The Peter McCormack Show

In this episode, Curtis Yarvin argues that modern democracies may lack clear sovereignty and that technological acceleration and sovereign debt are exposing that weakness.
We discuss AI as a force multiplier, bureaucratic continuity, legitimacy, regime structure and the limits of procedural governance.
We also explore fiscal exhaustion, debt sustainability, and whether a system that cannot make decisive changes can survive compounding crises.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – What Is Sovereignty?
00:11:34 – Elections vs Authority
00:24:08 – Institutional Continuity
00:37:52 – AI as Acceleration
00:52:41 – Bureaucratic Limits
01:07:29 – Responsibility Problem
01:17:42 – Debt & Fiscal Fragility
01:31:05 – Reform Constraints
01:49:44 – Regime Stability
02:07:10 – What Breaks First?
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In this episode, Kathryn Porter explains why energy is civilisation and how he UK grid may be heading toward rationing and rolling blackouts within the next decade.
We discuss aging gas power stations, unrealistic utilisation assumptions, weak grid conditions, North Sea decline and why no single institution is accountable for security of supply.
We also cover what a blackout would actually look like, why nuclear build timelines matter, and how regulation and governance failures are compounding energy risk.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The Threat
00:05:27 - 12GW At Risk
00:08:03 - Political Complacency
00:11:59 - Iberia Blackout
00:14:47 - 65-85% Probability of Blackouts
00:28:02 - January Near Miss
00:36:08 - What Rationing Looks Like
00:39:34 - Governance Failure
00:40:54 - Nuclear Build Path
00:55:04 - Civilisational Risk
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In this episode, Jeff Booth explains why the natural state of a free market is deflationary and why a debt-based monetary system can't allow it.
We discuss AI as an acceleration event: exponential productivity should make life cheaper, but the system has to create scarcity to keep debt serviceable.
We cover how inflation functions as hidden extraction, why regulation favours monopolies, why politics becomes a fight over who controls broken money and why AI will intensify centralisation, surveillance, and social conflict unless the monetary layer changes.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Elon's "No Money"
00:02:21 – Deflation is Natural
00:05:50 – Paper-fold Acceleration
00:08:05 – Debt vs Abundance
00:10:17 – Inflation = Extraction
00:15:34 – Politics Polarises
00:21:28 – One Question Only
00:28:01 – Bukele's Example
00:33:33 – Bitcoin as Protocol
00:41:02 – AI + Money Clash
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In this PMQs episode, we discuss the claim that most white-collar work could be automated within 12-18 months, and what that actually means.
We talk through jobs, incentives, education, and AI safety - why companies can't slow down even if they want to, why schools may be preparing kids for a world that's disappearing, and why safety teams are warning about systems they're still accelerating.
If AI can do the productive work, what happens to status, money, and meaning? And if models are already showing deceptive behaviour in testing, who decides what "broadly safe" really means?
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Human-Level Timeline
00:03:16 – Internet Comparison
00:08:28 – Professional AGI Claim
00:11:26 – Incentives Trap
00:16:31 – Corporate Regret
00:20:42 – 17% Of Workforce
00:29:12 – The Horse Question
00:35:15 – Safety Resignation
00:39:43 – AI Moral Status
00:43:33 – Money Without Work
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What happens if we build something smarter than ourselves - and can't turn it off?
In this interview, I chat with Andrea Miotti about the global race toward superintelligent AI: systems designed to outperform humans across every task, operate autonomously, and integrate directly into the economy.
We discuss how today's AI tools quietly cross from assistance into replacement, why "kill switches" don't work, and how a handful of companies are pushing toward a point of no return. 
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - AI Extinction is Now?
00:01:22 - Alien Analogy
00:02:24 - Building Superintelligence
00:06:43 - Tools Becoming Agents
00:15:22 - Autonomous Systems Act
00:23:31 - Who Can Build This
00:29:07 - Why Containment Fails
00:38:51 - An Inhuman Economy
00:55:59 - No Kill Switch
01:07:05 - How Many Companies
01:27:35 - Do Humans Survive?
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EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK
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