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Iran’s “Imminent” Attack (Robert Wright & Andrew Day)

4/12/2024
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Daniel Kahneman and the Rationalists (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

4/10/2024
Why Paul’s eclipse experience eclipsed Bob’s ... Remembering pioneering psychologist Daniel Kahneman ... Bob fails gender affirmation test ... Has the “replication crisis” tainted Kahneman’s legacy? ... Eastern vs. Western “enlightenment” ... How AI doomerism came to the rationalist community ... 3 Body Problem review goes into Overtime ...

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Can Abortion Sink Trump? (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

4/10/2024
Are Republican Trump critics returning to the GOP fold? ... Has Trump threaded the needle on abortion? ... Can Biden shift the nation's attention to abortion? ...

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Biden’s Israel Problem (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

4/5/2024
A brief message from Bob ... Derek and Danny stumble into Bob’s Zoom room ... Israel’s doubly out-of-control week ... How Biden's Gaza failures will shape the Democratic Party ... Biden’s political incentives on Israel-Palestine ... Heading to Overtime ...

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AI, Rationalism, and the “Great Filter” (Robert Wright & Robin Hanson)

4/3/2024
Robin’s history of thinking about the future ... Seeing AI as offspring, not adversary ... Robin’s famous answer to a great cosmic mystery ... Would evidence of aliens be good news or bad? ... Is rationalist culture cultist? ... LLMs: revolution or hype cycle? ... Heading to Overtime ...

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The Cosmic Thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Robert Wright & Ilia Delio)

3/31/2024
Ilia’s background ... Things to know about the noosphere ... Teilhard’s transgressive theological and scientific thought ... Does AI suggest a “transcendent nature to nature”? ... The Teilhardian solution to the mind-body problem ... How Darwinian was Teilhard, really? ... Teilhard on love ... “Techno-sapiens,” redemption, and the Omega Point ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Bibi Beats Biden (Again) (Robert Wright & Andrew Day)

3/29/2024
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RFK Jr.'s Bad VEEP Pick (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

3/28/2024
Matt's X spat with Ric Grenell ... The importance of narrative framing ... Should NBC have hired/fired Ronna McDaniel? ... How awful is RFK Jr.'s VP pick? ...

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Meditation Tips for Beginners (and Non-Beginners) (Robert Wright & Kathryn Devaney)

3/26/2024
Kati’s unusual niche ... How Covid changed meditation ... Kati: The optimal amount of meditation is… ... Is focusing on the breath overblown? ... AI as a spiritual challenge ... Meditation and cognitive empathy ... Using technology mindfully ... Heading to Overtime ...

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What Does Putin Want? (Robert Wright & Nikolay and Kirill)

3/22/2024
Are Nikolay and Kirill satisfied with the "special military operation"? ... Why have Russians become more supportive of the war effort? ... Kirill defends the RWA tweet that unsettled Bob ... US policies that made the war more likely ... How much of Ukraine does Putin want? ... Heading to Overtime ...

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America’s Blood Bath (and Beyond) (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

3/21/2024
What did Trump mean by "bloodbath"? ... Trump doesn't want you to remember 2020 ... Does Bernie Moreno have the edge over Sherrod Brown? ...

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Elon and Altman: Dueling Messiahs (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

3/19/2024
Paul’s Substack: small potatoes or some pumpkins? ... Elon sours on Lemon—is ketamine to blame? ... The enduring enigma that is Elon Musk ... Is Altman overdramatizing the AI #Resistance? ... Paul cavalierly ignores Bob’s sage guidance ... Oscars: The good, the bad, and the hammy ... Heading to Overtime (plus: big Small Potatoes news!) ...

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The Open Source AI Question (Robert Wright & Nathan Labenz)

3/15/2024
Nathan’s role as “AI scout” ... What "open source" in AI really means ... Why the secrecy around AI training data? ... What’s actually “open” about OpenAI? ... The case for and against open source AI ... Is an open source crackdown coming? ... What Waymark, Nathan’s company, does with AI ...

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Can TikTok Survive? (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

3/14/2024
Should TikTok be banned? ... Why did Ken Buck quit? ... Will the Hur report hurt Biden? ... Is Biden's new ad any good? ...

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Biden’s Gaza Failures (Robert Wright & Daniel Levy)

3/12/2024
Should Biden pursue regime change in Israel? ... How the White House mishandled Netanyahu's far-right government ... Daniel: “Israel has lost this war” ... What a ceasefire deal would look like ... Biden’s immense, unused leverage over Netanyahu ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Biden's Big Speech (Robert Wright & Andrew Day)

3/8/2024
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Kyrsten Sinema Says Goodbye (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

3/6/2024
Did Super Tuesday tell us anything? ... What should Biden do in the SOTU? ... Is Trump losing it? ... Did Sinema's retirement mean bipartisanship is dead? ...

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Elon v. OpenAI, Google vs Itself (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)

3/6/2024
The other Tim B. Lee ... Unpacking the Elon v. OpenAI case ... How did Google’s Gemini go wrong? ... The unsung ingenious side of Gemini ... Is AI a bubble? ... Are some LLM issues insoluble? ... How Sora changes the AI picture ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Possible Palestinian and Ukrainian Futures (Robert Wright & Andrew Day)

3/1/2024
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Nikki Haley Voters Could Sink Trump (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

2/27/2024
Can Trump win back Haley voters? ... Does it matter how many Democrats vote "Uncommitted" in Michigan? ... Is there any logic to Trump's messaging to African-American voters? ... Do people vote for president like it's a TV show? ...

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