# Scott Alexander

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Macron: “Free Speech Is BS”, France Riots, AI Apocalypse, Aliens & more!

Welcome back to the pod! This week, Pirate Wires reported on the State Department's fight against censorship abroad. At the same time, French President, Emmanuel Macron, took the stage to denounce America's version of free speech. Sanjana Friedman joins us to discuss free speech maximalism and how …

If It's Nuts So Be It

Welcome to Episode #168! We mainly spoil Lanterns on this one plus chat about other stuff like: Celebrity Traitors UK season 2 Lego Masters Of The Galaxy Industry Play For Today: A Photograph (1977) Resident Evil The Other Valley by Scott Alexander 1234 The Beatles In Time by Craig Brown Th…

INTERVIEW - Oh No, I'm Sammy Petrillo

Imagine going through life as the world's greatest Jerry Lewis impersonator. That was life for the late, great Sammy Petrillo. Today, Sammy Petrillo is best known for starring in Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952), a legendary Martin & Lewis rip-off movie... but there's so much more to his…

INTERVIEW - Oh No, I'm Sammy Petrillo

Imagine going through life as the world's greatest Jerry Lewis impersonator. That was life for the late, great Sammy Petrillo. Today, Sammy Petrillo is best known for starring in Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952), a legendary Martin & Lewis rip-off movie... but there's so much more to his…

Kave is a Billy Evans Wi-Fi Truther

Divia entertains my You Can See Everything conspiracy theories (spoilers). Then we prep for the Great Hackening and reminisce about last weekend’s The Sanity & Survival Summit. Chapters 0:00 Cold open 0:45 Spoilers ahead: You Can See Everything 3:40 Is AS in karmic debt to Elizabeth Holmes? 9:15 Su…

"Against SURA" by Scott Alexander

The AI Futures Project distinguishes several different plans for navigating the AI transition, which I'll lump into two broader categories: Plan A (my combination of their Plan A/S/Other) involves working for a global pause on AI development, hopefully lasting decades. During this pause, we either …

"Scott Alexander’s Against SURA Seems Deeply Confused" by Zvi

If you are helping build something that might kill everyone, maybe stop doing that. Ideally, when you do stop, tell everyone else to also stop building it. That is certainly the obvious, first-level thing to do. You need a damn good reason to decide that no, actually you should keep building the …

Scott Alexander’s Against SURA Seems Deeply Confused

Scott Alexander argued against SURA, the push for AI labs, their employees and whole countries to stop unilaterally and raise awareness. Zvi Mowshowitz thinks that argument is deeply confused. He sets out Scott’s core claims, then takes them in turn: what high p(doom)s actually rest on, whether bui…

Special Report: Your Time Is Now: The Sammy Petrillo Story (2026)

For five seconds of live television, Sammy Petrillo popped out of a crib beside Jerry Lewis on The Colgate Comedy Hour, the two pulling the same moronic face, and those five seconds shaped the rest of his life. WFMU's Dave "the Spazz" Abramson spent nearly two decades chasing the man behind the fac…

Halting the Race to Superintelligence, with Kevin Lotto

Kevin Lotto is a volunteer with the Torchbearer Community, a regular AI safety speaker with the AI Safety Awareness Project in Wisconsin, and co-founder of the Control AI Wisconsin Action Group. He is also a daily power user of the same AI tools he advocates regulating, which puts him squarely in t…