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Sizing Putin Up
How the current head of the CIA took the Russian leader’s measure 15 years ago
Feb 2
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ChatGPT's Epic Shortcoming
The world needs an AI that's less like a human and more like a machine
Jan 26
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Earthling: Israel, Russia, and the rules-based order
Plus: Preventing future lab leaks, rare earth minerals not rare, Cold War II updates, and more!
Feb 3
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Parrot Room: Don’t Push Us, ‘Cause We’re Close to the Edge
Listen now | Does anybody hear it through the grapevine anymore? The joy of editing a tweet (which Bob says can only lead to trouble). It turns out you sell more Teslas if you lower their price by $28,000. Twitter: the mystery of the locked accounts. Twitter zaps Mickey’s Hunter…
Feb 4
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Why Biden didn’t negotiate seriously with Putin
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The Radical Power of Cognitive Empathy
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The Misunderstanding of Elon Musk
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Biden’s grand and dangerous vision
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Russiagate-gate (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Listen now (67 min) | Subscribe to The Parrot Room at https://patreon.com/parrotroom 0:00 Is the 2024 race shaping up to be a political Groundhog Day…
Feb 4
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Early Access: The Myth of Normal (Robert Wright & Gabor Maté)
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Feb 3
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A Russian Who Left Russia Looks Back (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Listen now (80 min) | Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikita Petrov…
Jan 31
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Parrot Room: Staving Off Entropy, Barely
Listen now (135 min) | The dog ate my sleep. Bob pays a rare compliment to Mickey. Why Trump needs the Kushners. Why does everybody seem to hate Twitter…
Jan 28
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War Machine Learning (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Listen now (53 min) | Subscribe to The Parrot Room at https://patreon.com/parrotroom 00:00 Can AI transcend conventional wisdom? 15:39 Is Trump back as…
Jan 28
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Earthling: The China Derangement Syndrome
Plus: Lab-grown meat, dumbed down Doomsday Clock, Ukraine war endgames, Old-HatGPT, and more!
Jan 27
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Are we getting the whole story about Ukraine? (Robert Wright & Ivan Katchanovski)
Listen now (115 min) | A conversation with a political scientist who grew up there.
Jan 25
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An exchange about the Maidan Massacre
Update on 1/24: I’ve added a second comment from mikksalu, followed by Katchanovski’s reply to that comment. Last week I reflected on a conversation…
Jan 23
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Is Everything Falling Apart?
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