#361 — Sam Bankman-Fried & Effective Altruism

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sam Harris speaks with William MacAskill about the implosion of FTX and the effect that it has had on the Effective Altruism movement. They discuss the logic of “earning to give,” the mind of SBF, his philanthropy, the character of the EA community, potential problems with focusing on long-term outcomes, AI risk, the effects of the FTX collapse on Will personally, and other topics.

If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.

Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	And the Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris.
0:25.0	Okay, just a little housekeeping here.
0:29.0	Over at waking up, we just introduced playlists, which has been our most requested feature.
0:37.0	Took a while to do that, but that seems like a very auspicious change.
0:41.9	You can create your own retreats, you can create playlists for any purpose.
0:48.0	Despite the name of the app, there's a lot of content there that is very good for sleep.
0:53.0	So you could create a sleep playlist.
0:56.0	Many of us fall asleep to audio these days.
0:59.0	So thanks to the team over waking up for producing that feature, among many others. The app is continually
1:06.6	improving. And what else? If you haven't seen Coleman Hughes on the view promoting his book, that is worth finding on YouTube.
1:18.0	Coleman was recently on the podcast, discussing the book, The End of Race Politics. He went on the view to do that. As you might expect
1:27.8	he was bombarded with a level of moral and political confusion that is genuinely hard to deal with in a confined space
1:38.0	when one is short on time.
1:40.0	And I have to say he really did a perfect job.
1:44.3	I mean, it was absolutely masterful.
1:47.0	So it's worth watching in case there was any doubt in your mind
1:50.5	about Coleman's talents. If ever there were a commercial for the
1:55.0	equanimity that can be achieved through mindfulness, that was it. So Bravo Coleman.
2:01.7	In the last housekeeping I acknowledged the death of Danny Kahneman. I went back
2:07.2	and listened to my podcast with him recorded at that event at the Beacon Theater
2:12.3	in New York about five years ago.
2:15.2	I was pleasantly surprised it's often the case that live events don't translate
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -359 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Waking Up with Sam Harris, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Waking Up with Sam Harris and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.