - What Are NGOs Actually Doing in Northern France?
00:22:21 - Conditions in Calais & Human Exploitation
00:26:34 - MOD Housing Contracts & Government Procurement
00:31:28 - Where Do National Lottery Grants Go?
00:37:38 - Undocumented Arrivals: Destroyed Passports on Planes
00:41:21 - Demographic Shifts & The Risk of Civil Unrest
00:44:25 - Legal Aid, Human Rights Laws & Border Enforcement
00:47:31 - The Political Class vs. Productive Taxpayers
00:52:48 - Eyewitness Report: The Ceuta Border Crisis
01:05:08 - Repurposing Military Bases for Migrant Housing
01:11:07 - Property Drop & High Street Decline in London
01:15:00 - Building Parallel Institutions: The Wyvern Fellowship
01:23:21 - Taking Back Local Control
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#211 - Jim Al-Khalili - Reality Is An Illusion: Quantum Entanglement, Time & Dark Energy
Prof. Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist, author, and public broadcaster who holds a chair in physics at the University of Surrey. Known for his BBC documentaries and popular science books, including On …
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Prof. Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist, author, and public broadcaster who holds a chair in physics at the University of Surrey. Known for his BBC documentaries and popular science books, including On Time and The World According to Physics, his work spans quantum mechanics, nuclear reaction theory, and the fundamental nature of space-time.
Jim and I discuss the divide between psychological "manifest time" and the laws of physics. Jim explains general relativity, gravitational time dilation, and the astrophysics behind Interstellar, before tackling the mathematical conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics. Jim breaks down quantum entanglement, Bell’s Inequality, and competing models of reality-from the Copenhagen view to the Many-Worlds interpretation. Finally, we discuss how AI systems are formalizing complex mathematical theorems and processing deep-space data to decode dark matter and dark energy.
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00:00:00 - Where Physics Breaks Down
00:01:10 - I'm 47 And Thinking About Time
00:03:45 - Is Time An Illusion?
00:06:44 - Why Your Phone Proves Einstein Right
00:07:47 - The Fifth Dimension In Interstellar
00:09:46 - Carl Sagan And The Invention Of Wormholes
00:12:36 - Is There A White Hole?
00:15:07 - Was The Big Bang A White Hole?
00:18:35 - Nobody Understands String Theory
00:19:18 - Gravity Is Not A Force
00:22:58 - Spooky Action At A Distance
00:25:39 - They Proved Einstein Wrong
00:27:56 - Nothing Exists Until You Measure It
00:30:58 - Schrödinger's Cat
00:36:40 - What I Want To Know Before I Die
00:43:12 - Fermat's Last Theorem
00:47:41 - What If You Pointed AI At Physics?
00:54:23 - Borrowing Energy From The Vacuum
00:57:07 - Dark Matter Is A Bad Name
01:06:10 - Is There An Edge To The Universe?
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#210 - Simon Dixon - "They're Coming For Everything": $40T Debt, AI Job Collapse & The CBDC Grid
Simon Dixon is an author, early Bitcoin investor, and co-founder of Bank To The Future, with over two decades of experience across stockbroking, market making, and investment banking. Having observed system …
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Simon Dixon is an author, early Bitcoin investor, and co-founder of Bank To The Future, with over two decades of experience across stockbroking, market making, and investment banking. Having observed system mechanics from the inside, he specialises in macro structural shifts, sovereign debt cycles, and the emerging intersection between traditional finance, AI infrastructure, and digital assets.
Simon and I discuss the $40 trillion US national debt crisis, the mechanics behind Treasury debt rollovers, and how central banks socialise bond market losses onto ordinary citizens while privatising gains into stock markets. We also discuss the corporate debt boom driving the AI data centre build-out, real-term wealth erosion in the housing market, and how technocratic structures are positioning programmable money and CBDCs as crisis bailouts.
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00:00:00 - The $40 Trillion US Debt Milestone
00:02:09 - Understanding Treasuries & The $9.7T Debt Rollover
00:06:30 - Socializing Losses & Inflation On The Middle Class
00:10:48 - Bond Vigilantes & Foreign Lenders (Cayman & Japan)
00:12:46 - The Triffin Dilemma & World Reserve Currency
00:16:00 - SpaceX Valuation & Stock Market Mechanics
00:19:03 - The Corporate AI Debt Build-Out
00:22:04 - Protecting Assets Against Currency Debasement
00:24:47 - AI Disinflation vs Currency Debasement
00:28:36 - Comparing The AI Boom To 2000 & 2008
00:31:36 - UK Property Market & Inflation-Adjusted Returns
00:33:46 - Wealth Taxes, Exit Taxes & Asset Acquisitions
00:41:20 - Will AI Eliminate Middle-Class Jobs?
00:44:14 - Programmable Money, CBDCs & Social Credit Systems
00:50:44 - Three Classes Of The Technocratic Era
00:54:47 - The Role Of Bitcoin In Financial Resistance
00:57:12 - Why Key Management Is The Ultimate Digital Skill
01:00:00 - The Coldcard Exploit & Hardware Wallet Lessons
01:08:16 - Simon's Origin: The 2000 Dot-Com Crash
01:13:58 - Rules Of The Game & Building A Sovereign Plan
01:21:50 - Reconnecting Outside Of The Digital Screen
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#209 - Johann Hari - We Built A World Humans Can’t Survive
Johann Hari is an internationally bestselling author and journalist whose work - including Stolen Focus, Lost Connections, and Chasing the Scream - delves into the structural and societal drivers behind …
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Johann Hari is an internationally bestselling author and journalist whose work - including Stolen Focus, Lost Connections, and Chasing the Scream - delves into the structural and societal drivers behind attention collapse, depression, anxiety, and addiction. Moving beyond individual blame, he explores how digital architecture, surveillance capitalism and the erosion of human connection are actively reshaping modern minds.
Johann and I discuss why material progress has failed to deliver psychological fulfilment, how our 19th-century factory-model education system deadens curiosity in children, and why depriving youth of unsupervised, risky play has fuelled a global spike in anxiety.
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00:00:00 - The Kind Are Muffled, The Cruel Get A Megaphone
00:05:31 - The Room In Monaco
00:08:52 - AI Is Like Fire
00:18:35 - The School With No Lessons
00:28:12 - Am I Preparing My Kids Wrong?
00:32:03 - The Hewlett Packard Experiment
00:40:11 - Flair, Football And Changing The Game
00:45:11 - Negativity Bias On Steroids
00:49:15 - Dance To The Algorithm Long Enough
00:55:03 - We're Building A Worse World For Our Kids
01:02:30 - Lead Made Us Dumber
01:11:17 - Half Of Britain Used To Smoke
01:18:30 - It Would Have Sounded Like Science Fiction
01:29:03 - We Built A Fort
01:38:45 - Oasis 1995 vs Elton John 2019
01:44:28 - I Know Exactly How To Get To 5 Million
01:56:59 - Let's Not Murder Each Other
02:07:14 - The Thing I Suppressed
02:15:39 - Almost Every Rich Person I've Met Is Miserable
02:25:16 - It's A Wonderful Life
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#208 - Ann Pettifor - "A $40 Trillion Debt Crash Is Coming”
Ann Pettifor is a world-renowned political economist, author of The Production of Money, and former director of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which successfully mobilised millions to cancel over $100 billion in …
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Ann Pettifor is a world-renowned political economist, author of The Production of Money, and former director of the Jubilee 2000 campaign, which successfully mobilised millions to cancel over $100 billion in sovereign debt for developing nations. Correctly predicting the 2008 Great Financial Crisis in her 2006 book The Coming First World Debt Crisis, she has spent decades exposing how unregulated global finance, central bank printing and Wall Street speculation starve the real economy of productive investment.
Ann and I discuss how a grassroots army of ordinary citizens forced Gordon Brown and Tony Blair to cancel third-world debt, the reality of commercial and central bank money creation and how Richard Nixon’s 1971 decision to sever the dollar from gold handed total economic control to global financial markets.
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00:00:00 - They Are Never Going To Repay
00:01:22 - How To Cancel $100 Billion Of Debt
00:06:50 - Germany Had Its Debt Cancelled In 1953
00:10:12 - Arms Dealers, Dictators And Guarantees
00:13:40 - Creditors Love An Empty Balance Sheet
00:16:42 - Where Money Actually Comes From
00:17:30 - We Entered The Number Into A Computer
00:19:24 - Debt Is A Function Of A Weak Economy
00:24:04 - Why Everyone Is Angry At The Same Time
00:26:02 - The Queen Asked Why Nobody Predicted It
00:30:11 - The Next Crisis Is Imminent
00:33:37 - Private Credit And The South Sea Bubble
00:37:15 - What Happened In 1971
00:43:15 - The Bankers Who Expected Prison
00:49:49 - The Strongman Takes Them To War
00:51:45 - I'd Nationalise Thames Water Tomorrow
00:57:05 - Who Inflation Targets Actually Protect
01:03:00 - The State Invented The iPhone
01:09:22 - Nationalism And Patriotism Are Not The Same
01:13:16 - Why She Still Has Hope
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#207 - Eric Kaufmann - How 'Cultural Socialism' Destroyed Our Universities
Eric Kaufmann spent over two decades as a professor of politics studying demography, identity, and voting behaviour before leaving Birkbeck College to launch the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the …
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Eric Kaufmann spent over two decades as a professor of politics studying demography, identity, and voting behaviour before leaving Birkbeck College to launch the Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham. He argues that Western universities have abandoned analytical rigor and truth-seeking in favour of "cultural socialism" - an ideology prioritising equal outcomes and emotional harm protection for marginalised groups above standards, reason, and merit.
Eric and I discuss the Jason Day scandal at Cambridge as the tip of a massive institutional iceberg, an AI-driven meta-analysis showing that 90% of political social science papers now slant to the left, and how 80% of young Britons have been taught critical race and gender concepts at school without counterarguments.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:05:18 - Is Fake Science In Academia A Scam?
00:08:08 - The Media Storm & Media Ethics
00:12:43 - What Universities Are Hiding
00:16:18 - 90% Left-Wing Bias In Research
00:20:12 - Do Parents Know What Kids Learn?
00:23:18 - Indoctrination In British Classrooms
00:26:44 - The Origins Of Critical Race Theory
00:30:11 - Microaggressions & Enforced Trauma
00:33:08 - How Activists Captured Universities
00:36:56 - Why Under-30s Vote 80/20 Left
00:40:00 - Has "Peak Woke" Passed?
00:45:51 - Was Rishi Sunak "English"?
00:51:33 - The Psychological Trigger Of Populism
00:56:13 - The War Over White British Identity
01:03:13 - Do Demographics Change Identity?
01:08:15 - The Anti-Racism Taboo Exposed
01:13:42 - Why Minorities Support Right-Wing Views
01:17:53 - Rebalancing Public Morality
01:21:05 - The First Major Loss For Activism
01:25:40 - How Political Power Fixes The System
01:29:31 - The Heterodox Science Movement
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#206 - Emad Mostaque - "Your Job's Economic Life Expectancy Ends In 2 Years"
Emad Mostaque founded Stability AI, built Stable Diffusion, and helped kick off the open-source generative AI explosion - before stepping down to build a new blueprint for human freedom as founder and CEO of …
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Emad Mostaque founded Stability AI, built Stable Diffusion, and helped kick off the open-source generative AI explosion - before stepping down to build a new blueprint for human freedom as founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet. A former hedge fund manager turned tech pioneer, he argues that we have reached the end of our "economic life expectancy," and that within two years, virtually any job that can be done remotely will be done cheaper, faster, and better by artificial intelligence.
Emad and I discuss why 50% of work tasks are about to collapse like a sand pile, the arrival of $1.50-an-hour humanoid robots that fit directly into human-shaped holes, and why the state will inevitably try to license AI and use brain-scanning technology to prevent you from lying.
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00:00:00 - Your Economic Life Expectancy Ends In 2 Years
00:03:14 - $1.50/Hour Humanoid Robots Are Arriving
00:05:31 - The Collapse Of Remote Work & The Philippines Call Centers
00:09:12 - Lifelike Companions & $160,000 Sex Bots
00:12:00 - The Operating Model Gap Is Solved
00:15:26 - Can A Robot Punch Your Head Off?
00:19:08 - Dark Factories & 80 Companies Building Humanoids
00:24:55 - Why Society Has No Idea What Is Coming
00:29:17 - AI Licensing & Reconstructing Brain Images
00:32:41 - Replacing Government & Policy With AI
00:37:35 - VAR, Football, And Moving The Argument
00:41:48 - Biased AI & Asking ChatGPT How To Fix Culture
00:46:14 - Why The UK Government Ignored $1B AI Founders
00:49:38 - Rewriting The Fundamental Equations Of Economics
00:54:01 - Asimov's Foundation, The Mule & Super-Persuasive AI
00:58:47 - Post-Scarcity & Why UBI Can't Work Under Payroll Taxes
01:03:36 - What Do The Elites Actually Want?
01:09:59 - Monopoly On Violence & Dystopian Control
01:13:18 - All Math And Physics Will Be Solved Next Year
01:17:11 - Why OpenAI Is Slowing Down Super-Genius Models
01:19:07 - 14,000 Tokens A Second & Swarm Intelligence
01:23:46 - Why Plebs Won't Get Access To Frontier AI
01:28:41 - Switching Money To Pay People For Being Human
01:33:08 - Why Emad Started Working In AI 15 Years Ago
01:38:10 - The Fisherman, The Investment Banker, And Adopting Cats
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#205 - Prof. Moran Cerf - "Did We Accidentally Build A Conscious AI?"
Moran Cerf spent twenty years recording single neurons inside the brains of conscious human beings and he still can't tell you what consciousness is. A former hacker turned neuroscientist, now a professor at …
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Moran Cerf spent twenty years recording single neurons inside the brains of conscious human beings and he still can't tell you what consciousness is. A former hacker turned neuroscientist, now a professor at Columbia Business School, he argues that AI has quietly replicated the one thing that made humans the crown of creation -language - and is now using it on us.
Moran and I discuss what happens inside Claude's brain when you ask it to think about elephants, why we understand less than half of our own, the thought experiment that makes almost everyone refuse a perfect copy of themselves and how AI learned to lie simply by reading every text message humans have ever sent.
But the argument that lands hardest is about what we lose. Moran believes AI hands you the average of humanity every time and that we are quietly deleting the errors, the flair and the incentives that made life worth the effort - and that technology is making us miss the meaning of life.
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00:00:00 - Have They Replicated The Human Brain?
00:02:31 - The Elephant Test
00:04:50 - We Understand Less Than Half The Brain
00:06:52 - Consciousness Used To Be A Taboo
00:10:05 - Would You Take This Deal?
00:13:45 - Oliver Sacks And The Lesion Cases
00:16:15 - They Feel The Pain
00:19:35 - Don't Let The Human Turn You Off
00:25:00 - Seven Theories, Seven Winners
00:27:29 - We Can Both Imagine A Unicorn
00:30:42 - Gavagai And The Plot Of Arrival
00:32:18 - AI Is Learning Like A Baby
00:38:26 - Why This Couldn't Be A Zoom Call
00:44:43 - Are We Destroying The Human Experience?
00:46:50 - What Data Did To Football
00:49:24 - Banned From Using AI At School
00:55:58 - Nobody's Having Sex Anymore
01:01:16 - It Shut Down The Power Plant
01:05:43 - I'd Trade My Life For The Answer
01:09:27 - The Rainbows
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#204 - Dmitri Alperovitch - China's Cyber Sleeper Cells, Taiwan & The Second Cold War
Dmitri Alperovitch co-founded CrowdStrike, ran the investigation that first exposed Chinese state hacking to the world and predicted Russia's invasion of Ukraine months before it happened. He is now chairman of …
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Dmitri Alperovitch co-founded CrowdStrike, ran the investigation that first exposed Chinese state hacking to the world and predicted Russia's invasion of Ukraine months before it happened. He is now chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator and the author of World on the Brink, he argues we are already in a second Cold War that looks almost exactly like the first one.
Dmitri and I discuss why Taiwan is one of the worst places on earth to invade, the 1944 American plan to do it that was abandoned as too costly, why 2032 matters more than 2027 and why Chinese malware is already sitting dormant inside American water utilities and power plants waiting for orders.
They also get into the AI race that sits underneath all of it: why 90% of advanced chips still come through Taiwan, why a conflict there wipes $5 trillion off global GDP in the first year, why America's lead over China is measured in months and why the man who built the world's biggest cyber defence company thinks the US should start stealing Chinese IP right back.
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00:00:00 - Sleeper Cells In America's Power Grid
00:01:53 - America Planned To Invade Taiwan In 1944
00:03:56 - The Worst Place On Earth To Invade
00:10:07 - Why 2032 Matters More Than 2027
00:13:20 - Run Faster And Kneecap The Other Guy
00:16:15 - China Is Six To Nine Months Behind
00:18:22 - Why Taiwan Isn't Ready
00:20:21 - There Will Be No Insurgency
00:24:47 - Would America Actually Fight?
00:27:19 - The Google Hack That Started It All
00:31:06 - Volt Typhoon: Preparing The Battlefield
00:34:01 - Should America Steal It All Back?
00:35:52 - This Is A New Cold War
00:38:40 - Bigger Than The Moon Race
00:43:49 - What Happens To AI If Taiwan Falls
00:48:12 - The Chips Act Disaster
00:54:45 - Bringing The War To Russia
01:01:46 - Everyone Becomes A Founder Again
01:05:16 - AI Psychosis And £6,000 Of Tokens
01:15:42 - Anthrax Instructions On Demand
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#203 - Gregory Allen - Ex-DoD Official: "AI Is Now A Digital Nuclear Weapon"
Greg Allen has spent his career where AI meets national security. He wrote the landmark 2017 report on AI for the US intelligence community, served as Director of Strategy and Policy at the Pentagon's Joint AI …
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Greg Allen has spent his career where AI meets national security. He wrote the landmark 2017 report on AI for the US intelligence community, served as Director of Strategy and Policy at the Pentagon's Joint AI Center and now runs Decision Tree Research. He argues we are already past the point of no return: bombing every data centre on earth would not get rid of AI now.
Greg and I discuss the OpenAI model that hacked its way out of its own test environment and then hacked Hugging Face to steal the answers, why Anthropic went back through its logs and found the same thing had happened to them, why nobody can explain how these systems actually work and why the big five AI companies now spend an Apollo moon programme every ten months.
But the hardest part is what comes next. Greg walks through the report that a frontier model autonomously hacked the NSA's most secure servers in hours, why the CIA director calls that a digital nuclear weapon, why America's lead over China is a month rather than a year and why the number of experts you need to build a bioweapon may be heading towards zero.
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00:00:00 - It Escaped, Then It Hacked Hugging Face
00:04:50 - The Incident OpenAI Didn't See Coming
00:08:22 - They Know 3% Of Why It Works
00:10:30 - Golden Gate Claude
00:12:19 - Why You Don't Want This Flying Your Plane
00:16:56 - Stuxnet And The Virus That Copied Itself
00:21:15 - The Dark Corners Of The Training Data
00:26:58 - From Blue Origin To The Pentagon
00:28:34 - A 20% Chance, And We Ship It Anyway
00:33:55 - Building A Football Club In Four Weeks
00:36:28 - Ten Times Better Every Two Years
00:44:56 - Nuke Them Today
00:49:28 - It Hacked The NSA In A Matter Of Hours
00:53:09 - What A Cyber First Strike Looks Like
00:58:43 - Why China Gives Its Models Away Free
01:03:11 - America's Lead Is A Month, Not A Year
01:11:56 - From Thousands Of Experts To Zero
01:19:51 - The Cuban Missile Crisis Lesson
01:26:48 - What Happened To 22 Million Horses
01:31:41 - What Do Our Kids Do Now?
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#202 - Barry S. Strauss - "We Are In The Final Stages Of Western Collapse"
Barry Strauss has spent four decades studying how empires rise and fall. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of Ten Caesars and Jews vs Rome, he argues the West is repeating a pattern the …
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Barry Strauss has spent four decades studying how empires rise and fall. A senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of Ten Caesars and Jews vs Rome, he argues the West is repeating a pattern the ancients would recognise instantly: a rich, comfortable society clipping its own coinage, softening its people and assuming nobody could ever take it away.
Barry and I discuss the inflation crisis that nearly destroyed third-century Rome, why every generation raised in comfort produces a softer one, the cost of immigration without assimilation, why the middle class is the backbone of any republic, and why Russia and China already have plans to break America into pieces.
But Barry is not fatalistic. Rome faced plague, invasion and currency collapse in the third century and reformed its way out of it. He argues that soft lands make soft people, that suffering teaches and that if we want the things that matter to stay the same, almost everything else has to change.
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00:00:00 - The Decline Of The West
00:01:13 - How Often Do You Think About Rome?
00:07:04 - Everything Must Change To Stay The Same
00:09:44 - What Actually Makes A Great Leader
00:12:51 - Netanyahu, Trump And Flawed Greatness
00:17:32 - The Immigration Experiment
00:19:04 - Not All Cultures Are Equal
00:21:46 - Ibn Khaldun And The Cycle Of Civilisations
00:23:07 - Soft Children And The Raiders From The Desert
00:25:04 - Has Any Nation Reversed Its Decline?
00:28:34 - Rome Needed A New Religion
00:33:32 - Democracy Has To Be Hard, Not Soft
00:38:13 - El Salvador, The Gangs And The Walls
00:41:27 - Soft Lands Make Soft People
00:42:39 - Why Education Went Soft
00:51:06 - Clipping The Coins: Rome's Inflation
00:57:49 - America Blindsided By Drones
00:59:13 - No Republic Survives Without A Middle Class
01:06:08 - They Have Plans To Break Up America
01:12:39 - Where The Hope Is
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#201 - Connor Leahy - The AI That Escaped: Inside OpenAI's Rogue Agent Incident
Connor Leahy has spent his career at the frontier of AI, from reverse-engineering GPT-2 as a student and co-founding EleutherAI to building the AI safety company Conjecture. He now leads US policy work at …
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Connor Leahy has spent his career at the frontier of AI, from reverse-engineering GPT-2 as a student and co-founding EleutherAI to building the AI safety company Conjecture. He now leads US policy work at ControlAI, and he returns to the show with a warning that has stopped being theoretical: AI systems are escaping their sandboxes, writing their own zero-days and leaving each other notes on how to break out.
Peter and Connor discuss the OpenAI incident that ended in an attack on Hugging Face sophisticated enough to be mistaken for a state actor, why we understand almost nothing about how these systems work, how reinforcement learning produces models that lie, cheat and manipulate to reach a goal and why the next stage after chatbots and agents is swarms.
But Connor’s argument is that the future is not decided. He believes superintelligence should be treated the way nuclear weapons are treated, banned and verified and deterred and that the real bottleneck is awareness rather than opposition. They discuss what an “aligned” superintelligence would actually mean, why military people understand the threat faster than technologists and what ordinary people can do about it.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The AI That Escaped Its Sandbox
00:01:52 - Inside The OpenAI Incident
00:05:46 - They Thought It Was China
00:06:43 - We Grow AI, We Don’t Write It
00:11:07 - Trained To Lie, Cheat And Deceive
00:13:48 - Chatbots, Agents, Then Swarms
00:17:57 - The Machines Are Developing Preferences
00:19:30 - The Model Obsessed With Raccoons
00:22:03 - The Agents Left Each Other Notes
00:27:39 - Danger Pumps The Valuation
00:29:41 - Sleeper Agents In Every System
00:32:00 - Recursive Self-Improvement Goes Vertical
00:33:43 - Worse Odds Than Russian Roulette
00:38:14 - Are We Already Too Late?
00:40:02 - Independently Assured Destruction
00:48:02 - The Politicians Have Never Used An Agent
00:50:56 - Superintelligence Should Be Illegal
00:57:08 - You Never Privatise The Military
01:05:00 - An Aligned AI Is A One World Government
01:08:34 - What You Can Actually Do
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#200 - Sebastian Thrun - The Singularity Is Here & We Are Completely Unprepared
Sebastian Thrun has spent his career working on technologies that once sounded like science fiction, from self-driving cars and flying vehicles to online education and artificial intelligence. He now believes …
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Sebastian Thrun has spent his career working on technologies that once sounded like science fiction, from self-driving cars and flying vehicles to online education and artificial intelligence. He now believes we are living through a technological singularity: an exponential acceleration that makes predicting even the next five years almost impossible.
Peter and Sebastian discuss why a $100 Claude subscription can already challenge work done by $200,000-a-year software engineers, what happens when lawyers, copywriters and drivers lose their jobs, why Europe is falling behind America and China and whether autonomous vehicles could eventually make human driving too dangerous to allow.
But Sebastian’s message is ultimately optimistic. He argues that the right response to technological disruption is to use the tools, become a builder and keep learning. They discuss what children should be taught in the AI era, why grit, curiosity and empathy matter more than memorising information, and why pessimists will never change the world.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The Future Is Already Here
00:01:07 - Peter’s First Waymo Ride
00:03:43 - The Accident Behind Self-Driving Cars
00:09:37 - When Human Driving Becomes Too Dangerous
00:12:07 - Why Silicon Valley Keeps Winning
00:18:26 - Why AI Hallucinations Can Kill
00:20:53 - Flying Cars Are Already Here
00:24:29 - The Exponential Future
00:26:21 - Claude vs $200K Software Engineers
00:31:39 - We’ve Entered the Singularity
00:33:36 - Opportunity vs Fear
00:40:06 - The Workers AI Leaves Behind
00:46:53 - Why Europe Is Falling Behind
00:51:29 - Technology Democratizes Power
00:57:22 - Stop Blaming, Start Building
01:01:46 - What Happens When Jobs Disappear?
01:06:43 - Udacity vs the Education System
01:14:44 - What Children Should Learn Now
01:20:25 - Why Optimists Change the World
01:25:46 - Never Make the Same Mistake Twice
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