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#387 — Politics & Power
Oct 15, 2024Sam Harris speaks with Ambassador Rahm Emanuel about the state of world order and American politics. They discuss the mystery of Japan's economic health, U.S. competition with China, possible conflict...
#386 — Information & Social Order
Oct 07, 2024Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about his new book, Nexus, and its application to current crises. They discuss humanity's capacity for self-destruction, democracy and dictatorship as informat...
#385 — AI Utopia
Sep 30, 2024Sam Harris speaks with Nick Bostrom about ongoing progress in artificial intelligence. They discuss the twin concerns about the failure of alignment and the failure to make progress, why smart people ...
#384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy
Sep 23, 2024Sam Harris speaks with Barton Gellman about election integrity and the safeguarding of American democracy. They discuss the war games he's run to test our response to an authoritarian president, using...
#383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups?
Sep 17, 2024Sam Harris talks about the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the cesspool of X, Tucker Carlson's conversation with Darryl Cooper, freedom of speech, and other topics. If the Making Sense ...
#382 — The Eye of Nature
Sep 06, 2024Sam Harris speaks with Richard Dawkins about his new book The Genetic Book of the Dead, the genome as a palimpsest, what scientists of the future may do with genetic information, genotypes and phenoty...
#381 — Delusions, Right and Left
Aug 26, 2024Sam Harris speaks with "Destiny" (Steven Bonnell) about politics and public debate. They discuss how he approaches debate, "Trump derangement syndrome," January 6th, why Trump's norm violations don't ...
#380 — The Roots of Attention
Aug 23, 2024Sam Harris speaks with Amishi Jha about attention and the brain. They discuss how attention is studied, the failure of brain-training games, the relationship between attention and awareness, mindfulne...
#379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Aug 12, 2024Sam Harris speaks with Yoshua Bengio and Scott Wiener about AI risk and the new bill introduced in California intended to mitigate it. They discuss the controversy over regulating AI and the assumptio...
#378 — Digital Delusions
Aug 02, 2024Sam Harris speaks with Renée DiResta about the state of our information landscape. They discuss the difference between influence and propaganda, shifts in communication technology, influencers and clo...