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Top Mathematicians Face Irrelevance, a 7-Year-Old's P(Doom) + The “Off Switch" Debate — Livestream May 29
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- May 30, 2026
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Summary
Liron explains the 80-year-old Erdős conjecture that a GPT model breakthrough, Scott Aaronson ponders "the last days of human relevance”, multiple live callers debate me, plus my 7-year-old son drops in to share his P(Doom)! Timestamps 00:00:00 — Cold Open 00:00:42 — First Donation & “Why Is a Duck?” 00:02:54 — Can AI Draw “Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously”? 00:08:26 — Doom Debates Sponsors Less Online — Be Our Intern 00:10:43 — Who We Still Need to Get on the Show 00:26:44 — Claude Opus 4.8 & the Rising Waterline of Intelligence 00:28:48 — The 80-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture a GPT Model Cracked 00:44:50 — My 7-Year-Old Ezra Joins: ChatGPT, Minecraft & His P(Doom) 00:58:46 — How the AI Actually Beat Erdős’s Grid 01:03:50 — Scott Aaronson: “The Last Days of Human Relevance” 01:07:53 — Why the Foom Is Taking Years, Not Hours 01:10:47 — Is Ori Just a Yes Man? 01:12:41 — Does P = NP + AI? 01:23:43 — METR’s Beth Barnes: “We Are Not On Top Of It” 01:28:31 — Liron’s Vibe Coding Confession 01:31:21 — Alverin Joins: Can We Wait, Then Hit the Off Switch? 01:48:01 — AI in a Box & the Super-Persuasion Threshold 02:06:24 — Brian Joins: The Ways It Could Go Right 02:11:30 — Jack Joins: How Fast Will the Foom Be? 02:18:48 — 80,000 Hours, Inventing Erdős Problems & Holly Elmore’s Warning 02:29:42 — Wrap-Up Links LessOnline 2026 — June 5–7, Berkeley — https://less.online/ Manifest 2026 — June 12–14 — https://manifest.is/ Shtetl-Optimized — “Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance” — https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9782 Global Call for AI Red Lines (Bengio, Hinton, Harari) — red-lines.ai Order the 80,000 Hours book — Benjamin Todd (Penguin) — https://80000hours.org/book/ Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build…