#64 — Ask Me Anything 6

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Sam Harris answers questions from listeners about his conversation with Jordan Peterson, the reaction to Milo Yiannopoulos at U.C. Berkeley, the “Muslim ban,” the echo chamber of social media, Trump’s lies, the value of the humanities, the ethics of ending aging, whether consciousness can be an illusion, evolution and morality, free speech and other topics.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
0:12.1	hearing this, you are not currently on our subscriber feed and will only be hearing
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0:38.7	Okay, it's been a lot going on. Does anyone else feel like this year has been going fast?
0:56.0	We're about six weeks into it. It feels like six months. It feels like Trump has been president
1:01.6	for six months. Jesus. In any case, I am doing an AMA podcast today. So I went out to all of you
1:12.0	on Twitter and Facebook. And I got to say whenever I do this, the response is just hugely gratifying
1:19.5	and overwhelming. I get no exaggeration, thousands of questions whenever I go out to you guys. So
1:27.6	thank you for that. Needless to say, I can only answer a tiny fraction of them. But many of you
1:35.6	hit similar topics in similar ways. So I'm aggregating a fair amount here. Also recovering from a cold.
1:44.5	Hopefully that won't play too much havoc with your listening pleasure. And I don't
1:52.0	mention anyone's names when I do Q&As like this because again, I do aggregate questions. I occasionally
1:58.7	reword them a little bit to make them more on point. So if you asked any of these, you will no doubt
2:07.7	recognize your handy work, but sorry not to give you credit because I can't really keep track of
2:14.4	how I change things here. And also I can only assume that some of you actually want to remain
2:19.1	anonymous and given that I haven't communicated with you directly about this, I will air on the
2:24.1	side of safety. Before I get to the questions, I will do some brief housekeeping just to put all
2:31.1	of this in context. I just did Bill Mars show. And you can see the response to that playing out online.
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