Kanye, Trump, and Other Enigmas (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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0:28 Is Kanye’s new song really pro-Hitler? 12:31 How free should free speech be? 16:49 Substack economics 23:59 Welcome to Sam Altman’s orb 30:25 Can higher education survive AI? 41:19 Did Carney tame Trump? 44:35 Good and bad signs from Trump 2.0 49:11 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 May 15, 2025.

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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, famous psychologist and publisher of the Small Potatoes newsletter.
0:35.0	Hello, Robert Wright, famous public intellectual journalist and a publisher of a non-zero
0:40.5	podcast, non-zero newsletter, non-zero empire.
0:44.3	Yeah, exactly.
0:45.9	Okay, I got to run.
0:47.1	Thanks with the plug.
0:49.1	No, actually, folks, there's so much more.
0:51.6	You know, Paul, do you want to start with that?
0:53.4	I got this list of fascinating shit we're going to talk about.
0:57.6	Have you been listening?
0:58.3	Have you heard any new songs recently?
1:00.5	Well, that's the first thing.
1:02.1	Is Kanye West or, as I call him, is it yay or ye?
1:06.3	Is it yay?
1:08.1	As I call him, yay, is he a Nazi?
1:10.5	There's that.
1:11.5	Is AI spelling the doom of all institutions we love by undermining trust?
1:16.7	Why is Sam Altman going to give you,
1:20.6	want to give you money to scan your retina?
1:24.5	Hmm.
1:26.3	Oh,
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