BhTV: Science Faction (fast)
- Website
- http://bloggingheads.tv/programs/science-faction
- Description
- Science writers John Horgan and George Johnson take up new discoveries and ongoing mysteries, often with a skeptical eye.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-20 07:41
- last episode published
- 2025-02-19 21:08
- publication frequency
- 4.6 days
- Contributors
- Bloggingheads.tv
- Author
- Bloggingheads.tv Administrator
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 961
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Medicine Social Sciences Natural Sciences Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-19 |
Interpreting AI’s Acceleration (Robert Wright & Nora Belrose) Nora’s work on AI alignment and interpretability ... Is *a* singularity near? ... Nora: AI may take my job within two years ... The reason(ing) behind AI’s latest acceleration ... Thinking through the “chain-of-thought” process ... AI “thinking” v... |
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| 2025-02-14 | Van's new book, The Rivalry Peril ... What policymakers forget about the first Cold War ... The roots of the US-China cold war ... The end of globalization and the rise of economic nationalism ... How rivalry deepens inequality in both the US and C... |
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| 2025-02-13 |
Discussing the Death of Democracy and the New Political Reality (Matt K. Lewis & Bill Scher) What have Matt and Bill been up to? ... A Complete Unknown vs. Netflix ... Should we listen to more Joe Rogan? ... What does Mike Johnson's victory say about the GOP? ... Can Democrats recover? ... |
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| 2025-02-13 |
Canada vs Trump, OpenAI vs Google (and Musk) (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom) The newly united state of Canada ... What’s Elon’s endgame? ... Ross Douthat gives doubting Paul pause ... Which AI ad won the Super Bowl? ... The real stakes of Elon’s OpenAI bid ... Trump 2.0's free speech hypocrisy ... Heading to Overtime ... |
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| 2025-02-11 | Musa’s track record as Trump-reader and his new book, We Have Never Been Woke ... The reason Trump won—twice ... Messaging that works for the working class ... Has the left lost the faith(ful)? ... Who is wokeness even for? ... Biden’s bad messagi... |
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| 2025-02-08 |
Trump's Shock-and-Awe: Madness or Method? (Connor Echols & Robert Wright) Housekeeping ... Making sense of the USAID cuts ... Trump's push for ethnic cleansing in Gaza ... How Trump's tariffs undermine US power ... Deep Research and the AI arms race ... |
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| 2025-02-06 | Paul’s new newsletter, AIStackDecrypted ... Sketchy DeepSeek narratives: debunked ... How connected are DeepSeek and the Chinese government? ... China, Meta, and the open source AI debate(s) ... Paul’s problem with AGI “takeoff” ... The real lesso... |
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| 2025-02-03 |
Trump vs International Law (Robert Wright & Mark Leon Goldberg) Mark’s newsletter, podcast, and Bloggingheads roots ... Is Trump really anti-internationalist? ... Who was the most pro-UN post-Cold-War president? ... Is global governance doomed? ... Scoring the UN’s post-Cold War track record ... ICC and ICJ 10... |
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| 2025-01-31 |
The China AI Panic (Robert Wright, Connor Echols, and Elizabeth Beavers) Some brief NonZero World housekeeping ... Trump, China and AI ... Connor's interview with national security law expert Elizabeth Beavers about Trump's use of terror designations ... |
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| 2025-01-30 | Two theories of Musk’s “salute” ... DeepSeek-R1: Salvo or olive branch? ... The misappropriation of Musk’s AI doomerism ... Is the AI avatar era already upon us? ... Paul fills Bob in on his “empty threat” theory ... Heading to Overtime ... |
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