Chris and Matt grapple with Face Huggers, ponder the mysteries of algebra, and have a heated exchange over the term "bespoke".

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Supplementary Material 56

00:00 Introduction

01:58 The Hugging Face incident

08:46 AI risks and AI discourse

22:29 OpenAI’s presentation and the incentives around AI safety

29:51 How worried should we be?

40:13 Disagreeing about AI

46:15 Peter Boghossian’s AI-generated utopia and dystopia

52:00 Matt’s favourite DJ meme

53:32 Tucker Carlson meets algebra

1:00:18 Andrew Callaghan and Channel 5

1:02:07 Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP meme coin

1:06:08 A brief intervention on “paleocon”

1:13:41 Andrew Callaghan explains the email-list mistake

1:23:46 Andrew Callaghan on tech oligarchs

1:36:28 Taylor Lorenz’s political independence

1:42:35 The Great Bespoke Debate of 2026

1:56:35 Hasan, Mearsheimer, and Russia

2:07:16 Peace is restored

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