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Apr 25, 2023 —
Robert Wright & John Mearsheimer
- John’s upcoming book, How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy
- Is the US to blame for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
- Is Putin less rational than John assumes?
- Why John is a Russia dove and a China hawk
- Does China pose a threat to freedom around the world?
- Why John thinks China’s rise threatens American security
- Has globalization made great-power peace possible?
- Should the US defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion?
Apr 21, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- Is DeSantis done for?
- Ro Khanna for president!
- Why Cold War II makes AI scarier
- Is Twitter done for?
- How imminent is a recession, really?
- Ukraine war update
- The Blinken wrinkle in the Hunter Biden laptop story
- Parrot room preview: Mickey’s AI revelation; Can the GOP win over the college crowd?; Is Fetterman out of the woods?; Is a border crisis incoming?; The slow-burn of Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice; more on DeSantis
Apr 18, 2023 —
Is AI an Existential Threat? A Debate. (Robert Wright, Roko Mijic, and Alexander Campbell)
- How Roko and Alex wound up debating on the Nonzero Podcast
- Could near-term AI disruption be worse than Covid?
- Is AI an existential threat?
- How the sci-fi apocalypse scenario might unfold
- How is a renegade AI like a man wearing a condom?
- Why would an AI want to kill us?
- How the Cold War makes AI more dangerous
- Roko and Alex make final statements before Overtime
Apr 17, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov
- The promise (and perils) of Notes, Substack’s new social media platform
- One big way Notes could be a better Twitter
- Nikita’s grand vision for Notes—and Substack
- User control vs. the allure of algorithms
- Is a better culture of discourse possible through Notes?
- How Notes benefits from elite buy-in
- Bob’s advice for Substack: Don’t be like Microsoft!
- Towards a civil society
Apr 14, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- The Biden age issue
- Are Republicans setting the stage for Biden’s re-election?
- Bob: Right-wing “non-interventionists” are rabid China hawks
- The Pentagon’s no good, very leaky week
- Is Clarence Thomas corrupt?
- The New York Times hunts down a leaker
- Elon vs. Matt Taibbi and Substack
- Parrot Room preview: The new legal theory for prosecuting Trump; Biden’s border policy; Mickey vs. Ross Douthat on AI alarmism; government programs Mickey likes; the movie Megan comes to life; the potential of Substack Notes.
Apr 11, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Michal Kosinski
- How freaked out is Michal by current AIs?
- Why “theory of mind” (aka cognitive empathy)—even in humans—is mind-blowing
- Michal’s theory-of-mind experiments with AI
- Bob’s theory-of-mind experiments with AI
- Do large language models construct representations of concepts?
- Does AI have subjective experience?
- What human neural networks do that AI doesn’t
Apr 7, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- The SBF and Trump indictments: compare and contrast
- Is DeSantis tanking?
- How the Tennessee House controversy could boost Biden
- Unpacking progressive wins in Wisconsin and Chicago
- Is Twitter becoming a banana republic?
- Ukraine war (and NATO) update
- Parrot room preview: Russian pro-war blogger’s strange assassination; Jill Biden’s basketball misstep; Clarence Thomas’s controversial trips; Amazon against anti-woke reviews; M3GAN, the alignment problem, and more AI talk; GM’s EV blunder; Matt Taibbi vs. Mehdi Hasan; Dershowitz on Epstein
Apr 4, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Paul Stephan
- Paul’s book, The World Crisis and International Law
- Should we demand that other countries be as liberal as we are?
- What went wrong in Russia after the Soviet Union fell?
- How post-Cold war consensus gave way to global fragmentation
- Can international law prevent techno-authoritarianism?
- Paul’s skepticism about international law
- How the knowledge economy could lead to a Chinese Trump
Mar 31, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
- A common conundrum: How to pay off your porn-star mistres
- Ways to make Ron DeSantis seem human
- Bob: The newest AI has cognitive empathy
- How Cold War II makes AI more dangerous
- Why are traditional American values in decline?
- What foreign policy elites say about Russia-Ukraine behind closed doors
- Parrot Room preview: Something smart Zelensky said; US think tank advocates murder; how the Nashville shooting was reported; Musk makes another Twitter policy change; why Elizabeth Holmes was ahead of her time
Mar 28, 2023 —
Robert Wright & David Corn
- Bob and David reminisce about Bloggingheads
- David’s book, American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
- Are Russiagaters moving the goalposts?
- What the Trump team knew about Russian meddling
- The missing “collusion” piece of the Russiagate puzzle
- Why David thinks Russiagate’s biggest critics are perpetuating a hoax
- If Russiagaters are right, why didn’t Trump do Russia many favors?
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