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#112 — The Intellectual Dark Web
2 januari 2018 · 55 min
Sam Harris speaks with Eric Weinstein and Ben Shapiro about the breakdown of shared values, the problem with identity politics, religion, free will, the primacy of reason, and many other topics. Lees meer
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#111 — The Science of Meditation
28 december 2017 · 41 min
Sam Harris speaks with Daniel Goleman and Richard J. Davidson about the current scientific understanding of meditation practice. They speak about the original stigma associated with meditation, the history of introspection in eastern and western cultures, the recent collaboration between Buddhism and western science, the difference between altered states and altered traits, an alternate conception of mental health, "meta-awareness," the relationship between mindfulness and "flow," the difference between pain and suffering, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), and other topics. Lees meer
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#110 — The Change Artist
23 december 2017 · 46 min
Sam Harris speaks with AJ Jacobs about religion, gossip, polyamory, health advice, our past and future selves, "radical honesty," human genealogy, tribalism, and other topics. Lees meer
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#109— Biology and Culture
19 december 2017 · 56 min
Sam Harris speaks with Bret Weinstein about the moral panic at Evergreen State College, the concept of race, genetic differences between human populations, intersectionality, sex and gender, "metaphorical truth," religion and "group selection," equality, and other topics. Lees meer
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#108 — Defending the Experts
14 december 2017 · 43 min
Sam Harris speaks with Tom Nichols about his book The Death of Expertise. They discuss the "Dunning-Kruger Effect," the growth of knowledge and reliance on authority, when experts fail, the repudiation of expertise in politics, conspiracy thinking, North Korea, Trump, and other topics. Lees meer
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#107 — Is Life Actually Worth Living?
6 december 2017 · 49 min
Sam Harris speaks with David Benatar about his philosophy of "anti-natalism." They discuss the asymmetry between the good and bad things in life, the ethics of existential risk, the moral landscape, the limits and paradoxes of introspection, the "experience machine" thought experiment, population ethics, and other topics. Lees meer
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#106 — Humanity 2.0
29 november 2017 · 19 min
Sam Harris speaks with Jennifer Doudna about the gene-editing technology CRISPR/cas9. They talk about the biology of gene editing, how specific tissues in the body can be targeted, the ethical implications of changing the human genome, the importance of curiosity-driven science, and other topics. Lees meer
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#105 — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty
20 november 2017 · 38 min
The following conversation between Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Matt Dillahunty was recorded at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver on November 2, 2017. Lees meer
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#104 — The Lessons of Death
15 november 2017 · 28 min
Sam Harris speaks with Frank Ostaseski about death and dying—and about how the awareness of death can improve our lives in each moment. Lees meer
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#103 — American Fantasies
9 november 2017 · 26 min
Sam Harris speaks with Kurt Andersen about the American aptitude for unfounded belief, the religious lunacy of the Puritans, populist mistrust of authority, the link between postmodernism and religious fundamentalism, the unique history of American religious entrepreneurship, the Trump phenomenon, the effect of fame on politics, and other topics. Lees meer
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#102 — Is Buddhism True?
30 oktober 2017 · 56 min
Sam Harris speaks with Robert Wright about his book Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment. Lees meer
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#101 — Defending the Republic
17 oktober 2017 · 33 min
Sam Harris speaks with Cass Sunstein about the polarization and fragmentation of American society, "choice architecture," the importance of face-to-face interactions for problem solving, group polarization and identity politics, virtuous extremism, the wisdom of crowds, direct democracy, the limits of free speech, the process of Presidential impeachment, and other topics. Lees meer
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#100 — Facing the Crowd
10 oktober 2017 · 40 min
Sam Harris speaks with Nicholas Christakis about mob behavior, moral panics, and current threats to free speech. Lees meer
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The "After On" Interview
6 oktober 2017 · 1 uur 48 min
This episode of the Making Sense podcast features an interview that Sam Harris did with Rob Reid on the After On podcast. They speak about publishing, psychedelics, terrorism, meditation, free speech and other topics. Lees meer
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#99 — What Happened to Liberalism?
28 september 2017 · 32 min
Sam Harris speaks with Mark Lilla about the fate of political liberalism in the United States, the emergence of a new identity politics, the role of class in American society, wealth inequality, and other topics. Lees meer
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#98 — Into the Dark Land
21 september 2017 · 30 min
Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer. Lees meer
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#97 — The Impossible War
15 september 2017 · 27 min
Sam Harris speaks with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about their latest film, The Vietnam War. Lees meer
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#96 — The Nature of Consciousness
11 september 2017 · 51 min
Sam Harris speaks with Thomas Metzinger about the scientific and experiential understanding of consciousness. They also talk about the significance of WWII for the history of ideas, the role of intuition in science, the ethics of building conscious AI, the self as an hallucination, how we identify with our thoughts, attention as the root of the feeling of self, the place of Eastern philosophy in Western science, and the limitations of secular humanism. Lees meer
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#95 — What You Need to Know About Climate Change
5 september 2017 · 47 min
Sam Harris speaks with Joseph Romm about how the climate is changing and how we know that human behavior is the primary cause. They discuss why small changes in temperature matter so much, the threats of sea-level rise and desertification, the best and worst case scenarios, the Paris Climate Agreement, the politics surrounding climate science, and many other topics. Lees meer
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#94 — Frontiers of Intelligence
29 augustus 2017 · 37 min
Sam Harris speaks with Max Tegmark about his new book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. They talk about the nature of intelligence, the risks of superhuman AI, a nonbiological definition of life, the substrate independence of minds, the relevance and irrelevance of consciousness for the future of AI, near-term breakthroughs in AI, and other topics. Lees meer
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#93 — Identity & Terror
22 augustus 2017 · 40 min
Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Murray about identity politics, the rise of white nationalism, the events in Charlottesville, guilt by association, the sources of western values, the problem of finding meaning in a secular world, and other topics. Lees meer
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#92 — The Limits of Persuasion
16 augustus 2017 · 1 uur
Sam Harris speaks with David Pizarro and Tamler Sommers about free speech on campus, the Scott Adams podcast, the failings of the mainstream media, moral persuasion, moral certainty, the ethics of abortion, Buddhism, the illusion of the self, and other topics. Lees meer
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#91 — The Biology of Good and Evil
9 augustus 2017 · 43 min
Sam Harris speaks with Robert Sapolsky about his work with baboons, the opposition between reason and emotion, doubt, the evolution of the brain, the civilizing role of the frontal cortex, the illusion of free will, justice and vengeance, brain-machine interface, religion, drugs, and other topics. Lees meer
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#90 — Living With Violence
6 augustus 2017 · 1 uur 1 min
Sam Harris speaks with Gavin de Becker about the primacy of human intuition in the prediction and prevention of violence. Lees meer
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#89 — On Becoming a Better Person
25 juli 2017 · 22 min
Sam Harris speaks with David Brooks about his book The Road to Character, the importance of words like "sin" and "virtue," self-esteem vs. self-overcoming, the significance of keeping promises, honesty, President Trump, and other topics. Lees meer
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#88 — Must We Accept a Nuclear North Korea?
21 juli 2017 · 27 min
Sam Harris speaks with Mark Bowden about the problem of a nuclear-armed North Korea. Lees meer
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#87 — Triggered
19 juli 2017 · 53 min
Sam Harris and Scott Adams debate the character and competence of President Trump. Lees meer
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#86 — From Cells to Cities
14 juli 2017 · 50 min
Sam Harris speaks with Geoffrey West about how biological and social systems scale, the significance of fractals, the prospects of radically extending human life, the concept of "emergence" in complex systems, the importance of cities, the necessity for continuous innovation, and other topics. Lees meer
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#85 — Is this the End of Europe?
7 juli 2017 · 40 min
Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Murray about his book The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam. Lees meer
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#84 — Landscapes of Mind
1 juli 2017 · 46 min
Sam Harris speaks with Kevin Kelly about why it's so hard to predict future technology, the nature of intelligence, the "singularity," artificial consciousness, and other topics. Lees meer
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#83 — The Politics of Emergency
23 juni 2017 · 39 min
Sam Harris speaks with Fareed Zakaria about his career as a journalist, Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations," political partisanship, Trump, the health of the news media, the connection between Islam and intolerance, and other topics. Lees meer
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#82 — The End of the World According to ISIS
15 juni 2017 · 43 min
Sam Harris speaks with Graeme Wood about his experience reporting on ISIS, the myth of online recruitment, the theology of ISIS, the quality of their propaganda, the most important American recruit to the organization, the roles of Jesus and the Anti-Christ in Islamic prophecy, free speech and the ongoing threat of jihadism, and other topics. Lees meer
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#81 — Leaving Islam
10 juni 2017 · 50 min
Sam Harris speaks with Sarah Haider about her organization Ex-Muslims of North America, how the political Left is confused about Islam, "rape culture" under Islam, honesty without bigotry, stealth theocracy, immigration, the prospects of reforming Islam, and other topics. Lees meer
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#80 — The Unraveling
4 juni 2017 · 25 min
Sam Harris speaks with David Frum about political partisanship, recent security leaks, Trump's foreign policy, the Russia investigation, Kathy Griffin's joke, and other topics. Lees meer
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#79 — The Road to Tyranny
30 mei 2017 · 31 min
Sam Harris speaks with Timothy Snyder about his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Lees meer
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#78 — Persuasion and Control
26 mei 2017 · 41 min
Sam Harris speaks with Zeynep Tufekci about "surveillance capitalism," the Trump campaign's use of Facebook, AI-enabled marketing, the health of the press, Wikileaks, ransomware attacks, and other topics. Lees meer
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#77 — The Moral Complexity of Genetics
22 mei 2017 · 44 min
Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the human desire to understand and manipulate heredity, the genius of Gregor Mendel, the ethics of altering our genes, the future of genetic medicine, patent issues in genetic research, controversies about race and intelligence, and other topics. Lees meer
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#76 — The Path to Impeachment
18 mei 2017 · 40 min
Sam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum and Juliette Kayyem about the unfolding Russia scandal in the White House. Lees meer
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#75 — Ask Me Anything 7
12 mei 2017 · 29 min
Sam Harris answers questions from listeners about the illusion of the self, his podcast with Charles Murray, the future of brain-machine interfaces, his BJJ practice, reasoning with the extreme Left, mindfulness and parenting, his experience of going back to school after a long break, transgenderism, increasing one's vocabulary, and other topics. Lees meer
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#74 — What Should We Eat?
6 mei 2017 · 47 min
Sam Harris speaks with Gary Taubes about his career as a science journalist, the difficulty of studying nutrition and public health scientifically, the growing epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the role of hormones in weight gain, the controversies surrounding his work, and other topics. Lees meer
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#73 — Forbidden Knowledge
23 april 2017 · 51 min
Sam Harris speaks with Charles Murray about the controversy over his book "The Bell Curve," the validity and significance of IQ as a measure of intelligence, the problem of social stratification, the rise of Trump, universal basic income, and other topics. Lees meer
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#72 — Privacy and Security
18 april 2017 · 14 min
Sam Harris speaks with General Michael V. Hayden about the reality of spying, the difference between the NSA and the CIA, the ethics of secrecy, Edward Snowden, the Russian Hacking of the 2016 US Presidential election, and other topics. Lees meer
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#71 — What Is Technology Doing to Us?
14 april 2017 · 46 min
Sam Harris speaks with Tristan Harris about the arms race for human attention, the ethics of persuasion, the consequences of having an ad-based economy, the dynamics of regret, and other topics. Lees meer
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#70 — Beauty and Terror
10 april 2017 · 50 min
Sam Harris speaks with physicist Lawrence Krauss about the utility of public debates, the progress of science, confusion about the role of consciousness in quantum mechanics, the present danger of nuclear war, the Trump administration, the relative threats of Christian theocracy and Islamism, and realistic fears about terrorism. Lees meer
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#69 — The Russia Connection
24 maart 2017 · 37 min
Sam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum about Russia's meddling in the U.S. Presidential election and Trump's troubling affinity for Vladimir Putin. Lees meer
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#68 — Reality and the Imagination
19 maart 2017 · 38 min
Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about meditation, the need for stories, the power of technology to erase the boundary between fact and fiction, wealth inequality, the problem of finding meaning in a world without work, religion as a virtual reality game, the difference between pain and suffering, the future of globalism, and other topics. Lees meer
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#67 — Meaning and Chaos
13 maart 2017 · 45 min
Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson discuss science, religion, archetypes, mythology, and the perennial problem of finding meaning in life. Lees meer
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#66 — Living with Robots
1 maart 2017 · 25 min
Sam Harris speaks with Kate Darling about the ethical concerns surrounding our increasing use of robots and other autonomous systems. Lees meer
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#65 — We're All Cucks Now
20 februari 2017 · 26 min
Sam Harris speaks with David Frum about the presidency of Donald Trump. Lees meer
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#64 — Ask Me Anything 6
16 februari 2017 · 43 min
Sam Harris answers questions from listeners about his conversation with Jordan Peterson, the reaction to Milo Yiannopoulos at U.C. Berkeley, the "Muslim ban," the echo chamber of social media, Trump's lies, the value of the humanities, the ethics of ending aging, whether consciousness can be an illusion, evolution and morality, free speech and other topics. Lees meer
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