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      <title>The Secret of AI’s Power (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
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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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      <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>
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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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      <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 Pope Leo: just war theory is outdated, and AI lets humans dodge accountability  ...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>
      <itunes:summary><![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 Pope Leo: just war theory is outdated, and AI lets humans dodge accountability  ...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 ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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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>
      <itunes:summary><![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 ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![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 ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Is AI a normal technology?    ... Mythos and the METR curve  ... The current state of coding agents  ... The total turbulence problem   ... Does Mythos favor offense or defense?  ... Mythos and hype  ... Regulating dangerous AI  ... The centralization problem  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Is AI a normal technology?    ... Mythos and the METR curve  ... The current state of coding agents  ... The total turbulence problem   ... Does Mythos favor offense or defense?  ... Mythos and hype  ... Regulating dangerous AI  ... The centralization problem  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 03:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 23:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[How powerful is Anthropic’s Mythos?  ... How Mythos looks to China  ... Does Mythos mark a new phase in the US-China arms race?  ... Can Anthropic contain Mythos?  ... Could superhacker AIs bring cooperation?  ... How scary is China, really?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Mattering Instinct (Robert Wright &amp; Rebecca Goldstein)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rebecca’s past work on mind and matter(ing)  ... Rebecca’s new book, The Mattering Instinct  ... Varieties of mattering experience  ... Mattering type 1: Heroic Strivers  ... Mattering type 2: Socializers  ... Mattering type 3: Transcenders  ... Mattering type 4: Competitors  ... “The” meaning of life problem  ... Does what drives us divide us?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Future of Intelligence (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Paul’s new baby is reportedly cute  ... The Tucker-Trump fracture   ... Parenting later in life  ... Paul's TED talk on AI and loneliness  ... When does embryo screening become eugenics?  ... Is intelligence a positional good?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Can Trump and Iran Make a Deal? (Robert Wright &amp; Robert Malley)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran and the Demise of US Hegemony (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69410</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69393</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Averting a Superintelligence Takeover (Robert Wright &amp; Andrea Miotti)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69386</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69381</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel, America, and the Iran War (Robert Wright &amp; Ron Kampeas)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69373</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69373#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... What (or who) is the Iran war for?  ... Joe Kent and the MAGA rift over Israel  ... Does antisemitism speech policing foment antisemitism?  ... What Ron’s Substack has that others don’t  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Allure and Danger of Agentic AI (Robert Wright &amp; Liron Shapira)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69367</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Overtime preview: a civil(-ish) debate on Israel-Palestine  ... How vibe-coding changed Liron’s life   ... Portents of the AI jobpocalypse  ... What can humans do that AI agents can’t?  ... The Darwinian case for AI doom  ... OpenClaw vs SkyNet  ... Liron: I love AI! We need to stop it.  ... Amodei, Altman, and the Pentagon triangle  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Overtime preview: a civil(-ish) debate on Israel-Palestine  ... How vibe-coding changed Liron’s life   ... Portents of the AI jobpocalypse  ... What can humans do that AI agents can’t?  ... The Darwinian case for AI doom  ... OpenClaw vs SkyNet  ... Liron: I love AI! We need to stop it.  ... Amodei, Altman, and the Pentagon triangle  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Israel’s Plan for Iran (And Beyond)  (Robert Wright &amp; Daniel Levy)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69359</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Is Iran inflicting much damage on Israel?  ... Iran has a strategy. Does America? Does Israel?  ... Where Trump and Bibi differ  ... Why Daniel is no longer a Zionist  ... Bibi vs the Israeli security establishment  ... The Gulf States' dilemma  ... Daniel on Bibi’s true endgame  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Iran's War for a New Middle East Order (Robert Wright &amp; Hooman Majd)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69353</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... How we got here  ... Understanding Iran's strategy and goals  ... Turkey, Europe, and the Gulf States  ... Will the Iranian regime survive?  ... The specious leadership of Reza Pahlavi  ... The many missed opportunities for US-Iran entente  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Israel, Iran, and Antisemitism (Robert Wright &amp; Peter Beinart)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69346</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69346#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Will the Iran war supercharge antisemitism?  ... Varieties of Israeli-Jewish conflation  ... The Epstein effect  ... Tucker v. Israel vs Fuentes v. Israel  ... Does MSM have a pro-Israel bias?  ... The ADL’s counterproductive speech policing  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Trump's Gulf War (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69330</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69330#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Marco Rubio's Israel faux pas  ... What are Trump’s new goalposts?  ... The regime after Khamenei  ... Can a regime be changed by air strikes alone?  ... Will Turkey be drawn in?  ... The logic of Iran's response  ... The pathetic European (and Canadian) response  ... Heading into Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Will the Iran War Spiral Out of Control? (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69325</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran War II (Robert Wright &amp; Joshua Landis)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69318</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Why is Trump threatening Iran, really?  ... What’s the strategic logic behind striking?  ... Trump vs Bibi on Gaza  ... How would—and could—Iran respond?  ... What a post-regime-collapse Iran could look like  ... Josh: Trump has painted himself into a corner  ... Is a new “axis of resistance” against Israel emerging?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Is Anthropic Misanthropic? (Robert Wright &amp; Holly Elmore)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69310</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Holly’s call-out campaign  ... Holly: Don’t believe the Amanda Askell puff pieces  ... Is Amanda a bad person?   ... How Dario’s false dichotomies accelerate the AI race  ... The only Anthropic through-line is "winning"  ... Did Dario subvert Effective Altruism?  ... The end of the AI safety fig leaf  ... Heading into Overtime: The pros and cons of naming and shaming ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The AI Apocalypse Cometh? (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69303</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Is the Singularity Near? (Robert Wright &amp; Timothy B. Lee)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69293</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... The dueling Sam Altman biographies  ... Who is the real Sam Altman?  ... OpenAI’s origin—did Sam scam Elon?  ... Why the OpenAI board coup failed  ... Good and bad critiques of OpenAI  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Meaning of Moltbook (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... How Bob’s and Paul’s names wound up in the Epstein Files   ... Epstein’s double option play  ... Understanding Moltbook  ... Bob on the “big question” Moltbook raises   ... Paul: What planet are Emily Bender and Alex Hanna on?   ... Heading into Overtime: Friends in the Epstein Files, the strangest thing Bob’s ever done for money and more. ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Grand Unified Theory of MAGA (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69272</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Case Against AI (Robert Wright, Alex Hanna, and Emily Bender)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69257</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Alex and Emily’s book, The AI Con  ... Beyond the AI booster-doomer spectrum  ... What—and who—is AI actually useful for?  ... The AI productivity question(s)  ... Emily: AI won’t take your job, it’ll just make it shi**ier  ... Stochastic parrots, Chinese rooms, and semantics  ... Are LLMs really black boxes?  ... Do AIs “understand” things?  ... Debating using AIs as experts  ... How “neural” are neural nets, really? ... ]]></description>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69251</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A recap of January’s Trump turbulence  ... Is Trump a cause or symptom of world disorder?  ... Is Trump increasingly unstable?  ... Will we invade Cuba?  ... American politics after Trump  ... The crumbling bedrock of International Law  ... Where are the Democrats?  ... Heading into Overtime: Renee Good, Syria, Worthwhile Canadian Prime Minister ... ]]></description>
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      <title>AI After Us: The "Succession" Scenario (Robert Wright &amp; Dan Faggella)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69242</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Defining AI succession  ... How positive psychology led Dan to AI research  ... Is Dan a "successionist"?  ... Does it matter whether AI is sentient?  ... Two traits of a worthy successor  ... The varieties of succession scenarios  ... Values and interests  ... Will AI have any use for us?  ... Succession scenarios to avoid  ... Heading into Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Past and Future of Digital Media (Robert Wright &amp; Mike Pesca)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69235</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Are Bob and Mike the godfathers of podcasting?  ... Slate and the origins of podcasting  ... NotebookLM’s humanless podcasts  ... From blogs to Substack  ... Looking back at BloggingHeads  ... The tribalizing influence of algorithms   ... New news models   ... What happened to the rules in professional sports?  ... The consequences of paying college athletes  ... Mike's comprehensive take on sports gambling  ... Heading into OT: The perils of opining on Israel ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Minneapolis Shooting Rorschach Test (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69226</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Different readings of the Renee Good videos  ... JD Vance vs Stephen Miller: compare and contrast  ... Trump vs Hitler: compare and contrast  ... ICE agents and stormtroopers: compare and contrast   ... Has Elon totally lost it?  ... Paul: Politicians are people too!   ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>NASA’s Plans for the Moon and Mars (Robert Wright &amp; Cameron Berg)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69220</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Cameron’s work at AE studio  ... Why consciousness is such a hard problem  ... Why AI consciousness matters  ... Does consciousness need carbon?  ... The ethics of AI subjectivity  ... Can we trust LLM self-reports?  ... Cameron’s innovative AI consciousness experiments  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>NASA’s Plans for the Moon and Mars (Robert Wright &amp; Joel Achenbach)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69213</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Joel’s legendary Bloggingheads line  ... NASA’s new chief: More than a Musk toady?  ... Why we’re still not living in Star Trek  ... The space alien question  ... Can we make the moon program great again?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Joel’s legendary Bloggingheads line  ... NASA’s new chief: More than a Musk toady?  ... Why we’re still not living in Star Trek  ... The space alien question  ... Can we make the moon program great again?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>2025: A Year-End (And Quarter-Century-End) Reckoning (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69207</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[David Lynch, Jane Goodall, and other notable 2025 losses  ... When Bob called James Watson a "mad scientist"  ... Predicting 2050: Star Trek abundance vs. "Total Chaos Planet"?  ... The age of algorithmically guided attention  ... Global poverty reduction (and its flip side)  ... Will anyone care if your newsletter is AI-written?  ... Trump's USAID cuts killed a lot of people  ... Elon Musk, Alex Karp, and the age of the "manifestly crazy"  ... Can the Supreme Court stop Trump?  ... JD Vance's identity crisis: Tech bro or populist?  ... The "Black Swan": When AI starts killing people  ... AI scientific breakthroughs to come  ... Bob and Paul's 2025 Entertainment Awards  ... Which jobs are truly AI-proof?  ... Bob's Epstein document deep-dive  ... Bill Ackman's conspiracy-theory-brained year  ... Are US arms sales pushing China to invade Taiwan?  ... Barry Weiss’s journalistic scruples ... ]]></description>
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      <title>What Era Are We Living In? (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69200</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... What era are we living in?  ... David Bowie: "The Internet is an alien life form."   ... Bob: "It's like aliens are approaching, and we don't know their intentions"  ... Nikita: "COVID was weird, and nothing has been normal since"  ... The lab leak theory  ... How COVID killed consensus reality  ... Bob's case for international biotech monitoring  ... Vaccine geopolitics  ... Bob's candidate: We let machines guide our attention  ... Trump's failed bargaining strategy  ... Technological progress is like a cocaine high  ... How common is the idea that AI will be a big deal?  ... When music is high stakes. Russian street musicians get arrested  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Year in Trump Foreign Policy (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Connor Echols)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69193</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[What's the long game in Venezuela?  ... MAGA's Monroe Doctrine  ... Trump as deep state puppet   ... Will Trump oust Maduro?   ... Connor: Trump's foreign policy is a "profoundly mixed bag"  ... Has Israel lost the American electorate?  ... Andrew: Trump's Ukraine peace plan isn’t pro-Russia  ... Silicon Valley’s inept arms makers   ... The administration's view(s) on China and Taiwan  ... Europe learns to speak Trump   ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[What's the long game in Venezuela?  ... MAGA's Monroe Doctrine  ... Trump as deep state puppet   ... Will Trump oust Maduro?   ... Connor: Trump's foreign policy is a "profoundly mixed bag"  ... Has Israel lost the American electorate?  ... Andrew: Trump's Ukraine peace plan isn’t pro-Russia  ... Silicon Valley’s inept arms makers   ... The administration's view(s) on China and Taiwan  ... Europe learns to speak Trump   ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 04:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The incoherence of Trump's foreign policy  ... The paucity of debate around Chinese chip restrictions  ... Danny: Is this the stupidest foreign policy establishment ever?   ... Should AGI worry us?    ... Bob’s Overtime bait ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Hard Truth about Peace in Ukraine (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69165</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 01:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69159</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69153</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Will One AI Rule Us All? (Robert Wright &amp; Alex Komoroske)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Alex's influential "Google PM Bible"  ... What is a tech aggregator?    ... AI is much more than chatbots  ... The dangers of centralized AI  ... What you want vs what you want to want  ... How an LLM’s memory locks you in   ... AGI vs ASI  ... Alex's solution to the lock-in problem  ... Alex's ode to “resonance” ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Disorder as the New Normal (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... What is Bob doing in Qatar?  ... "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold." Why Yeats felt this way  ... Peter Thiel's Antichrist theory   ... Nikita: COVID was a weird time, and nothing has been the same since  ... Why Bob feels things are falling apart  ... Were things ever in order?  ... "Inner emigration": tuning out the world as self-care  ... A reaction to a drone strike: "Loud noises don't wake me up"  ... Young people are turning away from social media  ... When Spain lost all power and cellular coverage  ... War as a "major inconvenience"  ... Bob's prediction about Ukraine's future retaliation for Pokrovsk  ... Nikita's impressions from Europe  ... Nonzero Reading Club THIS SATURDAY: Norbert Wiener's God & Golem, Inc.  ... Deepfakes and the future of news  ... Russia's first humanoid robot falls down ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Is American Might Right? (Robert Wright &amp; Shadi Hamid)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69117</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Shadi’s path to his new book, The Case for American Power  ... George W. Bush’s “Freedom Agenda”  ... Does America’s role in Gaza undermine Shadi’s case?   ... Shadi’s case for US moral supremacy  ... What does China want?  ... What justifies military intervention?   ... Bob: International law is the answer  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69114</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[This week in underappreciated world history  ... Were the elections all—or just mostly—bad news for Trump?  ... Will Trump invade Venezuela?  ... Epstein's creepy relationship with Trump  ... What’s the shutdown fight really about?  ... Mickey vs Ezra Klein (in absentia) on healthcare  ... Back down the Epstein rabbit hole  ... Was Tucker playing 4D chess with the Fuentes interview?  ... What happened to the blogosphere?  ... The case for (and against) Bari Weiss  ... AI doom in fiction vs reality  ... The AI bubble: Dot-com déjà vu?  ... AOC in 2028?  ... Mickey: Beware of gym girls! ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2025 01:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump-Xi Truce, Gaza Ceasefire &amp; Other Sketchy Deals (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69099</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bob tries to lower American Prestige’s self-esteem  ... The Trump-Xi trade talks  ... Making sense of Trump’s nuclear saber-rattling  ... Signs of a US-China vibe shift  ... Is AI accelerating science?  ... Bill Gates’s climate change of heart  ... This week’s Gaza ceasefire death toll  ... Overtime preview: Bob vs Danny on international law ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Trump Doctrine (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Trump on drug cartels: "We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be like, dead."  ... Venezuela: Regime change disguised as drug war   ... Marco Rubio holds all the foreign policy power  ... Trump Doctrine candidate #1: "Jump at the chance to use force"   ... Trump Doctrine candidate #2: Monroe 2.0  ... Roy Cohn's philosophy: "It is a nation of men, not laws"  ... Bob: There's value in hypocrisy  ... Trump is paving the way for a more competent tyrant   ... Could Trump actually be good for the world?  ... Trump the comedian  ... Heading to Overtime: Bob's mysterious invitation-only conference ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69027</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:12:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 01:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Has the pace of AI progress slowed?  ... How the tech CEOs are learning to stop worrying  ... Mark Zuckerberg   ... Sam Altman  ... OpenAI’s attempt to shed its non-profit status  ... Dario Amodei  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/68992</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Drugs and Mayhem in the US Special Forces (Robert Wright &amp; Seth Harp)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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