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Jan 16, 2025 | 
nonzero.substack.com | Paul Bloom |Robert Wright
This episode includes an Overtime segment that’s available to paid subscribers. If you’re not a paid subscriber, we of course encourage you to become one. If you are a paid subscriber, you can access the complete conversation either via the audio and video on this post or by setting up the paid-subscriber podcast feed, which includes all exclusive audio content.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net | Paul Bloom
Why did Donald Trump decide to run for president? One story often told is that he made his choice in 2011 at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner while President Obama was roasting him in front of the world. Small Potatoes is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. What about Obama? He tells the story of how, in 2000, he badly lost a congressional race and was devastated.
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Dec 14, 2024 | 
nhregister.com | Paul Bloom
‘Tis The Season — Hanukah, Christmas and Buddha’s Enlightenment Day all cluster together in December. Each of these is a holiday of light — all of which occur this year at a time of profound darkness, confusion and misery. We are witnessing horrific military conflicts in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, while in our own country there is deep social division partnered with an incoming president who promotes himself as a self-directed oligarch.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
nonzero.substack.com | Paul Bloom |Robert Wright
This episode includes an Overtime segment that’s available to paid subscribers. If you’re not a paid subscriber, we of course encourage you to become one. If you are a paid subscriber, you can access the complete conversation either via the audio and video on this post or by setting up the paid-subscriber podcast feed, which includes all exclusive audio content.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net | Paul Bloom
[This is a modified version of a post I posted a few months ago for paid subscribers only. Big thanks to the commenters for helpful thoughts and suggestions.]Tyler Cowen recently said he regularly uses generative AI when working, just as many of us now use Google. I've been trying to do the same. Small Potatoes is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. As I write this, I have Claude open in front of me.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
nonzero.substack.com | Paul Bloom |Robert Wright
This episode includes an Overtime segment that’s available to paid subscribers. If you’re not a paid subscriber, we of course encourage you to become one. If you are a paid subscriber, you can access the complete conversation either via the audio and video on this post or by setting up the paid-subscriber podcast feed, which includes all exclusive audio content.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
chronicle.com | Paul Bloom
You may have heard of the study published in 2020 concluding that Black newborns have higher survival rates when Black doctors attend to them. It got a huge amount of coverage in the popular press. It was even cited by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent last year on the court’s ruling against racial preferences in college admissions. The research, Jackson claimed, shows the benefits of diversity. “It saves lives,” she wrote.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
nonzero.substack.com | Paul Bloom |Robert Wright
This episode includes an Overtime segment that’s available to paid subscribers. If you’re not a paid subscriber, we of course encourage you to become one. If you are a paid subscriber, you can access the complete conversation either via the audio and video on this post or by setting up the paid-subscriber podcast feed, which includes all exclusive audio content.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net | Paul Bloom
. You may have heard of the study published in PNAS in 2020 concluding that Black newborns have higher survival rates when Black doctors attend to them. It got a huge amount of coverage in the popular press. It was even cited by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent last year on the court’s ruling against racial preferences in college admissions. The newborn research, Brown Jackson claimed, shows the benefits of diversity. “It saves lives,” she wrote.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
experimental-history.com | Adam Mastroianni |Paul Bloom |Maia Mindel |Jason Collins
There’s a thought that’s haunted me for years: we’re doing all this research in psychology, but are we learning anything? We run these studies and publish these papers and…then what? The stack of papers just gets taller? This worries me because I want to contribute to the grand project of understanding the mind, but I’m not sure how to do that. What’s the point of tossing another paper on the pile when it’s not clear that the last 100 papers added anything?
