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0:00 Is Kanye’s new song really pro-Hitler?
12:07 How free should free speech be?
16:25 Substack economics
23:35 Welcome to Sam Altman’s orb
30:01 Can higher education survive AI?
40:55 Did Carney tame Trump?
44:11 Good and bad signs from Trump 2.0
48:43 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 May 15, 2025.
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Overtime titles:
0:00 Trump’s enduringly weird brain
12:50 Bob’s John Brockman beef
19:10 What was White Lotus really about?
22:44 Waking Life, psychedelics, and the downside of infinite love
26:16 Has AI killed the cartooning star?
34:20 AI awareness—situational and otherwise
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