Canada, Tesla, and Other Trump-Musk Troubles (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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0:28 Does Paul have CDS (Chaos Desensitization Syndrome)? 4:06 Worthwhile Canadian backlash 9:54 Elon’s Tesla problem 15:34 Trump 2.0’s free speech crackdown 18:28 The primal psychology of Trump and Elon 26:10 Bezos and university presidents bow to Trump 36:29 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded March 12, 2025.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:29.3	Hello, Paul.
0:31.1	Hello, Robert. How are you?
0:33.5	I'm just doing wonderfully. Let me introduce it.
0:36.4	I'm Robert Wright, publisher and editor and chief of the non-zero newsletters.
0:40.1	This is a non-zero podcast.
0:42.3	You are Paul Bloom, famous psychologist.
0:45.1	You used to teach at Yale.
0:46.6	Now you teach at the University of Toronto,
0:49.0	so we know which side of the board of you're planning your flag on
0:52.4	in this increasingly bitter conflict.
0:55.7	And you are publisher and sole author of what may well be the most famous of all the
1:05.3	substack newsletters that are called small potatoes.
1:09.9	Congratulations.
1:10.6	The biggest of the small potatoes. Mm-hmm. Easily. It's not close. Not close. I don't want to offend anybody. We don't want to get into that, but not close. So, Bob, can I raise something? Sure. I really enjoy every two weeks getting together with you. And I think it's sort of...
1:27.9	Thank you for raising that, Paul.
1:31.0	There's more.
1:32.0	Oh, that was preamble?
1:33.1	There's more.
1:33.8	It was preamble.
1:36.9	You know, I think we both get a lot out of it.
1:39.8	It's all good.
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