#192 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris and Paul Bloom speak about the psychology of adapting to the coronavirus pandemic, the disastrous analogy between coronavirus and flu, the political siloing of information, true and false concerns over "panic," pressuring China to close down their live animal markets, the economic implications and possible silver linings of the pandemic, what our response suggests about our ability to deal with climate change, Biden vs Sanders, the ethics of praising one's enemies, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:21.2	This is Sam Harris.
0:22.6	Okay, I just want to point out that it's taken a global emergency to cause me to change
0:27.2	my music back to the old music.
0:29.8	Many of you will be relieved and consider to fair trade.
0:32.9	Global pandemic for getting rid of the new music and the newer music and reverting
0:38.3	back to the classic Coke of the old music.
0:41.1	So apologies for the discombobulation.
0:44.7	We will work out our music problems as the end times proceed.
0:49.7	But now I'm back here with my friend and partner in social distancing, Paul Plum.
0:56.5	Thank you for coming back.
0:58.6	It's good to be back.
0:59.6	I like the new music.
1:00.6	I know you're getting a lot of pushback on Twitter, but I enjoyed it.
1:03.7	Oh, yeah.
1:04.7	The amount of hate is unbelievable.
1:06.6	I like it too, but even I recognized that there was a total mismatch between its upbeat
1:13.2	vibe and some of the topics I was beginning to cover.
1:17.2	I just coronavirus aside.
1:19.6	The idea of dropping that music against nuclear war or child pornography or whatever else
1:25.6	I had come in, it just seemed wrong.
1:27.1	So I've known you for a while and I've always wondered what you would do to cross the line
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