Ask Me Anything #18

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

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Questions answered:

Why won’t you discuss COVID vaccines and Ivermectin with Bret Weinstein on the podcast?

What do you think about the recent prosecution of a 100-year-old Nazi in Germany?

How can we understand voluntary behavior without free will?

Does aid to the developing world do more harm than good?

Have your views about the risk of artificial general intelligence changed in recent years?

What did you think of Simon Biles’s decision to drop out of the Olympics?

How should Facebook and other social media platforms deal with the tradeoff between misinformation and censorship?

Why are people so resistant to changing their beliefs?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast.
0:09.1	This is Sam Harris.
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0:47.6	I've been thinking more and more about what we're doing here.
0:50.7	About what I'm doing personally, and about how that fits into the various trends we're
0:57.6	seeing in our intellectual and ethical and political lives, the circumstance we find ourselves
1:05.2	in is increasingly strange.
1:08.6	Don't you think?
1:10.5	It's half psychological experiment and half Ponzi scheme.
1:17.8	What are we doing here?
1:19.2	I generally think about civilization as a machine for engineering and safeguarding certain
1:26.3	experiences, and it seems to me that it has barely started running in earnest.
1:31.6	I mean, we've had a few thousand years of real culture, and a few hundred years of anything
1:37.9	like scientific rationality, and then merely a few decades of leveraging all this with
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