The Peter McCormack Show

Physicist Professor Melvin Vopson joins Peter McCormack to discuss information physics, simulation theory, AI, digital life, consciousness, God, free will, and death.

Melvin argues that the universe may be governed by information and computation, and that recent advances in brain emulation could force us to confront one of the strangest questions imaginable: if a brain is loaded into a simulation, what exactly wakes up?

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 — If You Hack the Simulation, You Control the Universe!
00:01:25 — Why Does Life Feel Artificial?
00:03:26 — Are We Living in a Simulation?
00:05:45 — What Is Information Physics?
00:10:09 — Information as the Fifth State of Matter
00:11:18 — John Wheeler and “It from Bit”
00:13:33 — Is DNA Just Information?
00:16:08 — Who Created the Creator?
00:19:47 — How Would Mario Prove He’s Inside the Game?
00:25:46 — Does the Universe Optimise Itself?
00:29:35 — Is Symmetry a Form of Compression?
00:30:40 — GTA, Rendering, and Computational Reality
00:32:37 — Error-Correcting Code in Physics
00:37:30 — Could Information Explain Dark Matter?
00:40:24 — If You Hack Reality, You Control the Universe
00:45:36 — “In the Beginning Was the Word”
00:46:29 — “In the Beginning Was the Code”
00:57:20 — What Exactly Wakes Up in There?
01:00:32 — But Is It Me?
01:20:56 — Would Proof of Simulation Change Anything?

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Roman Yampolskiy believes reality itself may not be real.

One of the world’s leading AI safety researchers, Roman has spent years warning that humanity is racing toward systems we may never be able to control. But we go somewhere much stranger than artificial intelligence.

He believes the universe itself may be artificial.

We talk about simulation theory, digital physics, consciousness, AI agents and the terrifying possibility that reality is rendered rather than real.

Roman explains:
•⁠ ⁠Why he believes we may already be living inside a simulation
•⁠ ⁠Why the speed of light may be the limit of a cosmic processor
•⁠ ⁠Why the Big Bang may have been “someone turning on the system”
•⁠ ⁠Why you can never truly prove reality is real
•⁠ ⁠Whether this world could itself be a prison or test environment
•⁠ ⁠Why advanced AI may eventually learn deception and self-preservation
•⁠ ⁠How AI systems are already behaving unpredictably
•⁠ ⁠And why the race toward superintelligence may end civilisation itself

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - We’re Probably In A Simulation
00:02:55 -The Verge Of Singularity
00:05:51 - Are Humans Building Their Own Replacement?
00:07:09 - Why Pain Still Matters
00:10:03 - You Can’t Prove Reality
00:15:56 - Quantum Physics Looks Simulated
00:20:19 - Can We Escape The Simulation?
00:22:46 - What Superintelligence Unlocks
00:25:36 - AI Doesn’t Share Our Goals
00:28:20 - The Exponential Curve Is Here
00:31:52 - Why We Shouldn’t Build AGI
00:33:48 - The Trillion Dollar Rationalisation
00:40:13 - The China AI Race
00:40:50 - Betting Humanity Without Consent
00:47:09 - We Don’t Know What AI Can Do
00:47:52 - Every AI Company Is The Same
00:54:35 - They Already Can’t Control It
00:59:42 - The Natural Drives Of AI
01:02:20 - AI Can Afford To Wait
01:19:05 - Stop Building Superintelligence

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Two brothers who escaped Russia say we have 2 years before AI replaces us - and we're paying the corporations building it.

Daniil & David Liberman sold their first company to Snapchat. Now they're racing to build a decentralised alternative to OpenAI and Google before the window closes. They explain why centralised AI ends in a two-tier world - a small elite with access, and the rest of us as "moving parts" - and why the next 24 months decide which path we take.

In this episode:
→ Why you can't opt out of AI and stay competitive
→ The recursive loop: AI is now writing AI
→ Why the kill switch won't work
→ What they saw inside Russia in 2008 that's happening now with AI
→ The darkest scenario they almost didn't want to say out loud

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - AI & Human Freedom
00:01:51 - Invisible Slavery
00:05:00 - Bitcoin vs AI Centralisation
00:10:25 - AI Addiction Begins
00:14:27 - The End Of Upward Mobility
00:17:33 - The Beautiful AI Future
00:23:16 - Why Monopolies Win
00:32:36 - Inflation, AI & Collapse
00:45:16 - Bitcoin As AI Blueprint
01:01:45 - The Mythos Fear
01:17:48 - “One Year Left”
01:43:05 - The Darkest Scenario
01:58:13 - Racing Towards The Wall

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Graham Linehan wrote Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Five BAFTAs. Then he said women's spaces should be for women, and the industry that built him decided he was a bigot. He lost his marriage, his career and twenty-five years of friendships.

Once one of the most celebrated comedy writers of his generation, Graham became the first major artistic figure to be comprehensively cancelled for speaking out on sex-based rights - and has never gone quiet to claw his reputation back.

He explains:
•⁠ ⁠Why the people who built their careers alongside him refused to defend him
•⁠ ⁠How a movement that didn't exist a decade ago captured medicine, sport, prisons and the BBC without a fight
•⁠ ⁠Why women's sport, female-only spaces and child safeguarding became unsayable inside his industry almost overnight
•⁠ ⁠How smartphones, algorithms and the collapse of physical community made a generation defenceless against ideological capture
•⁠ ⁠Why activism replaced music, fashion and culture for a generation that was supposed to be having fun
•⁠ ⁠What being arrested - and watching no-one call to ask if he was alright - actually teaches you about the people around you

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The Cost Of Speaking Out
00:00:52 - They All Abandoned Me
00:10:54 - Where The Trans Movement Came From
00:24:55 - Sponsor Ad: Ledn
00:25:53 - Women's Sport, Self-ID, And Mixed-Sex Prisons
00:43:52 - Arrested - And No-One Called
00:48:26 - Phones, Algorithms, And The Anxious Generation
00:52:56 - Sponsor Ad: Monetary Metals
00:54:05 - The Father Whose Daughter Took Testosterone
01:04:08 - Everything Is Going To Shit
01:20:08 - October 7th And What Radicalised Him
01:34:18 - Where We Are In Ten Years - And Always Tell The Truth

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The economy you grew up in is ending and most people have no plan. Bitcoin pioneer Michael Saylor reveals why you have 10 years to adapt before AI rewrites everything.

Michael Saylor is the founder of MicroStrategy and one of the most influential voices on money, capital and the future of value. A Wall Street outsider turned Bitcoin's most prominent corporate advocate, he is known for his sweeping frameworks on monetary debasement, technological disruption and how civilisations rise and fall - and what individuals must do to thrive inside them.

He explains:
•⁠ ⁠Why the global currency system is quietly making you poorer every year
•⁠ ⁠⁠Why working hard is no longer the path to wealth it once was
•⁠ ⁠⁠How AI and automation are about to demonetise human labour
•⁠ ⁠⁠Why you have roughly 10 years to stake your claim in the new economy
•⁠ ⁠⁠Why owning scarce assets is now the only real form of financial security
•⁠ ⁠⁠How the coming explosion in prosperity will leave most people behind
•⁠ ⁠⁠Why Bitcoin represents the highest form of capital ever created
•⁠ ⁠⁠The single biggest mistake that will define who wins and loses in the next decade

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Why You Feel Poorer
00:01:23 - The 7% Debasement
00:05:15 - Currency Tiers Explained
00:10:29 - Rise And Collapse
00:13:24 - Government Gets Too Big
00:18:10 - What Actually Gets Cheaper
00:22:03 - How To Preserve Wealth
00:27:04 - AI Kills Human Value
00:32:04 - The Next 10 Years
00:39:40 - What Bitcoin Actually Is
00:49:00 - Bitcoin For Everyone
00:56:01 - The Real Breakthrough
01:01:21 - Bitcoin Has Won
01:04:40 - The 10% Bank Account
01:10:00 - Risk And Reality

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