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0:00 – Introduction
3:38 – Empathy and reason
11:30 – Donald Trump
54:24 – Military industrial complex
58:58 – Twitter
1:23:05 – COVID
2:06:48 – Kanye West
2:23:24 – Platforming
2:41:21 – Joe Rogan
2:58:13 – Bret Weinstein
3:11:51 – Elon Musk
3:23:59 – Artificial Intelligence
3:40:01 – UFOs
3:53:16 – Free will
4:20:31 – Hope for the future
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0:00 – Introduction & sponsor mentions:
– Notion: https://notion.com
– Indeed: https://indeed.com/lex to get $75 credit
– MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex to get 15% off
3:38 – Empathy and reason
11:30 – Donald Trump
54:24 – Military industrial complex
58:58 – Twitter
1:23:05 – COVID
2:06:48 – Kanye West
2:23:24 – Platforming
2:41:21 – Joe Rogan
2:58:13 – Bret Weinstein
3:11:51 – Elon Musk
3:23:59 – Artificial Intelligence
3:40:01 – UFOs
3:53:16 – Free will
4:20:31 – Hope for the future
I think Sam's whole hysteria about Covid should give him a warning sign to get back to meditation and try to get rid of the fear of death
Sam’s take on the notion of possibility is one of the greatest weaknesses of his views on the world. It’s not surprising given his commitment to the notion that freewill is illusory. In fact, the latter gives birth to the former. It leads him towards unfathomable claims such as ‘worrying is never psychologically appropriate’.
The utility of possibility becomes self-evident when one reviews the action s/he took to end up at a particular place. The importance of possibility becomes paramount in learning from one’s past mistakes. Every time we run simulations of ourselves in our minds towards a desirable or undesirable future, we’re examining the avenues of possibility that lay themselves out in front of us in time and space. Worrying is the most appropriate response to the possibility of ending up in an undesirable future. It fuels motivation for taking proper action, whatever “proper” might mean in the context. But then again, Sam is a coherent thinker, therefore, of course his monogamous marriage to the idea that freewill is an illusion would necessitate him to dismiss the notion of possibility. To Sam, human beings and their actions are nothing but a product of circumstance. Even if I were to give that some credence, there still remains the problem that one’s circumstances are partly manufactured by his/her decisions and actions.
I wonder if this is why Sam is for censorship and cancellation of certain individuals. Wonder if the utter defenselessness that he attributes to humans is the reason that he deems people utterly incapable of separating the wheat from the chaff
We do know enough about depression?! And we do know faucinand the democrats to the CDC and the WHO and news outlets and so forth lied about a lot of information from denying the origin in wuhan lab, fauci lying about funding it directly and knowingly!! About masks and lying about trumps reaction and vaccine and the data!! And they lied about the numbers of deaths and the lethality of the virus and even were willing to shut down the country and throw us in a recession and inflation destroying our economy and world economy just to keep trump from winning!!! SMH, the only thing I glad he speaks up against is wokism
Looking like an asshole does not make you an asshole lex. It’s such a naive (he admits this too) to see the world. You shouldn’t always “look” like a nice and friendly person all the time. There are times to be strict on people, to show anger and frustration etc. Being a mr nice guy will only get you so far.
This is Sam’s apology tour. Nevertheless, he is slipping into irrelevance. His stance on Covid continues to demonstrate unjustified and unhealthy paranoia. He has been wrong every step of the way and seem more like he is trying to convince himself of his historic positions on the issue, not Lex. Lex could have flipped so many points back on Sam in embarrassing ways. I admire his restraint.
Sam's inability to say I was wrong is so evident. So many time Lex asked him "can you say/accept that you were wrong? can your ego accept it, but sam would so brilliantly divert the topic and make others (ex: Eric Weinstein) look bad. I have respect for his depth of knowledge and what he's been doing in the scientific field but there's something about Sam Harris that just doesn't sit well with me.
No Sam there was no evidence of efficient vaccine or forcing someone to take a vaccine under any circumstance, this guy is a very intelligent man and still fell into the hysteria they propagated on us and me being a regular joe shmo citizen who was in state prison for a violent crime was smart enough to see through the bullshit and critically think smh this is the issue I have with people is they trust to blindly authority of government and other fields of expertise!! And knowing what I personally know now I was fucking right!!! In every way and rationally at that no conspiracies etc. And so was a lot of other people
Such an arrogant, frightened little man
It's a shame that's there's not a way to split Twitter, like having the option to only see intellectual topics/thought's/debates and then another option just for trolling/parody accounts, so you can choose if you'd like to see more or less of each
This guy is full of it. There was no shift, just moving of goal posts.
Naomi Wolf: “Because lies embraced our whole culture since 2020, and because public intellectuals for the most part did not stand up to the lies at the time, and because many even participated in the lies (hello, Sam Harris); since horrible things happened to those of us who did stand up to the lies — most public intellectuals at this moment cannot address the really important events of the recent past.”
I really think it is worth noting, that Sam Harris thought twitter was important when he was on it, but now that he is off it, he thinks it is not. It says something about hes ability, or lack there of, to see and acknowledge the bubble that he himself is in.
Sam Harris aka a c uck lord 3000
Great stuff, however, I do have to say, Sam's view on the validity of non expert views and opinions, is an opinion. Considering the expert views on "Korronna" I cannot agree with those opinions! Many people's lives have been ruined by the policy decisions from the experts. We don't need those decisions!
This was a painful conversation to listen to, and I image equality painful for Sam to have. My guess is this will be the last time Sam comes on this podcast for a while.
Wow Sam you have no independent thinking of your own nor do you critically think like I thought you could it is disconcerting to me that Sam is nowhere near the genius I thought so highly of smh from dismissing the 9/11 theory and the reading for Putin invading Ukraine to trump to covid hysteria!!! He literally claimed it’s a waste of time to reach about it and implied it would take to long and it’s a absolutely wrong thing to do which is naive and pathetic smh😂 he acts as if alot of people don’t have the ability to think critically and responsible enough to make the right decisions
Sam lost the plot with his extreme TDS.
Who to blame for the state of voting when the choice comes down to Trump / Biden???🤢🤢
Sam, I am so disappointed. I have listened to your podcasts for years, have been impressed with your intellect and clever use of language. But you seem stuck in the same crazy vortex of aot if people I know and now have a lot less respect for. Your prejudices, your need for virtue signalling, your conviction that your are smarter than most, has driven you to some level of insanity I cannot fathom. There is no logic, there is no reason, there is no understanding of why people do things against what he would consider would/should be the way people behave. He is truly lost and no longer is a person I can have any respect for.
I dislike Trump intensely but it has not warped my reasoning. I am able to get over prejudice and use logic when looking at the actual, provable facts.
Sam Harris is at this point everything he accuses Trump of being: a consummate liar; a narcissistic gaslighting BS artist. Take for example 1:19:00 where he asserts that he has “defended” Trump on the “very fine people” video. Harris has repeatedly, over and over, hundreds of times, made the same false assertions or guilt-by-associations that the left-wing media made – that Trump is a borderline Nazi totalitarian racist, and he has used that “fine people” incident as evidence. Now he gaslights everyone in this interview and pretends that he is an honest broker on the topic. Sam is a damned liar. A lying gaslighting liar. Every time his TDS kicks in and he starts insulting Trump, he presents no evidence to back up his insults, and if you listen carefully, you can hear where he has convinced himself of things that are not true. When he reads Twitter and complains of all the negativity, it’s because he can’t understand or respond to any of the genuine criticism of his Trump Derangement Syndrome induced worldview. He can only think in a vacuum and talk in a vacuum, on his podcast, or occasionally where the interviewer will rarely if ever seriously challenge him. He needs a safe space so he can make assertions of how evil and horrible Trump is without challenges to his fragile personality. Sam is totally lost and has no credibility as an intellectual. He’s the worst kind of social media troll – an “intellectual” social media troll.
I really needed to this. Thanks Lex. I can't understand the reasoning of a lot of people I know but Sam's ramblings has helped get me there. Sadly, I realise that there's too much to be lost by them personally ever really looking at this issue for what it is. But there is a lot to be lost going forward. How many people are now going to be wary of vaccinations in general because of the way Covid 19 vaxes were rolled out and mandated? I think a lot of people are now wary. Which is sad.
Even Sam conflates the two when many see them as very different things.
Is Sam a good communicator? Does he bring out the best in people? Does he innovate? Does he inspire? Does he further the human efforts? Does he contribute to man’s success…. What’s your objective here Sam? 🤔
Sam Harris was severely deranged by trump, it’s been hard listening to him post trump post covid, I cancelled my waking up membership because I can’t listen to somone so inconsistent
Sam will never get over his TDS. Democrats declare every election they do not win as fraud. You project this just on Trump Sam. Again you are not objective. I am honestly tired of Trump. I do not care for him. I can admit he did good things as the President and he cares more about Americans than the elite bureaucrats in Washington. You overblow January 6. You just keep trying to sell the media narrative.
Please bring salvoj zizek next
So many words and so many excuses and rationalisation about why he was right in his decisions and why his former friends where wrong because they didnt saw his point…time has proven that his friends were right and he was wrong…he should've just admit he was wrong not just lick his wounds and just overthink.
He is given to much credit for his work…an elitist that lacks intelectual modesty and he believes that only his side is the right side…i hope his popularity fades slowly into obscurity
Around the 1:30:00 mark, when Sam refers to deferring to experts or informed opinion, he doesn’t account for the incentives of said experts and the dangers of pandering to authority bias. Yes, experts have their place. But even the best of people (experts) can be corrupted by the worst incentives (a point Sam raises).
Sam plays a game where he's constantly rationalizing his way out of true critical thinking.
Awesome 😎🚬
I would have greatly appreciated a couple more explicit examples along the long list of Trump's bad actions Sam is alluding to over the first 50 minutes or so.
I don't necessarily disagree, and assume I don't get a lot of them out of my own ignorance – I still think it might have done him some good to elaborate a little more, especially in the aftermath of his Triggernometry interview.
No hate though, I appreciate both gentlemen very much – thanks for the great conversation!
There are people who through the good use of vocabulary give the impression of being intelligent and well informed. It seems to me that the interviewer is either very accommodating with his questions or is simply incapable of seeing the weakness of this gentleman's arguments. Excessive vague and contradicting verbiage
The 1st hour of this podcast has made me lose respect for Sam, the way he is locked up within his own thoughts and the way he deflects the answer…
"Take's a village to bring up a child"
Reunion of Monotones. Happy to hear them for 4.5 hours
I'm a big fan of Lex but I wish he would put his rebuttals more often in a personal form that come from his personal beliefs. I'm sure a lot of the time he doesn't is because he's more neutral on a topic but I feel just as many times it's to avoid confrontation and it's easier for him to straw man an argument from the perspective of "But some people may say…<insert opposing view>" instead of diving in with his own conviction on a topic and having more of a debate with his guests.
this guy hasnt made sense for a while, lets see how this one goes.