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May 9, 2025 96 mins

AI Doomsday by 2035? We unpack the terrifying plan (and a wild tax hack to get rich) before it hits.


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Episode Highlights 👀🧠

🌏 AI Apocalypse 2035: Decoding the AI-2027.com timeline & debating human extinction.

💰 Tax-Free Riches? The parent-gifting retirement "hack" – legit or jail time?

🕺 ETH's Cringey Dance: Our unfiltered (and brutal) take on the "Save Ethereum" spectacle.

🇨🇳 USA vs. China: The high-stakes AI arms race, stolen tech, & the battle for compute.

🤖 Recursive Self-Improvement: When AI trains AI... does it plot against us?

🥃 Baijiu Taste Test from Hell: Reactions you have to HEAR to believe.

🔥 Twitter's Dumpster Fire: Is the X algo officially cooked?

🤔 Cyborg Theocracy: Will we end up worshipping AI overlords?


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*Timestamps:*

· 00:00 - Intro & Operating "In the Pocket" (feat. Danish Philosophers)

· 01:49 - "You Become The Liquor": Trailer Park Boys & Letterkenny Deep Dive

· 07:51 - Re-Indoctrinating Eric: The Baijiu Challenge Begins!

· 10:12 - ZBiotics: Saving Livers & Birthdays - Sponsor Read

· 12:06 - Arman's 40th?! Age, Persian Culture & Time Flies

· 14:10 - TAX HACK: Gifting Parents $$ for Tax-Free Brokerage Growth?

· 20:52 - Life Insurance, Trusts & Adulting: Protecting Your Legacy

· 23:56 - GRINDS MY GEARS: ETH's CRINGE "Save Ethereum Dance"

· 27:45 - X/Twitter is a Dumpster Fire: "The whole thing is being farmed by Indian engagement farming rings."

· 29:30 - MAIN TOPIC: AI-2027.com - A Terrifying AI Future?

· 30:48 - AI Timeline to 2027: From Stumbling Agents to "Referee of Reality"

· 36:09 - The Fork: SLOW DOWN AI or RACE China to Digital Godhood?

· 38:27 - If We Race... Robots, Bio-Weapons & Human Extinction by 2035

· 43:22 - AI Doomerism: Y2K Hype or "This Time IS Different"?

· 50:50 - Recursive Self-Improvement: Can AI Outsmart Its Creators & Add to Knowledge?

· 59:50 - The Geopolitics of AI: China's Strategy & the Compute Arms Race

· 01:12:15 - Why AI "Kills" Us: The Ant Farm & Misaligned Incentives (Not Malice)

· 01:23:00 - Cyborg Theocracy: Will We Worship AI for Validation? "Yes, Queen!"

· 01:33:26 - The Great Steakhouse Debate & Sign-Off


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