#414 — Strange Truths
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Sam Harris speaks with David Deutsch about quantum physics and current events. They discuss the “many-worlds” interpretation of QM, Schrödinger’s cat, constructor theory, quantum computing and whether it will ever be practically possible, recent developments in AI, the prospects of artificial super-intelligence, the alignment problem, antisemitism and the historical persecution of Jews, misconceptions about Israel, the future of the Jews in Israel and the West, 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 hearing this, you're not currently on our subscriber feed, and we'll only be hearing the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense podcast, you'll need to subscribe |
| 0:21.9 | at samharris.org. We don't run ads on the podcast, and therefore it's made possible entirely |
| 0:27.3 | through the support of our subscribers. So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider |
| 0:31.7 | becoming one. I am here with David Deutsch. |
| 0:38.3 | David, it's great to see you again. |
| 0:39.8 | Nice to be here again. |
| 0:41.3 | It's been a long time. |
| 0:42.3 | I didn't actually check to see when our last conversation was, but I think it was probably |
| 0:46.5 | about five years ago. |
| 0:47.6 | It has to be... |
| 0:48.7 | Well, is it that long? |
| 0:49.6 | Yeah, well, a lot has happened since. |
| 0:52.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:54.5 | History has been an eventful. |
| 0:55.8 | So I'm going to take us on a tour through many topics about which you are well |
| 1:01.4 | qualified to have strong opinions. |
| 1:03.1 | The first will seem intimately related as they relate to science about which you |
| 1:08.5 | have thought much. |
| 1:09.7 | But at the end, I want to talk about world events |
| 1:12.0 | and the explosion of anti-Semitism we've witnessed since October 7th, 2023. I know you're |
| 1:18.4 | connected to those topics as well. So you know, you and I've had at least two very long |
| 1:24.7 | podcast conversations where we dealt with mostly the topics in your second book, |
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