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How Joe Biden Saved Ukraine (And Nobody Noticed) (Robert Wright & Coleman Hughes)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - April 26, 2024 15:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Why is Kevin McCarthy more hated than Mike Johnson? ... Why doesn't Biden get more credit for securing Ukraine aid and reducing Israel-Iran tensions? ... Why the divestment encampments are not effective ... Is the Trump trial hurting Trump's re-election chances? ...


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Just ONE MAGA Juror is All TRUMP Needs (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv - April 19, 2024 05:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Did Trump blow it on abortion? ... Does the hush money trial jury have a secret Trump partisan? ... Is Mike Johnson Choosing Reagan over Trump? ... Should Sotomayor retire? ...

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Just ONE MAGA Juror is All TRUMP Needs (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - April 19, 2024 05:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Did Trump blow it on abortion? ... Does the hush money trial jury have a secret Trump partisan? ... Is Mike Johnson Choosing Reagan over Trump? ... Should Sotomayor retire? ...

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How Iran’s Attack Benefits Israel (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)

Bloggingheads.tv - April 17, 2024 01:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Why Iran’s attack on Israel was an “own goal” ... Did Iran minimize casualties on purpose? ... The rising odds of Israel attacking Iran directly ... America’s contradictory relationship with Israel ... How conflict with Iran helps Israel ... What China wants in the Middle East ... America’s...

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz lights a candle for science

Night Science - April 15, 2024 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Prof. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz directs research labs at both CalTech in the US and the University of Cambridge in England. Magdalena is one of the world’s leading developmental biologists, who has been recognized by the 2023 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize and Science magazin's People's Vote for ...


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Daniel Kahneman and the Rationalists (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Bloggingheads.tv - April 11, 2024 00:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Why Paul’s eclipse experience eclipsed Bob’s ... Remembering pioneering psychologist Daniel Kahneman ... Bob fails gender affirmation test ... Has the “replication crisis” tainted Kahneman’s legacy? ... Eastern vs. Western “enlightenment” ... How AI doomerism came to the rationalist communit...

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Can Abortion Sink Trump? (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - April 10, 2024 04:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Are Republican Trump critics returning to the GOP fold? ... Has Trump threaded the needle on abortion? ... Can Biden shift the nation's attention to abortion? ...

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Can Abortion Sink Trump? (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv - April 10, 2024 04:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Are Republican Trump critics returning to the GOP fold? ... Has Trump threaded the needle on abortion? ... Can Biden shift the nation's attention to abortion? ...

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Biden’s Israel Problem (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)

Bloggingheads.tv - April 05, 2024 15:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
A brief message from Bob ... Derek and Danny stumble into Bob’s Zoom room ... Israel’s doubly out-of-control week ... How Biden's Gaza failures will shape the Democratic Party ... Biden’s political incentives on Israel-Palestine ... Heading to Overtime ...

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AI, Rationalism, and the “Great Filter” (Robert Wright & Robin Hanson)

Bloggingheads.tv - April 03, 2024 18:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Robin’s history of thinking about the future ... Seeing AI as offspring, not adversary ... Robin’s famous answer to a great cosmic mystery ... Would evidence of aliens be good news or bad? ... Is rationalist culture cultist? ... LLMs: revolution or hype cycle? ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Isaac Newton and a new kind of science

Night Science - April 01, 2024 08:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Night Science – coming up with novel ways to interpret the physical world – is as old as philosophy. In contrast, Day Science – empirical evidence as the sole argument for truth – was invented only in the 1700s, championed by the groundbreaking work of Isaac Newton. In the April 1st, 2024, episo...

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The Cosmic Thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Robert Wright & Ilia Delio)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 31, 2024 12:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Ilia’s background ... Things to know about the noosphere ... Teilhard’s transgressive theological and scientific thought ... Does AI suggest a “transcendent nature to nature”? ... The Teilhardian solution to the mind-body problem ... How Darwinian was Teilhard, really? ... Teilhard on love ...


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RFK Jr.'s Bad VEEP Pick (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 28, 2024 05:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Matt's X spat with Ric Grenell ... The importance of narrative framing ... Should NBC have hired/fired Ronna McDaniel? ... How awful is RFK Jr.'s VP pick? ...

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RFK Jr.'s Bad VEEP Pick (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - March 28, 2024 05:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Matt's X spat with Ric Grenell ... The importance of narrative framing ... Should NBC have hired/fired Ronna McDaniel? ... How awful is RFK Jr.'s VP pick? ...

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Meditation Tips for Beginners (and Non-Beginners) (Robert Wright & Kathryn Devaney)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 26, 2024 21:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Kati’s unusual niche ... How Covid changed meditation ... Kati: The optimal amount of meditation is… ... Is focusing on the breath overblown? ... AI as a spiritual challenge ... Meditation and cognitive empathy ... Using technology mindfully ... Heading to Overtime ...

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What Does Putin Want? (Robert Wright & Nikolay and Kirill)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 22, 2024 04:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Are Nikolay and Kirill satisfied with the "special military operation"? ... Why have Russians become more supportive of the war effort? ... Kirill defends the RWA tweet that unsettled Bob ... US policies that made the war more likely ... How much of Ukraine does Putin want? ... Heading to ...

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America’s Blood Bath (and Beyond) (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - March 21, 2024 06:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
What did Trump mean by "bloodbath"? ... Trump doesn't want you to remember 2020 ... Does Bernie Moreno have the edge over Sherrod Brown? ...

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America’s Blood Bath (and Beyond) (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 21, 2024 06:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
What did Trump mean by "bloodbath"? ... Trump doesn't want you to remember 2020 ... Does Bernie Moreno have the edge over Sherrod Brown? ...

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Elon and Altman: Dueling Messiahs (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 20, 2024 00:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Paul’s Substack: small potatoes or some pumpkins? ... Elon sours on Lemon—is ketamine to blame? ... The enduring enigma that is Elon Musk ... Is Altman overdramatizing the AI #Resistance? ... Paul cavalierly ignores Bob’s sage guidance ... Oscars: The good, the bad, and the hammy ... Headin...

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The Open Source AI Question (Robert Wright & Nathan Labenz)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 15, 2024 22:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Nathan’s role as “AI scout” ... What "open source" in AI really means ... Why the secrecy around AI training data? ... What’s actually “open” about OpenAI? ... The case for and against open source AI ... Is an open source crackdown coming? ... What Waymark, Nathan’s company, does with AI ...

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Can TikTok Survive? (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - March 14, 2024 18:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Should TikTok be banned? ... Why did Ken Buck quit? ... Will the Hur report hurt Biden? ... Is Biden's new ad any good? ...

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Can TikTok Survive? (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 14, 2024 18:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Should TikTok be banned? ... Why did Ken Buck quit? ... Will the Hur report hurt Biden? ... Is Biden's new ad any good? ...

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Biden’s Gaza Failures (Robert Wright & Daniel Levy)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 12, 2024 22:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Should Biden pursue regime change in Israel? ... How the White House mishandled Netanyahu's far-right government ... Daniel: “Israel has lost this war” ... What a ceasefire deal would look like ... Biden’s immense, unused leverage over Netanyahu ... Heading to Overtime ...


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Kyrsten Sinema Says Goodbye (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - March 07, 2024 03:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Did Super Tuesday tell us anything? ... What should Biden do in the SOTU? ... Is Trump losing it? ... Did Sinema's retirement mean bipartisanship is dead? ...

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Kyrsten Sinema Says Goodbye (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 07, 2024 03:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Did Super Tuesday tell us anything? ... What should Biden do in the SOTU? ... Is Trump losing it? ... Did Sinema's retirement mean bipartisanship is dead? ...

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Elon v. OpenAI, Google vs Itself (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)

Bloggingheads.tv - March 07, 2024 02:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
The other Tim B. Lee ... Unpacking the Elon v. OpenAI case ... How did Google’s Gemini go wrong? ... The unsung ingenious side of Gemini ... Is AI a bubble? ... Are some LLM issues insoluble? ... How Sora changes the AI picture ... Heading to Overtime ...