The Wright Show
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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Nathan’s work at AI2—and his p(doom) ... What does “open source AI” mean? ... How Nathan taught a Llama new tricks ... Pros and cons of open sourcing AI ... Nathan's ATOM Project to boost American open models ... What's behind OpenAI's open source play? ... Geoffrey Hinton's case against open models ... Is the US-China
Epstein's Israel connections ... Epstein's history of blackmail ... Was it suicide? ... Epstein's creepy relationship with Trump ... Why won’t Trump release the files? ... The Israel connection(s) ... Some Epstein-Wexner weirdness ... What’s the deal with Ghislaine? ... Was it suicide? (cont’d) ... Mickey plays pundit
Does America’s “China Consensus” Make Sense? A Debate (Robert Wright & Jordan Schneider)
Jordan’s ChinaTalk podcast ... Making sense of America’s “China consensus” ... Are fears of Chinese global ambitions overblown? ... The logic (or is it illogic?) of the AI arms race ... China and the Ukraine War ... Influence operations: Chinese vs American ... China’s endgame re the US—and vice-versa ... Is US China t
Must We Discuss Sydney Sweeney? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Substack glory and livestream anxiety ... Reading eugenics into a dopey jeans ad ... Does Sydney Sweeney spell the end of “inclusive marketing”? ... Bob vs. Paul on IQ and “general intelligence” ... Paul reviews the new Billy Joel documentary ... The Epstein prison video snafu: a Bayesian take ... Ghislaine gets a free
Why Gaza’s famine is the "most intense" in decades ... From food secure to starvation: How Gaza unraveled ... Blinken's willful blindness to Israel's obstruction of aid ... How the US muzzled its own famine warning system ... The political power of the term "famine" ... What starvation does to the body—and to society .
Derek and Danny plug their new Crusades series ... This week’s shift in Gaza discourse ... The real danger Gaza poses for Israel ... Does the left’s rhetoric on Israel miss the mark? ... Elite media’s think tank problem ... Is American imperialism really the problem? ... Heading to Overtime ...
