The Narrative Ep. 85: The Aipocalypse!
Burning Bright welcomes Matt McDonagh of Life in the Singularity for his first visit to The Narrative, and the two dig into the Aipocalypse. Matt traces his path from Wall Street and a machine-learning hedge fund to Bitcoin and superintelligence, then they cover rigged inflation math, lizard brain politics, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, and the new Tesla Roadster demo as both a real event and a narrative, including the idea of a halo product. From there it's Art Deco and Streamline Moderne, The Atlantic's war on flying cars, the midterms as an unskippable cutscene, data center fears, the AI…
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