#33 — Ask Me Anything 4
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Sam Harris answers questions from listeners about the recent attacks in Brussels, dealing with anxiety, the science of immortality, fame, liberalism, the Golden Age of Islam, 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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| 0:46.8 | Apologies in advance. I'm getting over yet another cold. I'm beginning to wonder whether my |
| 0:51.8 | commitment to vegetarianism isn't just a strategy cooked up by the cold virus to prepare me as a |
| 0:58.1 | vector by which to lay waste to the rest of society. I have just gotten so many colds since I stopped |
| 1:05.1 | killing animals or paying others to kill them on my behalf. Well, this isn't ask me anything podcast, |
| 1:12.0 | which I'm doing a day after the Brussels attacks. So the questions I have here really don't reflect |
| 1:19.8 | what has been going on. So I feel somewhat out of sync with what's been going on. Maybe I'll just say |
| 1:26.8 | a few words about Brussels at the outset. Everything I've written about Islam and jihadism and profiling |
| 1:33.9 | and related topics should be viewed through the lens of events like this. I really don't have any |
| 1:41.0 | more to say about this kind of thing, but I'll just give you a glimpse of what my life is like on |
| 1:47.5 | this issue. So I'm at a conference talking about things like artificial intelligence. And I open |
| 1:52.6 | my phone to discover that there's an article circulating calling me a white supremacist. Now, |
| 1:58.0 | needless to say, Reza Aslan has circulated it saying, what do you think Sam Harris means when he |
| 2:03.5 | says profile anyone who could conceivably be Muslim, even though in the very paragraph where I make |
| 2:08.8 | that claim, I make it clear that white guys like me also fit the profile I'm talking about. And then |
| 2:14.8 | the very next day we have attacks like these in Belgium. And you see the pictures of the likely |
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