Elon Goes Full-on Trump (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
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0:28 Elon takes the stage with Trump 5:025 The logic behind Elon’s Trump gamble 11:21 Who won the Vance-Walz vibe war? 14:56 A few kind words about Elon from Paul 27:50 Bob and Paul debate the CBS Coates controversy 48:06 Paul gets philosophical about Mission: Impossible 51:54 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 October 08, 2024.
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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. |
| 0:23.3 | Hello, Paul Bloom. |
| 0:36.4 | Hello, Robert Wright. |
| 0:37.4 | How you doing? I just couldn't be better. Gosh, darn it. Hello, Robert Wright. How you doing? |
| 0:38.8 | I just couldn't be better. Gosh darn it. Let me tell people who we are. You're Paul Blum, |
| 0:42.9 | famous psychologist, proprietor of the Small Potatoes newsletter. Prolific reader, you've read all those books behind you, right, Paul? |
| 0:52.5 | Everyone many times, I just reach behind the shelf and scooped them up sometimes. That's an inside joke, folks, because that's a fake background. Yeah. Sorry, was I revealing too much there, Paul? You once compliment to me on how nice my office was, and I shut it off, and you were just shut. First time I saw it, I believed it. That's how gullible I am. |
| 1:11.8 | It's meant to be fairly convincing. |
| 1:14.6 | And I'm Robert Wright. |
| 1:15.5 | It's the Toronto winter that the greenery behind will give it away. |
| 1:21.2 | You were Robert, right? |
| 1:22.3 | I'm Robert Wright. |
| 1:23.3 | Author of the non-zero newsletter. |
| 1:25.8 | Yes, in the book, Non-Zero, for that matter. |
| 1:28.2 | And this is kind of the non-Zero newsletter? Yes, in the book, Non-Zero, for that matter. And this is kind of the non-zero podcast, although they can also find it at the Small Potato's newsletter, including the special bonus section available to... |
| 1:39.3 | Hate subscribers. |
| 1:40.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:40.6 | I'm sorry. |
| 1:41.7 | Tatars. |
| 1:42.6 | We called them members, I think. |
| 1:44.4 | Members, members. |
| 1:47.4 | But we're not there yet. |
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