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0:00 Trump and Elon’s bad week = good news for Bob…
5:37 …but bad news for Canada's prime minister?
17:59 Trump’s crackdown on speech expands
29:04 Debating embryo-screening ethics
42:00 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 April 24, 2025.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 Is cognitive empathy an IQ issue?
13:27 Where Paul's evil piece went astray (as per Bob)
20:22 AI, sentience, and the meaning of Motel 6
28:14 Did Bob get his White Lotus prediction right?
47:32 Did White Lotus get Buddhism wrong?
51:08 In praise of God’s backside discourse
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