Podcast Episodes featuring Robert Wright
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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 ratingsThe 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 ...
What Syria Reveals about Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)
Bloggingheads.tv - June 06, 2022 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsJosh: World War I shattered empires, ethnic cleansing created nation-states ... How the US and Russia wound up cooperating to fight ISIS and Sunni militias ... Why Turkey is holding up NATO membership for Sweden and Finland ... By helping to keep Syria divided, is the US giving ISIS free rein?...
Will Uvalde Spur Gun Legislation? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Bloggingheads.tv - May 28, 2022 01:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsCalifornia voting information materials fail the cognitive empathy test ... Will the latest mass shooting spur effective federal gun legislation? ... Mickey: Schumer will learn from Obama’s post-Sandy Hook political mistakes ... Are elites and geniuses more juvenile than the rest of us? ... B...
Hillbilly Victory (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Bloggingheads.tv - May 07, 2022 02:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsWhat does J.D. Vance’s primary win teach us about the Trump Effect? ... Will the overturning of Roe give Democrats a boost in the midterms? ... The Hillary Clinton campaign’s role in amping up Russiagate ... Bob: A cornered Putin is a scarier Putin ... Doing the nuclear war math ... Can Puti...
Consciousness All the Way Down? (Robert Wright & Bernardo Kastrup)
Bloggingheads.tv - May 03, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsThe basics of “analytic idealism”—Bernardo’s consciousness-only theory of reality ... How intuitive is the materialist worldview, really? ... Does evolution select for “true” perceptions of reality? ... Is idealism compatible with evolutionary theory? ... Bernardo: The "physical" world is a ...
A Politics of Love (Robert Wright & Marianne Williamson)
Bloggingheads.tv - April 12, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsWhere did Marianne get the confidence to run for president? ... What childhood travels taught Marianne about people ... How “A Course in Miracles” transformed Marianne’s life ... Can unconditional love save our species? ... Changing individual consciousness vs. changing policy ... Liberation...
Can the Ukraine War Be Ended Soon? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Bloggingheads.tv - April 09, 2022 03:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsMickey’s French election update ... What Macron and Biden (should) have learned re: Ukraine ... Bob’s brilliant idea for a Biden ceasefire proposal ... Bob vs. Anne Applebaum on negotiating with Russia ... How prolonging the war could make Putin more dangerous ... Will Elon Musk end Twitter’...
Seeing Ukraine Clearly (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Bloggingheads.tv - March 05, 2022 04:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsAlways be prepared (for nuclear fallout) ... Is Putin headed for the Baltics? ... Why is the Western media reporting so little about the Azov Battalion? ... Mickey: Zelenskyy should give up parts of the Donbas and Crimea ... Bob: I don’t think Putin will move on to the Baltics ... Trying to...
Russia, Putin, and the Psychology of Status (Robert Wright & Steven Ward)
Bloggingheads.tv - February 28, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsSteven’s book, Status and the Challenge of Rising Powers ... How concerns about status motivate Russia’s aggressive behavior ... Bob wonders if Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine was based on emotion ... Why Steven thinks Russia’s hostile reaction to NATO expansion was partly about status ......
Saving Putin’s Face (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Bloggingheads.tv - February 05, 2022 08:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsDid Jeff Zucker resign over business or pleasure? ... Bob: “The new Cold War almost became official today” ... A grand solution to the Ukraine crisis ... George Soros predicts the downfall of Xi Jinping ... Is the killing of ISIS’s leader really a big deal? ... Are we headed toward one meta...
Identifying Anti-tribal Intellectuals (Robert Wright & Arnold Kling)
Bloggingheads.tv - February 01, 2022 23:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsHow anti-tribal thinking formed the core of Arnold’s “Fantasy Intellectual Teams" (FITs) draft ... Was the pre-internet intellectual era really so great? ... Arnold lays out the details of the Fantasy Intellectual Teams draft ... Grassroots vs. institutional anti-tribal strategies ... Is a so...
(Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven)
Bloggingheads.tv - January 25, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsDoes the Russia-Ukraine crisis justify the current sense of alarm? ... How concern for ethnic Russians in Ukraine shapes Moscow’s policy ... What the US and NATO can do to resolve the crisis diplomatically ... Can Europe help Biden by staging a diplomatic intervention? ... Russia’s next mili...
Some Meanings of Christmas (Robert Wright & Father William Dailey)
Bloggingheads.tv - December 22, 2021 02:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsHave you heard the Good News? ... The role of Christ’s suffering in the Catholic tradition ... Walking the path(s) to salvation ... Peace on Earth, the virgin birth, and other Christmas miracles ... Father Bill: “To answer the question ‘Who is my neighbor’ is to answer the question ‘How big ...
All About Omicron (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Bloggingheads.tv - December 18, 2021 03:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsWill 2024 be a Trump-Hillary rematch? ... The Omicron wave: how bad will it be? ... David Frum’s proposal to triage covid care ... Some non-Hillary prez candidates who are almost as unappealing as Hillary ... Covid lab leak theory update ... Mickey lays out a plan to resuscitate the Build Ba...
The Brothers Behind the Cold War (Robert Wright & Stephen Kinzer)
Bloggingheads.tv - November 16, 2021 23:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsJohn Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles—the stars of Stephen’s book The Brothers—as architects of covert imperialism ... Stephen explains how disgruntled bankers and lawyers started the CIA ... How corporate interests drove the 1954 US-led coup in Guatemala ... The enduring relevance of US meddlin...
Non-Zero-Sum Thinking on the World Stage (Glenn Loury & Robert Wright)
Bloggingheads.tv - September 24, 2021 15:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsSubscribe to The Glenn Show on YouTube ... The origins of Bloggingheads ... Non-zero-sum thinking on the global stage ... Bob: We’re not focusing on the most pressing foreign policy dilemmas ... Bridging the globalist vs. nationalist divide ... Could more cognitive empathy ease racial t...
The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics (Robert Wright & John Horgan)
MeaningofLife.tv - September 07, 2021 22:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsJohn's recent bout of fever-induced hallucinations ... Does math actually help you understand QM? ... What experiments in QM have and have not verified ... John: All interpretations of QM are bad ... What do we want from science? ... "An operating system for reality" ...
Afghanistan Withdrawal Symptoms (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Bloggingheads.tv - August 21, 2021 01:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsUnmasked liberals in their natural environment ... The sharply rising Covid-related death rate in the US ... Should the US send vaccine doses abroad before giving boosters at home? ... Bob: The Afghanistan withdrawal could reduce the risk of domestic terrorism ... Is there political logic b...
The Brave New World of Genetic Engineering (Robert Wright & Jamie Metzl)
Bloggingheads.tv - January 05, 2021 23:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsJamie’s book, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity ... Why Jamie thinks young adults should freeze their sperm or eggs now ... The state of genetic engineering today ... The specter of eugenics ... Will gene-splicing create a new kind of inequality? ... How to avoid...
Can Journalism Survive? (Robert Wright & Eric Alterman)
Bloggingheads.tv - December 30, 2020 00:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsLooking back at Eric’s 25-year reign as The Nation’s media columnist ... The virtues and vices of democratized media ... Bob: Why does mainstream media do the bidding of the Blob? ... Eric accuses Bob of shirking his gatekeeping responsibilities ... Eric’s free speech case against BDS ... Bo...
It's All a Circle (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Bloggingheads.tv - November 28, 2020 02:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsA new, Jared-centric theory for why Trump kisses up to Putin ... Bob's weekly Steve Bannon update ... Who will Trump pardon next? ... Mickey says the Supreme Court ruling on churches is no big deal ... The (probably Israeli) assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist ... Have deficit haw...
Profiles in Courage (Robert Wright & Bill Kristol)
Bloggingheads.tv - November 25, 2020 02:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsHow Bill became a NeverTrumper ... Bob worries that neoconservatives have exploited the Resistance ... Bill has some regrets about supporting Tom Cotton ... Bob accuses Bill of countenancing guilt-by-association tactics ... Charges of anti-Semitism and dual loyalty in the Israel debate ... ...
The Roots of US Global Hegemony (Robert Wright & Stephen Wertheim)
Bloggingheads.tv - November 17, 2020 21:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsStephen’s new book, Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of US Global Supremacy ... How the term "isolationism" came to be ... Stephen: Most US foreign policy elites wanted to stay out of Europe through 1940 ... The fall of France and America’s decision to dominate the world ... Stephen: The UN was...
The Science and Philosophy of "Devs" (Robert Wright & John Horgan)
MeaningofLife.tv - May 12, 2020 21:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsJohn fails the coronavirus antibody test; Bob consoles him ... Science fiction, free will, and robot sex ... The Devs interpretation of quantum mechanics ... The Wright-Horgan interpretation of Devs, part 1 (spoilers) ... The Wright-Horgan interpretation of Devs, part 2 (lots of spoilers) .....
My War Criminal (Robert Wright & Jessica Stern)
Bloggingheads.tv - April 16, 2020 01:18 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsJessica's new book, My War Criminal ... A capsule history of Serbian nationalism ... Radovan Karadžić, chameleon ... Karadžić's career trajectory: psychiatrist, poet, politician ... The breakup of Yugoslavia and Karadžić's rise ... Trying to understand the Serbian perspective ... Karadžić's ge...
Gala End-of-Decade Episode (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Bloggingheads.tv - December 31, 2019 03:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsIf Trump wins re-election, will Democrats "go berserk," as Mickey says? ... The top 1% vs. the next 29% ... What are Bernie's chances? ... Bob: Negative partisanship is the decade's most alarming psycho-political trend ... Mickey floats some UFO theories ... An under-the-radar scandal at the wo...
Mindfulness and Racial Justice (Robert Wright & Rhonda Magee)
MeaningofLife.tv - December 24, 2019 23:16 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratingsRhonda's path to meditation and Buddhism ... Rhonda's new book, The Inner Work of Racial Justice ... Is equanimity the enemy of activism? ... Using mindfulness to overcome biases and stereotypes ... How Rhonda deploys contemplative practices in her law school classroom ... Can one feel compassion...
How “Negativity Bias” Leads to War (Robert Wright & Dominic Johnson)
Bloggingheads.tv - December 20, 2019 21:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsDominic’s paper, “Bad World: The Negativity Bias in International Politics” ... Why politicians overestimate threats to national security ... The cognitive bias of “loss avoidance” as fuel for war ... Do international actors give too much weight to past failures? ... World War I as a case study i...
What Should Be Out of Bounds? (Glenn Loury & Robert Wright)
Bloggingheads.tv - December 19, 2019 05:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 285 ratingsBob reminisces about the origins of Bloggingheads.tv ... Where The Glenn Show fits into the BhTV ecosystem ... Speech policing, the "n-word," and the uses of ridicule ... What's Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism really about? ... Does the IDW care about protecting speech critical of Israe...
What Should Be Out of Bounds? (Glenn Loury & Robert Wright)
Bloggingheads.tv: The Glenn Show - December 19, 2019 05:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratingsBob reminisces about the origins of Bloggingheads.tv ... Where The Glenn Show fits into the BhTV ecosystem ... Speech policing, the "n-word," and the uses of ridicule ... What's Trump's executive order on anti-Semitism really about? ... Does the IDW care about protecting speech critical of Israe...
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