Sam Harris

And this goes to anyone else we might talk about, you know, who's more, where the case is much more confusing.

But yeah, so everyone's, it's just so, and then I'm sure we're going to get to AI, but, you know, the prospect of being able to manufacture clips

with AI and deep fakes and that where it's going to be hard for most people, most of the time to even figure out that the, whether they're in the presence of something real, um, you know, forget about being divorced from context.

There was no context.

Uh,

I mean, that's a misinformation apocalypse that we are right on the cusp of, and it's terrifying.

But we can't live that way.

People function on the basis of what they assume is true, right?

People have functioned.

To do anything.

It's like, I mean, you have to know what you think is going to happen.

You have to at least give a probabilistic weighting over the future.

Otherwise, you're going to be incapacitated.

People want certain things, and they have to have a rational plan to get those desires gratified.

And they don't want to die.

They don't want their kids to die.

You tell them that there's a comet hurtling toward Earth and they should get outside and look up, right?

They're going to do it.

And if it turns out it's misinformation, you know, it's going to matter because it comes down to, like, what medicines do you give your children, right?

Like, we're going to be manufacturing fake information.