{"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":"Top Mathematicians Face Irrelevance, a 7-Year-Old's P(Doom) + The “Off Switch\" Debate — Livestream May 29","slug":"top-mathematicians-face-irrelevance-a-7-year-old-s-p-doom-the-off-switch-debate-livestream-may-29","published_at":"2026-05-30T14:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doom-debates-6934136/top-mathematicians-face-irrelevance-a-7-year-old-s-p-doom-the-off-switch-debate-livestream-may-29","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/doom-debates-6934136","url":"https://lironshapira.substack.com/p/top-mathematicians-face-irrelevance","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199853733/58dc3afdbe0ab49441242a7928f37b69.mp3","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…","meta_description":"Liron explains the 80-year-old Erdős conjecture that a GPT model breakthrough, Scott Aaronson ponders \"the last days of human relevance”, multiple live ca…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":9016,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/doom-debates-6934136/episodes/top-mathematicians-face-irrelevance-a-7-year-old-s-p-doom-the-off-switch-debate-livestream-may-29/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/top-mathematicians-face-irrelevance-a-7-year-old-s-p-doom-the-off-switch-debate-livestream-may-29.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}