Sam Harris

So let's just jump right into it.

I'll remind people you are the director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale.

You are both an MD and a sociologist and have studied many interesting topics related to, I guess, how human beings and now technology affect one another.

And we have too much to talk about.

I think I want to start with the question of, I guess I just want your postmortem on the present.

This last decade, what has technology, specifically information technology, done to us?

So what is your personal engagement with social media these days?

How do you use it if you use it?

Well, I want to get back to the reputation of science and to your efforts on YouTube at the moment.

So it just takes, again, social media and what it's doing to us and the toxicity and conspiracism and trolling that you are familiar with and that everyone listening to this will be familiar with.

Do you have any sense of what the remedy is?

I mean, my personal remedy was to just delete my Twitter account and to now only in extremis look at a Twitter feed just because there's some breaking news that is best captured there.

No, no.

Yeah.

This is being vitiated by AI slop or what is, how has it gone?

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're a good person, in other words.

Yeah, yeah.