Sam Harris

And our intentions are good there.

And I mean, we're on the right side of history there.

Girls should be going to school.

Malala Yousafzai should have the Nobel Prize and she shouldn't have been shot in the face by the Taliban, right?

we know what the right answers are there.

The question is, what do you do when there are enough, in this particular case, religious maniacs who are willing to die and let their children die in defense of crazy ideas and moral norms that belong in the 7th century?

And it's a problem we couldn't solve, and we couldn't solve it even though we spent trillions of dollars to solve it.

Well, I think it always will be, or in the absence of perfect AI, it always will be.

I don't think Twitter is as important as people think it is, right?

And I used to think it was more important when I was on it, and now that I'm off of it, I think it's, I mean, first let me say it's just an unambiguously good thing, in my experience, to delete your Twitter account, right?

It's like, it is just, even the good parts of Twitter that I miss,

were bad in the aggregate, the degree to which it was fragmenting my attention, the degree to which my life was getting doled out to me in periods between those moments where I checked Twitter, right, and had my attention diverted.

And I was, you know,

I was not a crazy Twitter addict.

I mean, I was probably a pretty normal user.

I mean, I was not someone who was tweeting multiple times a day or even every day, right?

I think I probably averaged something like one tweet a day, I think I averaged.

But in reality, it'd be like four tweets one day and then I wouldn't tweet for the better part of a week.

But I was looking a lot because it was my newsfeed.

I was just following 200 very smart people and I just wanted to see what they were paying attention to.