Dr. Sam Harris
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1,893 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
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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to better and better approximate what we want.
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Right.
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And it's it's you know, it's it seems by no means guaranteed that we'll be able to do that because the the economics and the economic incentives are such that we're really in an arms race now.
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I mean all independent companies that are doing this are in an arms race against all others.
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And you know, America is obviously in an arms race against China and any other competitor, and we're just not incentivized to do this as carefully as we might and perhaps must in order to do it safely.
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Pleasure to talk to you, Don.
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Yeah, it's great to see you, Don.
It's nice to know that rumors of the infringement of the First Amendment in the society of ours aren't just rumors.
We have the man in flesh here.
Yeah.
Well, not well.
I'm quite worried about the state of our democracy and the state of our media landscape that has become a kind of hallucination machine.
Apart from anything that we might...
talk about or criticize with respect to the Trump administration or the great unraveling of American stature in the world and the growing corruption and kleptocracy.
And I mean, all of that is awful and worth worrying about, but behind all of that is this basic fact that half the country, something like half the country, doesn't see any of that, right?
I mean, at least 40% of Americans
seem to think that things are going pretty well and not much is at stake.
So any topic we might touch here, whether it's infringements of civil liberties or corruption, the looming risk of disorder as America retreats from its leadership role,
Much of the country, I mean, something like half the country either doesn't care or is totally oblivious to these concerns.
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