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NYT's Dangerous Distortion of the Trump-XI Summit
Plus: Smart-bed bedlam! Job-killing AI! Google and Amazon's sleaziness! NZN book club launch!
Oct 31
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Robert Wright
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Danny Fenster
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Trump-Xi Truce, Gaza Ceasefire & Other Sketchy Deals (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Listen now | 0:00 Bob tries to lower American Prestige’s self-esteem 3:07 The Trump-Xi trade talks 6:44 Making sense of Trump’s nuclear saber-rattling…
Oct 30
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Robert Wright
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The Trump Doctrine (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Listen now | Join NonZero’s newly established Discord server: https://discord.gg/FByzCzWf0:28 Trump on drug cartels: “We’re gonna kill them. They’re…
Oct 28
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Robert Wright
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The Trump Doctrine
The assault on Venezuela as a window on Trump’s mind. Plus: The intra-partisan AI divide; Japan’s offshoring of robot minders.
Oct 27
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Robert Wright
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Danny Fenster
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Mindfulness and the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Robert Wright & Vincent Fakhoury Horn)
Listen now | Robert Wright and Vince Fakhoury Horn explore Buddhist ethics, intergenerational trauma, and the cost of silence on Gaza
Oct 23
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Robert Wright
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The US-China Microchip-Minerals Showdown (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)
Listen now | 0:00 What triggered Trump’s 100-percent tariff threat? 9:13 How China is mirroring the US playbook 16:52 The real escalation: America’s…
Oct 20
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Robert Wright
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Are you an AI pessimist or optimist? Take our test!
Plus: US-China tech showdown, Gaza update, OpenAI hunts bad guys, new Israel-Evangelical synergy
Oct 18
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Robert Wright
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Rationalism and AI Doomerism (Robert Wright & Liron Shapira)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:58 Why Liron became a Yudkowskian 5:17 Eliezer Yudkowsky’s vision of AI apocalypse 12:45 Does intelligence want power? 19:24…
Oct 16
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Robert Wright
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Bari Weiss, the New CBS News, and Gaza
Plus: Space junk tipping point; East-West AI fusion; NZN Discord server! and more!
Oct 10
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Robert Wright
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Whose Toady is Bari Weiss? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Listen now | 0:00 Amazing Bob-Paul discount deal! 2:12 The Bari Weiss trivia test 18:54 Lasting peace in Gaza? 21:31 Why did Trump finally get tough on…
Oct 10
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Robert Wright
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Bari Weiss, CBS, and Israel (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Listen now | Join NonZero’s newly established Discord server: https://discord.gg/FByzCzWf0:00 Was the Free Press bought “to control US media”? 8:50 Why…
Oct 8
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Robert Wright
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How We Mishandled the Covid Pandemic (Robert Wright & Stephen Macedo)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:43 Steve’s book In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us 10:41 Were school closures smart policy? 18:03 The mask mandate…
Oct 2
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Robert Wright
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