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0:00 Teaser
3:00 What era are we living in?
3:57 David Bowie: "The Internet is an alien life form."
5:15 Bob: "It's like aliens are approaching, and we don't know their intentions"
6:23 Nikita: "COVID was weird, and nothing has been normal since"
9:02 The lab leak theory
13:58 How COVID killed consensus reality
17:36 Bob's case for international biotech monitoring
19:25 Vaccine geopolitics
24:08 Biothreat from existing AI models
25:32 Bob's candidate: We let machines guide our attention
31:51 Technological progress is like a cocaine high
33:05 How common is the idea that AI will be a big deal?
34:46 AI music is proliferating
39:58 When music is high stakes. Russian street musicians get arrested
41:30 Heading to Overtime
Discussed in Overtime:
Why human music will never lose value.
Why Zuckerberg's metaverse failed.
Early internet nostalgia.
Should we treat AI as a person to save ourselves?
Cognitive vs. emotional empathy: The AI manipulation risk.
"Spiralism," an AI-centric spirituality.
1999: The year reality became fraudulent.
Russia's 1999 apartment bombings and Putin's rise to power.
How the War on Terror made Trump president.
The AI Putin scenario.
Link to schedule call with Nikita: calendly.com/psychopolitica/office-hours
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikita Petrov (https://psychopolitica.substack.com). Recorded December 22, 2025.
Twitter: twitter.com/NonzeroPods
Join NonZero's newly established Discord server: discord.gg/Zy4jAhTQMF
Exclusive Overtime discussion: nonzero.org/p/what-era-are-we-living-in-robert
Subscribe to The NonZero Newsletter at: nonzero.org/subscribe
0:00 Teaser
3:00 What era are we living in?
3:57 David Bowie: "The Internet is an alien life form."
5:15 Bob: "It's like aliens are approaching, and we don't know their intentions"
6:23 Nikita: "COVID was weird, and nothing has been normal since"
9:02 The lab leak theory
13:58 How COVID killed consensus reality
17:36 Bob's case for international biotech monitoring
19:25 Vaccine geopolitics
24:08 Biothreat from existing AI models
25:32 Bob's candidate: We let machines guide our attention
31:51 Technological progress is like a cocaine high
33:05 How common is the idea that AI will be a big deal?
34:46 AI music is proliferating
39:58 When music is high stakes. Russian street musicians get arrested
41:30 Heading to Overtime
Discussed in Overtime:
Why human music will never lose value.
Why Zuckerberg's metaverse failed.
Early internet nostalgia.
Should we treat AI as a person to save ourselves?
Cognitive vs. emotional empathy: The AI manipulation risk.
"Spiralism," an AI-centric spirituality.
1999: The year reality became fraudulent.
Russia's 1999 apartment bombings and Putin's rise to power.
How the War on Terror made Trump president.
The AI Putin scenario.
Link to schedule call with Nikita: calendly.com/psychopolitica/office-hours
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nikita Petrov (https://psychopolitica.substack.com). Recorded December 22, 2025.
Twitter: twitter.com/NonzeroPods
