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The Ideology Behind AI (Robert Wright & Connor Leahy)
Teaser ... Connor’s place in the AI world ... Mythos: “digital nuke”? ... The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans ... Yudkowsky, Marx,…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump’s Self-Inflicted Iran Quagmire (Robert Wright & Zaid Jilani)
Teaser ... Zaid’s Substack and spicy-take history ... Zaid: Iran has outplayed Trump and Bibi ... 10/7 as turning point ... Did—and does—Israel w…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Iran, Israel, and the Future of US Power (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Sneak peek: Danny finds flaw in Bob’s AI book ... Is the Iran war fully back on? ... What the war means for the future of US power ... The proble…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Are Russia and NATO Headed for War? (Robert Wright & Leonid Ragozin)
Teaser ... Leonid’s journalistic work, past and present ... Are Russia and NATO headed for war? ... Decoding Putin’s recent signals ... Do Europe…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Are Books Dead? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Preview: Skynet comes for Bob ... Trump‘s endearing AI obsession ... Are books dying? Is AI responsible? ... Skynet (aka Amazon) vs Bob’s book ..…
4 months ago
Is AI Humanity’s Last Exam? (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)
Grandpa Bob and author Bob ... Why Bob stopped being an AI doom skeptic ... Can AI solve China’s demographic crisis? ... The irony of China’s open…
4 months ago
AI and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Bob’s pub-day pitch for his new book on AI, The God Test ... Is AI killing the nonfiction star? ... Geoffrey Hinton’s path from AI evangelist to do…
4 months, 1 week ago
The World After the Iran War (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)
Was "losing" this war good for America? ... Israel’s post-war situation ... A more stable Middle East? Or less? ... The impact on Iran’s streng…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The US-China AI Race (Robert Wright & Ryan Fedasiuk)
A brief message from Bob ... Ryan’s tech policy bona fides ... Is true "recursive self-improvement" near? ... AI agents as strategic empathy machi…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The AI Lobby’s Dirty Tricks (Robert Wright & Tyler Johnston)
Teaser ... The Midas Project and the OpenAI files ... What’s "Build American AI" up to? ... Nathan Leamer, astroturfer and sock puppeteer ... G…
4 months, 3 weeks ago