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Join me for a conversation that is going to push some buttons and shine light on the realities of society, social media and the current human condition. From his viral TED Talk to his controversial takes on religion, Sam Harris is renowned for his work in philosophy, neuroscience, and atheism, making you rethink everything you thought you knew.
Together, we dive into the heart of our current sociopolitical climate, power, corruption, religion and free speech. We raise piercing questions about media influence, echo chambers, and the rising tide of conspiracy theories. Can we stop the rising wave of irrationality and evil? And what role does consensus play in our understanding of major events?
This episode invites you to consider the role of information overload and social media dynamics in shaping our worldviews. Become part of the discussion as we unpack the complex layers of today's society.
We uncover the breakdown of sensemaking and the urgent need for consensus is imperative in understanding and responding aptly to major events. It's an eye-opening examination you won't want to miss.
Watch the full episode to discover the one actionable takeaway that will help you navigate the complexities of the modern world, a revelation you cannot afford to miss. Are you ready to step out of your echo chamber and confront reality head-on? Tune in as we specifically unpack why:
- Twitter is the wrong place for useful conversation.
- The truth is no longer the truth and our trust in experts has been shattered.
- Freedom of Speech Under Fire: Is Our Right to Speak Up Facing Extinction?
- Unmasking the 2024 Election Deepfake Dilemma is a High Priority
- Cliffhanger Clips: Fueling the Fire of Partisan Warfare
SAM HARRIS QUOTES THAT MAKE SENSE:
"The Internet is big enough and friction free enough such that you can be a complete lunatic who everyone knows is a complete lunatic. And yet you create an ecosystem that enough people love. And you can figure out how to monetize it. You can have an audience of a million people forever'
'Freedom of speech and freedom of reach are different things'
'We're getting people so anti-establishment that they are effectively lunatics in positions of real power.'
'Science is deeply flawed and yet is better than any other part of culture with respect to how we play this game of just letting ideas collide against one another.'
'I didn't see a benefit to my staying there. It's just the wrong space in which to try to have a conversation�.'
'They don't really care what their enemy has said or meant to say. What they want to do is they want to hold them to the worst possible interpretation of what they said and make that stick.'
'You should be able to be as wrong as you want to be, but we don't have to algorithmically boost those errors.'
We should be very wary of being driven by tribalism.'
'There's almost nothing you can say about Trump that is true and awful that his supporters care about.'
'We're going to recognize that the Internet is completely broken and we just don't know what's real.'
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@hunahpuyamamoto3964 Says:
Oh lord. I’ll be skipping this one. Sam Harris is cold, unfeeling, smug psychotic.
I can’t believe people still waste their time interviewing him.
@annhylde2581 Says:
This coment section is whats wrong with society today, conspiracy thinking all the way
@Arnsteel634 Says:
The election was stolen. The voter fraud was too much
@privatetatum Says:
how can we tell when these conversations were actually taped when you seem to be reposting them over a long time?
@Cant_find_good_Handle Says:
But the frogs do turn gay. 🐸
@MultipleGrievance Says:
No kidding Sam & you are FAR from the solution.....
At the very least you shouldnt be adding to the hatred & confusion, But that's not you buddy 🫡
You are 100% right in the mix, Exclusive on one side of the divide.
Maybe in a different timeline You are a decent human being & you're helping us heal but in this one You are very much part of the problem 🤢
A hyperpartisan who can't see past his own ignorance. I personally would go so far to call you evil. At the very least, you're a tool of it.
@Pew7070 Says:
0:22 “The rise of evil”… Are you just gradually waking up to the human reality and this is just one moment in your waking? Good luck buddy!
Sam "conversation is the best tool we have -the ONLY tool we have - to combat misinformation" Harris. Also i won't talk with rfk jr. I remember when Sam's list of people he won't talk to are bad faith actors who arguably misrepresent his views like greenwald and that slowly extended to everybody. Only names i recognize in his last 50 podcasts : bill maher and coleman hughes
@dudeduderino2872 Says:
This host is unbearable
@marcoaurelio8058 Says:
Here, Tom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO7KxsYKG7s The "democratic" government of israel is now QUOTING HITLER to justify killing Palestinians. How long will it be until your HUMANITY quicks in and you interview NORMAN FINKELSTEIN? Perhaps your wife can bring him on her show.
@5starcomment Says:
A "no nazis" policy would only leave those in the centre and on the right...
@jcraw6332 Says:
I guess Republicans are even more corrupt than Columbians because once they found out Pablo Escobar was just once arrested he was unelectable. Never thought my countrymen would be so corrupt.
@Because_Reasons Says:
I have to say, it has become so blatantly bewildering just how much this man has put on blinders and lost all sense of his own myopia and biases. It's been YEARS, and he still cannot stop speaking about Trump or Trump supporters; it's like ALL he ever talks about anymore. I stopped listening to him.... I used to be such a huge fan, but my GOD is he ever thick.
@oldspammer Says:
Sam's mom was a young sexy and smart young lady who was a women's liberation advocate involved in TV show making, but her ways of thinking went into Sam where his lens on ANY history is distorted to have TDS not even enough for his normal way to go where over reaction is not enough to satisfy his psychological twisted calculus. There are no moral equivalences to forgive a unite-the-right march where the so-called conservatives were put into a lefty local government police barricaded gauntlet to be pelted with lefty poop bombs, urine filled balloons, and smacked in the head with flag poles slammed on them, and poked into them. The guy who ran people down with his car was a Hillary supporter and the opposite of a supposed neo-Nazi. The so-called conservative guys were dressed in hockey and football padding and helmets to withstand the anticipated commonplace lefty welcoming, otherwise death and injury would have taken place from the start. Whereas the conservatives had a permit to assemble, the lefty rioters did not, yet someone organized them to swoop in there to do their regular trouble making.
Same thing with the Kenosha unrest shooting by Kyle Rittenhouse proven defensive ar15 shooting where everyone shot had a pistol and were shooting at Kyle first. This was proven by police drone footage and audio recordings, and that is why the jury found him innocent of all charges due to defending himself against lawless rioters like the man fresh out of a mental institution. Biden characterized Rittenhouse as some kind of instigator of violence who was a crazed low intelligence person with no concept of civil behavior--well that turned out to be a giant bunch of BS. But that's the kind of stuff that Sam would swallow entirely.
This one sided way of viewing history is what happens when you have some kind of blinders on where your team can do no wrong due to the oppressor versus oppressed Marxism false claims. The proponents of Bolshevism and Stalin and Lenin were majority of Gxd's chosen and bankers of their ilk funded that radicals be funded and organized to corrupt Russia. Read Stalin's bio. He was a troublemaker from the word go.
Reference
"C-Span" "Dennis Prager" "still the best hope" 2014
The LEFT's beef with white people EXPLAINED oppressed media YouTube
A tribal warlord run Turkic people from Eastern Europe were called Khazars.
Their leader wanted their tribe members to be a bit less lawless and a bit more polite, so he wanted to get them involved with monotheistic religions.
That leader wisely or unwisely chose to have his people trained in the written traditions of the Talmud and so had Rabbis come and educate his people all about the topics therein.
Eventually, these Eastern European people began to believe themselves also a member of Gxd's chosen and even though their ancestors never set foot in the holy land, they laid claim that they were members of that small group and so had innate rights to settle the land there to reclaim their promised land.
According to Dennis Prager's quotation from c-span bookTV 2014 on his book tour, he answered a call in phone question from the live show audience regarding why Jews tend to be on the left. His answer was AMAZING and answered so many questions. Prager claimed that all kinds of ideological movements were initiated by and promoted by Jews. Turns out that most of why the world is going to heck in a hand basket are exactly these toxic ideologies that had a cascade of extremely negative consequences because often everything is connected and important in unforeseen ways. All of these ism movements have ended up causing wokeness and its variants that have made the vanguards of leftism its latest victims--be careful what you wish for!
Even though Sam might be able to reason his way out of a wet paper bag, he often does not want to put any effort into viewing a dispute from all sides and tends not to use second and higher order thinking where one presumes some axioms first that what one side says is true, and then the opposite case and honestly observe which case has the fewest logical inconsistencies. Logical inconsistencies is a way to measure if anyone was using false rhetorical arguments and deceptions to argue their case. This is known as using logical fallacies, a very poor form of logical argument that should be the least persuasive due to its extreme tendencies to be utter nonsense or Chutzpah (completely made up bold false claims). Certain people are glad that they can trick less intelligent people to get these feelings and emotions, low impulse control people stirred up into making wars on people who are otherwise their friends.
Reference
between heaven and hell true story of whites in South Africa YouTube
There are translations of the Talmud. It does not look good for non-group members who are presumed to be guilty and treated with unequal justice. That is the pattern--if you are on "our team" then you get the benefits of membership, otherwise you are presumed guilty of the Saul Alinsky "Rules for Radicals" book notion of accusing others what you yourself are doing.
@marcoaurelio8058 Says:
SAM Harris mixes the truth with the agenda that "he hopes" will take a hold of you and become your agenda. Dr. Peterson operates the very same way. I despise Sam Harris. I was very found of Dr. Peterson but LUCKILY we do have imperatives; when the GERMANS are killing Jews ALL STOPS. Reasonable people understand ONE IMPERATIVE that must prevail: there will be no argument of any kind UNTIL THE KILLING AND SUFFERING STOPS. NOTHING will distract us from ONE IMPERATIVE: STOP THE KILLING. No conversations. No theories. No diversion of any kind. Wanna to talk about how ONE RELIGION is horrible while another religion is doing the killing? NO. The germans tried the same. I am an atheist who has never paid too much attention to people like Sam Harris, Bill Maher and others. I do my own reading. I was AN USEFUL IDIOT to my zionist friends for HALF A CENTURY until they tried to DENY OUR SOCIAL CONTRACT: NEVER AGAIN. No conversation until the KILLINGS STOP. OF ANY GROUP. And Sam Harris got my FULL ATTENTION when he said at a BILL MAHER SHOW " Islam is the mother of all bad ideas" You can check for yourself BEN AFLECK CORRECT reaction to it. I am atheist. A TRUE ATHEIST. A true atheist knows that people around the world need their religion and appreciates and RESPECTS that. UNTIL THEY START KILLING in the name of their FICTITIOUS GODS. Sam Harris INFECTED Tom Bilyeu WITH HIS REAL AGENDA on idea of the word MARTYR. A martyr is someone who is killed BECAUSE of their religion. AND NOT, as SAM HARRIS would like all of us "stupid people" to understand it. Every true believer who DIES defending the MORAL PRINCIPLES of a religion is a MARTYR. SAM Harris, as well as others want us to believe they WANT TO KILL OTHERS IN THE NAME OF ISLAM. Do i need to remind everyone of how many PREGNANT WOMEN WERE KILLED and their babies BURIED ON CEMETERIES BEHIND THE IRISH CHURCHES? Every religion has A SMALL PERCENTAGE of monsters that TRY TO USE THE COVER of religion to hurt others. As israel is doing with Judaism. israel IS NOT JUDAISM. israel is to judaism what the KKK is to Christianism. NOW I UNDERSTAND THE LIKES OF Sam Harris and Bill Maher and others. Dismantle all other religions BUT LEAVE ZIONISM intact. NOT ON MY WATCH. The IDF shot and killed AN ENTIRE FAMILY inside a car. One 5 YEAR OLD GIRL SURVIVED and desperately called 911 for help. Begging to be saved. The IDF AUTHORIZED the ambulance to get to her. Then, KILLED THE PARAMEDICS and walk to a 5 YEAR OLD GIRL AND KILLED HER IN COLD BLOOD. Their modus operandum is PRECISE and EFFECTIVE: 1- commit the crime 2- deny it 3- create false information around the crime 4- send your OPERATIVES to distract everyone 5- blame Hamas - 6- put the HOLOCAUST VEST 7- LIE LIE LIE 8- COMMIT THE NEXT CRIME.
@SlentzStrength Says:
Bryan Johnson is our modern age marcus aurelias
@jordanrattanavong2655 Says:
I came here to hear Sam Harris speak but you wouldn’t let him get much of a word in.
@chutcentral Says:
While I greatly respected this host's approach and respect (major, major props for that), Sam is clearly a cut above and has clearly thought through his arguments and positions more.
@mpe2294 Says:
tom talks ....a lot. little bit of a know it all attitude
@wendyvg1225 Says:
In psychology when a group makes decisions there are certain situations that are referred to as "truth-wins" or truth-supported-wins', when one person that is correct is able to convince others by relying on a socially shared system in their explanation- for instance when solving a math problem. I feel that Tom in his reasoning incorrectly assumes that there is a sort of supported truth wins paradigm underlying community discourse. That is, he assumes that the truth will prevail if argued correctly. However, unfortunately research ash shown that at least of the level of groups and teams there is also a fault wins paradigm, where a bias is so powerful or a group is so biased, that even just one person referring to the bias sways the group in the wrong direction. I agree with Sam Harris that it can be dangerous to let everyone just say whatever they want, because for certain topics, and definitely on certain platform, there seems to be a societal fault wins paradigm, rather than a truth wins paradigm. This probably has to do with many different forces, some of which are political, but some of which just seems to be an insufficient level of intelligence and motivated reasoning of a large part of the population. I don't think Toms reasoning adequately reflects this problem. His personal fears of decreasing democracy seem to drown it out.
@davidsullivan3149 Says:
Great job. Appreciated
@justincase6683 Says:
Unless you want to go back to full on feudalism you just can't base important decisions on the basis that most people are too ignorant to make their own minds up. Despite the widespread idiocy there's way more informed people today than we had 20 years ago thanks to sound alternative media. Momentary confusion seems like a small price.
@Jester123ish Says:
I've never understood people, like Sam in this case, given a hypothetical vaccine that is effective, how does other people not taking it endanger your kids? Vaccinate your kids.
@callistomoon461 Says:
Love Sam but on Trump he‘s just way too deranged.
@kaugh Says:
I watched first hand, my stoner friend fill out a ballot according to what his mother's wishes were. He could care less about politics. His ballot is official, real, accurate, and unrecognizable to anyone searching for fraud. His mother was a Trump supporter fyi.
There is no doubt in my mind when certain areas broke their own laws for covid emergency authorizations, that ballot harvesting and illegal fraudulent democracy took place. Some people got more than one vote. Sam has never dealt with that fact and many of those laws changed by representatives without any approvals are now permanent.
The war for elections is between those who believe only those who know and understand reality should be voting and those that believe everyone should have a vote no matter what.
I personally believe they should be secure, and without any outside influence, your voice your vote. We did not have that in 2020 and we might night ever have that again.
@jay_financial Says:
Fairly clear that Harris believes that a lie is acceptable if it serves some notional noble end.
This is authoritarian tyranny.
@jay_financial Says:
Harris is just unwilling to recognise that in all of his assertions that some form of authority must arbitrate truth, based on an asserted notion of risk benefit, the issue is the demonstrated fallibility of authority and the fact that freedom has been murdered on the alter of ‘facts’ that have become, in time, lies. These so often perpetrated deliberately, in knowledge of truth, and to the detriment of the people!
And he implicitly reserves the right to arbitrate on these matters.
The cognitive dissonance is terrible from someone who sells themselves as a thinker, and has gained so much capital on useful thought.
Harris is lost.
@susanswinny588 Says:
Love Sam and Tom.
Zoom out for the big picture!
The focus hanging on every word is absurd!
@BhutanBluePoppy Says:
It’s too bad that Sam doesn’t value truth for its sake, but says it must also be “useful” (to him, clearly). That tells me that he doesn’t really value truth at all.
@MFK1967 Says:
We are living in strange times. Americans have proven themselves to be irrational and ignorant over and over again. And I’m still surprised at the stupidity.
@truBador2 Says:
How is Sam Harris still around? Who listens to him?
@jdavidrhea Says:
I don’t understand how people get so easily groupthinked out about all the repetitive podcast topic horse-beating. Utter dimwitification brought about by the boredom of being dumb.
@triplikeido75 Says:
This Toms chat with Sam clearly demonstrates that Tom isn’t nearly as intelligent as he likes to think he is.. and that probably applies to a lot listeners as well.
@AzimuthTao Says:
Sam kind of balked at the idea of assassination of Trump because he didn't think the problem was that serious.
I think that's one of the few times I've disagreed with Sam.
@jordanbeaudoin8425 Says:
Sad that it took me 5 month to get around to listening to this one. Cool conversation. Sam's nuance and rationality are what is really necessary to civil discourse these days.
@secret.mission Says:
I think Tom thinks he's a 145, but he's more like an overachieving 115.
@RoxanneM- Says:
Nice that you read Red Famine. I would also read Bloodlands, by Timothy Snyder. Also about the story of the horrors perpetrated by the USSR, and Nazi Germany, and of course, Ukraine is the center stage.
@RoxanneM- Says:
Amazing who are the most vocal in the comments section. I believe the inability to grasp subtleties and apparent divergent viewpoints is poor basic education. A country needs children to be able to learn many different seemingly boring disciplines for years, not a chapter or two in order to develop critical thinking. Like the rest of the world does. Or did. Things are changing in some places, but that’s another story. We failed terribly in the education department. The purpose of learning all those subjects is exercising the brain. It’s not memorizing things …, though memory is another important skill.
@Consciousnesstransformation Says:
The more I hear Sam Harris talk, the more I think he's not very intelligent.
@jasonbourne5360 Says:
Come on Tom, I won’t watch this long of a podcast without some kind of chapter…wtf?
@victoriarisko Says:
John Clauser and the late Freeman Dyson say you’re wrong.
@bosto Says:
Sam Harris, true voice of reason
@antitheistvegan Says:
Tom, you interrupt your guest’s conversation flow and thus you disrupt your viewers/listeners understanding of what your guest is trying to express. It’s annoying. Don’t be in such a rush to get your ideas out.
@gd3714 Says:
This podcastor is clueless. He knows nothing shout scientific methodology, nothing about hypothesis testing, false positives.. I could go on and on,,, anyone that uses "like" crutch in every sentence multiple times has clearly read 3 books or less in his life,,,,
@paschapourian8587 Says:
99.9 % of experts tell the world false about the fiat money
@vvvvxxxx9999 Says:
Hey, I left a few negative comments. Time to reach out. I admire you, grateful. Love your content. Love you bro. Thank you. You just hit my nerves a couple times - that's a good thing 👍
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