The Two Kinds of Empathy (Robert Wright & Paul Bloom)

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

2:22 Paul’s upcoming book, Psych: The Story of the Human Mind 18:42 Bob’s upcoming book, tk 24:27 Are psychopaths high in (cognitive) empathy? 33:29 How good are we at perspective taking—and how can we get better? 40:28 Elon Musk’s apparent cognitive empathy deficit 49:57 Is cognitive empathy a biological adaptation? 1:06:10 Is it even possible to understand the minds of others? 1:16:47 Paul’s budding interest in perversity

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded November 8, 2022.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:09.0	Hi, Paul.
0:10.6	Hi, Bob.
0:11.9	How are you doing?
0:13.2	I'm doing great.
0:14.1	How are you?
0:14.8	Pretty good.
0:15.4	Nice fake background you got there.
0:18.2	Thank you.
0:19.0	You don't want to see the real background.
0:20.3	You just can't have it.
0:21.8	This is my real background.
0:24.1	This is the gritty truth about my life you're looking at.
0:28.2	For those people just listening, Bob has books upon books and pictures and photographs.
0:33.5	It's the background of a scholar.
0:35.3	And if you're just listening, I should tell you that Paul has fake books upon fake books.
0:41.3	A beautiful window of a view.
0:43.3	Well, never mind.
0:44.3	What?
0:45.3	Background of a fraud.
0:46.3	I wouldn't go that far.
0:47.3	I was just going to say fake scholar.
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