Frames of Space

Politics discussion and stuff of that sort, hosted by Andrew Xu. Episodes air every other Thursday.

Frames of Space is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 65 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Frames of Space, a news show with 65 episodes published.

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  Episode #66

  Ruy Teixeira on the Pitfalls of Progressive Politics

  Sep 3, 202645 min

  Ruy Teixeira is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a co-founder of the Substack newsletter "The Long View." He is known for co-authoring the 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book argued that a series of structural shifts in the country, such as a growing nonwhite population and the politics of young voters, were quietly tilting the electoral terrain in the Democratic Party's favor. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about his objections to left-wing Democratic politics, the concept of the pundit's fallacy, and the manner in which he tries to speak with people that he disagrees with. Show Notes The Emerging Democratic Majority by John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira "Why Haven't the Democrats Completely Cleaned the Republicans' Clock?" from The Ezra Klein Show Random Reddit Comment #1 Random Reddit Comment #2

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  Episode #65

  Dan Williams on Why We Believe What We Believe

  Aug 27, 20261h 5m

  Dan Williams is a philosopher at the University of Sussex, an associate fellow at Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, and the writer behind the Substack "Conspicuous Cognition." His commentary often focuses on the nature of cognitive bias, tribalism, and how all of this manifests in contemporary political discourse. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about how his politics have changed since his teenage years, the extent to which social media is responsible for political extremism, and whether or not AI will end up stifling intellectual diversity through political homogenization. Show Notes "On becoming less left-wing (Part 1)" by Dan Williams, Conspicuous Cognition "Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite" by John Burn-Murdoch, The Financial Times

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  Episode #64

  Gary Winslett on the True State of America's Economy

  Aug 20, 202645 min

  Gary Winslett is a political science professor at Middlebury College and the writer behind the Substack "The Neoliberal Papers." He is a center-left Democrat who strongly supports free trade, the free market, housing deregulation, and more. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with him about the US economy, past and present: the merits of Biden's economic policies, the effect that AI seems to be having on the labor market, and whether the Abundance agenda would work best as a type of Secret Congress legislation. Show Notes "Cato Institute 2022 Student Debt Cancellation National Survey" "The prospects for left-wing populism" by Joseph Heath, In Due Course

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  Episode #63

  Robert Wright on Where AI is Leading the World

  Aug 13, 202654 min

  Robert Wright is the author of the Nonzero Newsletter and the host of the Nonzero Podcast. He is known for his commentary on evolutionary psychology, and how humans evolved to benefit from cooperation and coordination on larger and larger scales as history has progressed forward. His latest book "The God Test" posits that artificial intelligence represents the next leap forward for evolutionary history and civilization. His view is that, to prevent AI from destroying the world, the US needs to make some extremely important foreign policy decisions that will massively affect its relationship with China in the near term. In today's episode, I got a chance to speak with him about the difference between zero-sum and non-zero-sum interactions, the importance of cognitive empathy in human communication, and how those two concepts can help the world prevent AI from causing civilizational collapse. Show Notes The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning by Robert Wright Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

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  Episode #62

  Charlotte Swasey on the Search for a Winning Democratic Strategy

  Aug 6, 202648 min

  Charlotte Swasey is the writer behind the Substack "Medium Data" and the Director of Analytics at the Searchlight Institute. Her work on electoral strategy often highlights how getting elected involves a juggling act: you have to factor many different variables into account at the same time, not the least of which include fundraising, coalition unity, issue taking, and more. In this episode, I got a chance to speak with her about whether Democrats can successfully retake the Senate in November, why more funding doesn't necessarily help politicians win elections, and why the DNC is essentially 20 million organizations in a trench coat. Show Notes "A year of Trump, again" by Charlotte Swasey, Searchlight "How Trump Targeted Undecided Voters Without Breaking the Bank" by Shane Goldmacher, The New York Times "The DNC is going broke in slow motion" by Charlotte Swasey, Medium Data The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics by Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld "Platner, Bernie, and a hangover" by Charlotte Swasey, Medium Data "Winning is everything. It also means nothing" by Lakshya Jain and Charlotte Swasey, The Argument

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