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Published · transcript-backedPaul Bloom: uncertainty
7 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
“Maybe I benefit from other forms of privilege, being an older white man, but I don’t know.”
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- Paul Bloom
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- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 7 Aug 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Why do you think it’s worked out the way it has, that people overestimate your intelligence? Because you are at Yale? Yes. Prestige bias. I’m a university professor. I’m at Yale. Maybe I benefit from other forms of privilege, being an older white man, but I don’t know. I show all the markers of a smart guy. You think when you interact with other people that you’re too much impressed by their intelligence, or not enough? Because a lot of smart people overvalue smarts in others. Why not just drive that out of your calculus? Is it so hard?…
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