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Plus: US-China arms-selling race; AI impact grows.
Jan 31
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Robert Wright
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The Grand Unified Theory of MAGA (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Listen now | 0:00 MAGA as a coherent global phenomenon 8:46 Narrative vs. material forces behind MAGA 18:00 Mark Carney and the hypocrisy of the…
Jan 31
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Robert Wright
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The Case Against AI (Robert Wright, Alex Hanna, and Emily Bender)
Listen now (71 mins) | 0:00 Teaser 0:59 Alex and Emily’s book, The AI Con 5:05 Beyond the AI booster-doomer spectrum 10:27 What—and who—is AI actually…
Jan 27
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Robert Wright
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Which AI Titan should you root for?
Plus: Graph of the week and Quote of the week (with searing commentary)
Jan 24
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Robert Wright
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The Trump Foreign Policy Roller Coaster (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Listen now | 0:00 A recap of January’s Trump turbulence 4:52 Is Trump a cause or symptom of world disorder? 13:09 Is Trump increasingly unstable? 15:41…
Jan 23
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Robert Wright
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AI After Us: The "Succession" Scenario (Robert Wright & Dan Faggella)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:07 Defining AI succession 3:51 How positive psychology led Dan to AI research 11:20 Is Dan a “successionist”? 17:40 Does it…
Jan 20
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Robert Wright
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The Iranian Blood on Trump's (and Biden's) Hands
Plus: AI escalation; Bari Weiss watch; the Renee Good effect.
Jan 17
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Robert Wright
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The Past and Future of Digital Media (Robert Wright & Mike Pesca)
Listen now | 0:00 Are Bob and Mike the godfathers of podcasting? 5:46 Slate and the origins of podcasting 9:12 NotebookLM’s humanless podcasts 13:41…
Jan 15
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Robert Wright
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The Minneapolis Shooting Rorschach Test (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:06 Different readings of the Renee Good videos 15:04 JD Vance vs Stephen Miller: compare and contrast 18:55 Trump vs Hitler…
Jan 13
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Robert Wright
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Some useful Trump-Hitler comparisons (in light of Minneapolis and Venezuela)
Plus: AI updates and the graph of the week
Jan 10
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Robert Wright
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AI Consciousness: The Hard Problem (Robert Wright & Cameron Berg)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:03 Cameron’s work at AE studio 6:21 Why consciousness is such a hard problem 10:49 Why AI consciousness matters 17:16 Does…
Jan 8
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Robert Wright
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NASA’s Plans for the Moon and Mars (Robert Wright & Joel Achenbach)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:52 Joel’s legendary Bloggingheads line 7:20 NASA’s new chief: More than a Musk toady? 13:18 Why we’re still not living in…
Jan 6
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Robert Wright
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