The Peter McCormack Show

The Peter McCormack Show

We Are Living Inside a Simulation To Test AI | Roman Yampolskiy

Roman Yampolskiy is one of the world's most outspoken AI safety researchers, and he opens this conversation with Peter McCormack by saying the quiet part loud: you are a simulation of a human, a very believable one, and he says it with a smile. The hook is not idle provocation. Yampolskiy's claim is that the single most likely reason you are alive at this exact moment, watching humanity stand on the lip of the singularity, is that this whole world is a test environment built to study how a civilization handles the creation of intelligence greater than its own.

The Peter McCormack Show

Andrew Wilson: "A Lot of People Are Really F***ing Dumb"

Peter McCormack, the British Bitcoin podcaster, sits down with American political commentator Andrew Wilson and lets the conversation run almost two hours without guardrails. The framing question is simple and modern: why does life feel like it is not working anymore? Wilson's answer is a chain. Politics is downstream of culture, culture is downstream of theology, and the West, in his telling, has hollowed out the theology, so everything above it is sliding.