AI Anxiety Goes Global (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00 Is DeSantis done for? 9:14 Ro Khanna for president! 13:04 Why Cold War II makes AI scarier 22:45 Is Twitter done for? 27:23 How imminent is a recession, really? 31:52 Ukraine war update 45:06 The Blinken wrinkle in the Hunter Biden laptop story 47:43 Parrot room preview: Mickey’s AI revelation; Can the GOP win over the college crowd?; Is Fetterman out of the woods?; Is a border crisis incoming?; The slow-burn of Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice; more on DeSantis

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded April 21, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.2	Hey, Bob.
0:35.1	How you doing?
0:35.7	What you got there?
0:36.5	I'm doing okay.
0:37.1	That and Happy Edition.
0:38.8	Oh, this is the conventional wisdom watch from back in old Newsweek days.
0:42.6	Is that something you did back when you were, I don't want to say a young man,
0:46.3	because you're still kind of a young man.
0:48.3	Thank you, Bob.
0:50.8	This is a feature in Newsweek that John Alter and I came up with.
0:56.4	And the premise of it was the conventional wisdom is in the press,
1:01.7	it sort of goes in cycles and the cycles are sort of,
1:06.3	they're self-generating in that, you know,
1:09.6	the press gets sick of saying, you know,
1:11.6	Carter is focusing too much on Iran and then so that a bunch of people are right up at saying,
1:16.5	you know, he's not focusing, he's, he's, you know, he's focusing too much on Iran.
1:21.0	And then two weeks, they'll say, no, he's not focusing on Iran enough.
1:24.7	And it's sort of, it's sort of free of press bias, okay?
1:29.0	It's sort of internally, reporters get sick of writing the same thing over and over again.
1:33.7	They want to say something new.
1:35.3	So the cycle moves to saying the opposite of what the previous cycle said.
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