Eliezer Yudkowsky Post-Debate Reaction, Elon's New Frenemy & Liron's Bet on Spencer Pratt!? - Doom Debates Live (5/8/26)
Podcast:Doom Debates! Published On: Sat May 09 2026 Description: Liron and Producer Ori explore the community's feedback to Eliezer Yudkowsky's $10,000 debate against an anonymous AI director. Plus, we unpack Eliezer's new post on the "irretrievability" of ASI development, Anthropic feasting on xAI's compute, and Liron's 4x Kalshi bet on... Spencer Pratt.Timestamps00:00:00 — Welcome00:02:30 — The $10,000 Debate Post-Mortem00:06:01 — Paul Tudor Jones: “Zero Risk Management on AI”00:09:49 — Liron’s Jerry Springer Moment00:14:19 — Why Yud Wore Steampunk00:20:19 — YouTube Reacts: “Five Minutes In, Already Unhinged”00:27:19 — 47F’s Anti-Disparagement Legal Theory00:32:18 — Yud Wants Round 200:35:37 — Lumpin Space, Ben Goertzel & Early AI Safety Memories00:47:06 — Eliezer’s “Irretrievability” Post00:56:35 — The Maginot Line and Murphy’s Curse01:08:13 — Blockchain vs AI: Earth’s Compute Swing01:15:15 — Anthropic Eats Elon’s Compute01:25:29 — Is Elon Tweeting as His Own Mom?01:30:03 — Waymo Dodges a Fallen Scooter Rider01:33:00 — Why Liron Bet on Spencer Pratt01:37:13 — Live Twitter Scroll!01:38:11 — Mira Murati: “Directionally Very Bad”01:50:07 — AI Copies Itself Across Servers01:56:44 — Steven Byrnes: LLMs Aren’t the Final Paradigm02:07:55 — Wrap-UpLinksLessOnline 2026 (June 5-7, Berkeley, CA) — https://less.online/Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Irretrievability; or, Murphy’s Curse of Oneshotness upon ASI” (LessWrong, May 4, 2026) —https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fbrz9xhKpEeTKw5zL/irretrievability-or-murphy-s-curse-of-oneshotness-upon-asiAnthropic, SpaceX announce Colossus 1 compute deal (CNBC) — https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.htmlSpaceXAI announcement: Compute partnership with Anthropic — https://x.ai/news/anthropic-compute-partnershipKalshi: Spencer Pratt LA Mayor market — https://kalshi.com/markets/kxmayorla/la/kxmayorla-26Morris worm — Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_wormDoom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate.Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates, or to really take things to the next level: Donate 🙏 Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe