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I write (at joshbarro.com) & I co-host CENTRAL AIR, a major weekly politics podcast. centralairpodcast.com Email josh at joshbarro dot com

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Choose Your Own Religion

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By Josh Barro Verified, Ben Dreyfuss Verified, Megan McArdle Verified
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Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -58:53 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Dear listeners, Scott Alexander is really mad at Steven Pinker, because Pinker thinks it’s “depraved” to worry about whether AIs can feel pain. As you know, I’m with Pinker — software can’t have feelings or rights, and we must be on guard against humans (even some humans on this very podcast) who might threaten to treat them as important moral actors.
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Eating the Elephant (with Sarah Longwell)

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By Josh Barro Verified, Ben Dreyfuss Verified, Megan McArdle Verified, Sarah Longwell
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Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -46:09 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Dear listeners, Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark and host of the The Focus Group, joins us to discuss persuadable voters and the extensive conversations she has with them, which is the topic of her new, bestselling book (How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time).
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Are We About To Get Permitting Reform That’s Actually...Good? [Replay]

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By Josh Barro Verified, Ben Dreyfuss Verified, Megan McArdle Verified
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Dear listeners, We are big fans of the permitting reform bill that Congress is likely to pass after the election and so we invited Jane Flegal of the Searchlight Institute to talk about it — live! — earlier today. Thanks to those of you who joined us, and if you missed it, you can watch the replay now.
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