#302 — Science & Civilization
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Sam Harris speaks with Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new book, Starry Messenger. They discuss what makes science a unique human endeavor, the tension between respecting scientific consensus and overturning it, confusion about paradigm shifts and scientific controversies, the social importance of probability and statistics, climate change, the consequences of exponential cultural change, social media, social inequality and affirmative action, identity politics and a post-racial future, the wisdom of focusing on class rather than race, and other topics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | This is Sam Harris. |
| 0:11.3 | Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber |
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| 0:28.3 | other subscriber-only content. |
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| 0:34.6 | of our subscribers. |
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| 0:39.8 | Well, there's a lot going on out in the world. |
| 0:48.8 | I guess there always is, but in the last 24 hours it seemed, especially so. |
| 0:54.3 | As I'm recording this intro, we appear to be witnessing the complete implosion of FTX, |
| 1:01.9 | the cryptocurrency trading firm, whose CEO, Sam Bankman Fried, has been on this podcast, |
| 1:08.9 | and he has been one of the most visible faces of the effect of altruism movement. |
| 1:14.3 | At the time I interviewed him, Sam was worth over $20 billion. |
| 1:19.0 | It might have been $30 billion at the time, and had pledged to give virtually all of it |
| 1:24.6 | away. |
| 1:25.6 | Cryptocurrency is quite volatile, and as of, I think the day before yesterday, he was worth |
| 1:32.5 | something like $15 billion. |
| 1:35.8 | Virtually all of which appears to have evaporated in the last 24 hours. |
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