Doom Debates!

Liron Shapira

It's time to talk about the end of the world. With your host, Liron Shapira. lironshapira.substack.com

  1. VOR 11 STD.

    NEW: Watch the Eliezer Yudkowsky vs. Secret AI Lab Director Debate on my other channel!

    📢 BREAKING: A man known only as "@47fucb4r8c69323" just paid Eliezer Yudkowsky $10,000 to have a raw, uncut, public debate on my YouTube channel! Tensions run high as 47f confronts Eliezer about his "If anyone builds it, everyone dies" rhetoric, warning it could incite unstable individuals to harm AI researchers and their families, while Eliezer maintains that the possibility of extinction from superintelligent AI is too high to *not* speak out about.They also clash over whether we truly understand how LLMs work. Yudkowsky highlights the lack of extracted algorithms that explain their qualitative intelligence, while 47f dismisses these concerns as a fundamental misunderstanding of how text modeling works. While this may not be the highest quality debate I’ve ever hosted, I hope it’s a step toward more attention and public discourse on this urgent, high-stakes topic. P.S. Please consider supporting my work with a tax-deductible donation. Read more… Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    1 Min.

  2. VOR 4 TAGEN

    Who Paid $10,000 to Debate Yudkowsky? Plus AI Twitter & Investing Tips - Doom Debates Live (5/1/26)

    Livestream with Producer Ori covering Eliezer Yudkowsky's next BIG debate, why $GOOG is such a steal at $4T, and what's going down on AI twitter. Timestamps 00:00:00 — Kicking off the Livestream 00:06:08 — Eliezer Yudkowsky Debate Announcement 00:13:17 — Who’s Yudkowsky’s Debate Challenger? 00:25:32 — METR’s Capability Extrapolation Came True 00:28:25 — Google: The Big Rally I Called 00:33:06 — The Federal Reserve’s Extinction Chart 00:36:06 — Liron’s Private Market Alpha Strategy 00:40:35 — The Quadrillion-Dollar Economy 00:47:54 — Bernie Sanders Gets It 00:53:11 — Is Anthropic a Good Investment? 01:07:42 — The Goblin Discourse 01:10:52 — Codex, Claude Code & Live Coding Demo 01:28:48 — Wrap-Up Links Yudkowsky debate announcement: https://x.com/liron/status/2050035001203229010 Liron's Yudkowsky interview: https://x.com/liron/status/2050035003900223770 METR capability extrapolation: https://x.com/nikolaj2030/status/2050276020146880661 Bernie Sanders on AI risk: https://x.com/SenSanders/status/2048107882760085618 Federal Reserve extinction chart: https://www.dallasfed.org/research/economics/2025/0624 Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    1 Std. 32 Min.

  3. VOR 5 TAGEN

    Justin Helps (⁨@Primer on YouTube) is Worried about AI Takeover

    Justin Helps is the science educator behind ⁨Primer Learning with 2M subscribers. We cover how he got into AI safety, debate AGI timelines, and why he calculates p(doom) to be 70% by 2100 😱. Timestamps 00:00:00 — Cold Open 00:00:38 — Introducing Justin Helps 00:02:03 — What's Your P(Doom)?™ 00:03:38 — Justin's First Exposure to AI X-Risk 00:04:49 — Major Disagreements with Eliezer Yudkowsky 00:09:46 — Debating the Timeline to AGI 00:12:24 — Metaculus Prediction Market Estimates AGI by 2032 00:20:06 — Misguided Conceptions of AI's Limitations 00:25:23 — Only a 5% P(Doom) by 2040 00:28:40 — AIs Will Not Care About the Human Species 00:31:00 — Summarizing Justin's Position So Far 00:36:17 — High P(Doom), but We're Not Depressed 00:40:14 — Justin's "Computer Man" Thought Experiment 00:51:16 — Should We Pause AGI Development? 00:54:15 — AI Doom Is a Serious Concern Links Primer’s Video on AI Doom — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5QXY_qZuI Primer on YouTube — https://youtube.com/@PrimerBlobs Primer’s Website — https://primerlearning.org/ Justin Helps on X — https://x.com/Helpsypoo Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality — https://hpmor.com/ Feeling Rational by Eliezer Yudkowsky —https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/SqF8cHjJv43mvJJzx/feeling-rational Pause AI — https://pauseai.info Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    55 Min.

  4. 28. APR.

    Live Q&A: Bernie Sanders Wakes Up to AI Doom, Dwarkesh's $20,000 Questions, Caller Debates the Alignment Problem!

    Multiple live callers join this month's Q&A as I react to Dwarkesh Patel's $20K blog prize, debate the orthogonality thesis from first principles, and welcome Bernie Sanders aboard the Doom Train. Timestamps 00:00:00 — Cold Open 00:01:00 — Welcome to Doom Debates Live! 00:01:30 — What Do You Think of Open Source Models Out-Benchmarking OpenAI and Anthropic? 00:04:55 — Michael Cheers Joins: What If We Don't Give AIs Full Situational Awareness? 00:11:55 — Thoughts on Mythos' Hacking Abilities? 00:15:43 — Liron Reacts to Dwarkesh Patel's $20K AI Questions 00:23:28 — Pretraining Goals vs RL Training Goals 00:28:58 — Mental Model of Yudkowsky-ians & the IABIED Claim 00:37:24 — You Can't Hide Reality from a Superintelligence (The Truman Show Analogy) 00:42:57 — Back to Dwarkesh's Questions: When Do AI Labs Start Making Money? 00:48:50 — Upcoming Guests Reveal! 00:51:35 — Will Lancer Joins: Is The Yudkowskian Thesis Credible? 01:27:03 — Back to Answering Questions from the Chat 01:33:28 — The Cameraman Always Survives Analogy 01:40:52 — Liron's Banger Response to Roon's Tweet 01:47:00 — Nuance About Pausing AI Development 01:50:57 — Capitalism Isn't Going to Steer Us to an Alignment Solution 01:53:10 — Is Optimization Equivalent to Intelligence? 01:57:21 — BREAKING: Bernie Sanders on the Existential Threat of AI 02:01:12 — Spoiler for the Upcoming Mike Israetel Episode 02:01:57 — $500 Bet on AI Unemployment 02:05:46 — Misuse, Surveillance, and the Real Costs of Pausing AI 02:11:04 — Wrap-Up Links Nick Bostrom, Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (Amazon) — https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Utopia-Meaning-Solved-World/dp/1646871642 Yudkowsky & Soares, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies (book) — https://www.amazon.com/If-Anyone-Builds-Everyone-Dies/dp/0316571253 Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    2 Std. 12 Min.

  5. 21. APR.

    Emad Mostaque Has A 50% P(Doom) & A Plan To Lower It

    Emad Mostaque helped kick off the modern AI revolution as the head of Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion. Unlike most AI CEOs, he doesn't sugarcoat the risks of AGI development. He explains his 50% P(Doom), why we have less than 1,000 days to get our act together, and how his new startup, Intelligent Internet, aims to be a countervailing force against doom of all kinds. Timestamps 00:00:00 — Cold Open 00:00:39 — Introducing Emad Mostaque 00:02:08 — How Emad Got Involved in AI Development 00:05:46 — The 60-Second Pitch for Intelligent Internet 00:09:29 — What’s Your P(Doom)?™ 00:13:32 — Why ASI Doesn’t Need Massive Compute 00:15:56 — AGI Timelines: Cognitive Labor Going to Zero 00:17:29 — Is There a Ceiling Above Human Intelligence? 00:41:22 — Corporations as Slow, Dumb AIs 00:50:19 — Emad’s Mainline Doom Scenario 00:55:28 — Jailbreaks and “Mecha-Hitler” Latent Spaces 00:59:56 — The Last Economy: How to Navigate Economic Doom 01:08:57 — The Coming Unemployment Spike 01:15:13 — Why Isn’t Google Stock Mooning? 01:25:05 — Intelligent Internet as a Solution: Bitcoin for the Intelligence Age 01:33:13 — Can an Aligned Network Stop a Rogue ASI? 01:36:20 — Is the Pause AI Proposal Too Late? 01:40:50 — Are We Facing Russian Roulette Odds with AI? 01:42:29 — Wrap-Up Links Emad Mostaque, The Last Economy (Amazon) — https://www.amazon.com/Last-Economy-Guide-Intelligent-Economics/dp/103693411X Intelligent Internet (ii.inc) —https://ii.inc Emad Mostaque, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Mostaque Emad Mostaque on X — https://x.com/EMostaquePause Giant AI Experiments open letter (Future of Life Institute) — https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    1 Std. 43 Min.

  6. 18. APR.

    Did Eliezer Yudkowsky Really Call for VIOLENCE? — Debate with John Alioto

    My guest, John Alioto, is an independent AI engineer with a computer science degree from UC Berkeley and 25 years building real-world AI systems at companies like Microsoft and Google. In the wake of an attack on Sam Altman’s property, John Alioto came on the show to argue that Yudkowsky’s words are violent rhetoric that helped create this moment. Since I completely disagree with that characterization, we had a lot of fuel for a passionate debate. For the record, here’s my position on why AI doomers are NOT “calling for violence”: Are we acting like we actually think there’s an urgent extinction risk? Yes. Are we calling for lawless violence? Absolutely not. At least not me, or the leaders of the movement, or anyone I’ve ever personally interacted with. Are we calling for violence as a last resort if a government policy has been established and then egregiously violated? Yes… but that’s just standard for any governance proposal! A proposal for a strictly enforced treaty isn’t a call for violence — it’s a call for doing everything we can to make sure no one breaks the treaty, with zero violence, unless rogue actors decide to break the treaty and bring the consequences on themselves. Thanks to John for having an extremely respectful and good-faith debate on this heated subject. Timestamps 00:00:00 — Cold Open 00:00:37 — Introducing John Alioto 00:03:02 — Setting the Stage: Recent Acts of Violence & AI Discourse 00:05:53 — Eliezer Yudkowsky's 2023 TIME Article 00:11:16 — John's Two-Part Argument 00:14:37 — Conditional on High P(Doom), Is Eliezer's Policy Bad? 00:17:46 — Be Like Carl Sagan — Win in the Arena of Ideas 00:21:12 — No Carve-Outs for Non-Signatories 00:26:15 — Hypothetical: What If the UN Voted for a Treaty? 00:30:46 — What's the Correct Interpretation of Eliezer's TIME Article? 00:32:42 — Liron's Interpretation: Same Structure as Any International Law Proposal 00:42:23 — What Should Eliezer Have Written? "Airstrikes" vs "Strong Deterrent" 00:49:57 — How John Would Rewrite the TIME Piece 00:50:54 — Carve-Outs: Allies, Civilians, Consequences 00:52:52 — Debate Wrap-Up 00:56:27 — Last Q: Does High P(Doom) Imply Violence? 00:59:40 — Closing Thoughts Links John P. Alioto on X (Twitter) — https://x.com/jpalioto Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down” (Time Magazine, March 2023) — https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/ Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    1 Std. 2 Min.

  7. 16. APR.

    Are AI Doomers “Calling for Violence”? Debate with Steven Balik

    Are AI safety advocates like Eliezer Yudkowsky at fault for the recent attacks on Sam Altman because they are “calling for violence”? I invited Steven Balik to join me on this emergency episode to hash it out. Steven is an activist short seller and data engineering professional whose Substack is popular among Silicon Valley VCs and hedge funds. Links Steven Balik on X (Twitter) — https://x.com/laurenbalik Steven Balik, “The Talmudic Stock Bubble, AI Psychosis, & Esoterrorism” (Substack, October 2025) — https://laurenbaliksalmanacandrevue.substack.com/p/the-talmudic-stock-bubble-ai-psychosis Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough. We Need to Shut It All Down” (Time, March 2023) — https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-not-enough/ Timestamps 00:00:00 — Cold Open 00:00:52 — Introducing Steven Balik 00:01:24 — Setting the Stage: Molotov Cocktail Incident 00:03:31 — Steven’s Opening Position 00:06:10 — Is Eliezer Yudkowsky “Calling for Violence”? 00:07:25 — Steven on AI, Yudkowsky, the Zizians & Escalating Rhetoric 00:12:16 — Focusing on the Time Article 00:18:51 — Who’s Responsible for the Violence? 00:25:33 — Debating the Key Quote in Yudkowsky’s Time Article 00:31:07 — Liron Passes the Ideological Turing Test 00:45:42 — Liron & Steven Find Common Ground 00:46:57 — Why Does Steven Call Eliezer Yudkowsky an “Esoterrorist”? 00:48:51 — Wrapping Up: Deescalating the Situation Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    52 Min.

  8. 14. APR.

    Tristan Harris and Ted Tremper are WAKING UP Humanity to AI Extinction!

    The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist could become the most important movie of our generation. It’s a new film from the producers of the Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once. Tristan Harris is a subject in the film who is well-known for his role in Netflix's The Social Dilemma. He is the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. Ted Tremper is a producer on the film who is the interim Executive Director of the Creators' Coalition on AI. Timestamps 00:00:00 — Cold Open 00:01:20 — Introducing Tristan Harris and Ted Tremper 00:04:31 — The Genesis of The AI Doc 00:12:48 — Tristan’s Journey From Social Media to AI 00:14:30 — Updating From AI Skeptic to AI Risk Aware 00:20:31 — How They Convinced the AI CEOs to Agree to be Interviewed 00:28:58 — Ted’s Journalism Advice, Working on Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 00:30:37 — Tristan, What’s Your P(Doom)™? 00:34:30 — The Resource Curse: What AI Revenue Does to a Society 00:44:10 — Ted, What’s Your P(Doom)™? 00:46:34 — Reacting to Demis Hassabis Statement that AGI Development Is Inevitable 00:49:52 — Liron Sharpens the Criticism Towards AGI Builders 00:55:35 — AGI Developers Claim to Want International Cooperation, But Have They Really Tried? 01:04:30 — What Should Be the Single Takeaway for Concerned Viewers? 01:11:40 — Building a Coalition Against Superintelligence Development: From Bernie to Bannon 01:19:52 — Take Action at TheAIDocGetInvolved.com 01:24:40 — Tristan’s Closing Message: We’ve Done This Before Links Watch The AI Doc — https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist Get Involved with The AI Doc Community — https://theaidocgetinvolved.com/ Tristan Harris, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_Harris Ted Tremper, IMDb — https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3998229/ Center for Humane Technology — https://www.humanetech.com/ “The Intelligence Curse” by Luke Drago and Rudolf Laine — https://intelligence-curse.ai/ Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe

    1 Std. 27 Min.
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