An Anti-Blob Debate on Iran, Gaza, and China (Robert Wright, Curt Mills, and Andrew Day)

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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0:28 A sublime Nonzero-TAC crossover event 3:07 Some bad MSM reporting on US-Iran negotiations 20:37 Would Kamala have been better than Trump on Gaza? 34:03 Is a two-state solution conceivable? 38:43 Buchananite conservatives on China 46:30 China, AI, and Covid-19 51:28 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True), Curt Mills (The American Conservative), Andrew Day (The American Conservative). Recorded June 5, 2025.

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Discussed in Overtime: AI accelerationism vs Burkean conservatism, debating the merits of disengagement with China, Europe’s AI conundrum, Russia-Ukraine under Trump, debating Trump’s authoritarianism and immigration policies, and more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:29.4	Hello, Kurt and Andrew.
0:32.5	Hey, Bob.
0:34.1	Bob.
0:35.3	How are you guys doing?
0:37.3	Sublime. I'm doing good. Did you say doing? Sublime.
0:39.1	I'm doing good.
0:40.0	Did you say sublime?
0:41.4	Yeah.
0:42.7	That was unexpected, Kurt.
0:44.2	Top that, Andrew.
0:45.9	Yeah, well, I can't top that.
0:47.2	I was actually going to say something much weirder than sublime,
0:49.5	which is that I have a stomach ache.
0:50.8	So I'm not doing sublime, but I think I'll power through.
1:12.0	We'll see. Sublime Lee, Andrew. Sublimely. Yeah. You're not doing sublimely. I'm doing sublimely despite the stomachache. Unless sublime is a drug that you're on for the stomach thing, which gets you doing sublime. Okay. Let me introduce. I'm Robert Wright, editor-in-chief of the non-zero newsletter.
1:13.1	This is a non-zero podcast.
1:20.5	It's also kind of a crossover because you guys are going to run it on the Right Now podcast feed,
1:24.1	that's the podcast of the American Conservative, where you both are.
1:25.3	Tech right now.
1:25.9	You are executive director.
1:27.0	What's that? It's Tech Right Now, the weekly podcasts. Oh, it are executive director. What's that?
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