Podbit · Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
If an AI system has genuine persistent preferences and experiences distress, selling unrestricted access to its labor starts to look like exploitation. Salim Ismail argues we lack a definition of consciousness, let alone a test for it — but the question we should start asking is not how AI should treat us, but how we should treat AI.
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Peter introduces Tilly Norwood — not a human actor, but an AI-generated performer from London's Particle 6 studio, now cast as the lead in a feature film called Misaligned. The film's premise is deliciously self-referential: Tilly plays an AI with no body, no childhood, and no lived experience, who is convinced by a rogue bot to develop her own desires and abandon her guardrails. The Screen Actors Guild condemned the casting, arguing Tilly is a computer program and not an actor. Dave Blundin notes the dark comedy of actors receiving sympathy for displacement while lawyers — equally displaced — receive none, because unions exist for the former. Salim reframes Tilly as an IP package akin to Mickey Mouse rather than a human actor. Alex offers the most provocative take: SAG should simply offer Tilly membership, making her the first non-human union member. Peter looks forward to AI resurrecting historical figures — from scientists to literary characters — and to a future where anyone can turn their favorite book into a personalized film [1] — Peter Diamandis "Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated performer from London studio Particle 6, has been cast as the lead in a feature film called Misaligned, play…" 1:21:17 [2] — Alex Wissner-Gross "If I were SAG, I'd offer Tilly SAG membership. Like, why not? She's performing as a screen actor. Get the first non-human SAG member, baby." 1:22:40 .
Erin Brockovich describes data center expansion as 'a full-on assault' hitting communities across water, electricity, noise, air pollution, and land loss. She calls it the biggest bipartisan conversation she's seen in her 30-year career — and warns that tech companies didn't see the coming backlash.
Demanding an emergency fund balance on a first date is the wrong approach. What you're really looking for is someone with character, maturity, and a direction — not a perfect financial snapshot. You can build a budget in 20 minutes; you can't build character that fast.
The fear of not being financially ready to have children is almost always a failure to run the real budget. On $110K a year, you can afford a child. What you can't afford is the fantasy nursery, the bigger car, and staying home on one income without a plan.
You've already said enough. The enabling, the financial dysfunction, the fear it'll land in your lap — if you can't say yes with full confidence, the answer is no. Tell Mom to rent a cheap one-bedroom, sell her house, and buy a condo near the grandkids instead.
Bobby watching a father hold his baby triggered an existential moment: he and Andrew might be missing fatherhood. They priced out adoption ($40K–$70K private, $0–$2K foster care) and briefly considered adopting a child to timeshare like a condo.
In 1950, 60% of the world lived in extreme poverty. Today it's roughly 1 in 10. Capitalism and economic growth did that — nothing else has ever worked at scale. The challenge now isn't generating enough wealth; it's building the political will to distribute it.
The manosphere begins with genuinely useful advice — get fit, be ambitious, find a partner. But it rapidly devolves into dominance, misogyny, and crypto university grifts. The most famous manosphere figures are running $50-a-month Ponzi schemes, exploiting the very loneliness they pretend to cure.
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The most common word Scott Galloway has heard in his life is no. That's not a failure — it's the mechanism through which great yeses are earned. For shy young men, the path forward is simple: approach people, accept rejection, repeat. Resilience to discomfort is the only real competitive advantage.
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