#380 — The Roots of Attention
Sam 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...
23 Elo 202445min
#379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Sam 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...
12 Elo 202434min
#378 — Digital Delusions
Sam 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...
2 Elo 202456min
#377 — The Future of Psychedelic Medicine 2
Sam Harris speaks with Dr. Jennifer Mitchell and Dr. Sarah Abedi about recent developments in research on psychedelics. They discuss the history of this research and the war on drugs, recent setbacks ...
26 Heinä 20241h 16min
#376 — How Democracies Fail
Sam Harris and Anne Applebaum discuss the nature of modern autocracies and how democracies fail. They discuss the power of ideas, why autocracies seek to undermine democracies, cooperation among dicta...
19 Heinä 20241h 7min
#375 — On the Attempted Assassination of President Trump
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16 Heinä 202414min
#374 — Consciousness and the Physical World
Sam Harris speaks with Christof Koch about the nature of consciousness. They discuss Christof's development as a neuroscientist, his collaboration with Francis Crick, change blindness and binocular ri...
9 Heinä 202442min
#373 — Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
Sam Harris speaks with Michal Cotler-Wunsh about the global rise of antisemitism. They discuss the bias against Israel at the United Nations, the nature of double standards, the precedent set by Israe...
2 Heinä 20241h 41min
