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May 2023
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May 30, 2023 — Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Sam’s Bloggingheads bona fides
Is AI “interpretability” worth the trouble?
Natural selection and artificial intelligence
Are large language models absorbing human nature?
What Sam thinks singularitarian AI doomers get wrong
Is it time for an AI-safety Manhattan Project?
Sam: Let a thousand GPT-4 (but not GPT-5) plug-ins bloom.
Where are our AI safety blindspots?
May 26, 2023 — Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Bob quizzes Mickey on worrisome Ukraine war developments
What could push Putin to go nuclear?
How disastrous was the DeSantis launch really?
DeSantis’s possible anti-Trump trump card
Who’s losing the debt-ceiling fight?
Parrot room preview: Soul and dual Dune reviews; the latest on Epstein-Gates; Bob’s 12 Monkeys howler; AI; simply the best of Tina Turner; Mickey delineates new immigration bills
May 26, 2023 — Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
The Glenn Show
John: “I love linguistics, but it no longer loves me”
How Glenn and John are getting written out of their fields
Jordan Neely didn’t deserve to die …
… but the New York subway is getting scary
Glenn: Reparations would be “impractical, unfair, and divisive in the extreme”
A possible left-wing objection to reparations
Glenn goes ham on reparations
May 25, 2023 — Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher
The DMZ
Maybe DeSantis should have skipped 2024
Is DeSantis all that competent?
Should DeSantis be embracing Musk?
Was Tim Scott’s announcement any better?
May 23, 2023 — Robert Wright & Benjamin Perry
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
The watershed moment that led Ben to write his new book, “Cry, Baby”
Does meditation make you less emotional?
How different socio-cultural groups feel about crying
Why do we cry anyway?
Transformative and performative weeping
Putting Joel Osteen’s tears under a microscope
How does the nature of crying change over a lifetime?
Overtime preview: Bob’s most embarrassing adult crying experience, psychedelics and crying, and more!
Ben delivers a benediction on crying
May 19, 2023 — Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Mickey’s risky quiz for Bob
Biden, Feinstein, Fetterman: Compare and contrast
Does DeSantis have a path to the presidency?
Bob’s biggest takeaway from the AI hearings
How the chip war with China makes real war more likely
What senators should have asked OpenAI’s CEO
Ukraine war update
Parrot room preview: (Not much) debt deal talk; Robert Putnam essay assessed; the Thiel-Epstein and Botstein-Epstein and Chomsky-Epstein connections; an important note on inequality; examining 12 Monkeys; Tucker; new “woke-watch” items; more AI
May 19, 2023 — Glenn Loury & Norman Finkelstein
The Glenn Show
Has Norman been shut out of mainstream political debates?
Norman’s conflict with Alan Dershowitz
Is Israel an apartheid state?
Identifying with Paul Robeson
Norman’s new book,
I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!
Norman: Wokeness is a “triple scam”
What’s become of Angela Davis?
Cornel West’s chosen path
Obama’s self-proclaimed “neat trick”
The political intelligence of Carter, Clinton, and Obama
South Carolina 2020: a case study in identity politics
Would Bernie have won in 2016?
May 19, 2023 — Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher
The DMZ
How the Biden administration is fixing the immigration system
Will Biden take the 14th?
What’s up with that Glenn Youngkin ad?
Has Ron DeSantis gotten his groove back?
May 16, 2023 — Robert Wright & Timothy Lee
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
Tim’s tech background and his new newsletter, Understanding AI
Natural selection and artificial intelligence
Why Tim is a singularity skeptic
How exactly would AI take over? And will it even want to?
The bad AI vs good AI arms race
What exactly are “AI agents”?
Why Tim is an AI job-pocalypse skeptic
Has AI created the biggest tech hype wave ever?
How Tim thinks AI will actually transform human life
May 12, 2023 — Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
The food fight within Russia’s military establishment
Could Ukraine’s looming offensive succeed?
The foreign policy Blob’s biggest blind spot
Was Trump’s town hall performance a tactical blunder?
Is DeSantis’s attack on Disney anti-democratic?
Tucker moves to Twitter
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