Making Sense with Sam Harris
Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app. Combining Sam
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“the latest is Artificial Intimacy, Who We Become When We Talk to Machines”
“And you have this this new book on jokes, which you wrote with um Two co authors. I'm Amanda Baker and uh Abby Grant”
“I get asked a lot, you know. An amateur is somebody who actually loves the Just yeah, you can't and and it's also that thing of like I think it's Mark Fisher's point of like, um Capitalist ontology”
“I think it's i I think it's implicit in the master and his emistry”
“I read a lot of n that Neil Hale, The Fourth Turning book I really like”
“the book is the AGI Chronicles. The inside story of the race to create artificial superintelligence”
“Nick Bostrom is probably not as shrill as Eliezer at this point, but he he he's the person who wrote the Book Superintelligence that got so many people Worried about this”
“somewhat analogous to Walter Isaacson's biography, right? I mean he wrote this five, six hundred page b essentially a hagiography of Elon”
“When Hebrew linguists were reviving Hebrew as a spoken language. They had to dig through the Hebrew Bible to find a word”
“The earliest anti Zionist political text is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion”
“But that document became the first chapter of the end of faith. And the resulting book pitched me into almost every culture war battle we've fought since”
“And You just go to the website. And you are pitched into Unapologetic. Communist Manifesto”
“I think a lot of his success and the you know, his ascendancy and his invulnerability to scandal has less to do with him being some kind of political genius And more to do with the situation in which he has found himself. Right. So I I view him as a The the the the analogy that that has worked for me is that he's kind of an evil version of the Chauncey Gardner character from the the Jersey Klasinski book and the being there and the and they The film by that name”
“But he's perhaps best known in the general public for his book. Thinking fast and slow. Which summarizes much of the work he did with Trovsky”
“Michael Lewis. Also recently wrote a Biography. of the Coneman Tversky collaboration. And that is called the Undoing Project”
“your last one, the genetic lottery”
“original sin on the genetics of vice, the problem of blame And the future of forgiveness”
“You have an updated version of your Pulture Prize winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies. A biography of cancer, which uh came out fifteen years ago”
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