Elon, Trump, and Other Scary Billionaires (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:28 Deep insights about coffee and sleep from Paul 5:11 Mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy 7:58 Oligarchy + paranoid billionaires = disaster 14:38 Ackman and Thiel join Elon in billionaire la la land 22:02 Is Trump anti-Semitic or just really pro-Israel? 36:37 If you don’t feel alienated you should seek counseling 41:26 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 September 24, 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. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello, Paul Bloom. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, Robert Wright. |
| 0:32.2 | How are you doing? |
| 0:33.6 | I actually, honestly, the state of the world has me not all that enthusiastic about life right now. |
| 0:41.1 | But, you know, this is not a foreign policy podcast. |
| 0:45.9 | We don't get too deeply into that. |
| 0:48.0 | Although we're actually going to talk about some things that are relevant to that. |
| 0:51.7 | Foreign policy adjacent. |
| 0:53.3 | Foreign policy adjacent, Middle East adjacent. |
| 0:56.6 | But first, we should introduce ourselves. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the non-zero newsletter. |
| 1:01.0 | This is a non-zero podcast. |
| 1:02.9 | And you would be Paul Bloom of one of the Small Potatoes newsletters. |
| 1:06.8 | Is that the way you put it? |
| 1:07.9 | One of the many. |
| 1:08.9 | Yes, I run a small potatoes substack. And I'm a professor at University of Toronto and Yale University. There you go. We're starting off very formal today. I think we're both a little bit. This is finding our footing. Well, you said you got very little sleep last night. I got a little over six hours, which is good for me lately. So I have no excuse. |
| 1:28.9 | So let me give some sleep advice that I've taken CBT courses. You wake up in the middle of the night. |
| 1:35.8 | These are cognitive behavioral therapy for the many people out there who have no idea what you're |
| 1:40.9 | talking about, Paul Bloom. Cognitive behavioral therapy to get to sleep. Okay, thank you. |
| 1:45.0 | What I did, 1.30 in the morning, having a bit of problems getting to sleep. |
| 1:49.1 | So I go, open up my computer, I go turn on HBO, and I watch an episode of industry, |
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