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Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.

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Conversations with a series of people who have nothing in common except that program host Robert Wright is curious about what they’re thinking.

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

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

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    0:33 Kati’s unusual niche 2:40 How Covid changed meditation 7:38 Kati: The optimal amount of meditation is… 15:10 Is focusing on the breath overblown? 23:06 AI as a spiritual challenge 33:03 Meditation and cognitive empathy 39:52 Using technology mindfully 46:24 Heading to Overtime
    Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Kathryn Devaney (The Berkeley Alembic). Recorded March 21, 2024.
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods

    • 50 min
    What Does Putin Want? (Robert Wright, Nikolay, and Kirill)

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

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    3:05 Are Nikolay and Kirill satisfied with the "special military operation"? 8:26 Why have Russians become more supportive of the war effort? 18:07 Kirill defends the RWA tweet that unsettled Bob 32:53 US policies that made the war more likely 41:15 How much of Ukraine does Putin want? 54:29 Heading to Overtime
    RWA YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RussiansWithAttitude/videos RWA podcast episodes: https://www.patreon.com/rwapodcast
    Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikolay and Kirill (Russians with Attitude). Recorded March 21, 2024.
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods
    Overtime titles:
    0:00 Will Ukrainians blame Zelensky for the war? 10:16 Andrei Tarkovsky’s films and Burkean conservatism 21:40 The future of Russia’s political opposition 31:39 How are Russian nationalists processing the Gaza war?

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

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

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    0:33 Paul’s Substack: small potatoes or some pumpkins? 4:03 Elon sours on Lemon—is ketamine to blame? 10:00 The enduring enigma that is Elon Musk 21:25 Is Altman overdramatizing the AI #Resistance? 30:03 Paul cavalierly ignores Bob’s sage guidance 34:25 Oscars: The good, the bad, and the hammy 40:57 Heading to Overtime (plus: big Small Potatoes news!)
    Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded March 19, 2024.
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods
    Discussed in Overtime: The knotty SSRI sexual side effect question. How woke is Barbie? How Will Smith’s Oscar slap is like Russia-Ukraine. Is AI Bob’s ticket to immortality? Jury Duty, acting, and human nature. What is the TikTok ban really about? Is Paul Pollyanna?

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

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

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    0:33 Nathan’s role as “AI scout” 4:07 What "open source" in AI really means 9:45 Why the secrecy around AI training data? 17:19 What’s actually “open” about OpenAI? 32:56 The case for and against open source AI 42:35 Is an open source crackdown coming?52:25 What Waymark, Nathan’s company, does with AI
    Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nathan Labenz (Cognitive Revolution, Waymark AI). Recorded March 13, 2024.
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods
    The Cognitive Revolution podcast: https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/ Waymark AI: https://waymark.com/
    Overtime titles:
    0:00 Bob glimpses a Matrix-like future 4:34 Could (and should) we use AI to resolve human disputes? 9:47 Where Nathan falls on the AI doomer spectrum 22:50 Understanding how AI understands things 32:22 Is AI alignment overblown?

    • 1h 2 min
    Biden’s Gaza Failures (Robert Wright & Daniel Levy)

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

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    2:49 Should Biden pursue regime change in Israel? 11:09 How the White House mishandled Netanyahu's far-right government 22:32 Daniel: “Israel has lost this war” 31:57 What a ceasefire deal would look like 39:16 Biden’s immense, unused leverage over Netanyahu 46:54 Heading to Overtime
    Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Daniel Levy (Prospects for Peace, NAF, The Century Foundation). Recorded March 12, 2024.
    Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods
    Overtime titles:
    0:00 How the Gaza war makes Biden look weak 5:30 Has the Zionist project become more militant? 23:22 The Israel-Palestine one-state reality

    • 47 min
    Biden's Big Speech (Earthling Unplugged)

    Biden's Big Speech (Earthling Unplugged)

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    Robert Wright and Andrew Day discuss items from the Earthling.
    Read this edition of the Earthling at:https://nonzero.substack.com/p/the-real-problem-with-the-trump-biden
    Recorded March 08, 2024.
    https://twitter.com/NonzeroNews
    https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods

    • 31 min

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