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Robert Wright's Nonzero

Social Media and Cognitive Empathy (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Applying cognitive empathy to the Supreme Court vacancy fight ... The danger of runaway retaliation ... Reviewing The Social Dilemma, a new documentary critical of social media ... Enhance your online stature by vilifying the other tribe! ... How will historians view the social media era? ... Can Democrats oppose Barrett mindfully? ... The links between yoga and mindfulness ...

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0:00.0

You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.

0:08.4

Hi, Josh.

0:10.0

Hey, Bob.

0:10.7

How are you?

0:11.7

Okay.

0:12.2

How are you?

0:13.6

I'm better.

0:15.1

Better than me or better than you were?

0:18.8

Better than I was.

0:37.8

And, you know, I didn't know whether to bring this up, but I heard in your conversation, the recent conversation, Mickey Kouse, that he was taking performance, enhancing supplementation for the conversation. And I didn't want to show up empty-handed. So the reason I'm feeling better is because I'm now taking L-Cening. Wait a second. How do you spell that? I'm looking for any edge I can get. L-the-A-N-E-N-E. T-A-L-T-H-E-A-N-I-N-E. I'm in. I'm in. Should I swallow it or snort it? Swallow it to start and see how that goes. If you don't get the results you're looking for, then you can grind it up and snort it.

0:58.6

And I will have a needle handy just in case that doesn't work.

1:02.6

So is that like an amino acid or something?

1:05.8

Good guess.

1:06.6

It's an amino acid found in tea, tea leaves.

1:10.3

And it has a calming without drowsy effect.

1:16.5

So I'm much calmer.

1:18.3

I'll give you a grade at the end.

1:20.9

I'll tell you how, whether or not it's worked.

1:24.0

Let me introduce this.

1:25.7

I am Robert Wright. This is the right show available on both

1:30.6

streaming video and be audio podcast. You are Josh Summers. You've had conversations with me before,

1:37.0

including on the right show per se. And then more recently, you've done a couple of things that

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