Sam Harris

When someone only wants wealth and power and fame, that is their objective function, right?

They're like a robot that is calibrated just to those variables, right?

And they don't care about the risks we run on any other front.

They don't care about...

environmental risk, pandemic risk, nuclear proliferation risk, none of it, right?

They're just tracking fame and money and whatever can personally redound to their self-interest along those lines.

And they're not informed about the other risks we're running, really.

I mean, in Trump, you had a president

who was repeatedly asking his generals, why couldn't we use our nuclear weapons?

Why can't we have more of them?

Why do I have fewer nuclear weapons than JFK, right?

As though that were a sign of anything other than progress, right?

And this is the guy who's got the button, right?

I mean, somebody's following him around with a bag, waiting to take his order to launch, right?

That is a...

It's a risk we should never run.

One thing Trump has going for him, I think, is that he doesn't drink or do drugs, right?

Although people allege that he does speed, but let's take him at his word.

He's not deranging himself with pharmaceuticals, at least, apart from Diet Coke.

I occasionally have some myself.