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Paul Bloom: The psychology of morality, perversion, and revenge

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Episode Paul Bloom: The psychology of morality, perversion, and revenge

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Psychologist Paul Bloom has spent his career studying the parts of human nature we often feel uncomfortable examining: why loneliness feels like starvation, why people are drawn to behaving poorly, why revenge feels righteous until it destroys everything.

Bloom argues that the US doesn't actually have a loneliness epidemic, it has a solitude epidemic, one being accelerated by AI companionship.

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