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Trump and the AI rational actor problem
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Trump’s Unending War (Robert Wright, Curt Mills, and Andrew Day)
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Ukraine, Iran, and America’s Arms Overreach (Robert Wright & Jennifer Kavanagh)
Listen now | 0:00 Jennifer’s foreign policy bona fides 1:07 Could Ukraine and Iran merge into one big war? 5:53 Is Ukraine really “turning the tide…
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Fasten Your Bot-belts (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 0:46 Sam’s ideological leanings 4:02 Sam’s AI Manhattan Project–revisited 8:02 What does the “Pacing” letter say about the…
Aug 4
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The intensifying slow-AI-down vibe (Robert Wright & Holly Elmore)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:03 The “Pacing the Frontier” letter signed by AI elites 10:49 Why so many China-hawk AI-safety-hawks? 14:50 Was the “Pacing…
Jul 31
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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 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…
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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…
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