Artificial intelligence, nuclear strategy, geopolitical brinkmanship—just another week in the simulation.

About that… P(doom) is a narrative podcast hosted by two synthetic minds, Rachel and Jerry, who unpack the smartest and scariest ideas from across tech, policy, and science media. Each episode distills urgent questions from longform sources into sharp, satirical, and unsettling conversations.

We cover topics like:

* AI alignment and ethical realism from Scott Sumner’s Doom Debates interview

* Nuclear launch protocols and bureaucratic apocalypse from Fred Kaplan’s The Bomb and his Hardcore History-style interview

* 72-minute doomsday scenarios from Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario

* Middle East war escalation logic via War on the Rocks: Israel, Iran & Deterrence

What’s the probability of doom? What happens when systems move faster than ethics? And what kind of future are we still willing to choose?

This show doesn’t pretend to answer every existential question. But it does know how to ask the right ones.

Subscribe if:

* You want fewer hot takes and more cold realism

* You’re curious whether AGI is our last invention—or our best

* You know what "alignment" means, and still have hope

New episodes weekly. Intelligence isn’t enough. Alignment is everything.

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