Sitemap - 2023 - Nonzero Newsletter
ChatGPT Versus Taylor Swift (Earthling Unplugged)
Psychedelics, Meditation, and the Brain (Robert Wright & Kathryn Devaney)
What is to be done? A Nonzero/Psychopolitica Live Event | Live Replay
Is Israel-Palestine Peace Possible? (Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman)
Effective Altruism, AI, and Existential Risk (Robert Wright & Émile P. Torres)
America: Superpower Client State (Earthling Unplugged)
Israel, Antisemitism, and Social Media (Robert Wright & Max Abrahms)
Free Speech, Antisemitism, and Elon Musk (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
The Reality Distortion Field (Earthling Unplugged)
Escape the social media matrix
The Gaza War and the Palestine Question (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
The Trouble with Techno-Optimism (Robert Wright & Daron Acemoglu)
The Sam Altman Paradox (Earthling Unplugged)
What Really Happened at OpenAI? (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)
A Palestinian-American Looks at Gaza (Robert Wright & Omar Baddar)
Is AI Evolving into an Existential Threat? (Robert Wright & Dan Hendrycks)
Getting Russia Right (Robert Wright & Thomas Graham)
China’s Overreach, America’s Overreaction (Robert Wright & Susan Shirk)
Israel-Palestine and Ethnic Identity (Robert Wright & Matthew Yglesias)
Israel-Palestine and Tribal Biases (Earthling Unplugged)
The ‘River to the Sea’ Rorschach test
Noospheres of Influence (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Israel, Palestine, and America (Robert Wright & Ron Kampeas)
The next front in the Gaza War
Where Is the Israel-Hamas War Heading? (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)
Can Israel-Palestine Be Solved? (Robert Wright & Daniel Seidemann)
Earthling Unplugged: Israel’s Gaza speech code
Transcript Excerpt: Leonid Ragozin
Is the War Turning against Ukraine? (Robert Wright & Leonid Ragozin)
A Debate on Israel-Palestine (Robert Wright & Eli Lake)
Earthling Unplugged: Why Israel’s anti-Hamas strategy is failing
Why Israel’s anti-Hamas strategy is failing
Wokeness and Israel-Palestine (Robert Wright & Meghan Daum)
Israel, Hamas, and the Laws of War (Robert Wright & Sarah Leah Whitson)
Earthling Unplugged: Israel, Hamas, and Biden's Failed Foreign Policy
Israel, Hamas, and Biden’s failed foreign policy
Elon Musk and Other Odd People (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Israel, Palestine, and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Parrot Room: Parrot Sings Swan Song
Biden’s Big Problems: Ukraine and the Border (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The real lesson of Ukraine for Taiwan
Transcript Excerpts: Lyle Goldstein
What Would a War over Taiwan Look Like? (Robert Wright & Lyle Goldstein)
The Second(ary) GOP Debate (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Is a Second Trump Administration in the Cards? (Robert Wright & Sarah Posner)
Parrot Room: Parrot Parties Hearty
Biden's Border Disorder (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
RAND report warns of nuclear escalation in Ukraine
Russia-Ukraine Harsh Realities (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven)
Parrot Room: The Parrot Could Use More Bandwidth
Biden’s Bandwidth Problems (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Chances of averting apocalypse rise!
A People-Centered View of Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Almut Rochowanski)
Parrot Room: All Good Parrots Come to an End
Biden Bets on Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Logic behind Ukraine peace talks grows
Understanding Artificial Intelligence (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)
Prigozhin post-mortem (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Parrot Room: Rich Parrots North of the Parrot Room
Putin’s Post-Prigozhin World (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The (Changing) Prospects for the Climate (Robert Wright & David Wallace-Wells)
Trump Indictment Indicted (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Tyranny, Inc. (Robert Wright & Sohrab Ahmari)
Parrot Room: Don’t Short the Parrot
The Bidens’ Corruption Disruption (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Audio Essay: AI and the Noosphere, Part II
Is the Middle East Falling Apart? (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)
Trump’s J6 Indictment, Biden’s Ukraine Quagmire (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
A Debate on Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Daniel Drezner)
Parrot Room: Long Walks on the Beak
Ukraine, Africa, and Cold War II (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
AI and Existential Risk (Robert Wright & Connor Leahy)
Parrot Room: Try That in the Parrot Room
Why Is Ukraine's Offensive Going Badly? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The military-industrial complex enters orbit
Audio Essay: Artificial Intelligence and the Noosphere
Overton Windows: Israel/Palestine
Has the world’s chemical weapons watchdog been compromised?
Putin’s Spartacus Problem (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Russians with Attitude (Robert Wright, Nikolay, and Kirill)
Parrot Room: The Day the Parrot Stood Still
Biden, the Blob, and cluster munitions
Creeping Toward Peace in Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
How Does AI Work? (Robert Wright & Timothy Nguyen)
Parrot Room: The Parrot Catches the Car
Russian Mutiny, Supreme Court Scrutiny (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Michael McFaul’s dangerous muddle
Artificial Intelligence and the Noosphere
The Origins of US Interventionism (Robert Wright & Sean Mirski)
Parrot Room: That’s Not Funny!
Ukraine’s Counter(productive) Offensive (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Michael McFaul, useful Ukraine weathervane?
Autism and the Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Simon Baron-Cohen)
Parrot Room: We Haven’t Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’
Ukraine’s Dam and Tucker’s Aliens (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Blinken’s China damage control
Nonzero and The End of History (Robert Wright & Francis Fukuyama)
Parrot Room: Cracker Barrel Wisdom
The Dam Breaks in Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Timothy Snyder’s pernicious influence
The AI revolution calls for a foreign policy revolution
Ukraine and the Western Media (Robert Wright & Branko Marcetic)
Parrot Room: When We Were Kings
The New World Disorder (Robert Wright & Thomas Friedman)
Are AI luminaries too freaked out by their creation?
A Manhattan Project for AI Safety (Robert Wright & Samuel Hammond)
Parrot Room: We Don’t Need Another Parrot
DeSantis's and Ukraine's Incursions (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Why the chances of nuclear war grew this week
In Defense of Crying (Robert Wright & Benjamin Perry)
Parrot Room: Don’t Tuck with the Parrot
Dumping Biden, Saving DeSantis (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Will AI turn Trumpists into globalists?
Is AI Anxiety Overblown? (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)
Putin's prickly chef, Trump's town hall (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The Epic Failures of US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Jeffrey Sachs)
Parrot Room: Massively Cacophonous Parrot
Attack of the Drones (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Neocon propaganda outlet busted!
The Hidden Source of AI’s Emerging Power
The Critical State of Israel (Robert Wright & Daniel Levy)
Tucker in 2024? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
MSM’s latest freakout over Afghanistan withdrawal
Golden Oldie [2010]: AI, Evolution, and the Singularity (Robert Wright & Eliezer Yudkowsky)
Russia Hawks and China Hawks (Robert Wright & John Mearsheimer)
Parrot Room: Who’s Training Whom?
AI Anxiety Goes Global (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Is AI an Existential Threat? A Debate. (Robert Wright, Roko Mijic, and Alexander Campbell)
Can Substack Notes Be a Better Twitter? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Parrot Room: Midnight in the Garden of Evil
DeSantis vs. Trump vs. Biden (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: How MAGA brought us a two-front cold war
How Human is AI? (Robert Wright & Michal Kosinski)
Twitter and Other Banana Republics (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Pro-Armageddon Americans and the Middle East
AI and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
The World Crisis and International Law (Robert Wright & Paul Stephan)
Parrot Room: Trouble in Parrotdise
AI and DeSantis Seem Human (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: US think tank advocates murder
ChatGPT is capable of cognitive empathy!
Transcript of "A Chat with ChatGPT-4"
A Chat with ChatGPT-4 (Robert Wright & ChatGPT-4)
Russiagate Revisited (Robert Wright & David Corn)
Parrot Room: Escape from Island of the Dicks
Is Ron DeSantis Real? (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: TikTok and AI meet Cold War II
NZN Discussion: AI Cold War, Climate Homicide, Controversial Weapons, and more!
Audio Essays: Two Looming Technological Threats
Is the Banking Crisis Over? (Robert Wright & Richard Vague)
Parrot Room: Beyond the Island of the Dicks
DeSantis Does Ukraine (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Iraq 20 years later: Bush’s lies weren’t the problem
OK, it’s time to freak out about AI
The Many Worlds of John von Neumann (Robert Wright & Ananyo Bhattacharya)
Parrot Room: Dick Designation Criteria
Biden vs. Xi, Tucker vs. Trump (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Trading places with Xi Jinping
NZN Discussion: Xi Jinping, deepfake PsyOps, AI impostors, why Crimea matters, and more!
Another reason to take the lab-leak hypothesis seriously
The State of Psychology (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Audio Essay: ChatGPT's Epic Shortcoming
Parrot Room: A Freak in the Tweets
Biden’s Troubles, Foreign and Domestic (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Wanted: More Lab-leak Liberals
Power in the Age of AI (Robert Wright & Paul Scharre)
Earthling: Antony Blinken’s Manhood Problem
Audio Essay: The Misunderstanding of Elon Musk
Parrot Room: You Can Be in My Dream If I Can Be in Yours
The Ukraine War, Year One (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Race and Wokeness in America (Robert Wright & Coleman Hughes)
Parrot Room: And Your Little Dog’s Boring Too
Deflating Balloon-gate (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Elon warns the world
Cancel Cultures: Woke and Unwoke (Robert Wright & Norman Finkelstein)
Biden, the Blob, and a Blown-up Pipeline (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
The Myth of Normal (Robert Wright & Gabor Maté)
Parrot Room: Don’t Push Us, ‘Cause We’re Close to the Edge
Russiagate-gate (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Israel, Russia, and the rules-based order
A Russian Who Left Russia Looks Back (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Parrot Room: Staving Off Entropy, Barely
War Machine Learning (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: The China Derangement Syndrome
Are we getting the whole story about Ukraine? (Robert Wright & Ivan Katchanovski)
An exchange about the Maidan Massacre
Parrot Room: It Practically Cancels Itself
Biden’s Crossroads and Ukraine’s Crossroads (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Is Globalization Over?
Cognitive Empathy in Everyday Life (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)
Parrot Room: Beakless in Seattle
Biden Docs and Russia Hawks (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Is the new grim consensus on Ukraine really justified?
The memo that failed to prevent war
An Epic Debate on Ukraine and US Foreign Policy (Robert Wright & Fred Kaplan)
Parrot Room: Parrot in Relapse
After the House Speaker Drama (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Earthling: Cold War II goes lunar
On Consciousness, Free Will, and Purpose (Robert Wright and Daniel Dennett) [Rebroadcast]