Noospheres of Influence (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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3:30 Is Paul Bloom the next Tony Robbins? 10:47 Things to know about the noosphere 19:34 How Bob and Paul work 28:58 What Michael Lewis’s SBF bio reveals about SBF (and Michael Lewis) 35:46 SBF and Elon Musk: compare and contrast 38:34 Are SBF’s parents to blame? 42:28 Heading to Overtime

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded November 8, 2023.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:33.6	Hi, Paul.
0:35.2	Hi, Bob. How are you?
0:37.3	You know, couldn't be better.
0:38.8	How about you?
0:39.7	I'm doing pretty good.
0:41.7	Mm-hmm.
0:42.5	Well, in case there's somebody who doesn't know who we are,
0:46.1	I'm Robert Wright, publisher with the non-zero newsletter.
0:48.6	This is a non-zero podcast.
0:49.6	You're Paul Bloom, famous psychologist, famous writer,
0:53.8	publisher of the falsely modest substact newsletter,
0:57.8	letter, small potatoes.
1:01.2	You know, I did a little thing on implicit bias.
1:05.0	And somebody got angry about what I said, and this is on Twitter.
1:09.2	And they said something like, why should I care what a sub-stacker
1:14.1	has to say? Whoa. And for me, that was quite a moment. I was, no, I was touched. I'm a sub-stacker.
1:22.2	I haven't heard that term, actually. I'm proud to be a sub-stacker. There are worse things.
1:27.2	Well, you're on, I, I, I, you are hard to
1:29.7	pin down and we could get to this, but, but you are on, you are on Patreon too? Not so much.
1:36.0	The, uh, the parrot room is, uh, has closed its doors. Um, so, yeah, uh, there is a non-zero foundation Patreon that people should feel free to funnel large sums of cash toward.
1:50.4	But no, there's been some consolidation since Mickey decided to go on his hiatus and do whatever he's doing, the secret project he's doing.
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