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Can TikTok Survive? (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
Should TikTok be banned? ... Why did Ken Buck quit? ... Will the Hur report hurt Biden? ... Is Biden's new ad any good? ...
Biden’s Gaza Failures (Robert Wright & Daniel Levy)
Should Biden pursue regime change in Israel? ... How the White House mishandled Netanyahu's far-right government ... Daniel: Israel has lost this war ... What a ceasefire deal would look like ... Bidens immense, unused leverage over Netanyahu ...
Kyrsten Sinema Says Goodbye (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
Did Super Tuesday tell us anything? ... What should Biden do in the SOTU? ... Is Trump losing it? ... Did Sinema's retirement mean bipartisanship is dead? ...
Elon v. OpenAI, Google vs Itself (Robert Wright & Timothy B. Lee)
The other Tim B. Lee ... Unpacking the Elon v. OpenAI case ... How did Googles Gemini go wrong? ... The unsung ingenious side of Gemini ... Is AI a bubble? ... Are some LLM issues insoluble? ... How Sora changes the AI picture ... Heading to Ove
Nikki Haley Voters Could Sink Trump (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher)
Can Trump win back Haley voters? ... Does it matter how many Democrats vote "Uncommitted" in Michigan? ... Is there any logic to Trump's messaging to African-American voters? ... Do people vote for president like it's a TV show? ...
Google’s AI, Biden’s Brain, and Other Enigmas (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Big trouble with Small Potatoes ... What makes a good podcast? ... Googles AI goes wild(ly woke) ... Is Biden a super-ager or just super old? ... On the psychology of self-immolation ... Are we thinking right about mental illness? ... Heading to
Does AI Understand Things? (Robert Wright & Gary Marcus)
Garys background and place in the AI world ... Are Garys views on AI paradoxical? ... Bob: Searles Chinese Room argument is dead ... Have LLMs demonstrated "theory of mind"? ... Arguing the semantics of an LLM's semantic space ... Do LLM repres
What Navalny Meant (Robert Wright & Nikita Petrov)
Nikitas memories of Navalnys emergence as a political force ... The time Nikita was detained for protesting election fraud ... Navalnys success as a political organizer ... What did Navalny represent? ... Navalnys courageous post-poisoning return