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0:00 Bob’s pub-day pitch for his new book on AI, The God Test
1:04 Is AI killing the nonfiction star?
5:32 Geoffrey Hinton’s path from AI evangelist to doomer
9:27 The future of books
18:48 Trump vs Anthropic
23:03 Are Ukrainian drone strikes rattling Putin?
32:07 The multiple Putins theory
35:04 Heading to Overtime
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikita Petrov (https://psychopolitica.substack.com). Recorded June 23, 2026.
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Overtime titles:
Nikita’s shared-dream experiment.
Is Putin a rational actor?
The case for non-wooly-minded one-worldism.
“Kindness as strength”: The Armenian model.
Why powerful people are dicks.
Overtime video:
