David Pearce
speaker
14,416 appearances
53 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 18 Sep
David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 53 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 20.
Appearances
You know the drill.
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He said he's in favor of more government oversight of AI models, but doesn't think it's worth trying to keep foreign models out of the US altogether.
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Thought that was interesting.
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Every AI CEO seems to love a manifesto right now, and I only bring this one up because.
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It's from a CEO whose products are part of so many people's lives every day.
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And actually, because there's one line in here I quite like.
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He says that invention, not automation, will be the greatest contribution of superintelligence.
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I'm into that.
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Meanwhile, big news in App Store World.
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The first non-Google Android App Store is now available in the Play Store.
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It's called Apptoid and it's a game store.
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Android has always supported these third-party app stores, but they came either preloaded.
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Like the Amazon App Store on Fire tablets, or you had to sideload them.
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But after years of legal fighting with Epic, which is the company that makes Fortnite, Google is now required to let those app stores into the Play Store itself.
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This is a big change to the whole app economy.
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And by the way, there's a very similar fight playing out as we speak with Apple and iOS.
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Finally, Verge contributor Georgiana Torbett has a story about a company called Reflect Orbital, which recently won FCC approval to
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To launch a mirror satellite, which is exactly what you think it is, designed to reflect sunlight onto Earth 24 hours a day, either for actual light or to generate solar power.
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Right now it's one satellite, but Reflect wants it to be 50,000.
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Meanwhile, astronomers are worried about light pollution, they're worried about scientific observation, even about what would happen if you pointed your telescope at just the wrong place.
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