"But China!": Robert Wright on the AI Race and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning

Welcome to the Cynical Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China. In this program, we look at books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural trends that can help us better understand What's happening in China's politics? Foreign relations, economics, and society. Join me each week for in-depth conversations that shed more light. And bring less heat to how we think and talk.

About China. I'm Kaiser Gua, coming to you this week For the last time from my soon to be former home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. All packed up. The movers are coming soon and It's official. We're putting the house on the market.

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