Sam Harris

I mean, this old, it's received as a canard in half of our society now, but

the claim that 97% of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is a thing, right?

So do you go with the 97% most of the time, or do you go with the 3% most of the time?

It's obvious you go with the 97% most of the time for anything that matters.

It's not to say that the 3% are always wrong.

Again, things get overturned, and yes,

as you say, and I've spent much more time worrying about this on my podcast than I've spent worrying about COVID, our institutions have lost trust for good reason, right?

And it's an open question whether we can actually get things done with this level of transparency and pseudo-transparency given our information ecosystems.

Like, can we fight a war

really fight a war that we may have to fight, like the next Nazis?

Can we fight that war when everyone with an iPhone is showing just how awful it is that little girls get blown up when we drop our bombs, right?

Could we as a society do what we might have to do

to actually get necessary things done when we're living in this panopticon of just, you know, everyone's a journalist, right?

Everyone's a scientist.

Everyone's an expert.

Everyone's got direct contact with the facts or a semblance of the facts.

I don't know.

Well, the jury is still out on some of it.

And again, it's a moving target.

And some of it, I mean, it's complicated.