#315 — The Great Derangement

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

🗓️ 7 April 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with Tim Urban about his new book, “What’s Our Problem: A Self-Help Book for Societies.” They discuss Tim’s unusual career, the finitude of life, existential risk, exponential technological change, political tribalism, the corruption of the media, how one thinks vs what one thinks, trust in institutions, the firing of James Bennet at the New York Times, digital mobs, the mechanics of cancellation, Alex Jones, election integrity, 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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0:46.7	Today I'm speaking with Tim Urban.
0:49.5	Tim is a writer and illustrator and co-founder of Weight But Why, which is a fascinating
0:56.0	blog.
0:57.0	It has over 600,000 subscribers and has covered a wide range of topics from artificial intelligence
1:03.9	to social anxiety to humans becoming a multi-planetary species.
1:09.6	Tim also had a TED talk, which I believe was the first TED video to reach over 10 million
1:14.9	views in his first year and it now ranks in the top 10 of most watched TED talks.
1:21.8	In this conversation, Tim and I cover his new book, which is What's Our Problem, A Self-Help
1:27.4	Book for Societies.
1:29.8	We discuss Tim's unusual career, the finitude of life, existential risk, exponential technological
1:38.8	change, political tribalism, the corruption of the media, how we think versus what we think,
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