Dario’s China Syndrome (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)

Dario’s China Syndrome (Robert Wright & Paul Triolo)

Author: Bloggingheads.tv September 30, 2026 Duration: 1:00:00
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 ...

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Trump’s Self-Inflicted Iran Quagmire (Robert Wright & Zaid Jilani) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:00
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…
Are Russia and NATO Headed for War? (Robert Wright & Leonid Ragozin) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:00
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 psycho…
Are Books Dead? (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:00
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 ..…
AI and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:00
Bob’s pub-day pitch for his new book on AI, The God Test ... Is AI killing the nonfiction star? ... Geoffrey Hinton’s path from AI evangelist to doomer ... The future of books ... Trump vs Anthropic ... Are Ukrainian dro…
The World After the Iran War (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:00
Was "losing" this war good for America? ... Israel’s post-war situation ... A more stable Middle East? Or less? ... The impact on Iran’s strength ... Has the war empowered Russia and China? ... How modern warfare devalue…
The US-China AI Race (Robert Wright & Ryan Fedasiuk) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:00
A brief message from Bob ... Ryan’s tech policy bona fides ... Is true "recursive self-improvement" near? ... AI agents as strategic empathy machines ... Is a global AI pause possible? ... Mutually assured destruction vs…
The AI Lobby’s Dirty Tricks (Robert Wright & Tyler Johnston) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:00
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 Ope…
The Secret of AI’s Power (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:00:00
Whose baby is cuter? ... Bob's new book on AI, The God Test ... Varieties of AI awe ... Geoffrey Hinton’s vision ... How LLMs do more than predict and parrot ... How powerful will AI get? ... Can AI’s impact be predicted…