BhTV: The Wright Show (audio)

Sep 17 2024 80 ep. 60 mins 249
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A New Kind of Artificial Intelligence (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)

Sep 17 2024 60 mins  
Why didn’t OpenAI call its new o1 AI GPT? ... Tim’s first impressions of o1 ... What’s the secret to o1’s better reasoning? ... Inspecting AI introspection ... Does o1’s capability for deception bring us closer to doom? ... AI doomers’ Hollywood problem ... Elon’s self-driving speed bumps ... Heading to Overtime ...

Putin's Warning, America's Blunders (Robert Wright & Andrew Day)

Sep 13 2024 60 mins  
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The Trump-Kamala Debate (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Sep 11 2024 60 mins  
Tragedy strikes the Wright household ... Breaking down the big Trump-Kamala debate ... Are debates actually valuable? ... Kamala’s worst debate moment (according to Bob) ... Elon vs Taylor Swift, Brazil, and himself ... Bob and Paul argue about free speech ... Heading to Overtime ...

Zelensky’s Gambits, Putin’s Game Plan (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven)

Sep 06 2024 60 mins  
Is Ukraine’s Kursk invasion failing? ... Why Russia may outlast the West in Ukraine ... Zelensky’s cabinet shakeup ... Prospects for a peace deal ... Russian elites’ views on the war ... How the Global South can help end the conflict ... Heading to Overtime ...

Evolution, Empathy, and the Future of Humanity (Homebrewed Christianity) (Robert Wright & Tripp Fuller)

Aug 31 2024 60 mins  
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Israel’s Self-Destructive Policies (Robert Wright & Stephen Walt)

Aug 26 2024 60 mins  
Steve’s books, The Hell of Good Intentions and The Israel Lobby ... How Israel helped spawn Hezbollah ... Why US leaders abet Israel’s self-destructive behavior ... Netanyahu’s longstanding opposition to a Palestinian state ... The Israeli policy that doomed Israel-Palestine relations ... Steve’s writings on US foreign policy and the election ...

Predicting the Past (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Aug 23 2024 60 mins  
Bob and Paul’s time-warping podcast experiment ... Does thinking in bets better your thinking? ... Past prediction 1: Will the presidential race tighten up? ... J.D. Vance memes of yester-month ... Past prediction 2: Who will Kamala pick for VP? ... When reality gets weird ... Heading to Overtime ...

Gaza, Realism, and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Emma Ashford)

Aug 19 2024 60 mins  
Emma’s forthcoming book on US grand strategy ... Gaza, Ukraine, and Mearsheimer’s realism ... The DC establishment’s dark view of world affairs ... How the Gaza war hurts American interests—and America itself ... Is the time ripe for realism and restraint? ... National problems that require international cooperation ... Heading to Overtime ...

Client States Gone Wild (Robert Wright & Andrew Day)

Aug 16 2024 60 mins  
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Understanding AI "Understanding" (Robert Wright & Nathan Labenz)

Aug 13 2024 60 mins  
Nathan's podcast, The Cognitive Revolution ... The enduring enigmas of AI ... Conceptualizing how LLMs conceptualize ... Do AIs actually understand things? ... Why AI doesn’t need to be superhuman to be revolutionary ... Human vs AI representations of the world ... Thinking through high-dimensional AI brain space ... Nathan on AI risk: Doomer? Accelerationist? Both? ... The open