Daniel Kahneman and the Rationalists (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:29 Why Paul’s eclipse experience eclipsed Bob’s 6:25 Remembering pioneering psychologist Daniel Kahneman 16:33 Bob fails gender affirmation test 21:14 Has the “replication crisis” tainted Kahneman’s legacy? 27:47 Eastern vs. Western “enlightenment” 35:58 How AI doomerism came to the rationalist community 45:42 3 Body Problem review goes into 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 April 10, 2024.

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Overtime titles:

0:00 Should humanity welcome AI/alien overlords? 4:44 What was the movie Harvey trying to say? 15:07 Psychedelics as psycho-technology 26:59 The therapy crapshoot 31:06 The self-immolating airman and the trouble with mental “illness” 42:58 Poor Things baffles Bob

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:27.1	Hi, Paul.
0:31.1	Hi, Bob. How are you doing?
0:33.7	I'm doing okay, Paul. Now, as you know, and I know, but some people don't.
0:39.7	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the non-zero newsletters.
0:42.3	This is a non-zero podcast.
0:43.7	You're Paul Bloom, a psychologist, writer, Bon Vivant, and also, also publisher of the
0:53.4	falsely modest small potatoes.
0:57.0	Newsletter.
0:58.1	Now, Paul, when I call you a bon vivant, do you know what recent activity of yours I have in mind?
1:04.4	Where I have heaved only.
1:07.2	No, no, I don't.
1:09.0	Well, here's the thing.
1:09.8	You know, some of us, we find out, like an eclipse is coming, we find out where we're in the 89% zone as I was.
1:16.4	And I say, well, I guess that's my lot in life.
1:18.8	I'm just a poor working man.
1:20.6	I can't afford to fly all over the world to get totality and sip a fine chardonnay as the darkness descends, you know, I'm just a regular
1:31.2	person. What was your eclipse experience like, Paul? Full totality. It was totality. I would think
1:39.5	that your Buddhism would reject totality as an illusion as something that we aspire to, but the aspiration
1:46.7	itself is mistaken. But I just went by, I basically married well. Six months ago, my wife
1:52.6	made reservations at Niagara Falls. We went there. We met with her sister and their kids.
2:00.1	And then as the day was approaching, we saw clouds.
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