AI and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning | @robertwrighter & @NikitaSPetrov
0:00 Bob’s pub-day pitch for his new book on AI, The God Test
1:04 Is AI killing the nonfiction star?
5:32 Geoffrey Hinton’s path from AI evangelist to doomer
9:27 The future of books
18:48 Trump vs Anthropic
23:03 Are Ukrainian drone strikes rattling Putin?
32:07 The multiple Putins theory
35:04 Heading to Overtime
Discussed in Overtime:
Nikita's shared-dream experiment.
Is Putin a rational actor?
The case for non-wooly-minded one-worldism.
"Kindness as strength": The Armenian model.
Why powerful people are dicks.
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikita Petrov (https://psychopolitica.substack. com). Recorded June 23, 2026.
AI and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning | @robertwrighter & @NikitaSPetrov
0:00 Bob’s pub-day pitch for his new book on AI, The God Test
1:04 Is AI killing the nonfiction star?
5:32 Geoffrey Hinton’s path from AI evangelist to doomer
9:27 The future of books
18:48 Trump vs Anthropic
23:03 Are Ukrainian drone strikes rattling Putin?
32:07 The multiple Putins theory
35:04 Heading to Overtime
Discussed in Overtime:
Nikita's shared-dream experiment.
Is Putin a rational actor?
The case for non-wooly-minded one-worldism.
"Kindness as strength": The Armenian model.
Why powerful people are dicks.
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikita Petrov (https://psychopolitica.substack. com). Recorded June 23, 2026.
I am trying to write a arm64 simulator as a hobby project, took me several days to set up the test harness to calibrate the simulation result on a raspberry pi 4b, and took claude code about 2 hours to implement most of the simulator (around 3k lines of code)
This is pretty awesome.
Basically, they're creating a whole journal that's dedicated to post-publication peer review: criticizing papers after they're published in another venue.
A lot of papers need this because so many are horrendously bad.
I hope this succeeds!
It is unacceptable to use your personal influence to help someone get a job because doing so undermines the meritocracy. It's not good for the job seeker, because it conveys they did not really earn it; it is not good for the person doing the hiring, because it undermines their authority; and it is not good for you because it demonstrates you will compromise merit for friends. It is an insidious form of corruption and it must not be tolerated. #principleoftheday
Someone just reminded me of the 2015 SOSP History Day event, and I thought I would point out what a great event this was, with lots of different interesting people giving talks about the first 50 years of operating systems and distributed systems history.
https://t.co/hBRFJ2c2tv (slides & videos there for all the talks)
(My talk was on one of the most "modern" topics there, "The Rise of Cloud Computing Systems".
Video: https://t.co/Oi958itUy2
Slides: https://t.co/aFp65XIni7)
Kubernetes Podcast by our own Kai-Hsun (Kevin) Chen (@hsun_kai) on the #KubeRay project, and how Ray, KubeRay, Kubernetes, and the Kubernetes ecosystem work together to solve real-world ML system problems.
your team just picked a feature to build. fantastic!
the crucial next step is to make ownership crystal clear.
the (singular) owner becomes responsible for validating the idea, implementing the feature, making tweaks and bug fixes, and ensuring ongoing success.
NEWS: Apple just entered the AI open source arena by quietly releasing their new DL framework called MLX! It runs code natively on Apple Silicon with a single pip install and no other dependencies. https://t.co/UGyoLSg0oj
Sharing what I discovered from this initial release: