Elon, Sex, AI, and Free Will (among other things) (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:28 Bob re-enters reality 3:54 Elon’s X-rated horse-trading 9:41 What do LLMs really say about the “blank slate” view of the mind? 28:12 Bob challenges Paul to meditate—will Paul retreat? 33:15 Have Bob’s views changed since writing Nonzero? 44:13 Paul’s and Bob’s (semi-compatible) views on free will 50:51 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 17, 2024.

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Overtime titles:

The Buddhist solution to Paul’s Twitter troubles. Jake Gyllenhaal’s problematic bod. Dark Matter reviewed (w/ light spoilers). Bob and Paul swap faux pas horror stories. 3 Body’s entanglement problem. Has Anthropic mapped the mind of AI? Bob’s podcast no-go list. The problem with incredibly good looking people.

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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.
0:27.4	Hello, Paul.
0:30.9	Hi, Bob.
0:31.5	How are you?
0:32.5	I'm doing okay.
0:33.5	How are you?
0:34.4	Good.
0:34.7	Welcome back.
0:36.0	Welcome back.
0:36.3	Thanks, man.
0:37.1	Thanks. I was on an eight. Thanks, man. Thanks.
0:38.1	I was on an eight-day meditation retreat.
0:41.3	And, yeah.
0:43.6	I was expecting you to be a lot more cheerful.
0:47.4	Do I seem not cheerful?
0:49.5	Do you seem a little bit angry?
0:52.6	Actually, that's surprising me because I am angry, but I didn't think it was showing.
0:58.3	Only the people who know you and care for you the most.
1:01.4	Yeah, it's a tribute to our relationship that you just sense these things, right?
1:05.5	I think it's when you call me a motherfucker back then.
1:08.4	I detected that there was a little bit of it.
1:11.2	What happens before we tape stays before we tape, okay?
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