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Why We Keep Stumbling into Stupid Wars
Plus: AI companies win coveted "most undue influence" award
Mar 28
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MAGA Opposition to the Iran War (Robert Wright, Curt Mills, and Andrew Day)
Listen now | 0:00 Would America benefit from Iran “winning”? 3:10 Trump’s last exit ramp? 12:56 What’s China’s angle on the war? 17:11 Trump…
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Averting a Superintelligence Takeover (Robert Wright & Andrea Miotti)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:07 Defining (and preventing) superintelligence 6:39 Where the nuclear analogy holds (and where it breaks) 11:17 Imagining an…
Mar 30
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Mar 16, 2023
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Mar 22, 2020
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The truth about Hamas
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Why Biden didn’t negotiate seriously with Putin
Feb 22, 2022
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The Iran War and the Singularity (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:00 Holy Week in Andalusia, and the Christian cross as branding 6:50 Why Bob is skeptical of Trump's diplomacy 11:09 Trump's…
Mar 27
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Israel, America, and the Iran War (Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:09 What (or who) is the Iran war for? 13:41 Joe Kent and the MAGA rift over Israel 24:44 Does antisemitism speech policing…
Mar 24
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War Isn't a Zero-Sum Game
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Mar 21
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The Allure and Danger of Agentic AI (Robert Wright & Liron Shapira)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:05 Overtime preview: a civil(-ish) debate on Israel-Palestine 4:22 How vibe-coding changed Liron’s life 9:59 Portents of the…
Mar 19
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NZNet Digest: Lawlessness as the New Normal
Plus: China gets OpenClawed; Should American Synagogues “Stand with Israel?" Are software companies doomed? Steven Pinker on Trump. And more!
Mar 19
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Israel’s Plan for Iran (And Beyond) (Robert Wright & Daniel Levy)
Listen now | 0:00 Teaser 1:03 Is Iran inflicting much damage on Israel? 10:10 Iran has a strategy. Does America? Does Israel? 18:09 Where Trump and Bibi…
Mar 17
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Why Americans Should Root for Iran
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