#75 — Ask Me Anything 7

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

🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris answers questions from listeners about the illusion of the self, his podcast with Charles Murray, the future of brain-machine interfaces, his BJJ practice, reasoning with the extreme Left, mindfulness and parenting, his experience of going back to school after a long break, transgenderism, increasing one’s vocabulary, 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
0:16.2	the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense
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0:26.1	to add to your favorite pod catcher, along with other subscriber-only content. We don't run ads
0:31.2	on the podcast, and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our subscribers.
0:35.8	So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one.
0:46.9	Okay, this isn't asked me anything episode. And just one housekeeping item here. I notice the
0:53.8	other day that Amazon cancelled my affiliates account. This is the account that allows me to post
1:01.6	links to books and to have some portion of your shopping on Amazon through those links. Come back
1:09.1	to support the podcast at no extra cost to you. And they did this because apparently I was in
1:15.6	violation of their policy. You can't tell your podcast listeners that following these Amazon
1:23.9	links does support the podcast. I'm not sure why they consider this some kind of unethical
1:30.3	inducement. It's obvious that this is why podcasters and content creators use Amazon affiliates links.
1:37.8	But honestly, I had never read the fine print and I don't know how frequently it gets updated.
1:46.2	I was certainly not in conscious violation of their policy. And you know, I don't see anything
1:51.3	unethical about either way of thinking about this. Obviously, Amazon can have any policy they want.
1:59.0	But this is just to inform you that those of you who have been supporting the podcast this way
2:04.8	can no longer do that. And that those links are now retired. The only ways to support the podcast
2:13.6	are through my website at Sam Harris at ORG forward slash support or through Patreon.
2:22.4	And you can find a link to Patreon also on my support page. But this is I mentioned this
2:29.2	for another reason. This is a larger problem that people are running into online. People who are
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