Quasi-Year-End Edition (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 28 December 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:28 Worthwhile Canadian conquest 5:19 Late takes on Luigi Mangione 10:27 Elon’s AI motivation 14:23 Is the successor species sentient? (It matters!) 18:39 Paul’s AI freakout has arrived 23:39 AI buzzword of the year revealed 29:24 Bluesky brutality 35:44 Google’s experimental AI groks humanity 43:44 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 December 27, 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. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello, Paul Bloom. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello, Robert Wright. How are your holidays? |
| 0:34.3 | How are my holidays? My holidays are like the holidays of a person who's going to start by introducing us. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm Robert Wright, publisher, a non-zero newsletter. |
| 0:42.8 | This is a non-zero podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | You're Paul Bloom, publisher, Small Potato's newsletter, and a famous psychologist with a blurry background. |
| 0:50.5 | Because are you in an undisclosed location? |
| 0:53.4 | I am in an undisclosed location. I am not at home. I am in another place. But I'm blurring it out just to hide any identifying features of my Airbnb hosts. Yeah, I have no idea where you are. And I'm afraid to ask. So, happy New Year, kind of. I mean, it's not quite the New Year yet, but by the time this airs, it'll be pretty close to the New Year. |
| 1:13.7 | It'll be within a couple of days of New Year. |
| 1:16.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.9 | Another year gone in 2025, just looking at us. |
| 1:22.3 | Kind of scary. |
| 1:23.9 | Maybe we'll make generalizations later on, |
| 1:27.0 | but I am, I have anxious feelings about 2025. |
| 1:32.0 | This is, I feel like people always say, oh, this was such a big year. |
| 1:35.8 | This is the most significant election. |
| 1:37.1 | This is the most exciting time. |
| 1:38.7 | But I think, I think it is now. |
| 1:41.3 | You think this time we are fucked? |
| 1:43.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:43.7 | Well, either we're fucked or we're |
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