A brief message from Bob ... Derek and Danny stumble into Bobs Zoom room ... Israels doubly out-of-control week ... How Biden's Gaza failures will shape the Democratic Party ... Bidens political incentives on Israel-Palestine ... Heading to Overt

Robins history of thinking about the future ... Seeing AI as offspring, not adversary ... Robins famous answer to a great cosmic mystery ... Would evidence of aliens be good news or bad? ... Is rationalist culture cultist? ... LLMs: revolution or h

Ilias background ... Things to know about the noosphere ... Teilhards transgressive theological and scientific thought ... Does AI suggest a transcendent nature to nature? ... The Teilhardian solution to the mind-body problem ... How Darwinian wa

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Matt's X spat with Ric Grenell ... The importance of narrative framing ... Should NBC have hired/fired Ronna McDaniel? ... How awful is RFK Jr.'s VP pick? ...

Katis unusual niche ... How Covid changed meditation ... Kati: The optimal amount of meditation is ... Is focusing on the breath overblown? ... AI as a spiritual challenge ... Meditation and cognitive empathy ... Using technology mindfully ... He

Are Nikolay and Kirill satisfied with the "special military operation"? ... Why have Russians become more supportive of the war effort? ... Kirill defends the RWA tweet that unsettled Bob ... US policies that made the war more likely ... How much of

What did Trump mean by "bloodbath"? ... Trump doesn't want you to remember 2020 ... Does Bernie Moreno have the edge over Sherrod Brown? ...

Pauls Substack: small potatoes or some pumpkins? ... Elon sours on Lemonis ketamine to blame? ... The enduring enigma that is Elon Musk ... Is Altman overdramatizing the AI #Resistance? ... Paul cavalierly ignores Bobs sage guidance ... Oscars: Th

Nathans role as AI scout ... What "open source" in AI really means ... Why the secrecy around AI training data? ... Whats actually open about OpenAI? ... The case for and against open source AI ... Is an open source crackdown coming? ... What