War Machine Learning (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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00:00 Can AI transcend conventional wisdom? 15:39 Is Trump back as 2024 GOP frontrunner? 24:52 The trouble with “the poor” 27:14 J.D. Vance has Ukraine on the brain 29:46 Ukraine update: How to make sending tanks make sense 46:16 Parrot room preview: Bob’s quasi-lucid dream; Evil corrections; The deep roots of Russian nationalist support for the war; Leon Wieseltier quote critique; DeSantis and black history; should judicial noms know their civics?; Kyrsten Sinema conspiracies; economic vs. social inequality; “exciting” child tax credit news; Israel’s multiple powder kegs

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Mickey Kaus (kausfiles, The End of Equality). Recorded January 27, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:07.8	Hi, Mickey.
0:09.4	Hey, Bob.
0:11.2	Is that Mort Condraki, whose picture you're showing me?
0:15.9	I'm glad you recognized it because it's not a very good picture, but it's the one I found.
0:20.3	Yes, it's Mort Conracki. I's the one i found uh yes it's more it's
0:21.2	more kondraki i know mort pretty well i had an office next to his for years right he was he was at
0:27.3	the new republic and he was a very good reporter uh and there's something he did that's very difficult
0:34.3	i didn't realize it was difficult but uh, you know, the concept of the conventional wisdom,
0:40.3	which is everybody says, you know, this is what all of Washington says.
0:47.0	I said, what used to be an important concept.
0:50.5	And I realized when I went to Newsweek, and my job was to come up with the conventional wisdom, that it's not easy.
0:57.3	It's hard to do.
0:58.8	Didn't you even start a conventional wisdom watch?
1:01.8	I did.
1:02.6	I did.
1:03.3	Me and John Alter.
1:05.0	But the, you know, you're out there alone.
1:10.8	You have yesterday's conventional wisdom. But what's it going to be today?
1:13.9	What is the, you know, is the thinking that Carter is making too much of the energy crisis or too little or, you know, Trump should shut up or no, Trump's campaign is too Pacific.
1:25.6	He should, you know, get on the stump.
1:27.2	I mean, you don't quite know, and it's hard
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