#386 — Information & Social Order
Sam 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...
7 Okt 202447min
#385 — AI Utopia
Sam 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 ...
30 Sep 202439min
#384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy
Sam 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...
23 Sep 202440min
#383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups?
Sam 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 p...
17 Sep 202424min
#382 — The Eye of Nature
Sam 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...
6 Sep 202439min
#381 — Delusions, Right and Left
Sam 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 ...
26 Aug 202446min
#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 Aug 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 Aug 202434min
