Liam Robins is a math major at George Washington University who recently had his own "AGI awakening" after reading Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness. I met him at my Manifest 2025 talk about stops on the Doom Train. In this episode, Liam confirms what many of us suspected: pretty much everyone in college is cheating with AI now, and they're completely shameless about it. We dive into what college looks like today: how many students are still "rawdogging" lectures, how professors are coping with widespread cheating, how the social life has changed, and what students think they’ll do when they graduate. * 00:00 - Opening * 00:50 - Introducing Liam Robins * 05:27 - The reality of college today: Do they still have lectures? * 07:20 - The rise of AI-enabled cheating in assignments * 14:00 - College as a credentialing regime vs. actual learning * 19:50 - "Everyone is cheating their way through college" - the epidemic * 26:00 - College social life: "It's just pure social life" * 31:00 - Dating apps, social media, and Gen Z behavior * 36:21 - Do students understand the singularity is near? Show Notes Guest: * Liam Robins on Substack - https://thelimestack.substack.com/ * Liam's Doom Train post - https://thelimestack.substack.com/p/my-pdoom-is-276-heres-why * Liam’s Twitter - @liamrobins Key References: * Leopold Aschenbrenner - "Situational Awareness" * Bryan Caplan - "The Case Against Education" * Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten * Jeffrey Ding - ChinAI Newsletter * New York Magazine - "Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College" Events & Communities: * Manifest Conference * LessWrong * Eliezer Yudkowsky - "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" Previous Episodes: * Doom Debates Live at Manifest 2025 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=detjIyxWG8M Doom Debates’ Mission is to raise mainstream awareness of imminent extinction from AGI and build the social infrastructure for high-quality debate. Support the mission by subscribing to my Substack at DoomDebates.com and to youtube.com/@DoomDebates Get full access to Doom Debates at lironshapira.substack.com/subscribe
