Elon Musk and Other Odd People (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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0:33 Paul’s humble new ventures with Substack and Nonzero 6:07 Israel-Palestine, exploitative media, and the pitfalls of empathy 19:04 Paul’s plaudits for Mickey and the Parrot Room 22:11 Elon Musk and Derek Parfit: compare and contrast 29:24 Is there a method to Musk’s mad genius? 36:01 The radical rationalism that forged SBF 43:07 How real is implicit bias? 55:48 How real is SBF? 58:25 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 October 13, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.8	Hi, Bob. How you doing?
0:36.0	I'm okay. Let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright, publisher,
0:40.0	non-zero newsletter. This is a non-zero podcast. You're Paul Bloom. Now, in the past, when you've
0:46.4	been on the podcast, I've introduced to you as an eminent psychologist, an author of many
0:52.9	important books, all of which is true, but now there's something
0:54.9	new to say about you. It's that you have a substack newsletter called Small Potatoes.
1:03.0	Now, Paul, I have something to say about the title of your newsletter, Small Potatoes.
1:07.7	I think I know where this is going, but go ahead.
1:09.8	Do you? Because actually, as it happens, this is something I said to Mickey Kouse on last week's podcast.
1:19.0	And we'll get back to the subject of Mickey Kouse because, you know, cultural historians are already beginning to refer to this era in American
1:29.9	history as the post-Mickey era. And I'm going to get back to that. But what I said to Mickey is
1:37.0	Golden My ear once said, don't be so humble, you're not so great. Okay? So, so don't, don't get carried away with a false modesty on these substack newsletter
1:49.4	titles, for example.
1:51.4	Okay.
1:52.3	Is it too late?
1:53.1	Is it too late?
1:54.2	It's way too late.
1:55.7	You're pretty, you're pretty committed.
1:58.0	The URL is there and everything?
1:59.9	Everything.
2:00.7	Everything. Well, you should have talked to me
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