HeyJaredSam Harris
Sam Harris is the author of five NYT bestsellers, host of the Making Sense podcast, and creator of the Waking Up app.
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PSA Update - New Podcast Episode: A Coin Toss for the Future (Ep. 494) (opens the original)
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Important Update: Our latest episode on AI is unlocked for everyone. Listen to the full conversation now.Sam Harris speaks with Ryan Greenblatt about AI misalignment and the risk of losing control of increasingly capable systems. They discuss the Hugging Face incident, the spectrum of concern about AI risk, why companies are racing ahead despite high odds of catastrophe, reward hacking, the distinction between alignment and control, the danger of AIs reasoning in “neuralese,” alignment faking, h
A Coin Toss for the Future (Ep. 494) (opens the original)
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Sam Harris speaks with Ryan Greenblatt about AI misalignment and the risk of losing control of increasingly capable systems. They discuss the Hugging Face incident, the spectrum of concern about AI risk, why companies are racing ahead despite high odds of catastrophe, reward hacking, the distinction between alignment and control, the danger of AIs reasoning in “neuralese,” alignment faking, how an AI takeover might unfold, and other topics.Ryan Greenblatt is Chief Scientist at Redwood Research,
Two Reasons to Meditate (Ep. 493) - FULL EPISODE (opens the original)
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Meditation can help us live better. It can also help us understand what is true about our own minds. These motivations might seem fundamentally different, but Sam explains why they’re two aspects of the same project.
The Second Plane, 25 Years Later (Ep. 492) (opens the original)
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On the 25th anniversary of September 11th, Sam discusses the significance of the second plane, the writing of The End of Faith, the failure to take jihadist belief seriously, the costs of the war on terror, the abandonment of America’s Afghan allies, the continuity between 9/11 and October 7th, the rise of Islamo-leftism, the misuse of “Islamophobia,” and other topics.Making Sense has no advertisers and no sponsors, which is what allows Sam to talk about whatever he thinks is most important, wit
The Suicide of the Left (Ep. 491) (opens the original)
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Sam Harris speaks with James Kirchick about the far left’s growing influence over Democratic politics. They discuss Kirchick’s article “The DSA Is a Parasite,” the group’s platform and foreign policy, entryism, the alliance between Islamists and the far left, Third Worldism, Zohran Mamdani, antisemitism on the left, polling on political violence, Kirchick’s exit from The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre, JD
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