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Who Paid $10,000 to Debate Yudkowsky? Plus AI Twitter & Investing Tips - Doom Debates Live (5/1/26)

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May 2, 2026
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Summary

Livestream with Producer Ori covering Eliezer Yudkowsky's next BIG debate, why $GOOG is such a steal at $4T, and what's going down on AI twitter. Timestamps 00:00:00 — Kicking off the Livestream 00:06:08 — Eliezer Yudkowsky Debate Announcement 00:13:17 — Who’s Yudkowsky’s Debate Challenger? 00:25:32 — METR’s Capability Extrapolation Came True 00:28:25 — Google: The Big Rally I Called 00:33:06 — The Federal Reserve’s Extinction Chart 00:36:06 — Liron’s Private Market Alpha Strategy 00:40:35 — The Quadrillion-Dollar Economy 00:47:54 — Bernie Sanders Gets It 00:53:11 — Is Anthropic a Good Investment? 01:07:42 — The Goblin Discourse 01:10:52 — Codex, Claude Code & Live Coding Demo 01:28:48 — Wrap-Up Links Yudkowsky debate announcement: https://x.com/liron/status/2050035001203229010 Liron's Yudkowsky interview: https://x.com/liron/status/2050035003900223770 METR capability extrapolation: https://x.com/nikolaj2030/status/2050276020146880661 Bernie Sanders on AI risk: https://x.com/SenSanders/status/2048107882760085618 Federal Reserve extinction chart: https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2025/0624 Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates , or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe