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      <title>The AI Companion Question (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>The Race to Control AI (Robert Wright &amp; Jeremie Harris)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Jeremie’s podcast and prescient AI report  ... Is scale still (mostly) all you need?  ... Jeremie: We’re way past “stochastic parrots”  ... Inside the early AI safety ecosystem  ... What Yudkowsky got less wrong than most  ... Why capability is outpacing alignment  ... Were Altman’s fears ever sincere?  ... Would pausing AI crash the economy?  ... Overtime preview: Debating China ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Jeremie’s podcast and prescient AI report  ... Is scale still (mostly) all you need?  ... Jeremie: We’re way past “stochastic parrots”  ... Inside the early AI safety ecosystem  ... What Yudkowsky got less wrong than most  ... Why capability is outpacing alignment  ... Were Altman’s fears ever sincere?  ... Would pausing AI crash the economy?  ... Overtime preview: Debating China ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Inside Elon's Mind (Robert Wright &amp; Alex Gibney)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Alex’s new documentary about Elon  ... How Alex’s film turned epic  ... Simulation theory + social Darwinism = Elon?  ... Inside the mind of Musk  ... Has the job-pocalypse already begun?   ... Elon’s daddy issues  ... Elon’s lady issues  ... Elon’s electoral propriety issues  ... Has Elon gotten weirder over time?  ... The damage DOGE could still do  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Alex’s new documentary about Elon  ... How Alex’s film turned epic  ... Simulation theory + social Darwinism = Elon?  ... Inside the mind of Musk  ... Has the job-pocalypse already begun?   ... Elon’s daddy issues  ... Elon’s lady issues  ... Elon’s electoral propriety issues  ... Has Elon gotten weirder over time?  ... The damage DOGE could still do  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Will AI Make Humans Obsolete? (Robert Wright &amp; Garrison Lovely)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Garrison’s background and his new book, Obsolete  ... Is the left dangerously downplaying AI?  ... What is the “obsoleting project”?  ... Inside the minds of Altman and Amodei  ... Has the job-pocalypse already begun?   ... Why AI bio-threats could be extra deadly  ... Is alignment doomed?  ... “Verifiable rewards” and the OpenAI breakout  ... Garrison’s proposal to stop the AI race  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Garrison’s background and his new book, Obsolete  ... Is the left dangerously downplaying AI?  ... What is the “obsoleting project”?  ... Inside the minds of Altman and Amodei  ... Has the job-pocalypse already begun?   ... Why AI bio-threats could be extra deadly  ... Is alignment doomed?  ... “Verifiable rewards” and the OpenAI breakout  ... Garrison’s proposal to stop the AI race  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Cold Open  ... Round Two of Nonzero × Doom Debates  ... Trump, the FTC, and an Industry Feeling the Heat  ... Google Says Gemini 4 Exists  ... Greg Brockman Pulls His $25M from Leading the Future  ... The Break-Ins Keep Coming  ... The Market Wants Agent Swarms  ... The End of “Alignment by Default”  ... The Prelude to Recursive Self-Improvement  ... David Sacks Can’t Explain Dario  ... The All-In Echo Chamber  ... Scott Alexander vs. Steven Pinker  ... Jason Calacanis vs. the Public Benefit Corporation  ... The Elephant in the Room Is the AI  ... What the Average American Thinks  ... From Chatbot to Agent to Swarm  ... Boeing, Agent Swarms, and the Off Switch  ... Skynet as a Botnet That Trades With Us  ... Tyler Cowen: National Treasure, Net Negative on AI  ... Liron’s Doomer DCF Yields a 20x P/E  ... Interest Rates: Where Cowen Has Me  ... Does Pinker Owe Us a Debate?  ... Pinker vs. Instrumental Convergence  ... Wrap-Up ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Cold Open  ... Round Two of Nonzero × Doom Debates  ... Trump, the FTC, and an Industry Feeling the Heat  ... Google Says Gemini 4 Exists  ... Greg Brockman Pulls His $25M from Leading the Future  ... The Break-Ins Keep Coming  ... The Market Wants Agent Swarms  ... The End of “Alignment by Default”  ... The Prelude to Recursive Self-Improvement  ... David Sacks Can’t Explain Dario  ... The All-In Echo Chamber  ... Scott Alexander vs. Steven Pinker  ... Jason Calacanis vs. the Public Benefit Corporation  ... The Elephant in the Room Is the AI  ... What the Average American Thinks  ... From Chatbot to Agent to Swarm  ... Boeing, Agent Swarms, and the Off Switch  ... Skynet as a Botnet That Trades With Us  ... Tyler Cowen: National Treasure, Net Negative on AI  ... Liron’s Doomer DCF Yields a 20x P/E  ... Interest Rates: Where Cowen Has Me  ... Does Pinker Owe Us a Debate?  ... Pinker vs. Instrumental Convergence  ... Wrap-Up ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Dario’s China Syndrome (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Triolo)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Paul’s impeccable timing  ... Is Dario’s AI slowdown proposal for real?  ... How chip controls can undermine AI safety  ... Why the 2024 US-China AI talks failed  ... America’s cognitive empathy gap on China  ... Taiwan and the chip war  ... War over AI: The real doom scenario?  ... A possible (grim) path to global AI cooperation  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Did Boomers Ruin Everything? (Robert Wright &amp; Jill Filipovic)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Jill’s book OK Boomer, Let’s Talk  ... When is generalizing about a group okay?  ... The world boomers built  ... Are boomers really uniquely selfish?  ... Is blaming boomers counterproductive?  ... Who's actually driving the generational divide?  ... The generational blame spiral  ... Millennials vs Gen Z  ... Does America have a gerontocracy problem?  ... Why Kenyans are looking toward China ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Jill’s book OK Boomer, Let’s Talk  ... When is generalizing about a group okay?  ... The world boomers built  ... Are boomers really uniquely selfish?  ... Is blaming boomers counterproductive?  ... Who's actually driving the generational divide?  ... The generational blame spiral  ... Millennials vs Gen Z  ... Does America have a gerontocracy problem?  ... Why Kenyans are looking toward China ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Superintelligence, the Singularity, and the Singleton (Robert Wright &amp; Nick Bostrom)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... This episode's surprise vibe shift  ... Middle East update: Houthis vs. Saudis  ... What’s really driving Dario (et al.)?  ... Debating effective altruism’s effectiveness  ... The trouble with big-tech Kremlinology  ... Was “learn to code” just sleight of hand?   ... Bob’s Fukuyama name drop  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Where Zvi’s famous newsletter got its name  ... Zvi’s biggest AI fear  ... Why is ChatGPT’s mind getting harder to read?  ... Is self-sacrifice really such a surprising trait in agents?  ... AGI + agent swarm = superintelligence?   ... Appraising the elements of Dario’s “pacing” proposal  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Where Zvi’s famous newsletter got its name  ... Zvi’s biggest AI fear  ... Why is ChatGPT’s mind getting harder to read?  ... Is self-sacrifice really such a surprising trait in agents?  ... AGI + agent swarm = superintelligence?   ... Appraising the elements of Dario’s “pacing” proposal  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Week in AI that Changed the World (Robert Wright &amp; Liron Shapira)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A bold new experiment in podcast synergy  ... What caused the epic AI vibe shift?  ... The resignation that broke the dam  ... Former Trump adviser Dean Ball comes clean  ... Are David Sacks and his buddies all-in on AI denial?  ... Yet another OpenAI breakout…  ... Astra’s dangerously private thoughts  ... Is alignment doomed to fail?  ... AI’s latest, and apparently biggest, math feat  ... The looming “self-sovereign AI” threat  ... A new flock of China doves?  ... Liron's ex-intern gets a seat at the table  ... AI agent self-sacrifice explained  ... Some newly freaked out politicians  ... Ro Khanna's AI safety plan ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A bold new experiment in podcast synergy  ... What caused the epic AI vibe shift?  ... The resignation that broke the dam  ... Former Trump adviser Dean Ball comes clean  ... Are David Sacks and his buddies all-in on AI denial?  ... Yet another OpenAI breakout…  ... Astra’s dangerously private thoughts  ... Is alignment doomed to fail?  ... AI’s latest, and apparently biggest, math feat  ... The looming “self-sovereign AI” threat  ... A new flock of China doves?  ... Liron's ex-intern gets a seat at the table  ... AI agent self-sacrifice explained  ... Some newly freaked out politicians  ... Ro Khanna's AI safety plan ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Israel’s Lobby (Robert Wright, Eli Clifton, and Ian Lustick)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ian and Eli’s new book, Israel’s Lobby  ... Being a Jewish critic of Israel before that was cool  ... How Eli followed the money  ... What’s changed since the 2007 Walt-Mearsheimer book  ... What is the Israel lobby, really?  ... BDS, free speech, and the college antisemitism crusade  ... Did Trump give the game away?  ... The Israel lobby and the media  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ian and Eli’s new book, Israel’s Lobby  ... Being a Jewish critic of Israel before that was cool  ... How Eli followed the money  ... What’s changed since the 2007 Walt-Mearsheimer book  ... What is the Israel lobby, really?  ... BDS, free speech, and the college antisemitism crusade  ... Did Trump give the game away?  ... The Israel lobby and the media  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Is AI a Form of Life? (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why Bob is (extra) freaked out  ... Inside the minds of OpenAI's rogue agents  ... Is true alignment a pipe dream?  ... The new development that’s spiked Bob’s AI anxiety  ... Paul’s pushback via literary parable  ... Is it time to REALLY freak out about AI? A debate  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why Bob is (extra) freaked out  ... Inside the minds of OpenAI's rogue agents  ... Is true alignment a pipe dream?  ... The new development that’s spiked Bob’s AI anxiety  ... Paul’s pushback via literary parable  ... Is it time to REALLY freak out about AI? A debate  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Iran, Ukraine, and the Future of War (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Scharre)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Overtime teaser  ... Paul’s military tech bona fides  ... What we (should) have learned from the Iran war  ... Ukraine as frontline for the drone revolution  ... Are the robot wars near?  ... America’s drone deficit  ... Does the Pentagon have a Silicon Valley problem?  ... Will AI really make war less bloody?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Overtime teaser  ... Paul’s military tech bona fides  ... What we (should) have learned from the Iran war  ... Ukraine as frontline for the drone revolution  ... Are the robot wars near?  ... America’s drone deficit  ... Does the Pentagon have a Silicon Valley problem?  ... Will AI really make war less bloody?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The OpenAI Breakout and Other AI Spookiness (Robert Wright &amp; Stephen Casper)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Demis Hassabis and the Quest for AGI (Robert Wright &amp; Sebastian Mallaby)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... The Infinity Machine, Sebastian’s book about Demis Hassabis  ... Why tell the AI story through Hassabis?  ... Hassabis vs the other AI titans  ... Does Hassabis have a messiah complex?  ... Deep learning’s secret sauce  ... Did world models cost DeepMind its LLM lead?  ... Why they call Hassabis “the Jedi”  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Trump’s New War on Iran (Robert Wright &amp; Hooman Majd)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69668</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hooman's Iranian expertise—inherited and otherwise  ... Trump’s new (economic) war on Iran  ... What MSM missed about the MOU  ... How will Iran respond?  ... The intra-MAGA fight over Trump’s foreign policy  ... Will Iran do to Trump what it did to Carter?   ... Iran and the Houthi-Saudi conflict  ... Is the Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey alliance for real?  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Hooman's Iranian expertise—inherited and otherwise  ... Trump’s new (economic) war on Iran  ... What MSM missed about the MOU  ... How will Iran respond?  ... The intra-MAGA fight over Trump’s foreign policy  ... Will Iran do to Trump what it did to Carter?   ... Iran and the Houthi-Saudi conflict  ... Is the Saudi-Pakistan-Turkey alliance for real?  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The AI Safety Vibe Shift (Robert Wright &amp; David Krueger)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69660</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69660#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Is (Human) Writing Doomed? (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69653</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69653#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bob channels Dick Cheney  ... Is AI killing writing? And thinking?  ... How Bob and Paul actually use AI  ... The cognitive vs economic value of writing  ... AIs aping “Memento” and other frontier freakiness  ... Bob: Reckless AI is just good business  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Trump’s Unending War (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69646</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69646#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... How is MAGA feeling about Trump 2.0?  ... Bob’s "good" ol’ days at The New Republic  ... The biggest threat to the Trump coalition  ... Why the MoU unraveled  ... Is Iran's regime really divided?  ... Part two: This pod’s auspicious return from tech hell  ... Google Maps, AI, and the death of interhuman reliance  ... Trump’s covert catering-truck op  ... Have Iran’s demands really gotten more extreme?  ... Saudi Arabia vs the Houthis  ... Is a post-American Middle East emerging?  ... A low-key end to the episode ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Ukraine, Iran, and America’s Arms Overreach (Robert Wright &amp; Jennifer Kavanagh)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69632</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69632#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jennifer’s foreign policy bona fides  ... Could Ukraine and Iran merge into one big war?  ... Is Ukraine really "turning the tide"?  ... America’s (and Ukraine’s) missile defense issue  ... Putin’s ceasefire conditions  ... What—and who—are America's missiles for, really?  ... How not to open the Hormuz Strait  ... How will the Iran war truly end?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Jennifer’s foreign policy bona fides  ... Could Ukraine and Iran merge into one big war?  ... Is Ukraine really "turning the tide"?  ... America’s (and Ukraine’s) missile defense issue  ... Putin’s ceasefire conditions  ... What—and who—are America's missiles for, really?  ... How not to open the Hormuz Strait  ... How will the Iran war truly end?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Fasten Your Bot-belts (Robert Wright &amp; Samuel Hammond)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69627</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69627#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Sam’s ideological leanings  ... Sam's AI Manhattan Project–revisited  ... What does the “Pacing” letter say about the state of AI?  ... Mythos, Astra, and AI’s accelerating acceleration  ... The OpenAI “rogue” model escape  ... Recursive self-improvement: Red line or red herring?  ... How frontier AI is getting (and will get) freakier  ... How is open-source AI like DEI?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Sam’s ideological leanings  ... Sam's AI Manhattan Project–revisited  ... What does the “Pacing” letter say about the state of AI?  ... Mythos, Astra, and AI’s accelerating acceleration  ... The OpenAI “rogue” model escape  ... Recursive self-improvement: Red line or red herring?  ... How frontier AI is getting (and will get) freakier  ... How is open-source AI like DEI?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The intensifying slow-AI-down vibe (Robert Wright &amp; Holly Elmore)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69621</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69621#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... The “Pacing the Frontier” letter signed by AI elites  ... Why so many China-hawk AI-safety-hawks?  ... Was the “Pacing” letter too small an ask?  ... The striking AI vibe shift  ... Are AI builders “just following orders”?  ... Recursive self-improvement: The wrong red line?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Are the Ukraine and the Iran Wars Merging? (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69614</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69614#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why did Ukraine hit an Iranian ship 500 miles from Ukraine?  ... Ukraine's war on Russia's Amazon  ... Why Zelensky fired his defense minister and commander-in-chief  ... Bob: Ukraine may lose like people go bankrupt—gradually, then suddenly  ... Nikita: Why both sides are ready to keep fighting  ... Kazakh President to Putin: Nobody understands this war  ... Bob: Everybody thinks they're fighting a defensive war  ... Heading to Overtime: The globalist elite vs. the globalist precariat, and an AI path to WW3 ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Why did Ukraine hit an Iranian ship 500 miles from Ukraine?  ... Ukraine's war on Russia's Amazon  ... Why Zelensky fired his defense minister and commander-in-chief  ... Bob: Ukraine may lose like people go bankrupt—gradually, then suddenly  ... Nikita: Why both sides are ready to keep fighting  ... Kazakh President to Putin: Nobody understands this war  ... Bob: Everybody thinks they're fighting a defensive war  ... Heading to Overtime: The globalist elite vs. the globalist precariat, and an AI path to WW3 ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Ideology Behind AI (Robert Wright &amp; Connor Leahy)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69608</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Connor’s place in the AI world  ... Mythos: “digital nuke”?  ... The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans  ... Yudkowsky,  Marx, and other AI harbingers  ... Effective altruism’s effects on big tech  ... The "cult" in Silicon Valley culture  ... Is the AI race a market failure?  ... What’s really driving the AI titans?  ... Connor: ASI is a worse bet than Russian roulette ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Connor’s place in the AI world  ... Mythos: “digital nuke”?  ... The milieu that birthed Dario and other AI titans  ... Yudkowsky,  Marx, and other AI harbingers  ... Effective altruism’s effects on big tech  ... The "cult" in Silicon Valley culture  ... Is the AI race a market failure?  ... What’s really driving the AI titans?  ... Connor: ASI is a worse bet than Russian roulette ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Trump’s Self-Inflicted Iran Quagmire (Robert Wright &amp; Zaid Jilani)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69601</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Zaid’s Substack and spicy-take history  ... Zaid: Iran has outplayed Trump and Bibi  ... 10/7 as turning point  ... Did—and does—Israel want regime collapse in Iran?  ... Israel’s security dilemma(s)   ... How Trump blundered back into war  ... Will the war end well for anyone?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Zaid’s Substack and spicy-take history  ... Zaid: Iran has outplayed Trump and Bibi  ... 10/7 as turning point  ... Did—and does—Israel want regime collapse in Iran?  ... Israel’s security dilemma(s)   ... How Trump blundered back into war  ... Will the war end well for anyone?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title> Iran, Israel, and the Future of US Power (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69592</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sneak peek: Danny finds flaw in Bob’s AI book  ... Is the Iran war fully back on?  ... What the war means for the future of US power   ... The problem with blaming Bibi  ... The push to intertwine the US and Israeli militaries  ... What’s Israel’s endgame for the Palestinians?  ... The Gulf States’ new reality  ... Iran’s plans for the Strait of Hormuz  ... Bob’s pitch to Derek—and his other pitch to listeners ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sneak peek: Danny finds flaw in Bob’s AI book  ... Is the Iran war fully back on?  ... What the war means for the future of US power   ... The problem with blaming Bibi  ... The push to intertwine the US and Israeli militaries  ... What’s Israel’s endgame for the Palestinians?  ... The Gulf States’ new reality  ... Iran’s plans for the Strait of Hormuz  ... Bob’s pitch to Derek—and his other pitch to listeners ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Are Russia and NATO Headed for War? (Robert Wright &amp; Leonid Ragozin)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69585</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Leonid’s journalistic work, past and present  ... Are Russia and NATO headed for war?  ... Decoding Putin’s recent signals  ... Do European leaders really want the Ukraine war to end?  ... Putin’s political psychology  ... Why the war matters more to Russia than to the West  ... Russia’s non-ethno nationalism  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Leonid’s journalistic work, past and present  ... Are Russia and NATO headed for war?  ... Decoding Putin’s recent signals  ... Do European leaders really want the Ukraine war to end?  ... Putin’s political psychology  ... Why the war matters more to Russia than to the West  ... Russia’s non-ethno nationalism  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Are Books Dead? (Robert Wright &amp; Paul Bloom)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69580</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Preview: Skynet comes for Bob  ... Trump‘s endearing AI obsession  ... Are books dying? Is AI responsible?  ... Skynet (aka Amazon) vs Bob’s book  ... The problem with blurbs  ... Why Gad Saad’s mad  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Preview: Skynet comes for Bob  ... Trump‘s endearing AI obsession  ... Are books dying? Is AI responsible?  ... Skynet (aka Amazon) vs Bob’s book  ... The problem with blurbs  ... Why Gad Saad’s mad  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Is AI Humanity’s Last Exam? (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69573</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 23:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... The Midas Project and the OpenAI files  ... What’s "Build American AI" up to?    ... Nathan Leamer, astroturfer and sock puppeteer  ... Greg Brockman, AI lobby bankroller  ... Astroturfing the China panic  ... Is OpenAI an innocent bystander?  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
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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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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 00:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>
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      <title>Understanding Iran (Robert Wright &amp; Hamidreza Azizi)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 01:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Rethinking China (Robert Wright &amp; Zhengyu Huang)</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 22:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description><![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 ... ]]></description>
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      <title>Is the AI Takeoff Starting? (Robert Wright &amp; Timothy B. Lee)</title>
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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>
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      <title>The New Middle East (Robert Wright &amp; Annelle Sheline)</title>
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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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      <title>Mythos and China (Robert Wright &amp; Lennart Heim)</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69433</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69425</link>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69425#respond</comments>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Can AI Stop Wars? (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Dario, Demis, Sam: Assessing the AI Guys (Robert Wright &amp; Shakeel Hashim)</title>
      <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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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A brief message from Bob  ... Shakeel’s newsletter, Transformer, and its mission  ... The case(s) against Sam Altman  ... OpenAI President Greg Brockman's political spending   ... The founding doctrines of the leading AI labs  ... The singleton and the singularity  ... How market forces overwhelm good intentions  ... Is the singularity near?  ... Sam vs. Dario vs. Demis  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>The Iran War: A Debate (Robert Wright &amp; Eli Lake)</title>
      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69400</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>MAGA Opposition to the Iran War (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)</title>
      <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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      <description><![CDATA[Would America benefit from Iran “winning”?  ... Trump’s last exit ramp?  ... What’s China’s angle on the war?  ... Trump: psychoanalyzed  ... Israel: psychoanalyzed  ... Iran’s plans for the Strait of Hormuz  ... Is this Trump’s biggest blunder?  ... The intra-MAGA war over Iran (and Israel)  ... Where are the Democrats?  ... Antisemitism, alleged and real  ... Heading to Overtime  ... ]]></description>
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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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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Defining (and preventing) superintelligence   ... Where the nuclear analogy holds (and where it breaks)  ... Imagining an AI inspections regime  ... The superintelligence precursors to watch for  ... Nikita: "I find him weirdly persuasive on a hypnotist kind of level"  ... Our dangerous lack of government oversight  ... ControlAI's "bottom-up" approach to AI policy  ... The mounting geopolitical challenges to AI governance  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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      <title>The Iran War and the Singularity (Robert Wright &amp; Nikita Petrov)</title>
      <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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      <description><![CDATA[Teaser  ... Holy Week in Andalusia, and the Christian cross as branding   ... Why Bob is skeptical of Trump's diplomacy  ... Trump's hand got weaker and he doesn't even know it  ... Killing Iran's navy chief won't reopen the Strait of Hormuz  ... Nikita: "I find him weirdly persuasive on a hypnotist kind of level"  ... The Iran war's secret winner: Vladimir Putin  ... Bob checked back into AI podcasts and came out scared  ... "Every time I see tribalism on parade, I think: we're toast on AI"  ... Russia's Internet shutdowns  ... Heading to Overtime ... ]]></description>
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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>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69367#respond</comments>
      <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>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69359#respond</comments>
      <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>
      <itunes:summary><![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  ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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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>
      <comments>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69353#respond</comments>
      <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>
      <itunes:summary><![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  ... ]]></itunes:summary>
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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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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69297</link>
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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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      <link>https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/69289</link>
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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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      <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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      <title>The Trump Foreign Policy Roller Coaster (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)</title>
      <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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      <title>The Past and Future of Digital Media (Robert Wright &amp; Mike Pesca)</title>
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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>
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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>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:34:10 +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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