Kamala’s Party (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 23 July 2024
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0:58 Who’s most to blame for the Biden mess? 10:23 Why Trump might duck a debate with Kamala 13:26 Is Biden locked in the basement? 22:08 Kamala’s biggest liabilities 33:12 Loyalty, the Mob, and Biden’s psychology 40:33 Conspiracy theories of the Trump shooting 48:27 The kind of VP Kamala should pick
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 July 22, 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. |
| 0:29.1 | Hello, Paul. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, Bob. How are you? |
| 0:32.8 | Good. How are you doing? |
| 0:34.3 | I'm doing pretty well. Well, that's been happening. |
| 0:36.9 | Well, it has been. |
| 0:39.1 | But before we talk about it, we should say that you are Paul Bloom, world famous |
| 0:42.6 | psychologist and writer and publisher of the Small Potatoes newsletter. |
| 0:46.9 | I'm publisher of the Non-Zero Newsletter. This is a non-zero podcast, but also available |
| 0:51.3 | on these small potatoes newsletters, I recall. |
| 0:55.4 | That's true. Um, so wild times. We continue to live in a simulation. |
| 1:01.6 | We guess this is something we should talk at a later point, but it does seem to have a story |
| 1:05.7 | like quality. Oh, oh, and have you read we, we didn't talk about, but did you read Aaron Sorkin's op-ed piece? |
| 1:12.9 | You know, it's funny you should mention that because I was about to say, this is Erie. |
| 1:16.9 | This is more evidence that we're living in a simulator. |
| 1:18.6 | I swear I was about to say, among the evidence that we're living in a simulation is that Kamala Harris would play this role in the Aaron Sorkin movie, right? |
| 1:30.2 | I mean, she's perfect for the part. |
| 1:31.8 | She looks exactly like the person they would cast, right? |
| 1:35.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.5 | Okay, now, what were you going to say about Aaron Sorkin? |
| 1:38.7 | Well, Aaron Sorkin wrote an op-ed piece in New York Times a days ago before, before Biden stepped down, where he |
| 1:45.4 | said, how would I write this if this was, you know, we brought the West Wing back? How would I |
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