The Peter McCormack Show

1. #229 - Harrison Pitt - Is Britain Still a Nation?

   12.11.20261 Std. 50 Min.Als Nächstes

   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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2. #228 - Rupert Lowe - Is Britain Going Bankrupt?

   09.11.202659 Min.Als Nächstes

   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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3. #227 - Gideon Rachman - How World War 3 Could Start by Accident

   04.11.20261 Std. 16 Min.Als Nächstes

   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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4. #226 - Karl Friston - Top Neuroscientist: "AI Is Stunting the Human Brain"

   02.11.20261 Std. 29 Min.Als Nächstes

   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 …

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   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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5. #225 - Baroness Susan Greenfield - A Neuroscientist's Warning About AI & Children

   30.10.20261 Std. 32 Min.Als Nächstes

   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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6. #224 - Frank Wright - The Debt Trap: Inflation, Falling Living Standards & Our Children’s Future

   27.10.20262 Std. 2 Min.Als Nächstes

   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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7. #223 - Sir David Spiegelhalter - "I Immediately Distrust Every Number In The News"

   22.10.20261 Std. 25 Min.Als Nächstes

   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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8. #222 - David Wood - We are The Last Generation Of Normal Humans

   19.10.20261 Std. 17 Min.Als Nächstes

   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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9. #221 - Prof Lewis Dartnell - How To Rebuild Human Society After An Apocalypse

   14.10.20261 Std. 21 Min.Als Nächstes

   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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10. #220 - Roko Mijic - We’re Training AI to be More Dangerous Than Nuclear Weapons

    12.10.20261 Std. 30 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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11. #219 - Paul Morland - Why The Next Global Financial Crisis Is Mathematically Inevitable

    08.10.20261 Std. 23 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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12. #218 - Narinder Kaur - Divided & Looted: How the Political System Plays Us

    05.10.20262 Std. 8 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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13. #217 - Lee Cronin - AI Will Never Be Conscious. This Is How We Create Real Life.

    01.10.20261 Std. 36 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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14. #216 - Ross Clark - Britain is Bust & The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis

    29.09.20261 Std. 10 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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15. #215 - Nick Bostrom - "We Are Creating Superintelligence": The Existential Risk is Real

    24.09.20261 Std. 6 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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16. #214 - Prof. Richard Werner - "They Are Traitors": How Central Banks Sabotage Wealth & Create Crises

    22.09.20261 Std. 6 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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17. #213 - Russell Napier - "They Are Stealth-Stealing Your Money”: Financial Repression is Here

    18.09.20261 Std. 15 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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18. #212 - Callum Smiles - "They Are Stealing The Country": Border Gangs, Fake Deliveroo Accounts & The Civil War

    16.09.20261 Std. 36 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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19. #211 - Jim Al-Khalili - Reality Is An Illusion: Quantum Entanglement, Time & Dark Energy

    11.09.20261 Std. 13 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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20. #210 - Simon Dixon - "They're Coming For Everything": $40T Debt, AI Job Collapse & The CBDC Grid

    09.09.20261 Std. 28 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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21. #209 - Johann Hari - We Built A World Humans Can’t Survive

    07.09.20262 Std. 33 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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22. #208 - Ann Pettifor - "A $40 Trillion Debt Crash Is Coming”

    03.09.20261 Std. 19 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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23. #207 - Eric Kaufmann - How 'Cultural Socialism' Destroyed Our Universities

    01.09.20261 Std. 32 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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24. #206 - Emad Mostaque - "Your Job's Economic Life Expectancy Ends In 2 Years"

    28.08.20261 Std. 45 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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25. #205 - Prof. Moran Cerf - "Did We Accidentally Build A Conscious AI?"

    26.08.20261 Std. 11 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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26. #204 - Dmitri Alperovitch - China's Cyber Sleeper Cells, Taiwan & The Second Cold War

    22.08.20261 Std. 21 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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27. #203 - Gregory Allen - Ex-DoD Official: "AI Is Now A Digital Nuclear Weapon"

    20.08.20261 Std. 35 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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    TIMESTAMPS:

    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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28. #202 - Barry S. Strauss - "We Are In The Final Stages Of Western Collapse"

    18.08.20261 Std. 15 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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29. #201 - Connor Leahy - The AI That Escaped: Inside OpenAI's Rogue Agent Incident

    14.08.20261 Std. 10 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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    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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30. #200 - Sebastian Thrun - The Singularity Is Here & We Are Completely Unprepared

    11.08.20261 Std. 34 Min.Als Nächstes

    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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    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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