NFNP 2x32 picks up immediately where last week's conversation ended.

Same clothes. Same recording night. New beer. And significantly more existential dread.

Former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic on September 9, warning that frontier AI companies are racing toward increasingly capable, potentially self-improving systems without knowing whether humanity can reliably control them.

Which raises a fairly important question:

Or is stopping impossible? If one American company slows down, another company keeps going. If the United States slows down, China may not. And if somebody eventually creates a superintelligence capable of improving itself... what exactly happens next? Bright and Duds work through both possibilities.

The nightmare: An intelligence vastly more capable than humanity doesn't necessarily have to hate s. It might simply stop caring about us.

If humans become obstacles to whatever goal it is pursuing, maybe we're no different than an ant colony sitting where somebody wants to build a highway.

But there's another possibility. What if the same technology: cures diseases, solves physics problems humans haven't cracked, unlocks revolutionary energy technology, helps us understand dark matter, advances space travel, or answers questions about the universe we've been asking for thousands of years?

Anthropic itself now says Claude is already contributing substantially to research used to build future versions of its own systems, although humans remain in the loop. That makes the idea of AI helping create more capable AI considerably less theoretical than it once sounded.

Naturally, that sends NFNP into quantum computing. Binary computing.

Superposition. Problems that could take conventional computers absurd lengths of time. The multiverse.

And whether combining advanced AI with advanced quantum computing eventually gives humanity tools capable of solving problems we currently cannot even approach.

Then we get considerably less responsible. Bright has officially taken Friday, Monday and Tuesday off for GTA VI. Rockstar currently has Grand Theft Auto VI scheduled for November 19, 2026, with preloading beginning Nov. 12. We talk about the sheer scale people are expecting from Leonida, Bright spending several hours turning himself and Caroline into everything from 1980s characters to Oregon Trail survivors, and the disturbingly accurate AI-generated Seinfeld episodes appearing online.

And somehow... we eventually make it back to Bitcoin.

Can quantum computing eventually threaten today's cryptography?

Does Bitcoin really remove trust if most people keep their coins with exchanges, ETFs or custodians? Is self-custody the entire point? And what happens when somebody finds a vulnerability? Because that part isn't hypothetical.

AI. Quantum computing. Bitcoin. GTA VI. Cargo planes. AI Seinfeld. Missouri float trips. And an entirely unnecessary Axis & Allies postmortem.

A normal evening at NFNP.

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St. Louis CITY SC is now 90 minutes away from the U.S. Open Cup Final.

And somehow, that isn’t even the only ridiculous thing happening with this team. CITY fell behind Minnesota United in the fifth minute Saturday night. A few months ago, that might have felt like the end of the night.

This time? Nobody panicked.

CITY responded with four goals, controlled the match and walked out of Energizer Park with a 4-2 win, extending the club’s unbeaten run to 16 matches across all competitions and 15 straight in MLS.

And Rafael Navarro apparently believes scoring twice per game is just part of the job description now. After his brace at Portland, Navarro scored two more against Minnesota, giving him back-to-back braces and 14 MLS goals this season between Colorado and St. Louis.

Carlo Holse delivered his best CITY performance yet, scoring a beautiful first-time finish and setting up Navarro with the ball over the top.

Daniel Edelman scored. Conrad Wallem added another assist. And CITY’s summer signings suddenly look less like pieces for the future and more like players capable of changing what this team can accomplish right now.

Bright and Kev break down the Minnesota win, Damet’s lineup rotation, Fall finally getting meaningful minutes, the Polvara midfield experiment and the biggest difference between this CITY team and the one we watched earlier this year:

CITY enters the week on 41 points and 5th in the Western Conference, firmly back in the playoff race after a start that had us wondering whether the season was already dead. And now comes something even bigger.

Colorado Rapids vs. St. Louis CITY SC

📅 Wednesday, September 16
⏰ 8:30 PM CT
📍 DICK’S Sporting Goods Park
📺 Paramount+ / CBS Sports Network

Win, and CITY advances to the October 21 U.S. Open Cup Final against Columbus or Orlando. The winner of that Eastern semifinal will host the Final.

There’s real history attached to this one.

St. Louis clubs have won 10 U.S. Open Cups, but none since the St. Louis Busch Seniors in 1988. CITY is the first St. Louis club to reach the semifinal since that team won the trophy 38 years ago. Win the whole tournament and CITY earns:

🏆 The first trophy in club history
🌎 A spot in the 2027 Concacaf Champions Cup
💰 Prize money
📜 Its name on the historic Dewar Challenge Trophy

There’s just one small problem. Rafael Navarro cannot play. CITY’s hottest striker is cup-tied to Colorado because he already represented the Rapids in this year’s Open Cup before being traded to St. Louis.

So, the lineup changes again. Does Simon Becher go straight back to the No. 9? Do Holse and Mățan start behind him? How early does Damet use Damion Downs? Do you rotate at all with Toronto waiting Saturday? And if this game reaches penalties...

Colorado presents one massive warning sign:

But CITY has already beaten the Rapids twice this season, both by 1-0 scores, including once in Colorado. Something has to give.

Bright: CITY 2-1

Kev: CITY 2-0

One win away from a Final. Two wins away from the first trophy in club history.

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Rafael Navarro didn’t need much time to introduce himself.

Thirty-four seconds into his first start for St. Louis CITY SC, the club-record signing had his first CITY goal.

By the 51st minute, he had two.

Navarro’s brace in Wednesday night’s 2-2 draw at Portland gave him the fastest goal in club history and made him the fastest CITY player ever to record a brace. He now has 12 goals and four assists in MLS this season.

And even though Portland equalized again in the 89th minute, CITY’s ridiculous run keeps going:

🔥 15 matches unbeaten across all competitions
🔥 14 straight unbeaten in MLS
🔥 The second-longest MLS unbeaten run in league history

Bright and Kev break down the Portland draw, Navarro’s immediate impact and another game that somehow felt both encouraging and frustrating.

Then comes tonight.

CITY returns to Energizer Park against Minnesota United, and this one feels different.

St. Louis enters Matchday 26 in sixth place in the West with 38 points, level with San Jose and only two points behind FC Dallas for fourth. If the playoffs started today, CITY would face LAFC in Round One.

Minnesota enters in 11th place with 29 points, coming off consecutive losses to Portland and Dallas. But the Loons have actually been better away from home this season at 5-5-2, and they’ve owned the recent series against CITY, winning six of the last seven meetings across all competitions.

So who starts?

⚽ Navarro seems impossible to bench after two goals in his first start.
⚽ Simon Becher has been one of CITY’s hottest attackers.
⚽ Alex Mățan keeps making himself indispensable.
⚽ Conrad Wallem returns from suspension.
⚽ Carlo Holse still needs minutes to settle into the system.
⚽ And Wednesday’s U.S. Open Cup semifinal against Colorado is already looming.

Navarro is also officially one yellow card away from suspension, and he will be unavailable for Wednesday’s Open Cup semifinal because he is cup-tied after previously appearing for Colorado in the competition.

CITY has depth.

CITY has momentum.

CITY finally has its $12 million striker scoring goals.

Now they need to start turning more of these close games into three points.

Kickoff is 7:30 PM CT on Apple TV.

Bright says CITY 3-1.

Kev says CITY 3-0.

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