#128 — Transformations of Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with Geoffrey Miller about evolutionary psychology. They discuss sexual selection, virtue signaling, social media, public shaming, monogamy and polyamory, taboo topics in science, genetic engineering, gender differences and the “Google memo,” moral psychology, existential risk, AI, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
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0:46.8	Today I am speaking with Jeffrey Miller. Jeffrey is an evolutionary psychologist
0:52.0	best known for his books, The Mating Mind, Mating Intelligence, Spent and Mate. He got his B.A.
1:00.0	and Biology and Psychology from Columbia and his PhD in Psychology from Stanford.
1:05.0	He is a tenured professor at the University of New Mexico, and he has over 100 academic publications,
1:12.3	addressing sexual selection, mate choice, signaling theory, fitness indicators, consumer behavior,
1:18.1	marketing intelligence, creativity, language, art, music, humor, emotions, personality,
1:24.8	psychopathology, and behavioral genetics. Anyway, Jeffrey is a very interesting guy,
1:29.2	and we recorded this event in Houston in March. And we covered a wide range of topics,
1:37.4	things like sexual selection and virtue signaling and public shaming, social media.
1:43.0	He spent a fair amount of time on monogamy versus polyamory. We touched other taboo topics in science.
1:51.0	Spoke briefly about genetic engineering and existential risk, in particular AI.
1:57.4	Spoke about gender differences, the Google memo, many things here. So I hope you enjoy it.
2:03.9	And now bring you Jeffrey Miller.
2:17.5	Thank you.
2:22.7	Thank you guys.
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