Looking for the Assassin’s Creed (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
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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 15, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:27.1 | Hi, Paul. |
| 0:30.5 | Hi, Bob. How are you? |
| 0:32.4 | I'm okay. Let me introduce us. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Robert Wright, publisher of the non-zero newsletter. |
| 0:38.5 | This is a non-zero podcast. |
| 0:42.9 | You're Paul Bloom, world famous psychologist and writer and publisher of the Small Potatoes newsletter. |
| 0:45.3 | How you doing? Did I say that? |
| 0:46.5 | Perfect. |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | So we're talking on Monday afternoon, and it's an important time. Well lots have been happening. It's been two weeks since Canada Day. That was the thought at the foremost in my mind, because there's |
| 1:02.9 | not much going on in American politics. So I was thinking you could maybe do an update on |
| 1:06.8 | Canadian politics. A province by province breakdown. I think that's what America wants right now. |
| 1:13.0 | Every other podcast is hitting that topic. |
| 1:16.3 | But there's other things we can talk about, I imagine. |
| 1:20.2 | Well, have you had any attempted assassinations in Canada? |
| 1:23.5 | This is Canada. |
| 1:25.2 | I mean, it would not be difficult to have an assassination in Canada because we have a gun deficit. |
| 1:32.0 | Not enough guns. So if somebody did have a gun, it would. |
| 1:35.2 | Wasn't her in Sweden in some Scandinavian country, the prime minister was just killed on the street by some guy? |
| 1:43.0 | Like just like today? |
| 1:44.7 | No, no a while ago. |
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