The President’s Brain (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

Nonzero

News & Politics, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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1:43 Dementia vs senility 5:40 Biden’s brain: a post-debate diagnosis 15:56 Who’s to blame for the Biden problem? 26:04 Biden’s most baffling debate moment 33:04 Will Biden step down? Bob and Paul place their bets 39:01 Has Nick Bostrom flipped on AI doomerism? 43:17 The earthly side of a meditation retreat 49:57 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 July 01, 2024.

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Paul’s Substack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net

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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.
0:29.5	Hello, Paul.
0:31.2	Hi, Bob.
0:32.0	How are you?
0:33.2	I'm good.
0:34.5	Happy Canada Day.
0:35.8	Well, thank you.
0:37.2	Thank you. You know, I sent an email to somebody, and I told him it was Canada Day. I'm going. Happy Canada Day. Well, thank you. Thank you.
0:37.7	You know, I sent an email to somebody, and I told him it was Canada Day in the States, and she said, I had no idea.
0:45.5	Many people didn't.
0:47.1	Well, July 1st, it's Canada Day. And thank you. Thank you for knowing.
0:52.3	How is it that you know?
0:53.1	Let me, before we move on to further discussion of Canada Day and other things,
0:58.7	including some things happening in American politics, let me introduce to some Robert Wright.
1:02.4	Things happened in American politics?
1:04.5	Yeah, I know that preparations for Canada Day are kind of all-consuming, I know, up north.
1:08.8	But I'll be able to catch you up to date pretty quickly
1:11.5	here. So, you're Paul Bloom, publisher of the Small Potato's newsletter, world-famous
1:21.1	psychologist, an author. We're going to make use of your credentials as psychologist to
1:26.5	discuss Joe Biden's brain a little.
1:29.1	See, there, I slipped up. That was a glitch. I said, Joe Brighton's brain. And yet I think I
1:34.0	could be president. See? I put a little tick mark. You get 10 tick marks. It's dementia.
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