Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2026-07-11
Chris Williamson & Robert Wright: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom #1122
Why The AI Doomers Might Be Right - Robert Wright - #1122
Robert Wright is a journalist and author. Is AI the next stage of human development?
Chris Williamson discussed The Moral Animal by Robert Wright and Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom. Robert Wright discussed Nonzero by Robert Wright and Three scientists and their gods by Robert Wright.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Moral Animal
Discussed“I've told you this before, but you wrote probably the most influential book in my life, which was The Moral Animal, and it was the thing that got me started on the trajectory of thinking about evolutionary psychology”
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Nonzero
Discussed“You know, I've been arguing, I mean, I I had a book called Nonzero that was about this that that you know, 26 years ago or something. That was about the growing nonzero-sum dynamic among nations.”
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Superintelligence
Discussed“I I've read too much Nick Bostrom to be able to No matter what, it's kind of like your first relationship, you know, you get into a relationship and your first relationship is with an and you're like, "God, I I I For the remainder of time, I've been pattern matched that every relationship is at least going to be”
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Three scientists and their gods
Discussed“So, my first book, and it's funny because I now have I mean, three of the six books I've written have the word God or gods in the title... That book was called Three Scientists and Their Gods, my first book.”
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