Conspiracy Theories and True Fictions (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:31 Bob’s bad newsletter news for Paul 3:50 Fast Car's moving Grammy moment 9:42 Music, female orgasms, and other evolutionary enigmas 14:22 The Moral Animal turns 30—how has it aged? 17:16 How AI (barely) helps Paul work 19:54 Is America real? 35:55 Bob tries to drag Paul down the JFK rabbit hole 43:38 Lab leak and the trouble with “conspiracy theories” 49:35 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded February 6, 2024.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:33.5	Hello, Paul.
0:35.1	Hello, Bob. How you doing?
0:36.9	I'm doing fine, Paul. Let me introduce us. I'm Robert Wright.
0:39.9	Publisher of Nond-Zer Newsletters. It's a non-Zero podcast. You are Paul Bloom,
0:43.8	famous psychologist, prolific writer, productivity guru, and publisher of the Small Potatoes
0:51.0	Newsletter on Substant.
0:54.5	Paul, you know, I'd like to start today with some bad news for you.
0:57.8	Go ahead.
0:58.8	You ready for this?
0:59.9	I'm ready.
1:01.5	I discovered this morning that your newsletter on Substack Small Potetos is not the only
1:08.8	newsletter in Substack called Small small potatoes. Did you know that?
1:11.9	I did know that. I think I noticed that at some point. Yeah, but do you realize you're up against a rabbi here?
1:17.1	The other one is run by rabbi. God is not on your side. Well, we'll see. We'll see how God
1:24.1	fares in this one. You know how God fares.
1:28.2	This is nothing less than the battle of good and evil.
1:30.5	I am just going to spend the year.
1:33.6	I'm just going to get like a huge thing of popcorn and watch you and this rabbi duke it out for the small potatoes crown.
1:39.2	I'm looking forward to this.
1:41.1	You do have more readers than she has, but she has God on her side. Maybe we could join
1:45.7	forces, just have small potatoes combined at the podcast. See, this is, that's a very Paul-esque thing to say.
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