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      <title>The AI Companion Question (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
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      <title>The Race to Control AI (Robert Wright &amp; Jeremie Harris)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Jeremie’s podcast and prescient AI report  ... Is scale still (mostly) all you need?  ... Jeremie: We’re way past “stochastic parrots”  ... Inside the early AI safety ecosystem  ... What Yudkowsky got less wrong than most  ... Why capability is outpacing alignment  ... Were Altman’s fears ever sincere?  ... Would pausing AI crash the economy?  ... Overtime preview: Debating China ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Jeremie’s podcast and prescient AI report  ... Is scale still (mostly) all you need?  ... Jeremie: We’re way past “stochastic parrots”  ... Inside the early AI safety ecosystem  ... What Yudkowsky got less wrong than most  ... Why capability is outpacing alignment  ... Were Altman’s fears ever sincere?  ... Would pausing AI crash the economy?  ... Overtime preview: Debating China ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Inside Elon's Mind (Robert Wright &amp; Alex Gibney)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Alex’s new documentary about Elon  ... How Alex’s film turned epic  ... Simulation theory + social Darwinism = Elon?  ... Inside the mind of Musk  ... Has the job-pocalypse already begun?   ... Elon’s daddy issues  ... Elon’s lady issues  ... Elon’s electoral propriety issues  ... Has Elon gotten weirder over time?  ... The damage DOGE could still do  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Will AI Make Humans Obsolete? (Robert Wright &amp; Garrison Lovely)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Garrison’s background and his new book, Obsolete  ... Is the left dangerously downplaying AI?  ... What is the “obsoleting project”?  ... Inside the minds of Altman and Amodei  ... Has the job-pocalypse already begun?   ... Why AI bio-threats could be extra deadly  ... Is alignment doomed?  ... “Verifiable rewards” and the OpenAI breakout  ... Garrison’s proposal to stop the AI race  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cold Open  ... Round Two of Nonzero × Doom Debates  ... Trump, the FTC, and an Industry Feeling the Heat  ... Google Says Gemini 4 Exists  ... Greg Brockman Pulls His $25M from Leading the Future  ... The Break-Ins Keep Coming  ... The Market Wants Agent Swarms  ... The End of “Alignment by Default”  ... The Prelude to Recursive Self-Improvement  ... David Sacks Can’t Explain Dario  ... The All-In Echo Chamber  ... Scott Alexander vs. Steven Pinker  ... Jason Calacanis vs. the Public Benefit Corporation  ... The Elephant in the Room Is the AI  ... What the Average American Thinks  ... From Chatbot to Agent to Swarm  ... Boeing, Agent Swarms, and the Off Switch  ... Skynet as a Botnet That Trades With Us  ... Tyler Cowen: National Treasure, Net Negative on AI  ... Liron’s Doomer DCF Yields a 20x P/E  ... Interest Rates: Where Cowen Has Me  ... Does Pinker Owe Us a Debate?  ... Pinker vs. Instrumental Convergence  ... Wrap-Up ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Dario’s China Syndrome (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Triolo)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Did Boomers Ruin Everything? (Robert Wright &amp; Jill Filipovic)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Jill’s book OK Boomer, Let’s Talk  ... When is generalizing about a group okay?  ... The world boomers built  ... Are boomers really uniquely selfish?  ... Is blaming boomers counterproductive?  ... Who's actually driving the generational divide?  ... The generational blame spiral  ... Millennials vs Gen Z  ... Does America have a gerontocracy problem?  ... Why Kenyans are looking toward China ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>What’s Driving Dario? (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... This episode's surprise vibe shift  ... Middle East update: Houthis vs. Saudis  ... What’s really driving Dario (et al.)?  ... Debating effective altruism’s effectiveness  ... The trouble with big-tech Kremlinology  ... Was “learn to code” just sleight of hand?   ... Bob’s Fukuyama name drop  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Where Zvi’s famous newsletter got its name  ... Zvi’s biggest AI fear  ... Why is ChatGPT’s mind getting harder to read?  ... Is self-sacrifice really such a surprising trait in agents?  ... AGI + agent swarm = superintelligence?   ... Appraising the elements of Dario’s “pacing” proposal  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Week in AI that Changed the World (Robert Wright &amp; Liron Shapira)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A bold new experiment in podcast synergy  ... What caused the epic AI vibe shift?  ... The resignation that broke the dam  ... Former Trump adviser Dean Ball comes clean  ... Are David Sacks and his buddies all-in on AI denial?  ... Yet another OpenAI breakout…  ... Astra’s dangerously private thoughts  ... Is alignment doomed to fail?  ... AI’s latest, and apparently biggest, math feat  ... The looming “self-sovereign AI” threat  ... A new flock of China doves?  ... Liron's ex-intern gets a seat at the table  ... AI agent self-sacrifice explained  ... Some newly freaked out politicians  ... Ro Khanna's AI safety plan ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A bold new experiment in podcast synergy  ... What caused the epic AI vibe shift?  ... The resignation that broke the dam  ... Former Trump adviser Dean Ball comes clean  ... Are David Sacks and his buddies all-in on AI denial?  ... Yet another OpenAI breakout…  ... Astra’s dangerously private thoughts  ... Is alignment doomed to fail?  ... AI’s latest, and apparently biggest, math feat  ... The looming “self-sovereign AI” threat  ... A new flock of China doves?  ... Liron's ex-intern gets a seat at the table  ... AI agent self-sacrifice explained  ... Some newly freaked out politicians  ... Ro Khanna's AI safety plan ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Israel’s Lobby (Robert Wright, Eli Clifton, and Ian Lustick)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ian and Eli’s new book, Israel’s Lobby  ... Being a Jewish critic of Israel before that was cool  ... How Eli followed the money  ... What’s changed since the 2007 Walt-Mearsheimer book  ... What is the Israel lobby, really?  ... BDS, free speech, and the college antisemitism crusade  ... Did Trump give the game away?  ... The Israel lobby and the media  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ian and Eli’s new book, Israel’s Lobby  ... Being a Jewish critic of Israel before that was cool  ... How Eli followed the money  ... What’s changed since the 2007 Walt-Mearsheimer book  ... What is the Israel lobby, really?  ... BDS, free speech, and the college antisemitism crusade  ... Did Trump give the game away?  ... The Israel lobby and the media  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Is AI a Form of Life? (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why Bob is (extra) freaked out  ... Inside the minds of OpenAI's rogue agents  ... Is true alignment a pipe dream?  ... The new development that’s spiked Bob’s AI anxiety  ... Paul’s pushback via literary parable  ... Is it time to REALLY freak out about AI? A debate  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why Bob is (extra) freaked out  ... Inside the minds of OpenAI's rogue agents  ... Is true alignment a pipe dream?  ... The new development that’s spiked Bob’s AI anxiety  ... Paul’s pushback via literary parable  ... Is it time to REALLY freak out about AI? A debate  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Iran, Ukraine, and the Future of War (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Scharre)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Overtime teaser  ... Paul’s military tech bona fides  ... What we (should) have learned from the Iran war  ... Ukraine as frontline for the drone revolution  ... Are the robot wars near?  ... America’s drone deficit  ... Does the Pentagon have a Silicon Valley problem?  ... Will AI really make war less bloody?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The OpenAI Breakout and Other AI Spookiness (Robert Wright &amp; Stephen Casper)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69686</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69686#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Stephen’s expertise in spooky AI behavior  ... Testing AIs for “corporate loyalty”  ... Which AIs shill most for their makers?  ... Do AI models have ideologies?  ... The spookiest finding of Stephen’s study  ... Are AIs getting better at gaming their tests?  ... Overtime unlocked: The OpenAI breakout  ... Decoding the OpenAI breakout  ... Did OpenAI’s agents evolve their own culture?  ... How OpenAI’s agents outfoxed their makers ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Demis Hassabis and the Quest for AGI (Robert Wright &amp; Sebastian Mallaby)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69677</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69677#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... The Infinity Machine, Sebastian’s book about Demis Hassabis  ... Why tell the AI story through Hassabis?  ... Hassabis vs the other AI titans  ... Does Hassabis have a messiah complex?  ... Deep learning’s secret sauce  ... Did world models cost DeepMind its LLM lead?  ... Why they call Hassabis “the Jedi”  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... The Infinity Machine, Sebastian’s book about Demis Hassabis  ... Why tell the AI story through Hassabis?  ... Hassabis vs the other AI titans  ... Does Hassabis have a messiah complex?  ... Deep learning’s secret sauce  ... Did world models cost DeepMind its LLM lead?  ... Why they call Hassabis “the Jedi”  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Trump’s New War on Iran (Robert Wright &amp; Hooman Majd)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69668</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69668#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hooman's Iranian expertise—inherited and otherwise  ... Trump’s new (economic) war on Iran  ... What MSM missed about the MOU  ... How will Iran respond?  ... The intra-MAGA fight over Trump’s foreign policy  ... Will Iran do to Trump what it did to Carter?   ... Iran and the Houthi-Saudi conflict  ... Is the Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey alliance for real?  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Hooman's Iranian expertise—inherited and otherwise  ... Trump’s new (economic) war on Iran  ... What MSM missed about the MOU  ... How will Iran respond?  ... The intra-MAGA fight over Trump’s foreign policy  ... Will Iran do to Trump what it did to Carter?   ... Iran and the Houthi-Saudi conflict  ... Is the Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey alliance for real?  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The AI Safety Vibe Shift (Robert Wright &amp; David Krueger)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69660</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69660#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Overtime teaser  ... David’s AI safety work, past and present  ... Has there been a vibe shift in AI?  ... Why two AI godfathers went doomer  ... The OpenAI breakout as the warning shot heard round the world  ... Breaking down the OpenAI breakout  ... AI agents are cooperating. Why?  ... Is an AI pause near?  ... The hard problem of AI alignment  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Is (Human) Writing Doomed? (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69653</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69653#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bob channels Dick Cheney  ... Is AI killing writing? And thinking?  ... How Bob and Paul actually use AI  ... The cognitive vs economic value of writing  ... AIs aping “Memento” and other frontier freakiness  ... Bob: Reckless AI is just good business  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Trump’s Unending War (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69646</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69646#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... How is MAGA feeling about Trump 2.0?  ... Bob’s "good" ol’ days at The New Republic  ... The biggest threat to the Trump coalition  ... Why the MoU unraveled  ... Is Iran's regime really divided?  ... Part two: This pod’s auspicious return from tech hell  ... Google Maps, AI, and the death of interhuman reliance  ... Trump’s covert catering-truck op  ... Have Iran’s demands really gotten more extreme?  ... Saudi Arabia vs the Houthis  ... Is a post-American Middle East emerging?  ... A low-key end to the episode ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Ukraine, Iran, and America’s Arms Overreach (Robert Wright &amp; Jennifer Kavanagh)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69632</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69632#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jennifer’s foreign policy bona fides  ... Could Ukraine and Iran merge into one big war?  ... Is Ukraine really "turning the tide"?  ... America’s (and Ukraine’s) missile defense issue  ... Putin’s ceasefire conditions  ... What—and who—are America's missiles for, really?  ... How not to open the Hormuz Strait  ... How will the Iran war truly end?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Jennifer’s foreign policy bona fides  ... Could Ukraine and Iran merge into one big war?  ... Is Ukraine really "turning the tide"?  ... America’s (and Ukraine’s) missile defense issue  ... Putin’s ceasefire conditions  ... What—and who—are America's missiles for, really?  ... How not to open the Hormuz Strait  ... How will the Iran war truly end?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Fasten Your Bot-belts (Robert Wright &amp; Samuel Hammond)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69627</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Sam’s ideological leanings  ... Sam's AI Manhattan Project–revisited  ... What does the “Pacing” letter say about the state of AI?  ... Mythos, Astra, and AI’s accelerating acceleration  ... The OpenAI “rogue” model escape  ... Recursive self-improvement: Red line or red herring?  ... How frontier AI is getting (and will get) freakier  ... How is open-source AI like DEI?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The intensifying slow-AI-down vibe (Robert Wright &amp; Holly Elmore)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69621</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69621#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... The “Pacing the Frontier” letter signed by AI elites  ... Why so many China-hawk AI-safety-hawks?  ... Was the “Pacing” letter too small an ask?  ... The striking AI vibe shift  ... Are AI builders “just following orders”?  ... Recursive self-improvement: The wrong red line?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Are the Ukraine and the Iran Wars Merging? (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69614</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why did Ukraine hit an Iranian ship 500 miles from Ukraine?  ... Ukraine's war on Russia's Amazon  ... Why Zelensky fired his defense minister and commander-in-chief  ... Bob: Ukraine may lose like people go bankrupt—gradually, then suddenly  ... Nikita: Why both sides are ready to keep fighting  ... Kazakh President to Putin: Nobody understands this war  ... Bob: Everybody thinks they're fighting a defensive war  ... Heading to Overtime: The globalist elite vs. the globalist precariat, and an AI path to WW3 ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why did Ukraine hit an Iranian ship 500 miles from Ukraine?  ... Ukraine's war on Russia's Amazon  ... Why Zelensky fired his defense minister and commander-in-chief  ... Bob: Ukraine may lose like people go bankrupt—gradually, then suddenly  ... Nikita: Why both sides are ready to keep fighting  ... Kazakh President to Putin: Nobody understands this war  ... Bob: Everybody thinks they're fighting a defensive war  ... Heading to Overtime: The globalist elite vs. the globalist precariat, and an AI path to WW3 ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Ideology Behind AI (Robert Wright &amp; Connor Leahy)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69608</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Connor’s place in the AI world  ... Mythos: “digital nuke”?  ... The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans  ... Yudkowsky,  Marx, and other AI harbingers  ... Effective altruism’s effects on big tech  ... The "cult" in Silicon Valley culture  ... Is the AI race a market failure?  ... What’s really driving the AI titans?  ... Connor: ASI is a worse bet than Russian roulette ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Connor’s place in the AI world  ... Mythos: “digital nuke”?  ... The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans  ... Yudkowsky,  Marx, and other AI harbingers  ... Effective altruism’s effects on big tech  ... The "cult" in Silicon Valley culture  ... Is the AI race a market failure?  ... What’s really driving the AI titans?  ... Connor: ASI is a worse bet than Russian roulette ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Trump’s Self-Inflicted Iran Quagmire (Robert Wright &amp; Zaid Jilani)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69601</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Zaid’s Substack and spicy-take history  ... Zaid: Iran has outplayed Trump and Bibi  ... 10/7 as turning point  ... Did—and does—Israel want regime collapse in Iran?  ... Israel’s security dilemma(s)   ... How Trump blundered back into war  ... Will the war end well for anyone?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Zaid’s Substack and spicy-take history  ... Zaid: Iran has outplayed Trump and Bibi  ... 10/7 as turning point  ... Did—and does—Israel want regime collapse in Iran?  ... Israel’s security dilemma(s)   ... How Trump blundered back into war  ... Will the war end well for anyone?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title> Iran, Israel, and the Future of US Power (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69592</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sneak peek: Danny finds flaw in Bob’s AI book  ... Is the Iran war fully back on?  ... What the war means for the future of US power   ... The problem with blaming Bibi  ... The push to intertwine the US and Israeli militaries  ... What’s Israel’s endgame for the Palestinians?  ... The Gulf States’ new reality  ... Iran’s plans for the Strait of Hormuz  ... Bob’s pitch to Derek—and his other pitch to listeners ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sneak peek: Danny finds flaw in Bob’s AI book  ... Is the Iran war fully back on?  ... What the war means for the future of US power   ... The problem with blaming Bibi  ... The push to intertwine the US and Israeli militaries  ... What’s Israel’s endgame for the Palestinians?  ... The Gulf States’ new reality  ... Iran’s plans for the Strait of Hormuz  ... Bob’s pitch to Derek—and his other pitch to listeners ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Are Russia and NATO Headed for War? (Robert Wright &amp; Leonid Ragozin)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69585</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Leonid’s journalistic work, past and present  ... Are Russia and NATO headed for war?  ... Decoding Putin’s recent signals  ... Do European leaders really want the Ukraine war to end?  ... Putin’s political psychology  ... Why the war matters more to Russia than to the West  ... Russia’s non-ethno nationalism  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Leonid’s journalistic work, past and present  ... Are Russia and NATO headed for war?  ... Decoding Putin’s recent signals  ... Do European leaders really want the Ukraine war to end?  ... Putin’s political psychology  ... Why the war matters more to Russia than to the West  ... Russia’s non-ethno nationalism  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Are Books Dead? (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69580</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Preview: Skynet comes for Bob  ... Trump‘s endearing AI obsession  ... Are books dying? Is AI responsible?  ... Skynet (aka Amazon) vs Bob’s book  ... The problem with blurbs  ... Why Gad Saad’s mad  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Preview: Skynet comes for Bob  ... Trump‘s endearing AI obsession  ... Are books dying? Is AI responsible?  ... Skynet (aka Amazon) vs Bob’s book  ... The problem with blurbs  ... Why Gad Saad’s mad  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Is AI Humanity’s Last Exam? (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69573</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Grandpa Bob and author Bob  ... Why Bob stopped being an AI doom skeptic  ... Can AI solve China’s demographic crisis?  ... The irony of China’s open-source AI strategy  ... Recursive self-improvement and the singularity  ... The Burkean conservative case against AI  ... Are we becoming AI meat puppets?  ... Google Maps, AI, and the death of interhuman reliance  ... Was Pete Hegseth’s military strategy written by a chatbot?  ... Trump and Iran: Peace? Wider war? Other?  ... The Rubio-Vance rivalry  ... Is Rubio sabotaging Iran peace talks? ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The World After the Iran War (Robert Wright &amp; Joshua Landis)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Was "losing" this war good for America?    ... Israel’s post-war situation   ... A more stable Middle East? Or less?  ... The impact on Iran’s strength  ... Has the war empowered Russia and China?  ... How modern warfare devalues American military power  ... Josh: The Gulf-state power struggle is just beginning   ... Are the Palestinians back in the spotlight?  ... Where do Israel-US relations go from here?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The AI Lobby’s Dirty Tricks (Robert Wright &amp; Tyler Johnston)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... The Midas Project and the OpenAI files  ... What’s "Build American AI" up to?    ... Nathan Leamer, astroturfer and sock puppeteer  ... Greg Brockman, AI lobby bankroller  ... Astroturfing the China panic  ... Is OpenAI an innocent bystander?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Whose baby is cuter?  ... Bob's new book on AI, The God Test  ... Varieties of AI awe  ... Geoffrey Hinton’s vision  ... How LLMs do more than predict and parrot  ... How powerful will AI get?  ... Can AI’s impact be predicted?  ... Taking doomerism seriously  ... The AI governance dilemma  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Seeing China Clearly (Robert Wright &amp; Tianyu Fang)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... How Tianyu became a “China explainer”  ... American vs Chinese exceptionalism  ... What you can and can’t say in China  ... Is the government more accountable in the US or China?  ... How China sees America  ... The one-child policy and its consequences  ... Tianyu: The biggest misconception about China is…  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>AI, Evolution, and The God Test (Increments Podcast) (Robert Wright, Ben Chugg, Vaden Masrani)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump’s Iran War Merry-Go-Round (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69511</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Is NonZero or American Prestige the better podcast? AI weighs in  ... The state of the US-Iran war. Or is it peace?  ... Has Trump already lost the midterms? Does he care?  ... The Russia-Ukraine war (and Eric Schmidt)  ... What the latest Iran war strikes signal  ... Overtime preview: Nuland’s “monsters,” zombie blobsters, Barak Ravid, Bari Weiss, “killzones,” and the Pope vs AI ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Pope Takes On AI (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 02:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A Greek pilgrimage, a mystery guest, and a Discord revival  ... The first Papal encyclical devoted to AI  ... Pope Leo: just war theory is outdated, and AI lets humans dodge accountability  ... Anthropic tells the Pope about "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside AI  ... Inside the "Kill Zone": How drones changed the Russia-Ukraine front  ... Who gets replaced first: the soldier or the commander?  ... Russia's hypersonic missiles and nuclear signaling  ... Do drones favor the underdog? Plus a warning on Taiwan  ... The Iran ceasefire wobbles as Israel pushes back  ... Heading to Overtime: Greek mystery cults, Teilhard de Chardin, and Blade Runner  ... Enter the Mystery Guest: Jeremy Eliosoff, Pause AI Canada ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Can Rituals Save Us? (Robert Wright &amp; Bruce Feiler)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 01:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Bruce’s new book on ritual, A Time to Gather  ... The "Lifequake" that led Bruce to study ritual  ... What is a ritual?  ... The origins of the shadow ritual renaissance  ... Forest bathing and the essence of ritual  ... Ritual as the original human algorithm    ... Rituals across Christianity  ... What rituals do  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Understanding Iran (Robert Wright &amp; Hamidreza Azizi)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Rethinking China (Robert Wright &amp; Zhengyu Huang)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Zhengyu’s tech background and new book, Rethinking China  ... What kind of threat is China, really?  ... How trading with China transformed America  ... The stakes of the chip war  ... Will tech war lead to real war?  ... The US-China escalation spiral and Taiwan  ... “Researching while Chinese”: the new Red Scare?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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