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October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

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September 29, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min

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September 23, 2026 · 2 hr 36 min

Casey Hart is a professional ontologist who has closely studied If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies and concluded the arguments are bad. His P(Doom) is under 1%, and he wouldn’t bet on AGI arriving before 2075. Casey and I agree AI has…
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September 12, 2026 · 1 hr 36 min

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September 9, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

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August 28, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min

Sam Altman keeps insisting that AI progress is going better than the doomers predicted and that even superintelligence may not change the world as radically as people think. I react to his latest interview and explain why I think that…
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