Dr. Sam Harris
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard 23 Aug
Dr. Sam Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The I mean the the generational gap you're pointing to is is certainly true.
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But
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when you if you just look at at who in American society i is is framing all of this and has been doing this for decades through this lens of
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of Western oppression of non Western peoples and and orientalism and you know imperialism and colonialism, etcetera.
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This is all the leftist narrative.
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I'm not saying colonialism was never a problem, but we I mean we you know, at the back of all of this you meet the you the you know, you meet people like Noam Chomsky, right?
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Who's in, you know, whatever, ninety-six, you know, so it's like it's it's not just the young people.
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This is this is the the left's take on
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That you know, this is the everything that everything negative that befalls America, including nine eleven, is just the chickens that that have come home to roost, right?
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We c we got what we deserved here because we've mistreated everybody.
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I mean it it it is a it's a big concern.
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I mean I think there there are two concerns.
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There's there's just the misuse of it in the near term and in the far term, and we don't we don't know how far
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There's the the prospect of building truly uh general intelligence, you know, is uh what's generally referred to as AGI, artificial general intelligence, uh which is um just fundamentally more powerful than us.
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And and if we build it i in a way that is uh not perfectly aligned with our interests, we could you just you find ourselves in a position of of um
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you know, having to negotiate, you know, terms of our survival was something you know f fundamentally more powerful than than we are or or could ever be, right?
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It's like it would be just imagine
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Trying to you know play chess.
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For the survival of civilization against the best chess engine.
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You know, which is gonna win a trillion times out of a trillion, right?
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