#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Discontents

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

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris discusses the breakdown of trust in institutions, the nature of intellectual authority, the danger of bad incentives, the epidemic of conspiracy thinking and misinformation, Trump and Elon, and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense podcast.
0:23.3	This is Sam Harris.
0:25.6	First, I have an announcement to make.
0:27.7	We are making a simple but important change to the platform over here.
0:31.6	We're combining the Making Sense podcast with my substack newsletter.
0:36.1	There are several reasons for this, but the main one is that it will just be better for everyone.
0:41.3	It'll be better for you because you'll be able to get everything I produce
0:44.3	in audio, video, and print with one subscription,
0:48.3	and it will be better for me because I won't be pulled in two directions,
0:52.3	needing to create content for separate audiences
0:54.8	divided by a paywall. Going forward, I'll decide whether something's best done in audio, video,
1:00.6	or print, or some combination of the three, and then just send it out to everyone.
1:05.6	Substack also hosts podcasts, so we'll eventually put my audio and video there, too, and it has
1:10.5	live video that I'll
1:11.7	experiment with at some point. So if you're currently an annual subscriber to both the podcast
1:17.1	and the newsletter, that is, you are paying for the Making Sense podcast through my website,
1:22.4	and you are paying for the newsletter over at Substack, we'll be reaching out to you by email
1:26.7	to say that we've consolidated
1:27.9	your subscription. And of course, you'll see reduced pricing. There shouldn't be anything you need to do
1:32.7	on your end, because you already have access to everything. And we'll delay renewing your
1:36.8	subscription at the lower price so you'll get some free months added to your account. So you won't
1:41.5	pay a penalty for us not having figured out that the platform should
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