#259 — The Reckoning to Come

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Balaji Srinivasan about several civilizational challenges and possible paths forward. They discuss the evidence of American decline, the rise of India and China, centralizing and decentralizing trends in politics, the relationship between politics and technology, the failures of the FDA and TSA, how regulation preserves monopolies, the significance of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, the problem of cybersecurity, the Chinese government’s attack on Bitcoin, the threat of US regulation of cryptocurrency, blockchain scalability, creator coins, life in Singapore, virtual government, the future of decentralized journalism, independent replication in science, wealth inequality, ubiquitous investing, social status, non-zero-sum capitalism, “start-up countries”, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:09.1	This is Sam Harris.
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0:41.1	Okay, well our 20 year engagement in Afghanistan has come to an end.
0:55.5	I think I might have more to say about this next week.
0:59.2	We're coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9-11, which is obviously significant for the
1:04.6	world, but it's also personally significant.
1:09.1	9-11 was definitely a hinge event in history, but it was also a hinge event in my life, even
1:16.2	though I was not directly connected in any way that I'm aware of to the events of that day.
1:21.6	I don't believe I knew personally anyone who died, but it really did change my life.
1:29.4	I began writing my first book, The End of Faith, on the 12th or the 13th, the latest,
1:37.4	and the events of that day really determined a lot of what I focused on for more than
1:43.6	a decade.
1:45.2	So anyway, I think I'll probably have more to say about that next week.
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