Sam Harris

And there's just no way to untangle that in real time with him.

Confabulation.

Confabulation.

Here I'm not talking about micro-untruths.

I'm just talking about making up things out of whole cloth.

If someone says something, well, what about...

And then the thing they put at the end of that sentence is just a set of pseudo facts, right?

That you can't possibly authenticate or not in the span of that conversation.

They will, you know, whether it's about UFOs or anything else, right?

They will seem to make you look like an ignoramus when in fact, everything they're saying is specious, right?

Whether they know it or not.

I mean, there's some people who are just crazy.

There's some people who are

Who are just bullshitting and they're not even tracking whether it's true, it just feels good.

And then some people are consciously lying about things.

But the thing is, it's the truth.

place I'm familiar with doing this and not doing this is on specific conspiracies like 9-11 truth.

Because of what 9-11 did to my intellectual life, it sent me down a path for the better part of a decade.

I became a critic of religion

I don't know if I was ever going to be a critic of religion, right?