#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 12 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with Daniel Kahneman at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. They discuss the replication crisis in science, System 1 and System 2, where intuitions reliably fail, expert intuitions, the power of framing, moral illusions, anticipated regret, the asymmetry between threats and opportunities, the utility of worrying, removing obstacles to wanted behaviors, the remembering self vs the experiencing self, improving the quality of gossip, 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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0:47.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Well, today I'm bringing you the audio
0:52.3	from my live event with Danny Conneman at the Beacon Theatre in New York a couple of weeks back.
0:58.1	This was a sold-out event in a very cool old theater. I'd actually never been to the Beacon
1:04.2	before, but it has a storied history and music and comedy. Anyway, it was a great pleasure to
1:11.1	share the stage with Danny. Daniel Conneman, as you may know, is an emeritus professor of psychology
1:16.8	at Princeton University and also an emeritus professor of public affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson
1:24.0	School of Public and International Affairs. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002
1:31.2	for the work he did on decision-making under uncertainty with Amos Tversky. Unfortunately,
1:36.8	Tversky died in 1996 and he was a legendary figure who would have certainly shared the Nobel
1:43.7	Prize with Danny had he lived longer. They don't give the Nobel posthumously. In any case, I think
1:50.3	it's uncontroversial to say that Danny has been the most influential living psychologist for many
1:56.2	years now, but he's perhaps best known in the general public for his book Thinking Fast and Slow,
2:04.4	which summarizes much of the work he did with Tversky. Michael Lewis also recently wrote a
2:10.3	biography of the Conneman-Tversky collaboration, and that is called the Undoing Project.
2:16.6	Anyway, Danny and I covered a lot of ground at the beacon. We discuss the replication crisis
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