Top Mathematicians Face Irrelevance, a 7-Year-Old's P(Doom) + The “Off Switch" Debate — Livestream May 29

Liron explains the 80-year-old Erdős conjecture that a GPT model breakthrough, Scott Aaronson ponders "the last days of human relevance”, multiple live callers debate me, plus my 7-year-old son drops in to share his P(Doom)!

Timestamps

00:00:00 — Cold Open

00:00:42 — First Donation & “Why Is a Duck?”

00:02:54 — Can AI Draw “Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously”?

00:08:26 — Doom Debates Sponsors Less Online — Be Our Intern

00:10:43 — Who We Still Need to Get on the Show

00:26:44 — Claude Opus 4.8 & the Rising Waterline of Intelligence

00:28:48 — The 80-Year-Old Geometry Conjecture a GPT Model Cracked

00:44:50 — My 7-Year-Old Ezra Joins: ChatGPT, Minecraft & His P(Doom)

00:58:46 — How the AI Actually Beat Erdős’s Grid

01:03:50 — Scott Aaronson: “The Last Days of Human Relevance”

01:07:53 — Why the Foom Is Taking Years, Not Hours

01:10:47 — Is Ori Just a Yes Man?

01:12:41 — Does P = NP + AI?

01:23:43 — METR’s Beth Barnes: “We Are Not On Top Of It”

01:28:31 — Liron’s Vibe Coding Confession

01:31:21 — Alverin Joins: Can We Wait, Then Hit the Off Switch?

01:48:01 — AI in a Box & the Super-Persuasion Threshold

02:06:24 — Brian Joins: The Ways It Could Go Right

02:11:30 — Jack Joins: How Fast Will the Foom Be?

02:18:48 — 80,000 Hours, Inventing Erdős Problems & Holly Elmore’s Warning

02:29:42 — Wrap-Up

Links

LessOnline 2026 — June 5–7, Berkeley — https://less.online/

Manifest 2026 — June 12–14 — https://manifest.is/

Shtetl-Optimized — “Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance” — https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9782

Global Call for AI Red Lines (Bengio, Hinton, Harari) — red-lines.ai

Order the 80,000 Hours book — Benjamin Todd (Penguin) — https://80000hours.org/book/

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