The Peter McCormack Show

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 Simulation00:02:55 -The Verge Of Singularity00:05:51 - Are Humans Building Their Own Replacement?00:07:09 - Why Pain Still Matters00:10:03 - You Can’t Prove Reality00:15:56 - Quantum Physics Looks Simulated00:20:19 - Can We Escape The Simulation?00:22:46 - What Superintelligence Unlocks00:25:36 - AI Doesn’t Share Our Goals00:28:20 - The Exponential Curve Is Here00:31:52 - Why We Shouldn’t Build AGI00:33:48 - The Trillion Dollar Rationalisation00:40:13 - The China AI Race00:40:50 - Betting Humanity Without Consent00:47:09 - We Don’t Know What AI Can Do00:47:52 - Every AI Company Is The Same00:54:35 - They Already Can’t Control It00:59:42 - The Natural Drives Of AI01:02:20 - AI Can Afford To Wait01:19:05 - Stop Building Superintelligence- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH ROMAN YAMPOLSKIY› Twitter – https://x.com/romanyam› Website – https://faculty.cse.louisville.edu/roman/SPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Two brothers who escaped Russia say we have 2 years before AI replaces us - and we're paying the corporations building it.Daniil & David Liberman sold their first company to Snapchat. Now they're racing to build a decentralised alternative to OpenAI and Google before the window closes. They explain why centralised AI ends in a two-tier world - a small elite with access, and the rest of us as "moving parts" - and why the next 24 months decide which path we take.In this episode:→ Why you can't opt out of AI and stay competitive→ The recursive loop: AI is now writing AI→ Why the kill switch won't work→ What they saw inside Russia in 2008 that's happening now with AI→ The darkest scenario they almost didn't want to say out loud- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - AI & Human Freedom00:01:51 - Invisible Slavery00:05:00 - Bitcoin vs AI Centralisation00:10:25 - AI Addiction Begins00:14:27 - The End Of Upward Mobility00:17:33 - The Beautiful AI Future00:23:16 - Why Monopolies Win00:32:36 - Inflation, AI & Collapse00:45:16 - Bitcoin As AI Blueprint01:01:45 - The Mythos Fear01:17:48 - “One Year Left”01:43:05 - The Darkest Scenario01:58:13 - Racing Towards The Wall- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH LIBERMAN BROTHERS› Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/libermans/› Twitter – https://x.com/DaLiberman› Website – https://www.libermans.co/SPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Incogni - https://incogni.com/peter- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Graham Linehan wrote Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Five BAFTAs. Then he said women's spaces should be for women, and the industry that built him decided he was a bigot. He lost his marriage, his career and twenty-five years of friendships.Once one of the most celebrated comedy writers of his generation, Graham became the first major artistic figure to be comprehensively cancelled for speaking out on sex-based rights - and has never gone quiet to claw his reputation back.He explains:•⁠ ⁠Why the people who built their careers alongside him refused to defend him•⁠ ⁠How a movement that didn't exist a decade ago captured medicine, sport, prisons and the BBC without a fight•⁠ ⁠Why women's sport, female-only spaces and child safeguarding became unsayable inside his industry almost overnight•⁠ ⁠How smartphones, algorithms and the collapse of physical community made a generation defenceless against ideological capture•⁠ ⁠Why activism replaced music, fashion and culture for a generation that was supposed to be having fun•⁠ ⁠What being arrested - and watching no-one call to ask if he was alright - actually teaches you about the people around you- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Cost Of Speaking Out00:00:52 - They All Abandoned Me00:10:54 - Where The Trans Movement Came From00:24:55 - Sponsor Ad: Ledn00:25:53 - Women's Sport, Self-ID, And Mixed-Sex Prisons00:43:52 - Arrested - And No-One Called00:48:26 - Phones, Algorithms, And The Anxious Generation00:52:56 - Sponsor Ad: Monetary Metals00:54:05 - The Father Whose Daughter Took Testosterone01:04:08 - Everything Is Going To Shit01:20:08 - October 7th And What Radicalised Him01:34:18 - Where We Are In Ten Years - And Always Tell The Truth- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH GRAHAM LINEHAN› Twitter – https://x.com/Glinner› Substack – https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/SPONSORS› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Monetary Metals - https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

The economy you grew up in is ending and most people have no plan. Bitcoin pioneer Michael Saylor reveals why you have 10 years to adapt before AI rewrites everything.Michael Saylor is the founder of MicroStrategy and one of the most influential voices on money, capital and the future of value. A Wall Street outsider turned Bitcoin's most prominent corporate advocate, he is known for his sweeping frameworks on monetary debasement, technological disruption and how civilisations rise and fall - and what individuals must do to thrive inside them.He explains:•⁠ ⁠Why the global currency system is quietly making you poorer every year•⁠ ⁠⁠Why working hard is no longer the path to wealth it once was•⁠ ⁠⁠How AI and automation are about to demonetise human labour•⁠ ⁠⁠Why you have roughly 10 years to stake your claim in the new economy•⁠ ⁠⁠Why owning scarce assets is now the only real form of financial security•⁠ ⁠⁠How the coming explosion in prosperity will leave most people behind•⁠ ⁠⁠Why Bitcoin represents the highest form of capital ever created•⁠ ⁠⁠The single biggest mistake that will define who wins and loses in the next decade- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Why You Feel Poorer00:01:23 - The 7% Debasement00:05:15 - Currency Tiers Explained00:10:29 - Rise And Collapse00:13:24 - Government Gets Too Big00:18:10 - What Actually Gets Cheaper00:22:03 - How To Preserve Wealth00:27:04 - AI Kills Human Value00:32:04 - The Next 10 Years00:39:40 - What Bitcoin Actually Is00:49:00 - Bitcoin For Everyone00:56:01 - The Real Breakthrough01:01:21 - Bitcoin Has Won01:04:40 - The 10% Bank Account01:10:00 - Risk And Reality- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH MICHAEL SAYLOR› Twitter – https://x.com/saylor› Website – https://www.strategy.com/SPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Monetary Metals - https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

In this episode, I sit down with Andrew Wilson to discuss what so many people are starting to ask but struggle to answer:Why does modern life feel like it isn’t working anymore?We discuss rising political division, economic pressure and a growing sense of dissatisfaction - and what might actually be driving it.Andrew explains that many of today’s problems aren’t just political or economic, but cultural - and that culture itself is shaped by something even more fundamental: shared values, belief systems, and community.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 – Something Feels Broken00:01:19 – “Soul of America”00:03:57 – What’s Really Going On00:05:00 – The Loss of Shared Values00:07:19 – Why Society Needs Morality00:09:33 – The Role of Religion00:24:25 – The Missing Piece: Community00:29:28 – Why Success Feels Empty00:41:00 – Why Systems Always Fail00:51:30 – The Birth Rate Crisis01:02:03 – The Ideological War01:13:50 – How Culture Changed01:36:38 – Why Dating Is Broken01:48:39 – What Happens Next- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH ANDREW WILSON› Twitter – https://x.com/paleochristcon› YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcElhVVk9ynDL4zkP-eGsfASPONSORS› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Monetary Metals - https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Preston Byrne is the only American lawyer fighting the UK's attempt to censor US companies under the Online Safety Act. He's representing 4chan, Kiwi Farms, Gab and Sanctioned Suicide - pro bono - because no other firm would take the cases.In this interview, Preston explains why Britain isn't a free country anymore, what Ofcom actually claims the power to do to American websites and why he says the UK is trying to enforce British censorship law on American soil. We get into the moment that started him down this path - a 16-year-old getting a criminal summons from the City of London Police for holding a sign - and why two decades later he believes the rest of the country is finally catching up to what he saw then.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - The Cases No One Else Would Take00:03:06 - From Banking Lawyer To Free Speech Fight00:05:00 - "I Didn't Know How Important It Was Until It Was Taken Away"00:06:49 - The Sign That Started Everything00:13:50 - What Ofcom Actually Is00:17:09 - The Question Britain Has Never Asked00:21:11 - Why Reform And The Greens Both Get It Wrong00:24:23 - Drafting A British First Amendment00:28:21 - What The Bill Keeps, What It Repeals00:31:56 - "I'm Not Setting Foot In The UK"00:34:02 - The Career Cost Of This Fight00:36:55 - Death Threats From UK IPs00:37:33 - The Libertarian Case For Using The Courts00:40:00 - Why Age Verification Isn't The Answer00:45:00 - The VPN Problem Australia Created00:46:28 - "The System Is Designed To Produce Violations"00:49:16 - Where The First Amendment Actually Stops00:52:45 - The Marmot Liberation Front00:54:52 - Mr Whiskers Vs Ofcom01:00:00 - Holding The Perimeter For 30 Million Users01:04:00 - Why No Big Law Firm Will Touch This01:09:05 - Defending Clients You Personally Find Difficult01:20:00 - 197 Notices Sent Into America01:22:18 - The GRANITE Act, Explained01:25:00 - "£46 Billion Sitting At The Federal Reserve"01:26:10 - Wyoming First, Then Delaware, Then Federal01:30:17 - "Are We A Free Country Anymore? No."01:33:06 - Still The Only Lawyer On The Field01:36:32 - What British Listeners Can Actually Do- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH PRESTON BRYNE› Twitter – https://x.com/prestonjbyrne› Website – https://prestonbyrne.com/SPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Monetary Metals - https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Hans Niemann on beating Magnus Carlsen, the cheating accusations that nearly ended his career, and the "chess mafia" he says tried to destroy his life.At 19, Hans Niemann beat the world's greatest chess player. Magnus Carlsen withdrew without explanation. Within weeks, Niemann was facing global cheating accusations, blacklisting from his own federation, and a fight to save his career.Four years on, he's world No. 12 and still climbing. In this interview, Hans addresses everything: what Magnus actually saw at the board, the $100 prize he won at 12 that became "the greatest crime" of the saga, the 70-page report and what was really in it, the time Magnus was caught taking a move on his own livestream, and the top-10 player banned for cheating whose name was never published.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Hans On Magnus00:01:20 - What Did Magnus See When You Beat Him?00:04:40 - "I'm Closer To The Older Players"00:07:20 - Being Called A Cheat At 1900:11:30 - The Chess Mafia00:15:25 - Could You Catch Magnus?00:29:30 - The Cheating Accusations, The Cost00:35:55 - Bitterness Is Poison00:38:25 - WHO Believed The Allegations And Why00:40:40 - Losing Faith In The Media00:43:15 - Navigating Infamy At 1900:45:50 - Naming Chess.com00:48:35 - "Magnus Was Gaslit"00:52:55 - What Did You Actually Admit To?00:55:40 - Magnus Cheated On Camera00:57:00 - Does Magnus Believe You Cheated?00:59:20 - The God Complex01:01:00 - The Dana White Of Chess01:03:15 - Chess As Soft Power01:07:00 - Chess In Every School01:22:20 - Scores To Settle01:23:15 - Washington Square Park- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH HANS NIEMANN› Twitter – https://x.com/HansMokeNiemann› Website – https://endgame.ai/SPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Monetary Metals - https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Freddie New studied the classics and has spent years obsessing over one question: how does a superpower destroy itself? The answer, he argues, is always the same - it starts with the money.In this conversation we map the fall of Rome directly onto the West today. The Roman denarius lost 97% of its purchasing power over 150 years. The British pound has lost 95% of its in the last century alone. The parallels don't stop there - military overstretch, a dependent population kept loyal by the state, leaders who can't stop the printing even when they know it's killing them. Rome couldn't stop. We can't either.Freddie has read all 1.5 million words of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In this conversation he explains what that teaches us about where we are right now - and whether there is a way out.In this episode:•⁠ ⁠How Rome debased the denarius from 100% silver to 3% over 300 years•⁠ ⁠Why currency debasement always starts slowly and why it can never be stopped•⁠ ⁠The eerie similarity between Rome's military dependence and modern welfare states•⁠ ⁠What Diocletian's price controls tell us about every government's response to inflation•⁠ ⁠Why Constantine's hard money reset saved the empire for another generation•⁠ ⁠What hard money offers that fiat never can•⁠ ⁠Whether the West can course correct or whether collapse is now inevitable- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -TIMESTAMPS:00:00:00 - Currency Collapse Starts00:01:17 - Rome vs Britain00:05:00 - How Debasement Spreads00:09:52 - The Soft Default00:18:02 - The Grift Economy00:22:18 - The Hollowing Out00:30:19 - How Rome Worked00:35:00 - Why Collapse Happens00:39:08 - Welfare And Power00:46:28 - War Footing Debate00:52:33 - Are We In Decline?00:57:54 - Constantine Solution01:05:22 - AI And Power Shift- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -CONTACT PETE› Website – http://petermccormack.com› Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact› Email – me@petermccormack.com› Instagram – /mccormack555› X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/CONNECT WITH FREDDIE NEW› Twitter – https://x.com/freddienew› Website – https://bitcoinpolicy.uk/SPONSORS› IREN - https://www.iren.com› LEDN - https://www.ledn.io/peter› Monetary Metals - https://www.Monetary-Metals.com/McCormack- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE› Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K› Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu› Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM› YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM› Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePMFILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR› https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/› https://x.com/curttayloruk/EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK› https://x.com/ConorM04- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -