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Sep 30, 2025 • 60min

Why the Israel-Palestine Conflict Persists (Robert Wright & Robert Malley)

The deal Hamas offered Bibi before October 7 ... How October 7 changed the landscape ... Why Clinton’s Camp David talks failed ... What Arafat was actually offered at Camp David ... The centrality of the right of return ... Beyond two states ... Heading into OT: Abandoning false optimism is not pessimism ...
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Sep 26, 2025 • 60min

Two Visions of AI Apocalypse (Robert Wright & David Krueger)

David Krueger, an AI researcher from the University of Montreal, explores the hidden dangers of advanced AI. He discusses Eliezer Yudkowsky's doomsday scenarios and his own concept of 'gradual disempowerment,' where humans slowly lose control to AI due to competitive pressures. Krueger emphasizes the opaque nature of deep learning, the risks of goal misgeneralization, and the potential for AIs to gain economic power. He warns of the urgent need for an AI-resistance movement to preserve human influence in decision-making.
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Sep 23, 2025 • 60min

Israel, Gaza, and Free Speech in America (Robert Wright & Glenn Loury)

Teaser ... Glenn’s latest book, Self-Censorship ... Why the Manhattan Institute dropped Glenn ... Glenn on Gaza: “I can’t bear it.” ... “Genocide” and other Israel speech code flashpoints ... Has Trump’s anti-antisemitism push chilled campus speech? ... The irony of the antisemitism crackdown ... A few kind and less kind words for Bari Weiss ... Are Israel’s defenders hurting their cause? ... Glenn’s next big project ...
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Sep 19, 2025 • 60min

Free Speech After Charlie Kirk (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Free speech after Charlie Kirk ... Tyler Robinson’s strange messages ... How influential was Kirk? ... Do violent video games encourage violence? ... What Gary Marcus gets right—and (very) wrong—about AI ... Overtime topics: Paul’s debate triumph, Redford’s legacy, etc. ... Heading into Overtime ...
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Sep 16, 2025 • 60min

Tribalism and the Charlie Kirk Killing (Robert Wright & Glenn Loury)

How this conversation came to be ... What surprised Glenn most about the Kirk killing ... Who (or what) is driving our polarization? ... Cognitive empathy for MAGA ... Reacting to Charlie Kirk on affirmative action ... Are we re-running the 1960s? ... Coming up in part 2: Israel-Gaza ...
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Sep 16, 2025 • 60min

The Motives of the AI Moguls (Robert Wright & Holly Elmore)

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 ...
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Sep 10, 2025 • 60min

Trump’s Epstein Problem and His Authoritarian Slide (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

Teaser ... "Would Putin send a weird sexually suggestive birthday greeting to a famous affluent well-connected pedophile?" ... Decoding Trump's message in the greeting ... Conspiracy theories vs official silence ... Why is Ezra Klein content with "We'll never know"? ... Why no president wants to release the Epstein files ... Ghislaine names Clinton and Larry Summers ... Does Epstein kill faith in democracy? ... Trump vs. Putin: Authoritarian playbooks compared ... Will Trumpism outlive Trump? ... David Sacks embraces strongman tactics ... How war changes everything overnight ... Trump's Mexico invasion fantasy ... Heading to Overtime ...
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Sep 5, 2025 • 60min

Epstein, AI, and the Xi-Putin Path to Immortality (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

The Bob-Paul secret sauce—spilled! ... Mickey Kaus's latest contribution to Epsteinology ... Paul fact-checks Mickey, gets fact-checked ... What’s better: AI or indoor plumbing? ... What Gary Marcus gets right—and (very) wrong—about AI ... Has TV made us smarter? ... The pros of the Google antitrust ruling ... Putin’s paleo-transhumanism ... Heading to Overtime ...
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Sep 2, 2025 • 60min

Drugs and Mayhem in the US Special Forces (Robert Wright & Seth Harp)

Teaser ... Seth’s new NYT bestseller, The Fort Bragg Cartel ... What is Delta Force? ... The growth of Delta Force's covert ops and unaccountability ... American "death squads" ... Why cops and prosecutors cover up crimes by elite soldiers ... The mysterious murder of Billy Lavigne ... How invading Afghanistan fueled America's drug crisis ... Heading to Overtime ...
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Aug 29, 2025 • 60min

Is Trump Becoming Putin? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)

Bob welcomes Nikita back to the Nonzero team ... WSJ's report on Trump's authoritarian drift ... Three levers: streets, media, education system ... Trump the businessman and Trump the politician ... Why Putin was compelling in 1999, when Russia was a young democracy ... Laws vs norms ... Trump and lawfare: how independent is the US judiciary? ... Partisanship among judges ... Trump's view of the world as a game ... Cynicism as a political brand ... Nikita: Putin and Trump share a geopolitical worldview ... The damage the US and Russia did to the international law ... The evolution of Putin's understanding of geopolitics ... Today's Overtime segment is open for everybody! ... The crisis of the nation-state & NonZero's community building project ... "Kremlin is not Russia": distinguishing between the nation and the state ... Bob: We all need a tribe ... What does it mean to be an American? ... Nikita's Armenian propaganda: A legitimate reason to be proud of your nation ...

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