{"podcast":{"title":"Crazy Town","slug":"crazy-town-1164162","podcast_index_feed_id":1164162,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/crazy-town/","website_url":"https://www.resilience.org/crazy-town-podcast/","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/845024c0-9628-4c20-8cf7-f9edbab29e82/5wd9dbkdqdiv608mpluosrwkpl4j.jpg","author":"Post Carbon Institute","episode_count":173,"summary":"With equal parts humor and in-depth analysis, Asher, Rob, and Jason safeguard their sanity while probing crazy-making topics like climate change, overshoot, runaway capitalism, and why we’re all deluding ourselves. Each fortnightly episode helps you understand the “Great Unraveling” of our environmental and social systems and describes how we can make the transition to a sustainable and equitable world. If you’re someone who questions the trajectory of society and struggles to understand why most people would rather eat nachos on the deck of the “SS Denial” than face reality, you’ll find community and plenty of laughs in Crazy Town. Brought to you by https://www.resilience.org/ and the unconventional minds at Post Carbon Institute, a nonprofit think tank that builds awareness of the polycrisis and prescribes community resilience-building as the most appropriate response. Your hosts: Asher Miller - Nonprofit executive director by day, apocalypse comedian by night. Feels most at home exploring insanity-inducing topics while trying not to spill coffee on his keyboard as he convulses over the latest ecomodernist fantasy. In danger of losing his mind every time he encounters someone us…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T18:23:28.514961+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162"},"episode":{"title":"Choose Your AI Adventure: Immiseration or Extinction","slug":"choose-your-ai-adventure-immiseration-or-extinction","published_at":"2026-01-28T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/choose-your-ai-adventure-immiseration-or-extinction","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162","url":"https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-01-28/2026-01-28-crazy-town-episode-118-ai-adventure/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/7bb53df1-44fd-4910-9cb9-a6684c0bbd30.mp3","summary":"Jason and Asher replace Rob with a much more humane and humble co-host, Elon Musk, to explore the feasibility of harnessing the entire sun to power AI superintelligence. We come away perplexed that not much of the excellent reporting on the environmental, energy, and financial risks of the AI boom address the googleplex-sized elephant in the room – that both AI success and failure lead to immiseration. Originally recorded on 12/3/25. Sources/Links/Notes: “ Colossus 1 ” Search Engine podcast, November 21, 2025 “ Colossus 2 ” Search Engine podcast, November 21, 2025 Episode 77 , \"The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk\", Crazy Town podcast, June 14, 2023 “ Elon Musk on DOGE, Optimus, Starlink Smartphones, Evolving with AI, Why the West is Imploding ” All In podcast, September 9, 2025 “Is there an A.I. Bubble? And What if It Pops? ” The Daily, November 20, 2025 Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, “ What If AI Is a Bubble? ” The Atlantic , November 13, 2025 Related episode(s) of Crazy Town : Episode 77, “ The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk ” Episode 84, “ Escaping Technologyism: Dreams of AI Sheep and the Deadliest Word in Film History ” Episode 101 “ Even AI Chatbots Hate Us: The Rise of the New Luddites, with Brian Merchant ”","meta_description":"Jason and Asher replace Rob with a much more humane and humble co-host, Elon Musk, to explore the feasibility of harnessing the entire sun to power AI sup…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2049,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crazy-town-1164162/episodes/choose-your-ai-adventure-immiseration-or-extinction/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crazy-town-1164162/choose-your-ai-adventure-immiseration-or-extinction.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}