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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 - 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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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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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 ...

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Willoughby Britton on when meditation causes harm | Living Mirrors #126

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke - March 02, 2024 11:09 - 1 hour
Willoughby Britton is a clinical psychologist, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University Medical School, and the director of the Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory there. Her lab researches the psychophysiological and neurocognitive effects of meditation...


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Bo Xia and a tale of tails

Night Science - February 28, 2024 19:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Bo Xia is a Junior Fellow at Harvard and a Principal Investigator at the Broad Institute. During his PhD with Itai, he suffered a painful tailbone injury that led to an obsession with this vestigial organ and its origins in human evolution. In this out-of-the-ordinary episode, we talk about this...

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Nikki Haley Voters Could Sink Trump (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 28, 2024 01:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Can Trump win back Haley voters? ... Does it matter how many Democrats vote "Uncommitted" in Michigan? ... Is there any logic to Trump's messaging to African-American voters? ... Do people vote for president like it's a TV show? ...

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Nikki Haley Voters Could Sink Trump (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)

Bloggingheads.tv: The DMZ - February 28, 2024 01:23 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 60 ratings
Can Trump win back Haley voters? ... Does it matter how many Democrats vote "Uncommitted" in Michigan? ... Is there any logic to Trump's messaging to African-American voters? ... Do people vote for president like it's a TV show? ...

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Google’s AI, Biden’s Brain, and Other Enigmas (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 28, 2024 01:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Big trouble with Small Potatoes ... What makes a good podcast? ... Google’s AI goes wild(ly woke) ... Is Biden a “super-ager” or just super old? ... On the psychology of self-immolation ... Are we thinking right about mental illness? ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Todd Golub and bottom-up creativity

Night Science - February 26, 2024 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Prof. Todd Golub, the Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has made important contributions to cancer research. In this episode, he argues that creativity is the greatest hallmark of a successful scientist, and he tells us about his artist-in-residence program at the Broad. As its...

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Does AI Understand Things? (Robert Wright & Gary Marcus)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 22, 2024 21:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Gary’s background and place in the AI world ... Are Gary’s views on AI paradoxical? ... Bob: Searle’s Chinese Room argument is dead ... Have LLMs demonstrated "theory of mind"? ... Arguing the semantics of an LLM's “semantic space” ... Do LLM representations map onto the real world? ... Ca...

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What Navalny Meant (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 20, 2024 22:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Nikita’s memories of Navalny’s emergence as a political force ... The time Nikita was detained for protesting election fraud ... Navalny’s success as a political organizer ... What did Navalny represent? ... Navalny’s courageous post-poisoning return to Russia ... Heading to Overtime (plus:...


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Trauma Release Exercises for Awakening and Nondual Realization with Christina Guimond | Living Mirrors #125

Living Mirrors with Dr. James Cooke - February 17, 2024 14:48 - 1 hour
Chris Guimond is an awakening and nondual realization guide who works with the Trauma Release Exercises that I’ve previously spoken about on the podcast. You can listen to my interview with the creator of the TRE approach, David Bercelli (episode 64), if you want more detail on the practices. Chr...

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Ukraine’s War, Putin’s Worldview (Robert Wright & Leonid Ragozin)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 15, 2024 22:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
What MSM missed about Carlsons' Putin interview ... Putin’s litany of grievances against the West ... Russia gets the upper hand in Ukraine ... Why Zelensky hasn’t paved the way for peace talks ... Putin’s mafia-inspired approach to negotiations ... Do most Russians support the war? ... W...

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Is the 'Age' Issue Old News? (Matt K. Lewis & Matt K. Lewis)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 15, 2024 06:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Does the NY-03 special election have national import? ... Will the special counsel report sink Joe Biden? ... Was Jon Stewart's monologue on the mark? ...

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Inside the Mind of AI (Robert Wright & Nora Belrose)

Bloggingheads.tv - February 13, 2024 21:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratings
Nora’s low score on the AI doomer test ... The messy math of AI alignment ... Teaching and (unteaching) concepts to LLMS ... Do we really want human-like AI? ... How the AI “mind” works ... How to change an AI’s mind ... Are LLMs reverse-engineering the human mind? ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Sean B. Carroll – he told some good stories

Night Science - February 12, 2024 06:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Sean Carroll is a world-renowned scientist, author, educator, and an Oscar-nominated film producer. Sean sees storytelling as the key to all he does. Similar to how musicians get inspiration by listening to other people’s music, Sean attributes his own creativity to his insatiable habit of readi...