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Bloggingheads.tv videos — November 2023
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Nov 30, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Timothy Lee
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Bob and Tim seek Substack synergy
- What was the OpenAI drama really about?
- Viewing the drama through a (cynical) psychological lens
- Were reports of a safety vs speed schism greatly exaggerated?
- Larry Summers joins OpenAI’s board… time to panic?
- Superintelligence, Sam Altman, and the singularity
- Altman’s not so veiled ignorance
- Overtime preview: superintelligence skepticism, the truth about effective altruism, self-driving car speed bumps, and more
Nov 29, 2023 —
Gaza & the Crisis of Liberalism (Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Tyler Austin Harper, and Daniel Bessner)
The Glenn Show
- The state of campus speech after 10/7
- Daniel: Why are critics of cancel culture silent when it comes to Israel?
- “Explaining” Hamas vs. “excusing” Hamas
- Tyler: American Jewish students worried about their safety have been primed by modern identity politics
- The tension between DEI and antisemitism response teams
- The linguistic ambiguity of “From the river to the sea”
- The irreconcilable conflict between campus social justice and donor funding
- If not liberalism, then what?
- Tyler: Postwar political conservatism is coming apart
Nov 28, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Omar Baddar
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Biden’s vexing political calculus on Israel-Palestine
- Israel-Palestine compared to Russia-Ukraine
- If Israel eliminates Hamas, what happens next?
- Can anything good come out of the present crisis?
- The meaning of “From the river to the sea…”
- Why the 2000 Camp David Summit failed
- Where is Palestine’s Nelson Mandela?
- Assessing US media coverage of the Gaza war
Nov 24, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Dan Hendrycks
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Preamble: The OpenAI drama and this conversation
- Preamble: The OpenAI drama and this conversation
- Is safe AI possible without international cooperation?
- Are we selecting AI for truth or engagement?
- Using “psychology” to understand—and control—AI
- The worrisome Darwinian dynamics of AI development
- Life after an AI takeover
- How structural incentives make AI safety harder
Nov 20, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Thomas Graham
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Tom’s new book, Getting Russia Right
- Does Putin want to take more territory before talking peace?
- Putin’s “messianic” transformation
- America’s failed effort to Americanize Russia
- Does the US focus too much on other nations’ internal affairs?
- The 2004 event that sunk US-Russia relations
- Why Tom supports a diplomatic reset
Nov 17, 2023 —
Glenn Loury & Yascha Mounk
The Glenn Show
- A quick announcement
- What led Yascha to write about identity
- An intellectual history of “identity synthesis”
- What’s so bad about “strategic essentialism”?
- From postmodernism to post-civil rights
- The three key claims of identity synthesis
- What led up to the summer of 2020?
- The hermetically sealed ideology of Kendi and DiAngelo
- Yascha’s defense of universalism
Nov 16, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Susan Shirk
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Susan’s new book, Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise
- China’s turn to more assertive policies in 2007
- The well-intentioned reform that produced big authoritarian consequences
- How public opinion influences autocratic leaders
- Xi Jinping’s purge of suspect officials
- Does Beijing feel threatened by America?
- Heading to Overtime
Nov 14, 2023 —
Robert Wright & Matthew Yglesias
Nonzero (The Wright Show)
- Will Israel-Palestine cost Biden the election?
- What Hamas hoped to accomplish on October 7
- The surprising origins of cancel culture
- Matt defends his ratioed tweet
- The persistent psychological impact of the Holocaust
- Is a one-state solution realistic?
- What Ukrainians and Palestinians have in common
- Anti-Palestine sentiment and Christian Zionism in America
- How the current crisis could lead to war with Iran
- Bob gives Matt podcasting advice
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