0:00 Connor’s place in the AI world
3:15 Mythos: “digital nuke”?
14:11 The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans
20:51 Yudkowsky, Marx, and other AI harbingers
35:33 Effective altruism’s effects on big tech
46:21 The “cult” in Silicon Valley culture
59:58 Is the AI race a market failure?
1:05:50 What’s really driving the AI titans?
1:19:03 Connor: ASI is a worse bet than Russian roulette
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Connor Leahy (ControlAI). Recorded July 17, 2026.
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