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7 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
“The signaling-empathy answers I find quite uninteresting, and I think a lot of my listeners do, too.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- belief
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- 7 Aug 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Wait. Why being a podcast host? Well, I’ll ask a question, and a lot of guests think it’s high status simply to signal empathy rather than giving a substantive answer. The signaling-empathy answers I find quite uninteresting, and I think a lot of my listeners do, too. Yet people will just keep on doing this, and I get frustrated. Then I think, “Well, Tyler, you should turn a bit more against empathy for this reason.” And I think that’s correct. [laughs] Okay. Well, I appreciate where you’re coming from, and I feel your frustration.…
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