Liron’s 700% Productivity Increase, Bernie & AOC’s Datacenter Ban, Are We In Full Takeoff? — Live Q&A
Liron’s 700% Productivity Increase, Bernie & AOC’s Datacenter Ban, Are We In Full Takeoff? — Live Q&A  
Podcast: Doom Debates!
Published On: Tue Mar 31 2026
Description: Multiple live callers join this month's Q&A as we react to Bernie Sanders and AOC's data center moratorium, the sudden shutdown of SORA 2, and the record breaking "Stop the AI Race" protest.I explain why Claude Code has me claiming a 700% productivity boost, what that means for takeoff timelines and debate instrumental convergence.Timestamps00:00:00 — Cold Open00:01:08 — Can AI Train on Its Own Data to Reach Superintelligence?00:03:42 — Are We in the Takeoff? 700% Faster with Claude Code00:04:27 — EJJ Joins: Is Instrumental Convergence Really That Dangerous?00:16:44 — The Positive Feedback Loop Problem00:20:09 — S-Risk, Consciousness, and Objective Morality00:22:27 — Futarchy and Prediction Markets00:24:31 — Low P(Doom) Arguments and Bayesian Updates00:31:05 — Lee Cyrano Joins: Superintelligence Won’t Matter for Decades01:02:45 — Lesaun Joins: Are There Adults in the Room?01:17:39 — Connor Leahy: “There Are No Adults in the Room”01:19:51 — Bernie Sanders Calls for a Data Center Moratorium01:24:23 — Claude Code Anecdotes and Audience Q&A01:35:49 — The Stop the AI Race Protest in San Francisco01:41:38 — Known Unknowns and Risk Assessment01:45:03 — From Waymo to Existential Risk01:51:28 — Closing: The Road to One Million SubscribersLinksQuintin Pope vs Liron Shapira debate on Doom Debates — https://lironshapira.substack.com/p/ai-alignment-is-solved-phd-researcherCAP theorem, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theoremGoogle Cloud Spanner, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner_(database)Newcomb’s problem, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb%27s_paradoxGödel’s incompleteness theorems, Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theoremsDoom 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