Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
But I think he's either obviously in the midst of a mental health crisis or he's a colossal asshole.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Or both, I mean, actually those aren't mutually exclusive.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
So one of three possibilities, he's either mentally ill, he's an asshole, or he's mentally ill and an asshole.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
No, I would argue none of those are likely for either of us, but- Possible.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Not to say we don't have our moments, but-
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
So the reason not to talk to Kanye, so I think you should have had the conversation you had with him in private.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
That's great.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
And I've got no criticism of what you said had it been in private.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
I just thought you're not doing him a favor.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
If he's mentally ill, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
He's in the middle of a...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
manic episode or I'm not a clinician, but I've heard it said of him that he is bipolar, you're not doing him a favor sticking a mic in front of him and letting him go off on the Jews or anything else, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
We know what he thought about the Jews.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
We know that there's not much illumination that's gonna come from him on that topic.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
And if it is a symptom of his mental illness that he thinks these things, well then, you're not doing him a favor making that even more public.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
If he's just an asshole and he's just an anti-Semite, an ordinary garden variety anti-Semite, well then, there's also not much to say unless you're really gonna dig in and kick the shit out of him in public.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
And I'm saying you can do that with love.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
I mean, that's the other thing here is that
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
I don't agree that compassion and love always have this
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
patient, embracing, acquiescent face, right?