Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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0:00 How significant are the Middle East data center deals?
12:03 Why did AI safety hawks quit talking about international cooperation?
18:38 Why build data centers in the Middle East?
27:20 Microchips and security risks
30:46 The unexamined assumptions of Sinophobia
42:00 What ever happened to peace, love, and understanding?
47:46 AI Czar David Sacks takes on his critics
51:11 Heading to Overtime

Discussed in Overtime:
Reasons for and against building data centers in the Middle East.
Is there an Effective Altruist position on China?
How an AGI race makes war more likely.
Why beating China became so ingrained in think tanks.
Some AI safety hawks who are China hawks.

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Triolo (Albright Stonebridge Group, pstaidecrypted.substack.com/). Recorded May 19, 2025.

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