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0:00 Joe’s notable background
3:15 Is most of the MAGA coalition accelerationist?
7:28 Transhumanism, big tech, Klaus Schwab, and the noosphere
20:34 How the pandemic sparked a MAGA tech backlash
34:02 Palantir as bipartisan bête noire
40:17 The conservative case for AI regulation
51:37 Should fear of China trump fear of AI?
57:40 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Joe Allen (Singularity Weekly, War Room, Dark Aeon). Recorded August 13, 2025.

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Overtime titles:

0:00 Joe’s (p)doom
3:23 The scariest near-term dangers of AI
8:37 AI: Humanity’s culmination or its replacement?
18:33 JD Vance, AI, and the Book of Revelation
30:30 What Peter Thiel gets right
34:45 Joe the “Christ-loving pagan”
37:48 Does technological evolution point to a larger purpose?
57:11 Raging against the machine—anti-tribally

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