{"podcast":{"title":"Doom Debates!","slug":"doom-debates-6934136","podcast_index_feed_id":6934136,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/1777870.rss","website_url":"https://lironshapira.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/1777870/10d5e21d47152740410de1f6441ce8bb.jpg","author":"Liron Shapira","episode_count":177,"summary":"AI debates that must be resolved before the world ends","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T10:18:31.431328+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doom-debates-6934136"},"episode":{"title":"Anthropic's New Hire Should WORRY You, AI is a Math Genius, Live Callers! — Livestream (May 22)","slug":"anthropic-s-new-hire-should-worry-you-ai-is-a-math-genius-live-callers-livestream-may-22","published_at":"2026-05-23T08:56:26+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doom-debates-6934136/anthropic-s-new-hire-should-worry-you-ai-is-a-math-genius-live-callers-livestream-may-22","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doom-debates-6934136","url":"https://lironshapira.substack.com/p/anthropics-new-hire-should-worry","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198934239/6a0eb9cdc894c2eb99abd9a73a5f5565.mp3","summary":"***ATTENTION: We’re looking for paid help at LessOnline from June 5-7. Apply now!*** OpenAI pushes the frontier of mathematics, Anthropic hires Andrej Karpathy to work on recursive self-improvement, live callers challenge the doom argument, and we've got a soundboard! Doom Debates Paid Gig in Berkeley! Doom Debates is proudly sponsoring The LessOnline conference this year and we got a merch table in the courtyard! We need 2 people to help represent the show — hand out T-shirts, talk to attendees, and spread the good word about Doom Debates. If you’re a regular viewer of the show, you probably know enough. Just be knowledgeable, friendly and helpful! * 💰We pay you $500 to help out during the entire Fri-Sun event * 🎟️ Plus you get FREE admission to the conference ($675 value) This is best suited for someone local to the SF Bay Area or who can arrange accommodations. If you’re interested, send an email to internship@doomdebates.com or DM Producer Ori on Discord . Tell us a little about yourself and your availability for all 3 days. Thanks! Links Less Online conference (June 5–7, Berkeley) — https://less.online Doom Debates Discord — https://discord.gg/g2X8h5UCrU OpenAI — “An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry” — https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/ Timestamps 00:00:00 — Welcome + New Soundboard! 00:09:27 — Doom Debates Is Sponsoring Less Online 00:17:30 — Ben Goertzel Episode Recap 00:27:30 — Goertzel's Alignment Blind Spot 00:34:21 — OpenAI Disproves an 80-Year-Old Erdős Conjecture 00:41:00 — David Deutsch Says \"Amazing\" 00:50:31 — Eliezer Yudkowsky's Job Replacement Progression 00:54:07 — Anthropic's $44 Billion Run Rate 01:07:45 — Schadenfreude Week: Liron Loses $10K 01:13:04 — Teaching Ezra Prediction…","meta_description":"***ATTENTION: We’re looking for paid help at LessOnline from June 5-7. Apply now!*** OpenAI pushes the frontier of mathematics, Anthropic hires Andrej Kar…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":8460,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/doom-debates-6934136/episodes/anthropic-s-new-hire-should-worry-you-ai-is-a-math-genius-live-callers-livestream-may-22/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doom-debates-6934136/anthropic-s-new-hire-should-worry-you-ai-is-a-math-genius-live-callers-livestream-may-22.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}