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0:00 Why Paul’s eclipse experience eclipsed Bob’s
6:01 Remembering pioneering psychologist Daniel Kahneman
16:09 Bob fails gender affirmation test
20:50 Has the “replication crisis” tainted Kahneman’s legacy?
27:23 Eastern vs. Western “enlightenment”
35:34 How AI doomerism came to the rationalist community
45:18 3 Body Problem review goes into 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 10, 2024.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 Should humanity welcome AI/alien overlords?
4:44 What was the movie Harvey trying to say?
15:07 Psychedelics as psycho-technology
26:59 The therapy crapshoot
31:06 The self-immolating airman and the trouble with mental “illness”
42:58 Poor Things baffles Bob
