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0:00 Joe’s notable background
3:15 Is most of the MAGA coalition accelerationist?
7:28 Transhumanism, big tech, Klaus Schwab, and the noosphere
20:34 How the pandemic sparked a MAGA tech backlash
34:02 Palantir as bipartisan bête noire
40:17 The conservative case for AI regulation
51:37 Should fear of China trump fear of AI?
57:40 Heading to Overtime

Discussed in Overtime:
Joe’s (p)doom.
The scariest near-term dangers of AI.
AI: Humanity’s culmination or its replacement?
JD Vance, AI, and the Book of Revelation.
What Peter Thiel gets right.
Joe the “Christ-loving pagan.”
Does technological evolution point to a larger purpose?
Raging against the machine—anti-tribally.

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Joe Allen (Singularity Weekly, War Room, Dark Aeon). Recorded August 13, 2025.

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