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Trump and the AI rational actor problem
A new theory about why foreign policy elites aren't worried enough. Plus: Graph of the week.
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May 20, 2019
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Are the Ukraine and the Iran Wars Merging? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Listen now | 0:00 Why did Ukraine hit an Iranian ship 500 miles from Ukraine? 13:45 Ukraine’s war on Russia’s Amazon 19:15 Why Zelensky fired his…
Jul 29
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The truth about Hamas
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The Wright Stuff (Very Bad Wizards w/ Tamler Sommers and David Pizarro)
Listen now | The great Robert Wright returns to the podcast to talk about his new book The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic…
Jul 24
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The Ideology Behind AI (Robert Wright & Connor Leahy)
Listen now | 0:00 Connor’s place in the AI world 3:15 Mythos: “digital nuke”? 14:11 The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans 20:51 Yudkowsky…
Jul 21
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The God We Deserve: Nonzero's Robert Wright on AI as Humanity's Ultimate Test (The Cognitive Revolution w/ Nathan Labenz)
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Jul 18
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Trump’s Self-Inflicted Iran Quagmire (Robert Wright & Zaid Jilani)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:49 Zaid’s Substack and spicy-take history 3:16 Zaid: Iran has outplayed Trump and Bibi 10:17 10/7 as turning point 13:50…
Jul 15
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The coming US-China rapprochement
The non-zero-sum logic of AI is taking root
Jul 13
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Iran, Israel, and the Future of US Power (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Listen now | 0:00 Sneak peek: Danny finds flaw in Bob’s AI book 1:18 Is the Iran war fully back on? 5:59 What the war means for the future of US power…
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