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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Canada vs Trump, OpenAI vs Google (and Musk) (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.nonzero.org

0:28 The newly united state of Canada 9:21 What’s Elon’s endgame? 17:32 Ross Douthat gives doubting Paul pause 22:56 Which AI ad won the Super Bowl? 31:57 The real stakes of Elon’s OpenAI bid 38:27 Trump 2.0's free speech hypocrisy 44:14 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 February 12, 2025.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPods

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0:00.0

You're listening to Robert Wright's non-zero podcast.

0:29.2

Hello, Paul Bloom.

0:31.3

Hola, Bob, right?

0:33.2

Como is that?

0:34.8

Very bien.

0:36.4

Uh-huh.

0:37.0

You're also. And where'stas? You didn't think I could rise to the challenge, did you? Like, you're on one of your exotic vacations in wherever, in some resort in Mexico, and you thought, you know, I'll say, Ola, or whatever you said, and Bob won't even know what to say. Oh. Oh, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm a, I'm not zero, I got. You know, I'mzero podcast, you're Paul Bloom, publisher of the famous,

1:14.6

infamous in some rabbinical circles.

1:16.7

We won't go into that.

1:18.7

Newsletter, small potatoes.

1:20.4

Is it rabbinical or rabbinic?

1:21.8

It's rabbinical.

1:23.1

I would say rabbinical.

1:24.5

Okay.

1:25.2

But we won't go into that.

1:26.7

Maybe in overtime.

1:30.4

Bob is alluding to a rabbi who also has a small potato. Also, also want to go into a little more detail, Paul? Who had it first? It's possible she has

1:37.7

had it first. Possible. Possible she's preparing a lawsuit even as we speak and I'm ready. There's nothing new under the

1:44.9

son. Nope. You mean rabbis are always filing lawsuits or what? There's so little. No, I'm not going to go

1:53.5

there, but no, but. Trying to get you as much trouble as I can. But listen, Paul, let's just cut straight to the news. You recall what the naysayers

2:04.9

said, right? Go on. Nay. They said nay. That's why they call them naysayers. But more

2:12.7

specifically, more specifically, Paul, they said that Donald Trump was not the kind of politician who could bring a divided nation together.

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