Today is the official launch of Wherever You Go, There You Are — the 30th Anniversary Edition. Here is the link to Amazon for ease of finding: amazon.com/Wherever-You-T…

This might be the best explanation I heard for "why Oct 7" and, surprisingly, it comes from Ami Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, and commander-in-chief of the Navy. Here what he says (this is the first video, there are a couple more below which

I'm doing a livestream at 11 a.m. Eastern Time this morning with Nikita Petrov. We're going to talk about the future of our respective newsletters (Nonzero and Psychopolitica) and related matters (which includes more or less everything). Check it out! youtube.com/watch?v=za5JxT…

I got to have a super fun and in depth discussion with Robert Wright on Nonzero Podcasts, including getting into the deep end of meditation and altered states. I'm happy to share it today! Psychedelics, Meditation, and the Brain open.spotify.com/episode/2S9Utv…

I had a great time talking with neuroscientist Kathryn Devaney (co-founder of Berkeley Alembic ⚗️) about her work on meditation and psychedelics. You can watch here or listen on Nonzero Podcasts. youtube.com/watch?v=iGxnFh…

The latest from Robert Wright: America’s election year is young, but it’s already showing that various conjectured effects of AI on politics are now more than mere conjecture. > rb.gy/77euv8 (h/t Pranshu Verma Gerrit De Vynck 🦭 Taylor Lorenz Elizabeth Dwoskin em steck Andrew Kaczynski)

I had a great conversation with Rob Wiblin, host of the excellent 80,000 Hours podcast, about Effective Altruism and how it's been portrayed in stories about Sam Bankman-Fried, the OpenAI board drama, etc. You can watch here or listen on Nonzero Podcasts. youtube.com/watch?v=14Woyu…

** Such ** great fun talking with Robert Wright on Nonzero Podcasts! We discuss how to start or re-start a meditation practice, Bob's coffee + meditation hack, how practice can orient us to AI, a little bit about the neuroscience of enlightenment, and more open.spotify.com/episode/7l2Uz3…

I covered lots of ground in conversation with neuroscientist Kathryn Devaney, co-founder of Berkeley Alembic ⚗️: meditation, enlightenment, mushrooms, how to preserve autonomy amid the encroachment of AI, etc. Great chat. Watch here or listen on Nonzero Podcasts. youtube.com/watch?v=kEPQtZ…

Had a great chat w/ Paul Bloom about what recent developments in AI portend for the human future. We covered the good, the bad, and the ugly. You can watch here or listen on the Nonzero podcast. youtube.com/watch?v=VfRJPq…

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I'm looking forward to checking this out. Oliver is so astute and such a sharp, entertaining writer that this book is bound to be an excellent and worthwhile read.

Palantir, the creepy company co-founded by Peter Thiel, joined the S&P 500 yesterday. Here's a revealing and timely profile of its intensely ideological CEO, Alex Karp, by Connor Echols, published today in The Nonzero Newsletter. substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/nonze…

I had a great chat with my friends Emma Varvaloucas 🇺🇸🇬🇷 and Zachary Karabell on their podcast, What Could Go Right? It's fun being the guest every once in a while, rather than the host! theprogressnetwork.org/podcast/electi…

Anthropic's embrace of the Pentagon seems like an odd move for a company that frames itself as the humane AI giant. But a close look at CEO Dario Amodei's background reveals that the collaboration was a long time coming. More from Robert Wright: substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/nonze…

Know somebody who might want to work at a growing newsletter-podcast operation with a strong sense of mission? Then maybe you should help spread the word: We're doing some hiring at The Nonzero Newsletter! Details here: nonzero.substack.com/p/nonzero-is-h…

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I think we really need to focus on this. He's testing the waters.

From Mark Leon Goldberg's Global Dispatches newsletter. (Link in reply tweet.)

Really enjoyed this conversation w/ Holly ⏸️ Elmore about why there's so little awareness of threats AI will pose (and why even some in the 'safety community' don't seem to grasp how critical international cooperation will be). You can watch here or listen on the NonZero podcast.