The Wright Show

The softer side of infrastructure ... The pitfalls of overracializing policy ... Bob gets pedantic with the New York Times ... Bob: Even if George Floyd was overdosing, Derek Chauvin is accountable for his death ... Is there something to Matt Gaetz’s claim that he is the victim of extortion? ... Bring on the vaccine passports ... Mickey reconciles himself to reconciliation ... Parrot Room preview: Mickey cancels himself, new Tiger Woods driving data, and just how big of an asshole was Bob during Slate’s Slow Burn taping? ...

Jesse’s new book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Solve Our Social Ills ... Does the Implicit Association Test actually measure bias? ... The flawed methodology underlying the superpredator theory ... Why the grit theory lacks staying power ... The replication crisis in experimental psychology ... Jesse clarifies his views on child gender dysphoria and transgender athletes ...

Iran’s move toward China ... Gaetzgate explained (or at least described) ... Puzzling over Biden’s infrastructure bill strategy ... The political risks of racial equity legislation ... Is the corporate pressure campaign against the Georgia voting law working? ... The George Floyd jury’s pressure chamber ... Parrot Room preview: Mickey takes the Deplorable Automotive Challenge, the strange death of Tony Hsieh, the challenges of post-Covid bathroom design, and is Mickey pampered? ...

How do we know Russia was behind the Solar Winds hack? ... The political nature of cyber attribution ... Tim: A digital Geneva Convention isn’t possible—at least not yet ... Why don’t great powers want a cyber war treaty? ... Tim: We should focus on building strong international norms ... The dangers of cyber war in an interconnected world ...

Biden’s slow but steady press conference performance ... Mickey gets ratio’d ... Bob attempts to convince Mickey to run for governor of California, immediately solicits a bribe ... Disappointing foreign policy decisions and the journalists that abet them ... Bob: “Blinken is totally out of control” ... The post-vaccination blues ... How intellectual property laws choke the global vaccine supply ... Parrot Room preview: Bob’s branding problem—and ours, near-death crises, JAMA deputy editor placed on leave, guaranteed income for Oakland POCs ...

Who you callin' bodhisattva? ... Outlining the Apocalypse Aversion Project ... How meditation can make us better global citizens ... Why we need “cognitive crampons” ... Transcend and include ... The varieties of meditative experience ... Achieving micro-enlightenment ... The benefits of confronting your dark side ... Building a cognitively empathetic grassroots movement ...

Mickey breaks down the Clubhouse experience ... The Biden administration riles Russia, North Korea, and China in the space of a few days ... China’s surveillance state is creepy, but is it a threat to the U.S.? ... Mickey has some incredible PR advice for Biden ... Parrot Room NFTs: What could go wrong? ... How to use fearmongering to sell an infrastructure bill ... Mickey explains the asylum process ... A vaccine-related correction ... Parrot Room preview: Bob tells the bear hunting joke, Mickey flirts with cancellation, the Substack controversy ...

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? ...

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 ...

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. ...