@robertwrighter.bsky.social
Author of Nonzero, The Moral Animal, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True. Writing a book about AI. Publisher of the Nonzero Newsletter & host of the Nonzero Podcast. https://nonzero.substack.com/
Really enjoyed this conversation with Liron Shapira, host of the excellent Doom Debates podcast. Especially enjoyed discussing the rationalist community and its influence on AI discourse. A fascinating and very consequential intellectual subculture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY_1...
In the latest Earthling, the weekend edition of my NonZero Newsletter, I offer my answers to some basic questions about the Gaza deal, and then segue into some related thoughts about Bari Weiss:
13.10.2025 14:06 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
In this week’s Earthling, the weekend edition of @nonzeronews.bsky.social, I offer my answers to some basic questions about the Gaza deal:
12.10.2025 22:12 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
In this week’s Earthling, the weekend edition of @nonzeronews.bsky.social, I offer my answers to some basic questions about the Gaza deal:
12.10.2025 15:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bari Weiss, CBS, and Israel | @robertwrighter.bsky.social and Nikita Petrov discuss Paramount's $150M move to bring the Free Press founder in as editor-in-chief at CBS News. Plus: Trump's Gaza peace plan, Netanyahu on TikTok, a Prigozhin conspiracy theory, and more.
08.10.2025 21:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Really enjoyed this conversation with @stephenmacedo.bsky.social about his book on America's response to Covid and how political polarization, the class bias of experts, the politics of grantmaking, etc. etc.--got in the way of good policy.
www.youtube.com/watch?si=7KH...
Had a great chat w/ Rob Malley about his new book on the history of Israel-Palestine peacemaking efforts. He's been involved in them and his co-author was involved on the Palestinian side. The result is uniquely illuminating.
02.10.2025 00:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
In the latest Earthling, the weekend edition of @nonzeronews.bsky.social, I look at the striking scarcity of public figures pressing lawmakers on AI safety—and a few notable exceptions.
29.09.2025 15:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In this week’s Earthling, the weekend edition of @nonzeronews.bsky.social, I look at the striking scarcity of 'AI safety' advocates pushing for international regulation—and a few notable & laudable exceptions.
28.09.2025 22:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In this week's Earthling, the weekend edition of @nonzeronews.bsky.social, I look at the UN’s new push for AI governance, Trump’s rejection of global rules, and the risks that attitude poses for all of us.
28.09.2025 15:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
In the weekend edition of @nonzeronews.bsky.social, I look at The American Conservative’s reporting on TikTok's emerging pro-Israel bias, the UN's baby steps toward global AI governance, Trump's sudden neocon turn, and more.
27.09.2025 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Two Visions of AI Doom | @robertwrighter.bsky.social and @davidskrueger.bsky.social —AI safety activist and machine learning professor at @umontreal.ca —discuss @esyudkowsky.bsky.social's new book on AI takeover and contrast it with David’s own theory of how a takeover could play out.
27.09.2025 16:53 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I had a great conversation with Glenn Loury about attempts to stifle criticism of Israel's war on Gaza--something Glenn knows about from recent personal experience. You can watch at the link below or listen via the NonZero Podcast feed.
24.09.2025 13:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
In the latest Earthling, the weekend edition of @nonzeronews.bsky.social, I discuss 'conflict entrepreneurs,' people who exploit or inflame conflict to gain power or status or money.
22.09.2025 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
In this week’s Earthling, the weekend edition of @nonzeronews.bsky.social, I compare JD Vance’s demagoguery with Utah Governor Spencer Cox’s plea for restraint after the Kirk assassination.
20.09.2025 23:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Congrats to @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social on winning his recent Substack-sponsored debate in Chicago w/ his teammate @aella.bsky.social. Condolences on losing the debates he had with me in this podcast.
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I had a predictably illuminating chat with Glenn Loury about what the Kirk assassination says about the state of the nation and where we go from here.
17.09.2025 01:28 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
This is among other things a way to create a more partisan military--the kind of military that could come in handy down the road if, say, a president wanted to go full-on authoritarian.
16.09.2025 21:36 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It would be an exaggeration to say that JD Vance and Stephen Miller are trying to turn Kirk's death into the burning of the Reichstag, but I wish it was more of an exaggeration than it is. Things could get very bad very fast if people of principle on the right don't speak out.
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