Google’s AI, Biden’s Brain, and Other Enigmas (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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1:19 Big trouble with Small Potatoes 5:13 What makes a good podcast? 13:21 Google’s AI goes wild(ly woke) 27:02 Is Biden a “super-ager” or just super old? 35:51 On the psychology of self-immolation 52:38 Are we thinking right about mental illness? 56:52 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 February 27, 2024.

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Overtime titles:

0:00 The problem with paywalls 4:06 Is contingency in life good news or bad? 22:28 Do AIs need to be symbolic to be logical? 32:46 A new TV show Bob hates 38:04 Bob’s (mental?) break in the JFK case

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast.
0:33.6	Hi, Paul.
0:35.1	Hi, Bob. How you doing?
0:37.0	I'm doing okay.
0:36.5	How are you? As I told you, I'm a little bit groggy. Didn't get quite enough sleep. But I think this makes for a good discussion. We'll correct for that. We'll grade on a curve. And we'll hope that this, you know, you kind of, this leads you to cut loose. Maybe we'll see a Paul Bloom unplugged, a Paul Bloom we've never seen before.
1:14.7	This is a Nanzair podcast. As your problem, famous psychologist, writer, self-help guru,
1:19.9	and publisher of the Small Potatoes newsletter on Substack.
1:22.3	And I wanted to start off by asking you to bring this up to date on the controversy that is engulfed the Small Potato's newsletter, Paul.
1:26.5	What's the latest?
1:29.3	Is there a certain controversy you're talking about?
1:31.7	Okay, let me bring you up today, Paul.
1:33.3	So last time we talked a few weeks ago, I pointed out, and I think I broke this story, right?
1:38.7	I think I broke this story.
1:39.9	Is this a rabbi?
1:41.5	This is a rabbi.
1:42.2	On subsect, there's actually two small potatoes newsletter. And granted, the other one is smaller than yours because you know, you're this big Paul Bloom Bigfoot guy. Of course, you got more followers. You got more subscribers. But two things about this other one. A, it's run by rabbi. I'm not sure I would have picked that fight.
2:02.1	Then again, I'm not Paul Bloom, Alpha Male, you know, ready to take on God himself.
2:05.3	But the other thing, and I didn't mention this until later in the podcast,
2:09.1	and maybe some people mentioned it.
2:10.7	The other thing is that this rabbi who has a small potatoes newsletter actually grows
2:16.6	potatoes, which brings us to the controversy.
2:20.9	Like you start this news, you got this whole business model premised on us believing that you
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