Thomas Pacchia joins me to discuss why the world feels fake, why trust in institutions is collapsing and why AI may make the crisis far worse before it helps solve it.
Thomas explains why politics, media, censorship, government waste, algorithmic manipulation and broken public services are pushing people into a world where almost nothing feels reliable. We discuss America’s political divide, Britain’s failing state, welfare traps, the blob, free speech, the collapse of trust and why so many people feel trapped inside systems they no longer believe in.
We also get into Peter’s AI project Show Us Receipts, how AI could be used to fact-check politicians and government contracts, why centralised platforms can still control what people see, and why Thomas believes decentralisation, self-sovereignty, privacy, Bitcoin, churches and pubs may be the only realistic way back to something human.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - AI Psychosis
00:01:02 - The Fake World
00:02:28 - A Global Reset
00:04:11 - Is America Recovering?
00:08:36 - The Blob
00:11:40 - Collapse and War
00:13:30 - Brother Against Brother
00:15:11 - Broken Incentives
00:16:20 - Killing Productivity
00:19:27 - Money in Politics
00:25:00 - Politics as Team Sport
00:28:53 - Where Does This Lead?
00:30:51 - Were Libertarians Right?
00:33:16 - Building Parallel Systems
00:36:23 - Most People Are Trapped
00:45:27 - What Has Got Better?
00:47:19 - Britain’s Broken State
00:57:17 - Show Us Receipts
01:01:40 - Censored Platforms
01:07:52 - Churches and Pubs
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