{"podcast":{"title":"The Peter McCormack Show","slug":"the-peter-mccormack-show-525419","podcast_index_feed_id":525419,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f","website_url":"https://www.petermccormack.com/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f/show-cover.jpg","author":"Peter McCormack","episode_count":1075,"summary":"The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions. Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. New episodes 2 to 3 times per week. Video on YouTube and Spotify. Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T06:19:00.527164+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419"},"episode":{"title":"#174 - Roman Yampolskiy - We Are All Agents Inside a Simulation","slug":"174-roman-yampolskiy-we-are-all-agents-inside-a-simulation","published_at":"2026-05-12T16:52:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/174-roman-yampolskiy-we-are-all-agents-inside-a-simulation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419","url":"https://shows.acast.com/the-peter-mccormack-show/episodes/174-roman-yampolskiy-we-are-all-agents-inside-a-simulation","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/69d4f193b76468caacc5068f/e/6a035ae937a1e7308d17ac88/media.mp3","summary":"Roman Yampolskiy believes reality itself may not be real. One of the world’s leading AI safety researchers, Roman has spent years warning that humanity is racing toward systems we may never be able to control. But we go somewhere much stranger than artificial intelligence. He believes the universe itself may be artificial. We talk about simulation theory, digital physics, consciousness, AI agents and the terrifying possibility that reality is rendered rather than real. Roman explains: •⁠ ⁠Why he believes we may already be living inside a simulation •⁠ ⁠Why the speed of light may be the limit of a cosmic processor •⁠ ⁠Why the Big Bang may have been “someone turning on the system” •⁠ ⁠Why you can never truly prove reality is real •⁠ ⁠Whether this world could itself be a prison or test environment •⁠ ⁠Why advanced AI may eventually learn deception and self-preservation •⁠ ⁠How AI systems are already behaving unpredictably •⁠ ⁠And why the race toward superintelligence may end civilisation itself - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - We’re Probably In A Simulation 00:02:55 -The Verge Of Singularity 00:05:51 - Are Humans Building Their Own Replacement? 00:07:09 - Why Pain Still Matters 00:10:03 - You Can’t Prove Reality 00:15:56 - Quantum Physics Looks Simulated 00:20:19 - Can We Escape The Simulation? 00:22:46 - What Superintelligence Unlocks 00:25:36 - AI Doesn’t Share Our Goals 00:28:20 - The Exponential Curve Is Here 00:31:52 - Why We Shouldn’t Build AGI 00:33:48 - The Trillion Dollar Rationalisation 00:40:13 - The China AI Race 00:40:50 - Betting Humanity Without Consent 00:47:09 - We Don’t Know What AI Can Do 00:47:52 - Every AI Company Is The Sa…","meta_description":"Roman Yampolskiy believes reality itself may not be real. One of the world’s leading AI safety researchers, Roman has spent years warning that humanity is…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4829,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/episodes/174-roman-yampolskiy-we-are-all-agents-inside-a-simulation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419/174-roman-yampolskiy-we-are-all-agents-inside-a-simulation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}