The Dharma of Bob 6: The Explain/Excuse Conflation (Robert Wright & Josh Summers)

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Josh's aversion to the term "guru" ... Explaining the explain/excuse conflation ... The (possible) evolutionary origins of (biased) arguing ... Are humans mismatched to their modern environment? ... Building strengths vs. addressing deficiencies ... Defusing attribution error ... Making cognitive empathy cool ... Using meditation to strengthen cognitive empathy ... The mythical side of Bob ... Rationalists, effective altruists, and other possible fellow travelers ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.6	Hi, Josh.
0:10.1	Hey, Bob.
0:11.4	How you doing?
0:13.2	Pretty good.
0:13.9	How are you doing?
0:15.9	Why do you smile as you say that, Josh?
0:18.9	Because of...
0:19.9	Because you're doing pretty good, I guess.
0:21.7	Well, it's always how do you...
0:22.9	I've heard so many of these conversations,
0:24.8	it starts out with, hi, so-and-so, how are you doing?
0:28.4	And it's hard to capture.
0:31.1	I always wanted to actually give you the Christopher Hitchens line.
0:34.4	It's too early to tell.
0:38.4	I'm trying to think of a reply that says something about Christopher Hitchens, but nothing's coming to mind.
0:44.8	That would be nice.
0:46.2	I'm sure. You're right. Nothing nice is coming to mind. I'm sure something mean but funny will eventually come to mind.
0:52.2	But actually, nothing at all is coming to mind now.
0:57.9	So, let me introduce us.
0:58.8	I'm Robert Wright.
0:59.5	This is The Right Show.
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