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Robert Wright's Nonzero

The Dharma of Bob 2: Nonzero (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7618 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Continuing the exploration of "the Dharma of Bob" ... Bob: There is no good alternative to global community ... Defining non-zero-sumness ... How genetic "selfishness" led to altruism ... The psychology of tribalism ... Can we bridge the polarization divide? ... Sadly, self-transcendence isn't genetically inheritable ... Does Bob see cause for optimism? ...

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0:00.0

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

0:08.1

Hi, Josh.

0:09.6

Hey, Bob. How you doing?

0:11.5

I cannot complain.

0:13.4

Let me introduce us. I'm Robert Wright. This is the right show.

0:16.3

Available on both streaming video and via audio podcast. Amazingly. And you are Josh Summers. And those are my dogs. Can you hear those? They just started barking.

0:25.0

I can. The male person may have arrived. The, and you have been kind enough to suggest that we do a series of conversations of which this is

0:38.7

conversation number two in which I get all self-indulgent and flesh out my worldview.

0:46.0

Um, which we're loosely calling the Dharma,

0:49.4

which I'm happy to say is your idea.

0:55.8

Not that I don't like the phrase,

1:02.0

but I think I would like to muster the usual false humility and say,

1:06.1

awshucks, should we really give it a name that has my name in it?

1:09.0

But you insist, and so, okay, that's okay.

1:09.9

That's fine.

1:17.1

Yeah, it's just easier for generations to come to have a big heading, heading for the whole thing.

1:22.0

And they'll know who that refers to because it's not like there's more than one bob.

1:28.5

No, by that point, your bobness will have reached its apotheosis.

1:29.5

There'll be like two.

1:36.3

It'll be like Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger, like Bob of New Jersey and Bob of whoever.

1:40.5

So anyway, thank you.

1:41.2

Thank you for this.

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