Robert Wright's Nonzero

Revisiting the Slate Star Codex-New York Times controversy ... Julia’s critique of the Times’ SSC piece ... Disentangling the Rationalists from the “Dark Enlightenment” ... What should "Scott Alexander" have done differently? ... The origins of the Rationalist community ... What is Bayesianism? ... Do the Rationalists overlap with the Intellectual Dark Web? ... Overreacting to neo-reactionaries ... Julia’s forthcoming book, The Scout Mindset ...

Is Gavin Newsom mishandling vaccination in California? ... Troubling historical analogues in Biden’s Middle East strategy ... Mickey stands athwart welfare expansion, yelling, “I’m not so sure” ... The “cancellation” of Andrew Cuomo ... The Blob strikes back against foreign policy realists ... Joe Manchin walks the line on the filibuster ... Mickey: Biden is planning to open the border ... Trump: Hungry for power or starved for attention? ... Parrot Room preview: Andrew Cuomo and #MeToo, Bob tries to coax Mickey off the Tucker Carlson bandwagon ...

Kevin’s journey from rural Virginia to Silicon Valley ... How Kevin applied AI to Google ads ... What goes on inside deep neural networks ... Managing AI’s disruption of the means of production ... How AI can turn zero-sum games into non-zero-sum games ... Creating more fulfilling work through automation ... How to align AI development with the public good ... An engineer’s paean to the liberal arts ...

Is the J&J vaccine really worse than Pfizer’s and Moderna’s? ... How Biden is mishandling Iran ... Mickey’s opposition to the relief bill’s child tax credit increase ... Conspiracies real and theoretical ... Goodbye, Hello, Neera Tanden ... Mickey asks: Is a border crisis what Biden wants? ... Will Cuomo survive his #MeToo moment? ... Parrot Room preview: the David Brooks scandal, the so-called socialism of Tucker Carlson, a Pesca-pology ...

Distinguishing between the numinous and the noumenal ... Kant’s religious vision ... The Copernican revolution in philosophy ... What, if anything, does the Buddhist idea of emptiness have to do with Kant? ... The transcendental status of space and time ... Can the Matrix help us understand Kant? ... Distinguishing between the noumenal and the phenomenal ... Can we transcend our phenomenal experience of the world? ...

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Mickey’s polyamorous potato party ... Is Clubhouse just another playground for the elite? ... The Blob reasserts itself in the Middle East ... Neera Tanden’s crude #Resistance tweets come back to haunt her ... Biden’s double bind at the border ... Overcoming vaccine hesitancy ... Does Joe Manchin own the $1.9 trillion relief bill? ... Trump’s impending return at CPAC ... Has a flawed vaccine rollout damaged international institutions? ... Parrot Room preview: Tiger Woods, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, and a new N-word controversy at Slate ...

What got Frank his Nobel Prize ... Frank's new book, Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality ... Solving the mystery of dark matter ... Can quantum physics make sense? ... Frank: Mind emerges from matter, not the other way around ... Can you love an automaton? ... Complementarity as scientific concept and everyday attitude ... How Frank's Catholic upbringing influenced his scientific thinking ... Is reality an algorithm? ... The limits of human intelligence ...

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Mickey’s critique of the Romney Family Plan ... Bob declares victory over the coronavirus ... Does Ted Cruz’s Cancun blunder bode ill for a future presidential run? ... How Rush tanked Trump’s 2020 campaign ... A somewhat dubious (but very salacious) Jeffrey Epstein update ... Distinguishing Biden’s bullshit from Trump’s bullshit ... Was January 6 a “riot” or an “insurrection”? ... Parrot Room preview: Woody and Mia, Ben Smith on Donald McNeil, Bob on Iran deal, etc. ...

How one of Will’s tweets went awry ... Who are the Rationalists? ... Explaining the Slate Star Codex/New York Times controversy ... Journalism’s epistemological challenges ... Open debate and its discontents ... Will: SSC has been exploited by people with dangerous ideas ... The (over)reaction to the Times’ SSC piece ... Why homogenous groups overestimate their objectivity ...

Mickey snags a vaccination appointment ... Bob speculates wildly about coronavirus mutations ... What’s missing from the Democrats’ case against Trump ... How Mickey (almost) launched Bruce Springsteen’s career ... Who will inherit the Republican Party? ... Dueling scandals at the New York Times and the Lincoln Project ... Bob and Mickey find common cause in Venezuela ... Parrot Room preview: Marty Peretz disses Rob Malley, the week in cancellation, and the next vast right wing conspiracy. ...