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The New Middle East (Robert Wright & Annelle Sheline)
Teaser ... Annelle’s Middle East bona fides ... The state of play in Iran ... A deepening fissure between Gulf Arab states ... Explaining the Trump-Biden continuity on Middle E...
Trump Lost the Hormuz Round (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Teaser ... Bob's big personal news ... The US counter-blockade backfires ... Iran retains escalation dominance ... Why the Iranian regime is built to absorb assassinations ......
Mythos and China (Robert Wright & Lennart Heim)
How powerful is Anthropic’s Mythos? ... How Mythos looks to China ... Does Mythos mark a new phase in the US-China arms race? ... Can Anthropic contain Mythos? ... Could superh...
The Mattering Instinct (Robert Wright & Rebecca Goldstein)
Rebecca’s past work on mind and matter(ing) ... Rebecca’s new book, The Mattering Instinct ... Varieties of mattering experience ... Mattering type 1: Heroic Strivers ... Matte...
The Future of Intelligence (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Teaser ... Paul’s new baby is reportedly cute ... The Tucker-Trump fracture ... Parenting later in life ... Paul's TED talk on AI and loneliness ... When does embryo screenin...
Can Trump and Iran Make a Deal? (Robert Wright & Robert Malley)
Rob’s role in the Obama nuclear deal ... A deal that could work for both Trump and Iran ... Iran’s security “guarantee” problem ... Bob: If I were Iran, I would say… ... What O...
Iran and the Demise of US Hegemony (Robert Wright, Derek Davison, and Daniel Bessner)
Teaser ... Trump’s Middle East chaos continues ... Is Iran more about America’s hegemony or Israel’s? ... Who will win the Hormuz blockade duel? ... Ukraine, China, and the dro...
Can AI Stop Wars? (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Teaser ... Trump's Iran blockade breaks the ceasefire ... A Chinese tanker calls Trump's bluff ... Bob's case for an Iranian "tollgate" ... Anthropic's Mythos model is too dang...
Dario, Demis, Sam: Assessing the AI Guys (Robert Wright & Shakeel Hashim)
A brief message from Bob ... Shakeel’s newsletter, Transformer, and its mission ... The case(s) against Sam Altman ... OpenAI President Greg Brockman's political spending ... ...
The Iran War: A Debate (Robert Wright & Eli Lake)
Bob and Eli’s history of (civil) disagreement on Iran ... Is Trump's war on Iran legal? Does it matter? ... Who’s the real rogue state? ... Israel’s nukes and Iran’s nuclear pro...
MAGA Opposition to the Iran War (Robert Wright, Andrew Day, and Curt Mills)
Would America benefit from Iran “winning”? ... Trump’s last exit ramp? ... What’s China’s angle on the war? ... Trump: psychoanalyzed ... Israel: psychoanalyzed ... Iran’s pla...
Averting a Superintelligence Takeover (Robert Wright & Andrea Miotti)
Teaser ... Defining (and preventing) superintelligence ... Where the nuclear analogy holds (and where it breaks) ... Imagining an AI inspections regime ... The superintelligen...
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