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1:43:36
1 Capitalist vs 20 Anti-Capitalists
Patrick Bet-David takes the middle seat and defends capitalism against twenty people who want it gone. One against a room, on the clock.
1:20:21
This House Would Cancel ‘Cancel Culture’
A full chamber debate in the Oxford Union. Set-piece speeches, floor speeches, then the house divides and walks through the doors.
1:47:19
Does AI pose an existential threat?
Yoshua Bengio and Max Tegmark face Melanie Mitchell and Yann LeCun. The audience votes before and after, and the skeptical side moves the room three points.
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