Elon and Altman: Dueling Messiahs (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:33 Paul’s Substack: small potatoes or some pumpkins? 4:03 Elon sours on Lemon—is ketamine to blame? 10:00 The enduring enigma that is Elon Musk 21:25 Is Altman overdramatizing the AI #Resistance? 30:03 Paul cavalierly ignores Bob’s sage guidance 34:25 Oscars: The good, the bad, and the hammy 40:57 Heading to Overtime (plus: big Small Potatoes news!)

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 19, 2024.

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Discussed in Overtime: The knotty SSRI sexual side effect question. How woke is Barbie? How Will Smith’s Oscar slap is like Russia-Ukraine. Is AI Bob’s ticket to immortality? Jury Duty, acting, and human nature. What is the TikTok ban really about? Is Paul Pollyanna?

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's non-zero podcast.
0:33.6	Hi, Paul.
0:35.2	Hi, Bob. How are you?
0:37.1	I'm doing okay, all things considered. Let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright, Paul. Hi, Bob. How are you? I'm doing okay, all things considered.
0:39.8	Let me introduce this.
0:40.7	I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the Non-Zero Newsletter.
0:42.7	This is the Non-Zero podcast.
0:45.2	You're Paul Bloom, famous psychologist, writer, author, many books.
0:50.3	Some of them, frankly, not all that long, but still, technically books.
0:54.0	Whatever, right? And so, frankly, not all that long, but still, technically books, whatever, right?
0:56.0	And so, Paul, you know, over the last few weeks since we last spoke, the question I've gotten probably most often from viewers and listeners is, is it now safe to say that Paul Bloom has weathered the Potato Gate scandal?
1:11.7	And I so, I mean, just some quick background.
1:14.5	So you have this newsletter.
1:15.7	It reminds me that I didn't want to discuss the small potatoes scandal.
1:19.6	There's something I wanted to tell you before, and this is it.
1:22.8	Before we taped, you wanted to say, please, nothing.
1:25.7	I want to say, let's not talk about this.
1:27.1	Even though it involves plugging your newsletter, small potatoes on substack?
1:32.2	We can say small potatoes a lot.
1:34.0	I guess that's a good thing.
1:35.3	Okay, small potatoes.
1:36.5	Can I now proceed?
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