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With Friends Like These
A reaction to some fellow critics of empathy
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Paul Bloom
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Should you be friends with an AI?
Podcast with Sam Harris
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Paul Bloom
Jeffrey Epstein, MechaHitler, and other ills
Podcast with Robert Wright
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Hammer Timing
My weakness for good beginnings
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Paul Bloom
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The End of Loneliness
Today’s post is something I wrote for the New Yorker—available here. (Physical copy coming out next week.) It’s about the consequences of using AI to…
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Paul Bloom
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Would you still love me if I was a worm?
An investigation
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Implicit bias: All your questions answered
Including: Are we all racist?
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Paul Bloom
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