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0:00 Whose baby is cuter?
2:49 Bob’s new book on AI, The God Test
9:52 Varieties of AI awe
13:23 Geoffrey Hinton’s vision
17:50 How LLMs do more than predict and parrot
21:20 How powerful will AI get?
25:56 Can AI’s impact be predicted?
30:48 Taking doomerism seriously
37:53 The AI governance dilemma
48:42 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded June 3, 2026.
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Overtime titles:
AI, evolutionary purpose and the noosphere.
Would humans have a place in an AI noosphere?
Could we stop AI?
Levels of evolutionary purpose.
How do you sell a book now?
Do podcasts move books?
Who should read The God Test?
The outrage route to fame.
Will AI kill nonfiction books?
Overtime video:
