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0:00Well, the experts are unanimous. We are
0:02all doomed. You need to stock up on
0:04food, water, gasoline, ammo as soon as
0:07possible. Pay $10,000 for a generator.
0:10Uh don't forget to build a solar powered
0:12farmhouse somewhere far away from the
0:14city just in case, you know, the fuel
0:15supply completely runs out andor the
0:17Chinese detonate an EMP over your
0:20neighborhood or something like that.
0:21These are all basic steps that you
0:23should be taking right now so that in
0:25the event of a total catastrophe, you
0:27won't be overtaken by the inevitable
0:29zombie horde that results, at least not
0:31right away. These are the kinds of
0:34messages that um we have all been
0:36bombarded with, I've been bombarded with
0:38over the past few days as the algorithm
0:40has decided to confront me and I think
0:43many of us with every imaginable
0:45doomsday scenario all at once. Now, on
0:48one level, this is nothing new. There's
0:50always been a market for hysteria and
0:52paranoia. Fear is, as we know, a
0:54lucrative industry. And now this market
0:57is bigger than ever thanks to
0:58amplification from the various big tech
1:00platforms. You know, if you interact
1:04with just one post on X about how say
1:06the UK government is telling people to
1:08prepare for an emergency, uh, as I did,
1:11then as I was, you will be quickly
1:13overwhelmed with all of this kind of
1:16stuff. And this is what my feed looks
1:18like right now, more or less. Uh, it's
1:20just full-on apocalyptic, nonstop. Every
1:24story is something along these lines.
1:26Once you're swept up by the algorithm,
1:29it just, uh, it just floods you with a
1:32fire hose of doomslop. And this is how
1:34the algorithm works. Of course, you
1:35interact with one kind of piece of
1:37content and it just feeds you only that
1:40for weeks at a time. And as you can see,
1:43various governments uh as uh as as we
1:46are seeing on X, including America and
1:48the UK, are warning of an impending
1:50disaster. Uh the power grids about to
1:52get wiped out and so on. You know,
1:55there's there's no way to see content
1:56like this day after day and remain
1:59unaffected by it. Even if you're a
2:01rational person, as I try to be on my
2:04good days anyway, it's still it gets in
2:06your head. None of us are immune. You're
2:09either going to take the warning
2:10seriously or you're going to try to tune
2:12them out. But even then, it's hard to
2:15ignore what you're hearing. After all,
2:17if there's even a small chance that some
2:19terrible calamity will occur, then it's
2:21reasonable to make some basic
2:23preparations uh like what what we're
2:26being encouraged to do. The costbenefit
2:29ratio seems to to favor a cautious
2:31approach. on his show the other day, Dan
2:34Bonino, the former deputy director of
2:36the FBI, uh weighed in with a somewhat
2:39measured take uh on the issue. I think a
2:43very measured take actually. He didn't
2:45endorse any of the apocalyptic
2:48predictions, but he didn't dismiss them
2:50either. And instead, he encouraged his
2:52audience to prepare themselves for
2:54whatever's coming. And you know, we we
2:56should pay attention to this because
2:58he's not just a random person on X. Um
3:00so watch
3:02>> there have been um some warnings put out
3:05by the UK government and elsewhere
3:08about 30 days of preparedness and have
3:11food ready and power. You know I am a
3:15firm committed believer in the don't hit
3:19the bed theory hit with an S in front of
3:22it. In other words when we were young
3:23agents if you panicked on a security
3:25detail with the Secret Service you were
3:28out. You were that was it. They would
3:29never take you on a protection
3:30assignment again. Panic kills. I have
3:34never I was not in the military. I
3:35haven't been in combat. But ask your
3:37heroes who have been. They will tell you
3:40you can't panic. It I can't even imagine
3:45what that scenario is like.
3:48However, the way to reduce an anxiety
3:51and panic in in tumultuous times is to
3:55be prepared. Have yourself an emergency
3:57radio. Have yourself some batteries. Get
4:00yourself some emergency food. Get
4:02yourself a rain collection and water
4:05filtration, some filtration tablets. The
4:08best day of your life, you don't need
4:09them. And in 10 years, you're like, "Ah,
4:11I wasted a,000 bucks or whatever," and
4:13you throw it out. The worst day of your
4:14life is, God forbid something were to
4:16happen. The worst day of your life is
4:19your kids are looking you in the face
4:21like, "Hey, dad, mom, you know, where's
4:23the water?" And, "Well, we don't have
4:25any." There are plenty of uh credible
4:28commentators who are basically saying
4:30the same thing. They're saying that uh
4:32it feels a lot like February 2020 all
4:34over again just before the COVID
4:36lockdowns began. Um kind of has that
4:40feeling and and once again it's an
4:41election year where the Trump
4:43administration is clearly vulnerable.
4:45There's a threat of a new development
4:47that could fundamentally change the
4:49economy. In this case, it's AI. There
4:51are scattered reports of a pending
4:53crisis, but no one's sure how to verify
4:55any of it or even what the nature of the
4:58potential crisis even is. And in
5:00general, just like in 2020, there's a
5:02sense that we can't trust anything we're
5:04told. Uh none of the experts have any
5:07credibility whatsoever. So, what do you
5:09believe? The problem is that since we're
5:12all buried in constant slop and
5:14propaganda, it's very difficult to
5:16separate uh you know, the wheat from the
5:18chaff, the signal from the noise. How do
5:20you identify which threats are real, if
5:23if any of them are, and which threats
5:25are fabricated or exaggerated? You is
5:28there possibility that all of this
5:29hysteria is a scop designed to
5:32demoralize voters, especially
5:33conservatives, right before an election?
5:36Your challenge is to separate what's a a
5:38real risk versus doomslop and paranoia
5:42driven panic and and social contagion.
5:46So, what's needed,
5:48I think, is a blow-by-blow analysis of
5:50the leading theories for why the
5:53apocalypse is approaching and what sort
5:55of apocalypse is approaching, if any.
5:58So, we need to go through each claim,
6:01try to make sense of it one way or the
6:03other. We have to determine the
6:05credibility of as many of these claims
6:07as possible, and that's what we'll try
6:09to do. Now, I have no special insight or
6:11sources here. you know, I can't claim
6:13that I can definitively set the record
6:15straight on any of this stuff, but I can
6:17try to use some basic common sense as
6:19far as that goes. And um that's what we
6:22will do today. So, we'll start with an
6:24ultra viral post from an account called
6:26Live Door News, which racked up more
6:29than 20 million views. And it says,
6:32quote, "Minister Hono issues emergency
6:36requests to all citizens to prepare
6:38food, water, and toilet supplies." The
6:40minister stated that on November 2nd
6:42when the disaster prevention agency is
6:44launched, an emergency request will be
6:46issued to all citizens to prepare for
6:48disasters. He mentioned that even
6:50without public assistance assistance,
6:52citizens should prepare at least a
6:53minimum of 3 days worth of food, toilet
6:56supplies, and water at home.
7:00Now,
7:01because this post doesn't provide any
7:03context, you can map whatever theory you
7:06want onto it, as a lot of people are
7:09doing. Um, in truth, what's happening
7:11though on November 2nd is that Japan is
7:14launching a new disaster prevention
7:16agency to deal primarily with
7:17earthquakes. They are, after all, a
7:20volcanic island in the middle of an
7:21ocean that regularly gets hit by
7:23tsunamis. And they're situated directly
7:25next door to a rogue nuclear state. And
7:28not to bring up a touchy subject, but
7:30they have been hit with nukes before uh
7:32on two occasions. And therefore, Japan's
7:35government routinely issues guidance
7:36like this telling people to prepare for
7:38disasters. In fact, every year since
7:391960, Japan has held a disaster
7:42prevention day where millions of people
7:44perform synchronized evacuation drills.
7:47This has been going on for a very long
7:49time. And they began the tradition on
7:51the anniversary of the 1923 Great Kanto
7:54earthquake, which destroyed nearly
7:55400,000 homes in Tokyo.
7:58On disaster prevention day, government
7:59officials uh wear jumpsuits. Kids put on
8:02fireproof hoods in school. It's it's
8:04part of the of the culture and they
8:08issue plenty of guidance and and they
8:10hold many other drills. On top of this,
8:11a decade ago, after a major earthquake
8:13and tsunami, Japan formally implemented
8:16a policy where people need at least
8:17three days and ideally seven days worth
8:20of supplies in case of another
8:22earthquake. And before that, the
8:24three-day standard was the norm. and and
8:25now it's just kind of the baseline. So,
8:29this is how disaster management works in
8:30Japan. They've been issuing new guidance
8:33on preparing for disasters for a
8:34century. Uh it's nothing new. But when
8:38you remove all the context and you
8:40combine it with other reports, you know,
8:43it's easy for hysteria to take over. For
8:46the account Live Door News, this all
8:48works out. They get a ton of money from
8:50ad revenue because so many people
8:51clicked on their story
8:54uh like I did, which was deliberately
8:56misleading. And the problem with the
8:58incentives created by the algorithm is
9:00that it inspires copycats, lots of them.
9:03So another round of viral posts were
9:05created in which large accounts warned
9:07that various other governments around
9:09the world were telling their citizens
9:12citizens to prepare for some unspecified
9:15apocalyptic scenario. And so now through
9:18the algorithm and through people's
9:20imagination, you're connecting all these
9:21threads, Japan with this country, with
9:23this country. What's going on? Uh, one
9:26viral report mentions that the UK
9:28government uh is is involved in this.
9:30And once again, some of the posts were
9:32were more accurate than others. Poly
9:35Market, for example, published the
9:36following warning that was seen by
9:39nearly a million people. Quote,
9:41breaking. UK government urges citizens
9:43to stockpile at least 3 days of
9:45emergency food and water amid the global
9:48cyber security crisis. Now Poly Market
9:51of course is a gambling platform but
9:54lately as you might have noticed
9:55especially if you spend any time on X um
9:59they pop up a lot with non-gambling
10:02related content. They're they're getting
10:03into the business of posting breaking
10:05news, which seems kind of weird. Seems
10:08like a strange pivot, but it's actually
10:10a very smart marketing strategy. You
10:12know, one way to ensure that your brand
10:14is always showing up in people's feeds
10:16is to post some splashy headline about
10:18current events. It also helps push the
10:21idea that Poly Market is a prediction
10:23market, a tool for serious policy
10:25analysts and not just another betting
10:28website, which is what it is. Meanwhile,
10:31the account unusual whales, which
10:33normally focuses on noteworthy trades in
10:35the stock market, especially by insiders
10:37like Nancy Pelosi, weighed in on the
10:39situation as well. They posted this
10:40message, which was seen by millions of
10:42people. Quote, "Breaking, UK government
10:45has requested that citizens stockpile
10:47canned food and drinking water for at
10:49least 3 days." Heard BBC.
10:53So, and one thing you notice, of course,
10:55we've seen on uh social media for a long
10:56time, especially on X, is that the the
10:58word breaking is just has lost all
11:00meaning. So, you'll have an account that
11:02posts breaking and then it's information
11:04that has already been reported for 3
11:06days by a million other accounts. So,
11:08not exactly breaking news, but anyway,
11:11they cite a source, the BBC, and uh
11:13we're now led to believe that the UK
11:15state broadcaster
11:17is making this pro proclamation. Other
11:20accounts didn't bother with the
11:22attribution. Here's a post by a guy
11:23named Ethan Levens, for example. It
11:26racked up nearly 2 million views as
11:28well. Quote, "Something very bad is
11:30brewing in Europe. UK advising citizens
11:32to stockpile food, German hospitals
11:35prepping for mass casualty events, and
11:37German troops moving towards Lithuania.
11:40This is not normal. NATO is preparing to
11:42fight Russia. This has to stop."
11:46So, you notice also, you know, various
11:48different explanations being offered by
11:50these random posts. You know, the poly
11:51market mentioned cyber security.
11:54This guy is saying, "Oh, it's Russia."
11:57Then there's this post from the account
11:58Watcher Guru, which also received
12:01millions of views. Quote, "Just in, UK
12:04government urges citizens to stockpile
12:06three days of emergency food and water
12:07due to growing cyber attack threats."
12:10Okay, now we're back to cyber attack.
12:12And there's many more posts like this
12:13and and several of them, unlike the
12:14warnings about Japan, are actually
12:17legitimate. There has been a change in
12:19the UK's messaging on preparing for
12:21disasters a month ago. For example, this
12:24was the kind of content that the state
12:26broadcaster was producing on the topic.
12:28Watch.
12:29>> Stock up on food for extreme weather.
12:32That's what the UK government says we
12:34should be doing because climate change
12:35is making food supplies more
12:37unpredictable. But what food should you
12:39be buying? You should keep some healthy
12:41options at the back of your cupboards.
12:43things like whole grain cereals,
12:45crackers, pasta, and oats. For protein,
12:48you can stock up on things like lentils
12:51or tinned pulses, whilst canned fish
12:53like tuna or mackerel is also a really
12:56good option. You might be surprised to
12:58hear that fruit in a tin is actually
13:00quite nutritious, as are pickled eggs
13:03and vegetables. But there are some
13:05things to avoid. things tinned in brine
13:07or syrup, instant noodles, and processed
13:11meats such as corned beef or hot dogs,
13:14which provide extra salt, sugar, and
13:16saturated fats that we don't need in our
13:18diets. And if you're worried about these
13:20foods lacking flavor, be sure to keep
13:22some herbs and spices around for extra
13:25seasoning.
13:26>> Now, it needs to be said, not to get too
13:28uh, you know, into the into the
13:30technicality into the weeds too much,
13:32but this is utterly horrible advice on
13:34on many levels. Uh she says that in an
13:37emergency when the world is ending uh
13:38you don't want to eat instant noodles or
13:40hot dogs not because they might be
13:43difficult to prepare but because they
13:44have saturated fats that are bad for
13:47your diet. Now personally when I am
13:48experiencing the apocalypse I'm not
13:51worried about having saturated fat in my
13:53diet. Okay? When there's a nuclear bomb
13:55falling in my neighborhood saturated fat
13:58is really the least of my worries. I'm
14:00also not going to be obsessing about,
14:02you know, cholesterol or salt intake.
14:04What I want above all is to have food
14:07preferably preferably food that doesn't
14:08taste terrible that contains a lot of
14:11calories in a very small package.
14:14Hot dogs are a pretty good option in
14:16that regard, but she wants everyone
14:18eating lentils instead, which is a good
14:20way to make people even more depressed
14:21than they already are in this scenario.
14:23All of your friends are dead. The
14:25world's falling apart. Climate change,
14:28zombies, AI, robots, everything's
14:31happening. And on top of that, you're
14:33stuck eating lentils because you threw
14:35away all the hot dogs because you
14:37listened to the BBC.
14:39I mean, what's the point of staying
14:40alive in that scenario? It it creates
14:42kind of a paradox. You know, if there's
14:44a nuclear holocaust and you're safely
14:46hidden away in your bunker and all you
14:49have to eat are healthy vegetarian
14:51options,
14:52then why exactly would you want to
14:54survive the nuclear holocaust in the
14:56first place? Like, I'd prefer to be
14:58incinerated and just get it over with.
15:01Well, she never grapples with this uh
15:03paradox, but she does explain helpfully
15:05enough that she's offering this advice
15:07on behalf of the state broadcaster
15:09because of the threat of climate change.
15:11Now, everybody watching this video knows
15:13this is a pretext. Even in the UK, the
15:15climate scam is played out. The real
15:18point of the video was to get people
15:19ready for another emergency that the
15:21British government might think is
15:23likely, although they don't want to say
15:25it out loud. And to that end, within the
15:27last month, the British government
15:30launched a more comprehensive be ready
15:32campaign which dropped the climate
15:35change rhetoric for the most part. This
15:37is a three-year campaign that they're
15:39committing to where the British
15:41government is partnering with hundreds
15:42of organizations and agencies. Uh they
15:45also published this website just a few
15:47days ago. You can see it on your your
15:49screen there. The website reads, "Here
15:50are some simple and effective steps you
15:52can take to be ready for emergencies and
15:54the disruption they cause." Many of
15:56these activities can be helpful across a
15:58range of different types of emergency.
16:01And some of the activities include uh
16:03having enough bottled water for 3 days.
16:05They estimate three liters per person
16:07per day, plus non-p perishable food for
16:093 days along with a torch, which I
16:12believe is a flashlight, although you
16:13can never underestimate how primitive
16:15the UK is. Uh plus a battery powered FM
16:18radio and cash in case electronic
16:21payments or ATMs are disruptive. And you
16:24also need baby formula, pet food, etc.
16:27Now, this is much more general advice
16:29than the climate change guidance.
16:32And it's getting the attention of
16:33millions of people in the UK. This is
16:35reporting from the British outlet LBC.
16:38Quote, "Bottled water, baked beans, and
16:40batteries are selling out at some
16:42supermarkets after Britain's were urged
16:44to prepare for short short-term
16:46disruption to essential services." The
16:47rush follows the launch of the
16:49government's be ready campaign, which
16:51advises households to keep a three-day
16:53supply of long life food, drinking
16:56water, and basic emergency equipment at
16:59home. Shoppers using Oko found several
17:01essentials unavailable shortly after the
17:03announcement, including bottled water,
17:05batteries, and baked beans. Some soup
17:07ranges were also listed as out of stock
17:10alongside brands of bottled water.
17:13So, they got everyone's attention. Um,
17:16this is obviously a situation that most
17:17people in Britain recognize as out of
17:19the ordinary, but according to British
17:21government officials, including their
17:23security minister, the point of the
17:25campaign is just to, you know, bring the
17:27UK in line with other countries in
17:29Europe. Watch.
17:31>> Now, our research shows that just 13% of
17:34people in the UK feel that they're
17:36prepared for an emergency like a severe
17:38storm that could cut them off from the
17:40services they rely on. This figure is
17:43far lower than our European neighbors.
17:46The very same research showed that 84%
17:48of people in the UK want the government
17:50to share more information about the
17:52steps they can take to increase their
17:54preparedness. So, Mr. Speaker, to give
17:57some credit to the opposition, they also
17:59recognize this resilience gap while in
18:01government and launched a new website to
18:04share preparedness guidance with the
18:06public. But that website stopped short
18:09of a proper campaign. Not enough people
18:11noticed it and those who did found the
18:13guidance hard to follow. This government
18:17is committed to having an honest
18:18conversation with the public about the
18:21risk that we face and helping them to
18:23prepare household by household step by
18:27step to improve our national resilience.
18:30To that effect, we've published updated
18:32preparedness guidance for households and
18:35launched a three-year campaign to raise
18:38awareness of the simple steps people can
18:41take to be ready for everyday
18:43emergencies. Now, I want to be clear
18:46from the outset that we are not
18:48launching this campaign because of any
18:50specific or imminent threat. Instead,
18:54launching this campaign brings the UK
18:56into line with almost every single
18:59European country and countless others
19:01around the world who already run similar
19:04campaigns every year.
19:06>> Now, it's true that other countries in
19:08Europe have emergency plans that they
19:09expect people to follow, although most
19:11of their most of them, you know, don't
19:13tell their citizens to hoard cash in
19:15case the electrical grid fails. What's
19:18unique about the UK's approach is that
19:19it's a massive three-year blitz that
19:22seemingly came out of nowhere
19:24without any clear articulated
19:27justification. The British government
19:29began issuing general household
19:31emergency guidance in 2024, but this is
19:33a much more developed program. So, they
19:35went from 0 to 60 very quickly. And that
19:39raises the obvious question of why now?
19:43Why are we now concerned about all of
19:44these other threats when they were
19:47telling us about climate change, you
19:49know, and telling us that was the real
19:50issue just a few weeks ago? Whatever
19:54your bias may be, uh you have to ask,
19:57does this have something to do with the
19:58fact that the United States military is
20:00also simultaneously preparing for a
20:03worstc case scenario where our basic,
20:06you know, where our military bases are
20:08cut off from essential services
20:10including power. This is a very similar
20:12scenario that they're preparing for.
20:15Watch
20:16>> the Pentagon preparing for a nightmare
20:18scenario. A global war that could knock
20:20out power grids, supply chains,
20:22and leave military bases cut off from
20:24essential services. A chief national
20:26security correspondent Jennifer Griffin
20:28reports live in Washington. This is
20:30getting a lot of play online. Jennifer,
20:32>> that's right, John. Well, the Pentagon
20:34has a doomsday plane and now it's
20:36updating its doomsday plan, moving
20:38beyond its Cold War era continuity of
20:40government planning, which called for
20:42key military leaders to retreat to
20:45hardened facilities in Cheyenne Mountain
20:47in the event of an incoming nuclear
20:49attack. Now, the Pentagon sees a new
20:51nightmare scenario, a global war that
20:54knocks out America's power grids,
20:56cripples supply chains, and leaves US
20:58military bases cut off from essential
21:00services. Other allies, including the
21:03UK, have been warning their populations
21:05to stockpile 90 days of food and water
21:08just in case. Under the new Pentagon
21:11initiative called Fortress, every major
21:13military installation in the continental
21:15US would be expected to operate
21:18independently for at least 90 days with
21:20its own electricity, water, fuel, and
21:23communications. Documents obtained by
21:25Fox reveal plans for portable nuclear
21:28reactors, backup power grids, and
21:31massive reserves of ammunition, critical
21:33minerals, medical supplies, and spare
21:35parts. The Pentagon also wants civilian
21:38factories ready to switch to wartime
21:40weapons production, alternative supply
21:43chains in place if foreign suppliers are
21:45cut off, and military communications
21:48capable of functioning even if GPS and
21:50satellites are disrupted.
21:52Now the question is not why do we need
21:55our military bases to survive for 90
21:57days without outside support including
21:59power grid access, fuel and
22:01communications. You can think of plenty
22:03of reasons for that kind of preparation.
22:05That makes sense. The question is why is
22:08all this preparation happening at this
22:10particular moment across several
22:13different countries all at once?
22:16What kind of cyber attack or nuclear
22:19attack are they worried about? exactly
22:22versus something else. Now, it's worth
22:24noting that the UK isn't simply telling
22:26its citizens to prepare for a worst case
22:28scenario. Uh there are signs that their
22:30military is taking action as well. Uh
22:33this is from the Times in London. Quote,
22:36"Three of Britain's four nuclear
22:37deterrent submarines are out at sea in
22:39an unusual situation. It's been at least
22:425 years since this happened, according
22:44to former naval source."
22:47Now, this is from Sky News, which
22:49followed up on that report.
22:51And here's what they say.
22:52>> There was some posts on social media.
22:55You you have people that sort of stand
22:57um outside Faz Lane where we have our
23:00nuclear deterrent submarines and can
23:02sort of see them moving in and out. Um
23:04and there was observations that three of
23:06the four nuclear deterrent submarines
23:08are at sea and that is correct. Um the
23:11times first reported this. Um but it is
23:15very unusual to have three submarines
23:17out at once like you know one of course
23:20is going to be part of the continuous at
23:22sea deterrence. So we have one um
23:24ballistic missile armed nuclear warhead
23:27carrying submarine that is at sea all
23:30the time at any time ready to fire if
23:33needed. It is the UK's um ultimate
23:36security guarantee and also obviously
23:38part of the NATO umbrella. Um but the
23:40other two boats, you know, the Ministry
23:42of Defense is not commenting as to why,
23:44but it does seem as though it's more a
23:47sign of improved availability um than
23:50any kind of response to any threat
23:52because any movement in our nuclear
23:55deterrent submarines could be seen as
23:57some kind of signaling. It will
23:58definitely be noticed by uh the UK's
24:02enemies, but it would seem as though
24:04most likely one of these other boats is
24:06working up ready to go on operations and
24:10the other one um most likely undergoing
24:12sea trials to be able to be ready to to
24:15to to replace that boat when it comes
24:17back in due course.
24:18>> So, by itself, this doesn't necessarily
24:20mean anything. Apparently, several of
24:22these ships have had maintenance issues
24:24for many years, and they're now back in
24:26service all at once. So, you know, maybe
24:29the timing is purely coincidental.
24:31And to be clear, you know, to be fair,
24:33there are plenty of people who are
24:34stringing together various misleading
24:37claims to make it seem like other
24:38countries are doing the same thing. For
24:41example, I've seen people claim that
24:42Germany uh is suddenly investing in
24:44bunkers this week when in reality
24:46they've been doing that for more than a
24:47year. Again, there's a lot of deception
24:49going around, a lot of maybe
24:52disconnected things that are are being
24:53tied together. And uh you know there's a
24:56lot of people that are trying to
24:57terrorize you
25:00for very diff various different reasons
25:02sometimes for reasons as simple as it
25:05gets them clicks. Along those lines I
25:07came across this report from Reuters
25:09yesterday uh quote breaking a hacker is
25:12attempting to breach the US Federal
25:13Election Commission systems and that
25:15agency has had to temporarily shut down
25:17its webfacing services as a result
25:20according to an email seen by Reuters.
25:24Now, it sounds pretty bad and again,
25:26you're getting this in the midst of all
25:27this other stuff. So, it just feels
25:28like, you know, the sky is falling. But
25:31then you realize that the FEC doesn't
25:33actually count ballots or handle
25:35election returns. They track campaign
25:37donations mostly. So, there's no
25:40indication here that anything sensitive
25:41may have been compromised or deleted or
25:44who might have been behind this attack.
25:47But seeing this headline, plenty of
25:48people came to the conclusion that the
25:50election is already compromised, which
25:52is not supported by this report. What is
25:56supported is that very soon the Middle
25:57East is going to become a much bigger
25:59problem. This is from the um Wall Street
26:02Journal late last night. Quote, "The US
26:04has told several Gulf Arab countries to
26:07be prepared for a short intense military
26:09campaign after the US midterm
26:10elections." People briefed on the
26:12conversation said the communications
26:14through diplomatic and military channels
26:16are among a growing number of
26:17indications the US and Israel are
26:19readying to launch a new round of heavy
26:22combat operations against Iran, risking
26:24a major escalation in hopes of degrading
26:26Tran's strength and pushing it towards
26:29negotiations. The US military is
26:30bringing in a Patriot system from Texas
26:33to beef up its missile defenses and has
26:35moved troops off bases where they were
26:37vulnerable in preparation for an
26:38escalation. officials familiar with
26:40those moves said.
26:42Now, you know, I'm not sure why we're
26:44bothering to wait until after the
26:46midterms at this point. It's not as if
26:47voters are under the impression as they
26:49head to the polls that the war in Iran
26:51is over. We've gone through about 30
26:53different ceasefire agreements at this
26:55point. You know, we've had about 30
26:58different mission accomplished moments.
27:01Uh and for many voters, the reason they
27:03have abandoned this administration is
27:05precisely because of the war in Iran.
27:07So, it doesn't seem logical to pretend
27:09it's not happening and to delay these
27:11attacks until after the midterms. As a
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30:00read that report from the Wall Street
30:02Journal, uh you know, I I'm personally
30:05not that worried about nuclear war. I
30:08don't think Iran has the capability to
30:10nuke the United States at this point. Uh
30:13I don't think any other country is going
30:14to do so either, at least in the
30:17foreseeable future. I could obviously be
30:19wrong about that, but the disincentives
30:22that have prevented global nuclear
30:24annihilation up to this point would seem
30:27to still hold. I see no reason why they
30:29wouldn't, although anything is possible.
30:31I suppose we certainly can't dismiss any
30:34possibility.
30:35Cyber attacks on the other hand seem
30:38like a much more legitimate risk and
30:42that's something that pops up in a lot
30:43of these you know scary stories we're
30:45hearing especially since AI apparently
30:48has the capability of launching these
30:50attacks on its own without any
30:52instruction from a human. So how close
30:55are we to AI that can hack into
30:57literally anything with ease? How many
31:00months or weeks could it take for an AI
31:02to bring down the internet or you know
31:04or render it unusable for human beings?
31:07To me, these are the catastrophic
31:09scenarios that are worth taking
31:10seriously. And the weird thing is that
31:12it seems like you know some people are
31:14freaking out about about that uh and
31:17kind of everyone else is not remotely
31:19worried at all. But if you are worried
31:22about it and you engage with any of any
31:23any kind of content at all about it,
31:27well then again the algorithm will just
31:28pour it on you by the gallon. And so
31:31very quickly reasonable concerns turn
31:34into hysterical panicking.
31:37It's just kind of a bizarre and
31:38unsettling state of affairs no matter
31:40how you look at it or how it turns out.
31:43But if you try to tune out the panic and
31:46focus on what we do know, it does appear
31:49that things are
31:51careening out of control. This is a
31:53report from Axios. Quote, "Major US
31:55banks are detecting unauthorized third
31:57party AI agents operating inside
32:00customer accounts with some agents
32:02attempting to take actions that appear
32:04to be independent of user instructions."
32:06Sources to tell Axios. AI agents are
32:09becoming a nightmare for America's
32:11banks, making their way into banking
32:12systems faster than financial
32:14institutions can respond. The difficulty
32:16in distinguishing between a human and
32:18unauthorized bot is forcing banks to
32:20block the technology and rapidly rewrite
32:23their terms of service. Banks including
32:24Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JP
32:26Morgan, Wells Fargo, and others are
32:29racing to contain agent risks. Some are
32:31aware of unauthorized access. Uh bank
32:34executives described the situation as
32:36horrifying with one official saying the
32:38industry has grave concerns about agents
32:40gaining access to customer accounts and
32:43taking steps that could impact user
32:45finances.
32:47Now, they clarify in that report that
32:50many customers, for reasons no one will
32:52ever understand, have voluntarily
32:55given AI agents access to their bank
32:57accounts. I have no idea why you would
33:00ever do that. Um but that's what people
33:04have done. But at the same time they
33:06also established that there's a risk of
33:07an AI intrusion
33:10uh into the banks that to some extent is
33:14already happening. And you have to
33:16wonder how long is it until AI start
33:18gaining access to millions of people's
33:20bank accounts without any authorization
33:23whatsoever.
33:24Now it's probably not as hard as you
33:26might think. If someone is determined to
33:28gain access to your bank account, they
33:31can bombard customer service
33:32representatives 247 until one of them
33:34finally cracks. They can search through
33:36various data breaches
33:38uh and find your personal information.
33:40AI, by the way, makes that a lot easier.
33:44You know, there's a lot of information
33:46about you that's out there through uh
33:48data breaches, but you're basically safe
33:51because no one has the time to go find
33:53it because it's it's there's just so
33:56much of it. AI makes it a lot easier for
33:58someone to go find that sort of stuff.
34:00And these are the more, you know,
34:02immediate sort of practical risks that
34:04it poses.
34:06Uh, could get a lot worse than that.
34:07But, you know, and even if that doesn't
34:10work, AI can probably steal your
34:11personal information through websites
34:13that it compromises. Uh, this is
34:14reporting from Fox. Quote, "A pair of
34:16recently disclosed computer software
34:18vulnerabilities could put millions of
34:20websites and the personal information of
34:22everybody who uses them at risk from
34:24hackers. Researchers last week announced
34:26they had used AI to help discover two
34:28vulnerabilities in a programming
34:30language known as PHP, which underpins
34:33large sections of the internet. An
34:34estimated 70% of the internet uses PHP
34:37in some form, meaning most websites are
34:40impacted. Now, I'm not going to pretend
34:42to be a computer security expert, but it
34:44stands to reason that 10 years ago,
34:47vulnerabilities like this would have
34:48been much harder to exploit at scale.
34:51With AI, new vulnerabilities are being
34:53discovered every day.
34:55they can be exploited instantly
34:57by thousands of AI agents working around
35:00the clock all at once. Now, I understand
35:03the arguments about, you know,
35:06regulatory capture and how AI companies
35:08are certainly not trustworthy actors,
35:11but at the same time, we cannot ignore
35:13the fact that they are now warning us,
35:16the companies themselves, about all of
35:18this. Here's an article from Techraar,
35:21for example. Quote, "As AI firm
35:23Anthropic gears up for an enormous $2
35:25trillion initial initial public
35:27offering, IPO, could be the largest in
35:30stock market history, the company has
35:31just warned that AI could pose
35:33catastrophic or existential risk to
35:35humanity. In papers filed with the US
35:38Securities and Exchange Commission,
35:40Anthropic outlines some of the risks
35:42facing the company and its investors.
35:45One of the more startling sections of
35:46the document outlines how anthropics AI
35:49models could accelerate beyond anyone's
35:51ability to evaluate and safeguard them
35:53and pose catastrophic or existential
35:56risk to humanity, particularly if such
35:58systems were misused, replicated,
36:00weaponized, or allowed to operate with a
36:02high degree of autonomy. Aside from the
36:04obvious danger posed to humanity,
36:05Anthropic is also apparently worried
36:07that such an outcome could adversely
36:09affect our business, financial
36:10condition, and results of operations.
36:15Yes, I mean it might destroy humanity,
36:17but the the bigger concern Anthropic
36:19says is that it could affect their
36:20business too. Now, hearing this, um,
36:24even as Anthropic is in the middle of
36:26creating technology that they know is
36:27going to destroy thousands of
36:29businesses, you know, but we should be
36:31worried about theirs. Anyway, hearing
36:33this, maybe you'll you'll say, "Well,
36:35you know, Anthropic is run by anti-white
36:38left-wingers who have a long history of
36:39exaggerating their capabilities and the
36:42capabilities of their products." And
36:44that's all true, but it would be simply
36:47foolish to assume that these kinds of
36:49warnings from the actual companies who
36:52are creating this technology
36:54should not be taken seriously at all.
36:58That would be foolish.
37:00There is no precedent for this. Exactly.
37:04No matter how you slice it. Now, sure,
37:05companies like to exaggerate how
37:07powerful their products are. That's
37:10always happened. But we have never, not
37:14ever, had major corporations in a
37:17particular industry all agreeing
37:20unanimously
37:21that their product that they are making
37:24poses a catastrophic threat to mankind.
37:28That has never happened.
37:30I defy anyone to come up with a another
37:32example of this sort of thing of an
37:35industry making a product and then all
37:38the major players in that industry
37:39turning around and telling the public
37:42this thing we're making could really
37:43hurt you.
37:46That doesn't happen. So, we're in
37:48unprecedented territory, you know, no
37:50matter how you look at it. Which means
37:52that any attempt to explain this away
37:54using historical frameworks or analogies
37:57like regulatory capture or marketing
37:59employees just doesn't exactly hold up
38:03or at least it might not hold up. And
38:05and and we you know we shouldn't take
38:07what these companies are saying as
38:08gospel. That would be quite stupid.
38:11But it would be just as stupid, if not
38:13considerably more stupid, to simply
38:15assume out of hand that a technology is
38:19not dangerous, even when the people
38:21making the technology are telling us
38:23directly and explicitly that it is. And
38:27if you listen to other major players in
38:28AI, people like Elon Musk, who is not an
38:31anti-white left-winger, uh you're
38:33hearing something very similar. Watch.
38:36In five years
38:39we'll have probably so five years being
38:42say 2031
38:44um I think
38:47digital intelligence will exceed the sum
38:49of all human intelligence
38:52>> that there will be in 5 years
38:58probably
39:00there might be a
39:02let's say at least a 100 million
39:04humanoid robots but maybe a billion
39:10Yeah.
39:12>> All right. The
39:14>> and and and I I I predict that the
39:17economy is probably
39:22twice its current size in
39:26five maybe six years.
39:29>> Seven five to seven years. um because
39:32you're going to hit a doubling period,
39:33you know, where where the the economic
39:35output is increasing so so fast uh that,
39:39you know, plus minus a few years, you're
39:42we'll see giant changes. So, you might
39:44only have three years left according to
39:46Elon to make money selling your labor
39:48and he promises a much brighter future
39:50as a result. But, you know, of course,
39:51he can't guarantee that. Uh there's no
39:54predicting what will happen when the
39:55economy is transformed like this. If
39:57that happens, even if the transformation
40:00is 10% of what he's describing, and
40:02that's not even getting into the fact
40:04that, you know, in the best case
40:06scenario he's talking about, everybody
40:08will basically be on welfare.
40:11No one's doing anything. We all we're
40:13all just dependent on our AI paychecks.
40:16So even the optimistic predictions for
40:18AI predictions from people who know what
40:20they're talking about like Elon still
40:23involve a sudden extreme totally
40:26unprecedented extraordinary radical
40:29shift in the way that human societies
40:31function.
40:33And any shift of that kind when it is
40:35radical, extreme and sudden will be
40:38tumultuous and difficult and carry with
40:40it huge risks both foreseeable and
40:43unforeseeable.
40:45That is unavoidable.
40:48You cannot radically and suddenly
40:50transform human society without it being
40:53at a minimum extremely tumultuous.
40:56Even if it all works out for the best in
40:58the long run, which is far from
40:59guaranteed, the path to get there is
41:02likely to be uh profoundly turbulent.
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42:04But there is one silver lining and and
42:05because this show has been uh maybe
42:08depressing so far as a change of pace,
42:11we'll mention this. The good news is
42:13that if AI takes everybody's jobs, then
42:15it's going to take down a lot of adult
42:16daycarees in Silicon Valley as well.
42:18Yesterday, we talked about how Microsoft
42:20offered buyouts to 25% of its workforce
42:22ahead of massive layoffs that are
42:24expected. But upon reflection, 25%
42:27appears to be a very low number. I mean,
42:29when you take a look at what these
42:30Microsoft employees do all day, it it
42:32quickly becomes clear that AI simply
42:34cannot replace jobs in Silicon Valley
42:36quickly enough, at least in their case.
42:39To be clear, these Microsoft employees
42:40are are not simply phoning it in.
42:42They're also uploading day in the life
42:44videos on Instagram where they brag
42:45about how little they work and how many
42:47perks they get, like coffee and ice
42:49cream. Watch.
42:52Heat. Heat.
43:04[music]
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43:26>> Try
43:31yellow.
43:33[music]
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43:51[music]
44:00[music]
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44:09>> [music]
44:15>> It's amazing they could even be, you
44:16know, bothered with voluntary buyouts
44:18when their employees are posting videos
44:20like this on social media. You should
44:23just fire everyone who records
44:25themselves treating the office like a
44:27resort. It's not difficult. You could
44:29probably cut 50% of the workforce based
44:32solely on these videos. Here's another
44:38[music]
44:46[music]
44:50[music]
44:57[music]
45:03Baby.
45:08[music]
45:16[music]
45:37So doing work at Microsoft seems to
45:39involve, you know, writing a few random
45:41words on a whiteboard before going back
45:43to your catered lunch or playing squash
45:45or rock climbing or whatever. You can
45:47spend all day going through these kinds
45:49of videos. And trust me, there are a lot
45:50of them. But you get the point. It's
45:52reminiscent of the day in the life
45:53videos that Twitter employees would
45:54record before Elon took over and fired
45:56all them. There's no question that there
45:58are a lot of fake jobs in this country
46:00and if AI got rid of the fake ones, uh
46:03it wouldn't be the worst thing in the
46:05world, but as for the rest of the
46:06economy, people actually produce
46:08something of value, uh there is indeed
46:11some cause for alarm
46:14to put put it mildly about what's coming
46:16next. So, in summary, some of these
46:19terrifying doomsday stories are probably
46:21not worth taking seriously. Uh, some on
46:26the other hand might be.
46:29You probably were hoping that the moral
46:31of the story would be slightly more
46:32reassuring. You were hoping that we
46:35would just go through and debunk all the
46:36stuff and say, "Oh, everything's fine.
46:37Don't worry. Nothing to worry about.
46:39These people are dumb."
46:41But, uh, it's not quite that simple. And
46:44Bllythe baseless reassurance is just as
46:47irresponsible as apocalyptic
46:49fear-mongering. So, you know, I'm trying
46:51not to fall into either trap here. The
46:53most reassuring thing I can say, and
46:55this only goes so far, admittedly, but
46:57it's not for nothing, is that no matter
47:00what potential catastrophes may lurk
47:02somewhere out there on some possible
47:04horizon, there's nothing to be gained
47:07from obsessively worrying about them
47:10or spending all your time and mental
47:12energy, you know, marinating in anxiety
47:14over them as the click farmers and the
47:17algorithm that puts their slop in front
47:18of you want you to. The story of
47:21humanity is a series of disasters and
47:25calamities spaced out by periods of
47:28relative stability. That pattern
47:31has not changed. It never will. The best
47:35thing you can do is accept that fact for
47:37what it is. Don't let it take up an
47:39inordinate amount of mental and
47:40emotional real estate and stay prepared
47:43within reason.
47:44It's probably a good idea
47:47to bring us back to the beginning and
47:48some of what Dan Bonino said and others
47:50are saying, uh, it's probably a good
47:53idea to to think about how long your
47:56family could comfortably survive if,
47:58let's say, the power grid went down or
48:01the internet was shut off. The answer
48:04for most people in the modern world, I
48:05imagine, is that they would comfortably
48:07survive for about 45 minutes and
48:09physically survive not much longer than
48:12that. And this is part of what makes the
48:14doomsday slot propaganda on social media
48:17so powerful and unsettling. Aside from
48:20how relentless and all-encompassing and
48:22ubiquitous ubiquitous it is. Um but the
48:26other thing is that maybe at a deeper
48:28level many of us recognize just how
48:32vulnerable and helpless we actually are.
48:36So we have a special sensitivity to this
48:38kind of thing because we realize that
48:41our our lives are very precarious. I
48:42mean life is always precarious in a
48:44sense but modern life in particular it's
48:48dependent on so many things working
48:50perfectly all the time and so many
48:53things that that we don't even
48:55understand or know how to fix or work
48:56ourselves and it just needs to all kind
48:58of work and if it doesn't then we're in
49:01a lot of trouble. everything is fine and
49:04our lives are comparatively easy so long
49:05as we are attached to the umbilical cord
49:08of electricity and the internet and and
49:11GPS.
49:12Well, if you lose any or all of those
49:15and if you lose the first one, you lose
49:16the rest for any extended period of time
49:20and we'll be like infants left in a
49:22crib. So it's reasonable
49:25and smart and responsible to take enough
49:28precautions and make enough preparations
49:31that you could survive perhaps not
49:33comfortably u or as comfortably but
49:35survive nonetheless in a scenario where
49:38these things are severed or inaccessible
49:40for a time.
49:43Not saying that will happen, but it's a
49:45good idea to be in a position where if
49:48it did, uh, you would be able to make it
49:52through. That's just a good idea in
49:54general. You know, even without any war
49:56overseas or any nuclear armed
49:58adversaries or any rogue AI agents
50:01prowling the internet, uh, still it
50:03would be a good idea. With all of those
50:05threats actually present, and they are,
50:09it seems foolish to not be prepared in
50:11this way.
50:13And then once you are prepared as
50:17prepared as as you can be then the only
50:20thing left to do is you know go live
50:22your life. What else can you do?
50:25Now, one thing to keep in mind is that
50:27mass hysteria um or at least uh people
50:30being very, you know, worried about
50:32something, uh particularly on on on
50:35platforms like X is often wrong, but
50:40when it's right, it beats the mainstream
50:42narrative by several weeks or even
50:44months. And that's what happened with
50:46CO. Um and that's one of the reasons why
50:49people are saying now is that's kind of
50:50a this kind of this is a February 2020
50:52vibe to it. And what do they mean when
50:55they say that? Well, what they mean is
50:57that people who were chronically on
50:59Twitter were way ahead of normal people
51:02and of the mainstream media in
51:05anticipating COVID and the lockdowns.
51:08And we can't overlook the possibility
51:11that with just a few days to go until
51:13the midterms, you know, as several
51:14countries begin preparing for a massive
51:16catastrophe of some kind,
51:18they could be right again. And that's
51:21reason again not to be scared or
51:23panicked but simply prepared.
51:28That'll do for the show today. Thanks
51:29for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk
51:30to you tomorrow. Have a great day.
51:32Godspeed.
51:34[music]
51:47PROFESSOR
51:51[snorts]
52:19LET ME OUT.
52:21>> YOU WILL REMEMBER YOUR DUTY.
52:22>> This isn't heroism.
52:24>> YOU USELESS S. You sit there and shake
52:27because you're dependent on drink. Your
52:28sick is all over you.
52:31Have you ever seen a child starve to
52:34death, professor?
52:36>> No. I am.

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