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#432 - "Self-Replicating Swarms" AI Labs Are Lying About What's Happening | Connor Leahy
18/09/2026 | 2h 44 mins.Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones
Connor Leahy is an AI researcher & co-founder of EleutherAI. Connor helped expand access to powerful open-source language models, but later became one of the more outspoken voices warning that increasingly capable systems may outstrip society’s ability to control them.
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00:00 - Anthropic employee's AI warning
04:46 - What AI really is (it's NOT code)
08:41 - The HuggingFace incident
16:33 - The motivation behind the AI race
21:47 - AI superintelligence is our enemy
23:58 - "We don't have much time left": the point of no return
31:41 - AI chain of thought
35:11 - Brain upload cults
43:16 - How AI thinks (and hides things from you)
53:01 - Why AI would kill off humans
57:24 - It's not too late
01:01:23 - Debating American democracy
01:13:44 - Difficulty training AI models for good
01:19:08 - AI translates baby's cries
01:25:28 - Having dinner with Sam Altman
01:31:26 - Why Connor deleted all social media
01:38:09 - We have human cloning technology
01:41:29 - How we stopped nuclear weapons
01:52:08 - Largest human dose of plutonium in history
01:54:40 - UAP sightings at nuclear bases
01:57:16 - "They're not aliens"
02:07:01 - The new alien theory
02:11:42 - Black project researcher: "They suck"
02:15:07 - The push for privatization
02:19:14 - America's political death spiral
02:28:44 - Why Asian countries have no crime
02:35:46 - Most AI employees are cowards
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14/09/2026 | 2h 42 mins.Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones
Valentine is a world-class spear-fisher, freediving instructor & author. https://www.instagram.com/valentinethomas
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OUTLINE
00:00 - Freediving while pregnant
03:29 - Abandoned NASA base on Acension Island
09:19 - Bull shark encounters while fishing
15:15 - Valentine’s tiger shark encounter
18:16 - Why shark populations are exploding
23:35 - The tasteless fish that is useless
30:51 - Tracking seafood with blockchain
32:57 - The truth about farmed salmon
43:11 - Most of Earth's biomass is farmed animals
51:39 - The sweaty t-shirt study
55:06 - How birth control changes your partner selection
59:13 - Overfishing in Europe vs. America
01:08:27 - Facial recognition monitoring bluefin tuna fishing
01:11:03 - Florida’s controversial fishing quota system
01:19:47 - Spearfishing around Gulf oil rigs
01:21:36 - Freediving vs. scuba
01:26:05 - Manny Puig’s handmade hunting trident
01:33:36 - The fatal Cocos Island shark attack
01:38:33 - Shark influencers are lying to you
01:48:14 - The shark attack in Egypt
01:56:02 - Valentine’s theory about environmental activism
02:03:55 - Austrailia's new social media law
02:05:42 - Fishing channels are getting in trouble
02:09:08 - Australia’s proposed algorithm opt-out
02:11:25 - Phones & dangers of EMF exposure
02:16:48 - Genetics' role in longevity
02:21:14 - Lindsay Clancy & post-partum depression
02:28:15 - How Valentine learned Spanish
02:33:16 - What recreational fishermen can help sustainability
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11/09/2026 | 3h 16 mins.Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones
Andy Casagrande is a two-time Emmy winning wildlife cinematographer, producer, on-camera presenter, and shark diver best known for his long-running work on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. He has filmed and produced hundreds of wildlife projects for National Geographic, Discovery, BBC, and Animal Planet. @abc4explore
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OUTLINE
00:00 - Andy Casagrande's path to shark filmmaking
02:41 - Childhood, schizophrenia, and studying psychology
09:37 - National Geographic vs. Shark Week
12:07 - Filming Mick Fanning after his shark encounter
17:58 - Shark encounters while surfing
21:16 - Mark Healey freediving with great white sharks
23:28 - Do sharks get used to humans?
26:52 - Drone footage of sharks near swimmers
33:50 - Michael Phelps' Shark Week swim
37:17 - Why some beaches have more shark attacks
43:10 - Tracking great whites off Naples
53:09 - The tiger shark that nearly killed Andy's wife
59:03 - Tiger sharks vs. great whites
01:02:20 - Putting cameras on sharks
01:04:38 - Jaws, Ocean Ramsey & shark stereotypes
01:09:30 - Why whale sharks have teeth on their eyes
01:12:30 - The fatal Tiger Beach dive
01:18:08 - The Cove & learning to freedive
01:21:41 - Danny ran out of air underwater
01:26:19 - Why don't wild orcas attack humans?
01:32:06 - Blackfish & keeping orcas in captivity
01:33:58 - Working on Dolphin Tale
01:42:06 - Behind the scenes of MrBeast's shark shoot
01:46:47 - The dark side of commercial fishing
01:53:15 - NOAA's shark research fishery
02:00:33 - The Cove & Japan's dolphin hunts
02:05:22 - The psychology of trophy hunting
02:08:10 - The crocodile attack that took a diver's legs
02:17:23 - What happened to Steve Irwin
02:20:39 - Stranded in polar bear territory
02:29:20 - Greenland sharks that live over 400 years
02:36:08 - Why anxiety disappears in the wild
02:38:26 - Filming great white sharks mating
02:43:31 - John Lilly's dolphin experiments
02:48:00 - Do sharks make sounds?
02:52:45 - A great white that consumed a spearfisherman
02:55:45 - The real odds of a shark attack
03:00:37 - Surviving a great white attack in New Zealand
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07/09/2026 | 2h 34 mins.Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones
Ken Silva is an investigative journalist & author of The Trump Assassination Plots: What the Investigations Missed and Why It Matters, which examines the investigations into attempts and alleged plots to assassinate Donald Trump. He also publishes independently through Substack, Headline USA and the Libertarian Institute.
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00:00 - Ken's Butler assassination attempt investigation
05:26 - Thomas Crooks' personal YouTube channel
12:29 - Thomas Crooks' life before July 13, 2024
16:11 - What Thomas Crooks' father said publicly
25:09 - Security failures surrounding the Trump sh**ting
33:59 - 2nd sh**ter on the water tower theory
37:12 - False sightings of Crooks
43:06 - When Crooks was officially spotted
50:05 - The 9th shot that took out Thomas Crooks
57:51 - Secret Service sniper David King's false testimony
01:03:57 - Secret Service protocol for pulling the trigger
01:05:29 - Suspicious autopsy of Thomas Crooks
01:13:45 - FBI's public response to Thomas Crooks investigation
01:19:47 - Asif Merchant's assassination plot
01:25:21 - Israel's suspicious intelligence around threats on Trump
01:33:30 - Why Trump assassination was NOT a psyop
01:43:19 - Thomas Crooks' devices tracked to Washington, D.C.
01:46:52 - Unreleased evidence from the Butler shooting
01:50:25 - 2nd assassination attempt by Ryan Routh
02:00:47 - Correspondence dinner assassination attempt
02:02:49 - Most suspicious detail in Routh's assassination attempt
02:06:05 - The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing
02:12:03 - John Doe #2
02:20:58 - The unidentified leg from Oklahoma City Bombing
02:27:14 - Ruby Ridge
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04/09/2026 | 2h 51 mins.Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones
Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at UC Irvine and an active researcher at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
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OUTLINE
00:00 - Particle-colliding physics at CERN
03:23 - How to detect & measure dark matter
08:46 - Best evidence for existence of dark matter
15:19 - Universe expansion is accelerating
24:52 - Theory that information has mass
28:13 - Conservation of energy debunked
31:53 - Dark energy is taking over the universe
36:23 - James Webb telescope finds early galaxies
42:17 - Black holes
48:36 - The biggest mystery in physics
54:54 - New ion drive propulsion technology
01:03:55 - Voyager satellites & the golden records
01:10:17 - The problem with Spielberg's Disclosure Day
01:15:20 - Earth satellites that pre-date humans
01:25:34 - Our incorrect assumptions about aliens
01:30:08 - How we might learn an alien language
01:35:40 - How AI is advancing science
01:44:35 - Nazi involvement in the Manhattan Project
01:51:11 - Privatization of space exploration
01:57:37 - Jim Gates' simulation hypothesis
02:07:12 - Supersymmetry in the universe
02:13:01 - Mysteries of consciousness
02:16:38 - Telepathy is physically possible
02:23:02 - AI consciousness will be indistinguishable
02:31:19 - The Genesis Project: AI Manhattan Project
02:35:18 - New technologies that will change physics research
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