Elon’s Pathetic Surrender (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:28 The Trump-Musk blowup, reconciliation, and fallout 21:10 Trump vs Elon: a psycho-analysis 26:43 Where do Trump and Elon go from here? 30:42 Remembering Brian Wilson and Sly Stone 39:48 Will AI turn us all into narcissists? 46:31 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 June 12, 2025.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's non-zero podcast.
0:27.3	Hello, Paul Bloom.
0:33.1	Hello, Robert Wright.
0:34.2	How are you?
0:35.4	You know, I'm just living the dream.
0:37.4	How are you doing?
0:39.0	I'm living the dream as well.
0:41.5	What a coincidence. People are seeing me from a different angle, so to speak, because we are no longer using Zoom. We are using Zencastra.
0:50.2	By the way, you might want to move toward the middle of the frame if you actually want people to be able to see you.
0:55.0	Is that better?
0:56.3	A little technical guidance.
0:58.2	Arguably, yes.
0:59.0	Let me introduce this.
0:59.9	I'm Robert Wright, publisher, Nons Zero newsletter.
1:03.0	This is a NONZER podcast.
1:04.6	Rate and review.
1:05.6	Smash the like button and so on.
1:07.6	You're Paul Bloom.
1:09.4	Subscribe to Paul's well-known newsletter, Small Potatoes,
1:14.8	your famous Canadian psychologist and so many other things that time doesn't permit us to
1:22.8	review them.
1:24.0	You know what we have today, Paul, is an unusual alignment of interest between you and me.
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