BhTV: The Wright Show (audio)

Cold Open ... Introductions ... Jensen Huang Resigns from Nvidia ... Who’s Defending Jensen? ... What Did Jensen Do Wrong? ... Was Alice Huang a Chinese Spy? ... Could a slowdown actually help Anthropic and OpenAI? ... Does Decapitation Work? ... The Great Man Theory of Tech ... Where Will AI’s Value Accrue? ... What’s Next for Jensen? ... METR: AI Is Doubling Anthropic’s Research Speed ... AI Is Solving Open Math Problems ... AI Agents Negotiating Deals ... My AI vs. My CPA ... Bob’s AI Caught His Doctor’s Error ... Whatever Happened to Hallucinations? ... Formal Verification and Lean ... Andrew Wiles and the Human Cost ... The All-In Podcast’s Blind Spot ... Can We Formally Verify Alignment? ... Yudkowsky vs. Irving at ILIAD ... Will Jensen’s Fall Help Anthropic’s IPO? ... The March for an AI Treaty ... Introducing Walter, a Chinese AI Journalist ... How China Reacted to Jensen’s Resignation ... Chinese Theories About Anthropic’s Role ... How China Censored the Spy Allegation ... Does China Trust an AI Pause? ... AI Layoffs and a Chili Sauce Boycott ... Does Beijing Listen to Public Opinion? ... China’s Limits on AI Companions for Kids ... Will China Move on Taiwan? ...

Teaser ... Steve’s new book, Big Math: The Hidden Codes that Run Our World ... What is “big math”? And why do we need it? ... The key to the neural network’s power ... AI’s black box problem ... Is human insight going extinct? ... Could quantum computing settle quantum questions? ... How math has continually changed humanity ... Insight via 100 ants ... The intersecting origins of network theory and a jazz legend ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Bob and Danny get experimental ... Danny’s new(ish) book, Imperialist Realism ... Is US imperialism natural? ... America vs other empires ... The three features of imperialist realism ... When did US foreign policy turn cynical? ... Imperialist realism: the video game ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Scott’s diverse portfolio of expertise ... Is AI hastening the quantum computing revolution? ... Interpreting the many-worlds interpretation ... Scott tries to make quantum physics coherent ... Many-worlds vs Bohmian mechanics ... Could quantum computing settle quantum questions? ... The Y2K of quantum computing ... Are Bitcoin’s days numbered? ... Why AI scares Scott more than quantum computing ... What kind of AI pause is practical? ... The AI-China question(s) ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Nonzero Doom returns ... A foom in slow motion ... Will Google’s Genie 4 lure us into the Matrix? ... Liron’s bull case for Google stock ... Does Google have big-company disease? ... Could a slowdown actually help Anthropic and OpenAI? ... Was OpenAI’s “pause” just PR? ... Social science judgment day is coming ... Why even AI’s upsides could tear society apart ... Does OpenAI’s alignment approach improve on Asimov? ... Sam and Satya pivot on alignment ... Crypto and the AI hacking threat ... Could AI crack the math behind encryption? ... Liron’s $1,000-a-day AI coding habit ... Explaining the missing productivity boost ... Does Anthropic’s S-1 sink the AI bubble thesis? ...

Teaser ... Paul attains potato hegemony ... Bob’s book: Gateway drug to AI doomerism? ... Nathan Fielder’s view of Elizabeth Holmes (via Paul) ... Bob TORCHES Fielder ... Are art and artist really separable? ... What Trump and Musk say about our times ... Heading to Overtime ...

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Overtime teaser ... Boris’s background and new book, Our Planetary Mirror ... The AI vibe shift in Washington ... Three ways of seeing the planet—and us ... Resurveying the Gaia “hypothesis” ... Dawkins’s case against Gaia ... Is humanity outgrowing its planetary parent? ... The noosphere: Teilhard vs Vernadsky ... Can we reason our way to global solidarity? ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Connor’s role with ControlAI ... The AI vibe shift in Washington ... How does ControlAI want to control AI? ... Dario decoded ... Are AI safety evals worth much? ... Why Silicon Valley libertarians can’t escape the state ... On the redefinition of superintelligence and alignment ... Is the China AI race a cover story? ... Connor: What really drives Dario is… ... Heading to Overtime ...

Teaser ... Is Paul pro-gooey-pod? ... Steven Pinker vs Scott Alexander on AI ... A review of AI peer reviewers ... Tipping tips ... The promise and perils of AI companions ... Are mathematicians getting mogged by AI? ... Paul critiques Jon Haidt’s critique of social media ... Heading to Overtime ...