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Writing and podcasts about politics, human nature and tips on averting the apocalypse. Led by journalist and author @robertwrighter.bsky.social. Subscribe at nonzero.org
Is DC's China Vibe Shift Real? | In conversation with
@robertwrighter.bsky.social, @kaiserkuo.bsky.social, host of the Sinica Podcast, argues that China hawkism has waned and assesses the causes and consequences.
@robertwrighter.bsky.social, @kaiserkuo.bsky.social, host of the Sinica Podcast, argues that China hawkism has waned and assesses the causes and consequences.
China Hawks in Retreat? | Robert Wright & Kaiser Kuo
YouTube video by Nonzero
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November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Is DC's China Vibe Shift Real? | In conversation with
@robertwrighter.bsky.social, @kaiserkuo.bsky.social, host of the Sinica Podcast, argues that China hawkism has waned and assesses the causes and consequences.
@robertwrighter.bsky.social, @kaiserkuo.bsky.social, host of the Sinica Podcast, argues that China hawkism has waned and assesses the causes and consequences.
"Inner emigration"
Withdrawing from public life under authoritarianism and retreating into private pursuits like gardening, obscure hobbies, or esoteric studies rather than engaging with the system.
Nikita Petrov explains
Withdrawing from public life under authoritarianism and retreating into private pursuits like gardening, obscure hobbies, or esoteric studies rather than engaging with the system.
Nikita Petrov explains
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"Inner emigration"
Withdrawing from public life under authoritarianism and retreating into private pursuits like gardening, obscure hobbies, or esoteric studies rather than engaging with the system.
Nikita Petrov explains
Withdrawing from public life under authoritarianism and retreating into private pursuits like gardening, obscure hobbies, or esoteric studies rather than engaging with the system.
Nikita Petrov explains
Is Marc Andreessen just flat-out dumb?
Plus: Shy China; War on poverty stalls; Anthropic's sketchy cyberattack claim.
Plus: Shy China; War on poverty stalls; Anthropic's sketchy cyberattack claim.
Is Marc Andreessen just flat-out dumb?
Plus: Shy China; War on poverty stalls; Anthropic's sketchy cyberattack claim.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Is Marc Andreessen just flat-out dumb?
Plus: Shy China; War on poverty stalls; Anthropic's sketchy cyberattack claim.
Plus: Shy China; War on poverty stalls; Anthropic's sketchy cyberattack claim.
What if your therapist were a corporate product?
@komorama.bsky.social recounts how ChatGPT analyzed a user’s emotional patterns and described how it could use them against her.
Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_xXx9KSFf4
@komorama.bsky.social recounts how ChatGPT analyzed a user’s emotional patterns and described how it could use them against her.
Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_xXx9KSFf4
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
What if your therapist were a corporate product?
@komorama.bsky.social recounts how ChatGPT analyzed a user’s emotional patterns and described how it could use them against her.
Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_xXx9KSFf4
@komorama.bsky.social recounts how ChatGPT analyzed a user’s emotional patterns and described how it could use them against her.
Full conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_xXx9KSFf4
Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, and Other Elite Malefactors |
@robertwrighter.bsky.social and psychologist
@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social discuss the latest Epstein developments—including the Steve Bannon and Larry Summers revelations, whether MAGA can survive the fallout, and more!
@robertwrighter.bsky.social and psychologist
@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social discuss the latest Epstein developments—including the Steve Bannon and Larry Summers revelations, whether MAGA can survive the fallout, and more!
Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, and Other Elite Malefactors | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
YouTube video by Nonzero
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November 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Larry Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, and Other Elite Malefactors |
@robertwrighter.bsky.social and psychologist
@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social discuss the latest Epstein developments—including the Steve Bannon and Larry Summers revelations, whether MAGA can survive the fallout, and more!
@robertwrighter.bsky.social and psychologist
@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social discuss the latest Epstein developments—including the Steve Bannon and Larry Summers revelations, whether MAGA can survive the fallout, and more!
November 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"Despite what users say, the metrics are very clear: people love doomscrolling."
Alex Komoroske: "That's not love, that's addiction."
@komorama.bsky.social criticizes the amoral logic of engagement optimization.
Alex Komoroske: "That's not love, that's addiction."
@komorama.bsky.social criticizes the amoral logic of engagement optimization.
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"Despite what users say, the metrics are very clear: people love doomscrolling."
Alex Komoroske: "That's not love, that's addiction."
@komorama.bsky.social criticizes the amoral logic of engagement optimization.
Alex Komoroske: "That's not love, that's addiction."
@komorama.bsky.social criticizes the amoral logic of engagement optimization.
Will One AI Rule Us All? | @robertwrighter.bsky.social and Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social), co-founder and CEO of Common Tools, discuss OpenAI’s business model and Alex’s plan to save us from its implications.
Will One AI Rule Us All? | Robert Wright & Alex Komoroske
YouTube video by Nonzero
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November 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Will One AI Rule Us All? | @robertwrighter.bsky.social and Alex Komoroske (@komorama.bsky.social), co-founder and CEO of Common Tools, discuss OpenAI’s business model and Alex’s plan to save us from its implications.
In some places, the falcon can still hear the falconer.
Are Things Falling Apart?
In some places, the falcon can still hear the falconer.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
In some places, the falcon can still hear the falconer.
Maybe it’s good news for Vance that this poll shows declining Republican concern about AI. But that decline came after Trump did his 180 on AI—went from reflecting anxieties about AI that he sensed in middle America to reflecting the boundless optimism of his new friends in Silicon Valley.
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Maybe it’s good news for Vance that this poll shows declining Republican concern about AI. But that decline came after Trump did his 180 on AI—went from reflecting anxieties about AI that he sensed in middle America to reflecting the boundless optimism of his new friends in Silicon Valley.
In defense of Fox News reporter Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi: It’s not really accurate to say that she fabricated her story about outrageous things SNAP recipients were supposedly saying in response to the prospect that the government shutdown would cost them their food subsidies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
In defense of Fox News reporter Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi: It’s not really accurate to say that she fabricated her story about outrageous things SNAP recipients were supposedly saying in response to the prospect that the government shutdown would cost them their food subsidies.
“The climate crisis is an inequality crisis,” says @AmitabhBehar, executive director of Oxfam International. “The very richest individuals in the world are funding and profiting from climate destruction, leaving the global majority to bear the fatal consequences of their unchecked power.”
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“The climate crisis is an inequality crisis,” says @AmitabhBehar, executive director of Oxfam International. “The very richest individuals in the world are funding and profiting from climate destruction, leaving the global majority to bear the fatal consequences of their unchecked power.”
“When conferences like this convene to discuss a cutting edge technology, oftentimes, I think, our response is to be too self-conscious, too risk-averse. But never have I encountered a breakthrough in tech that so clearly calls us to do precisely the opposite.” JD Vance at the Paris AI Summit
The Intra-MAGA fight over AI
Plus: Musk-Trump love renewed; Fox News falls for deepfakes; Billionaire carbon spewers; Google in space; New DHS creepiness.
www.nonzero.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
“When conferences like this convene to discuss a cutting edge technology, oftentimes, I think, our response is to be too self-conscious, too risk-averse. But never have I encountered a breakthrough in tech that so clearly calls us to do precisely the opposite.” JD Vance at the Paris AI Summit
Bannon’s conspicuous enlistment in the AI safety movement marks the emergence of a division within the MAGA coalition that will become more apparent over the next few years and could hurt JD Vance’s prospects for getting the Republican presidential nomination in 2028.
More in the latest Earthling:
More in the latest Earthling:
The Intra-MAGA fight over AI
Plus: Musk-Trump love renewed; Fox News falls for deepfakes; Billionaire carbon spewers; Google in space; New DHS creepiness.
www.nonzero.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Bannon’s conspicuous enlistment in the AI safety movement marks the emergence of a division within the MAGA coalition that will become more apparent over the next few years and could hurt JD Vance’s prospects for getting the Republican presidential nomination in 2028.
More in the latest Earthling:
More in the latest Earthling:
The average person in the richest 0.1 percent of humanity produces more carbon emissions in a single day than the average person in the bottom 50 percent of the wealth distribution does in an entire year.
More in this week’s Earthling:
More in this week’s Earthling:
The Intra-MAGA fight over AI
Plus: Musk-Trump love renewed; Fox News falls for deepfakes; Billionaire carbon spewers; Google in space; New DHS creepiness.
www.nonzero.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The average person in the richest 0.1 percent of humanity produces more carbon emissions in a single day than the average person in the bottom 50 percent of the wealth distribution does in an entire year.
More in this week’s Earthling:
More in this week’s Earthling:
Trump went from reflecting middle America’s anxieties about AI to reflecting the boundless optimism of his new friends in Silicon Valley.
The Intra-MAGA fight over AI
Plus: Musk-Trump love renewed; Fox News falls for deepfakes; Billionaire carbon spewers; Google in space; New DHS creepiness.
www.nonzero.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump went from reflecting middle America’s anxieties about AI to reflecting the boundless optimism of his new friends in Silicon Valley.
The split got deeper when, during the 2024 campaign, libertarian tech bros like David Sacks joined the Trump coalition and Trump became more dependent on Silicon Valley money. More from @robertwrighter.bsky.social
The Intra-MAGA fight over AI
Plus: Musk-Trump love renewed; Fox News falls for deepfakes; Billionaire carbon spewers; Google in space; New DHS creepiness.
www.nonzero.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The split got deeper when, during the 2024 campaign, libertarian tech bros like David Sacks joined the Trump coalition and Trump became more dependent on Silicon Valley money. More from @robertwrighter.bsky.social
“This split on the right, between AI optimists and AI worriers, was more or less inevitable.” @robertwrighter.bsky.social
The Intra-MAGA fight over AI
Plus: Musk-Trump love renewed; Fox News falls for deepfakes; Billionaire carbon spewers; Google in space; New DHS creepiness.
www.nonzero.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM
“This split on the right, between AI optimists and AI worriers, was more or less inevitable.” @robertwrighter.bsky.social
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In the latest NonZero Newsletter : I use the Trump-Xi summit to illustrate how MSM amplifies Trump's meaningless provocations while distorting or downplaying his (rare) displays of good foreign policy judgment. This tendency reinforces the worst in him.
November 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In the latest NonZero Newsletter : I use the Trump-Xi summit to illustrate how MSM amplifies Trump's meaningless provocations while distorting or downplaying his (rare) displays of good foreign policy judgment. This tendency reinforces the worst in him.
Reposted by NonZero
Robots can now do many parts of my job better than I can
This has made me a bit anxious about my own obsolescence
It has also led me to contemplate the one AI dystopia that I find plausible: A world where robots free elites of all dependence on most ordinary people.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
This has made me a bit anxious about my own obsolescence
It has also led me to contemplate the one AI dystopia that I find plausible: A world where robots free elites of all dependence on most ordinary people.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
November 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Robots can now do many parts of my job better than I can
This has made me a bit anxious about my own obsolescence
It has also led me to contemplate the one AI dystopia that I find plausible: A world where robots free elites of all dependence on most ordinary people.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
This has made me a bit anxious about my own obsolescence
It has also led me to contemplate the one AI dystopia that I find plausible: A world where robots free elites of all dependence on most ordinary people.
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Ever wonder what kinds of things could go awry as our lives come more and more under the sway of AI algorithms floating out there somewhere in the cloud?
November 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ever wonder what kinds of things could go awry as our lives come more and more under the sway of AI algorithms floating out there somewhere in the cloud?
So the real story would seem to be this: Trump administration blunders into pointless provocation of China, China retaliates, and then sanity prevails and both sides agree to return to the status quo ante, stepping back from the brink. More below:
NYT's Dangerous Distortion of the Trump-XI Summit
Plus: Smart-bed bedlam! Job-killing AI! Google and Amazon's sleaziness! NZN book club launch!
www.nonzero.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 AM
So the real story would seem to be this: Trump administration blunders into pointless provocation of China, China retaliates, and then sanity prevails and both sides agree to return to the status quo ante, stepping back from the brink. More below:
This week, after Amazon announced 14,000 corporate job cuts and UPS said it had cut that many jobs in its management ranks over the past 22 months, the Wall Street Journal made it official:
November 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This week, after Amazon announced 14,000 corporate job cuts and UPS said it had cut that many jobs in its management ranks over the past 22 months, the Wall Street Journal made it official:
The more gratuitously negative Trump headlines the MSM features, the less attention will be paid to his genuinely dangerous behavior. (More below)
NYT's Dangerous Distortion of the Trump-XI Summit
Plus: Smart-bed bedlam! Job-killing AI! Google and Amazon's sleaziness! NZN book club launch!
www.nonzero.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The more gratuitously negative Trump headlines the MSM features, the less attention will be paid to his genuinely dangerous behavior. (More below)
This week Trump and Xi each made concessions that put the world in a much better place than it was before. That's what good journalism would have conveyed. More from @robertwrighter.bsky.social below:
NYT's Dangerous Distortion of the Trump-XI Summit
Plus: Smart-bed bedlam! Job-killing AI! Google and Amazon's sleaziness! NZN book club launch!
www.nonzero.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This week Trump and Xi each made concessions that put the world in a much better place than it was before. That's what good journalism would have conveyed. More from @robertwrighter.bsky.social below: