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Sam Harris

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“Misinformation. I think I do think we're at a bottleneck now. I mean, I guess it could be the hubris of every present generation to think that their moment is especially important. But I do think with the emergence of these technologies. Some kind of bottleneck where we really have to figure out how to get this right. And if we do get this right, if we figure out how to not drive ourselves crazy by giving people access to all possible information and misinformation at all times, Think, yeah, we could, there's no limit to how happily we could collaborate with billions of creative fulfilled people.”
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“Decide that they don't want to be associated with certain things, right? So, like, if you own Twitter, I think you should be able to kick off the Nazi you don't want to be associated with because it's your platform. You own it, right? That's your free speech. That's the side of my free speech concern for Twitter. It's not that every Nazi has the right to algorithmic speech on Twitter. I think if you own Twitter, you know, whether it's just Elon or in the world where it wasn't Elon, just the people who own Twitter, and the board and the shareholders and the employees, these people need to be free to decide what they want to promote or not. I view them as publishers more than as platforms in the end and that has other implications. But I do worry about this problem of misinformation and algorithmically and otherwise supercharged.”
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“All the relevant technologies there. Do we want really you really want to give everyone they build a order nucleotides in the mail and give them the blueprints for viruses online because of you're a free speech absolutist and you think all PDFs need to be exportable everywhere. So, I'm much more. So, this is where, yeah, so there are limits to. Many people are confused about my take on free speech because I've come down on. On the unpopular side of some of these questions, but It's been my overriding concern is that in many cases, I'm worried about the free speech of. Individual businesses or individual platforms or individual media”
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“Worried about the asymmetries that it's easier to break things than to fix them. It's easier to. Light a fire than to put it out. I do worry that as technology gets more and more powerful, it becomes easier for the minority who wants to screw things up to effectively screw things up for everybody. So it's easier. Thousand years ago, it was simply impossible for one person to derange the lives of millions, much less billions Now that's getting to be possible. So on the assumption that we're always going to have a sufficient number of crazy individuals or Malevolent individuals, it's We have to figure out that asymmetry somehow. And so there's some cautious exploration of emergent technology that we need to get. Our head screwed on straight about. So gain a function research. Just how much do we want to democratize?”
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“You know, there's no. No effective limit, you know. I mean, within the limits of what's physically possible, but we're nowhere near the limit. On abundance. On this, I forget about going to Mars on this one rock, right? It's like we could make this place incredibly beautiful and stable if we just Did enough work to Solve some rather longstanding political problems.”
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“It comes back to a few of the things we've talked about. I think I'm hopeful, I know that most people are good and are mostly converging on the same core values, right? It's like we're not surrounded by psychopaths. The thing that finally convinced me to get off Twitter was how different life was seeming through the lens of Twitter. It's like I just got the sense that there are way more psychopaths or effective psychopaths than I realized. And then I thought, okay, this isn't real. This is either a strange context in which actually decent people are behaving like psychopaths. It's a bot army or something that I don't have to take seriously. Yeah, I just think most people. If we can get the incentives right. I think there's no reason why we can't really thrive collectively. There's enough wealth to go around. There's enough.”
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“I have control over my mediocre performance, but I don't have enough control as to make it really good. But happily, I'm in the perfect spot because I don't invest enough time in it to care how I play. So I just have fun when I play.”
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“No, I mean, I love golf just takes way too much time, so I can only squander a certain amount of time on it. I do love it. It's a lot of fun.”
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“I don't think, well, I mean, once or twice a year I will play a round of golf, which many people would find embarrassing. They might even find my play embarrassing. But it's fun.”
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“I remember when I saw the first Pong in a restaurant in the. It was like Benny Hanna's or something. They had a pong, and table, and that wasn't amazing that he was.”
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“Maybe, although my sense of gaming does not run as deep as to know what I'm committing to there. It's a non-plain character”
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“You're part of the universe. You are just this. I mean, it's. It's the miracle that the universe is illuminated to itself as itself where you sit. And you're continually discovering what your life is. And then you have this layer at which you're telling yourself a story that you already know what your life is. And you know exactly who you should be and what's about to happen or you're struggling to form a confident opinion about all of that. And yet there is this fundamental mystery to everything, even the most familiar experience”
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“Basic insight is that you're not The real freedom is the recognition that you're not in control of anything. Everything is just happening, including your thoughts and intentions and moves.”
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“It's like you're reading a novel. The last page of the novel exists just as much as the first page when you're in the middle of it and they're just, if we're living in anything like that, then there's no such thing as possibility, it would seem that's just what is actual. As a matter of our experience moment to moment Think it's totally compatible with that being true, that there is only what is actual That sounds to the naive ear, that sounds like it would be depressing and disempowering and confining, but is anything but a circumstance of pure discovery. Like you have no idea what's going to happen next, right? You don't know who you're going to be tomorrow. You're only by tendency seeming to resemble yourself from yesterday. There's way more freedom in all of that than it seems true to many people. And yet...”
2023-03-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so, many worlds are just a statement of. Basically, everything that can happen happens somewhere. And that's, I mean, maybe that's not an entirely kosher formulation of it, but it seems pretty close. But there's whatever happens. In fact, relativistically, there's a And Einstein's original notion of a block universe seems to suggest this. And it's been a while since I've been in a conversation with a physicist where I've gotten a chance to ask about the standing of this concept in physics currently. I don't hear it discussed much, but the idea of a block universe is that spacetime exists as a totality. And our sense that we are traveling through spacetime where there's a real difference between the past and the future, that that's an illusion of just our, you know, The weird slice we're taking of this larger object. But on some level,”
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“Because Maine Was it still exists? Well, because we're in this strand of that multiverse. So you have just the local instance of what is actual. And then, if it proliferates elsewhere where you can't be affected by it,”
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“Additional thing in how are they effective if they're not among the actual things that are just actually banging around? And so to some degree,”
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“The world. It seems that possibility has to be somewhere to be effective. It's a little bit like what's happening with the laws of, there's something metaphysically interesting about the laws of nature too, because the laws of nature, so the laws of nature impose their work on the world, right? We see their evidence, but they're not reducible to any specific set of instances, right? So there's some structure there, but the structure isn't just a matter of the actual things. We have the actual billiard balls that are banging into each other. All of that actuality can be explained by what actual things are actually doing. But then we have this notion that in addition to that, we have the laws of nature that are explaining this act. But how are the laws of nature an additional thing in addition to just the actual things that are actually effect causally? And if they are an”
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“Yeah, but probability it seems just describes a pattern of actuality that we've observed, right? I mean, we have, there's certain things we observe, and those are the actual things that have happened. And we have this additional story about probability. I mean, we have the frequency with which things happen, have happened in the past I can flip a fair coin and know I know in the abstract that I have a belief that in the limit those flips, those tosses should converge on 50% heads and 50% tails. I have a story as to why it's not going to be exactly 50% within any arbitrary timeframe. But in reality, all we ever have are the observed tosses. And then we have an additional story that oh, it came up heads, but it could have come up tails. Why do we think that? About that last And what are we claiming is true about the physics of things?”
2023-03-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think about it in terms of probability. More often, but probability just describes And again, this is a place where I might be out of my depth and need to talk to somebody to debunk this.”
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“Whether or not there's such a thing as possibility, I'm convinced that worry is almost never psychologically appropriate because the reality is that in any given moment, either you can do something to solve the problem you're worried about or not. So if you can do something, just do it. And if you can't, you're worrying is just causing you to suffer twice over, right? You're going to get the medical procedure next week anyway. How much time between now and next week do you want to spend worrying about it? The worry doesn't accomplish anything.”
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“Well, yeah, well, because it's, I mean, so this, yeah, I mean, this could sound just academic, but every backward-looking regret or disappointment and every forward-looking worry. Completely dependent on this notion of possibility. Like every regret is based on the sense that something else I could have done something else could have happened. Every disposition to worry about the future is based on the feeling that there's this range of possibilities. It could go either way.”
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“Right. Yeah, I'm just extending it beyond Hum This goes to the physics of things. This is just everything. We're always telling ourselves a story. That includes possibility.”
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“Whenever we're saying something is possible, but not actual, right? Like this thing just happened, but it's possible that it wouldn't have happened or that it would have happened differently. What does that possibility consist? Where is that? For that to be real, for the possibility to be real, is What claim are we making about the universe?”
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“But what does it mean? So, like What does it mean if we say I just did that, but it's conceivable that I wouldn't have done that, right? Like it's possible that I just threw this cap. I might not have done that.”
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“Yeah, and possibility itself is a kind of spooky idea because it too has a sort of structure, right? So if I'm going to say You could have had a daughter last year. So we're saying that's possible but not actual. That is a claim, there are things that Are true and not true about that daughter, right? Like it has a kind of structure. It's like,”
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“Maybe probability isn't a thing, right? Maybe there's only actuality. Maybe there's only what happens. And at every point along the way, our notion of what could have happened or what might have happened is just that. It's just a thought about what could have happened or might have happened.”
2023-03-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's a case of. And the truth is that happens even if the many worlds interpretation isn't true, but we just imagine we have a physically infinite universe. The implication of infinity is such that things will begin to repeat themselves. The farther you go in space. If you just head out in one direction, eventually you're going to meet two people just like us having a conversation just like this, and you're going to meet them an infinite number of times in every infinite variety of permutations slightly different from this conversation, right? So, I mean, infinity is just so big that our intuitions of probability completely break down. But what I'm suggesting is...”
2023-03-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We call real reality, the spatial temporal order, the physics of things. But possibility, at least in my view, occupies a different space. And this is something, again, my thoughts on this are pretty inchoate, and I think I need to talk to. Philosopher of physics and or physicist about how this may interact with things like the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.”
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“Function quite that way. I mean, they're similar, but they also have a structure that's purely a matter of discovery. You can't just make up whether numbers are prime. If you give me two integers of a certain size, you mentioned two enormous integers. If I were to say, okay, well, between those two integers, they're exactly 11 prime numbers, right? That's a very specific claim about which I can be right or wrong, whether or not anyone knows I'm right or wrong. There's a domain of facts there, but these are abstract, it's an abstract reality that relates in some way that's philosophically interesting, you know, metaphysically interesting to”
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“They're real and they're not merely invented by us, they're discovered because they have structure that we can't impose upon them, right? It's not like they're not fictional characters like, you know, Hamlet and Superman also exist in some sense, but they exist at the level of our own fiction and abstraction. But it's like they're true and false statements you can make about Hamlet. They're true and false statements you can make about Superman because our fiction, the fictional worlds we've created have a certain kind of structure. But again, this is all abstract. It's all abstractable from any of its concrete instantiations. It's not just in the comic books and just in the movies. It's in our ongoing ideas about these characters. But natural numbers or the integers don't”
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“So, what do we mean when we say you could have had a child or you might have a child in the future? What is the space in reality? What's the relationship between possibility and actuality and reality? Is there a reality in which Non-actual things are nonetheless real. And so we have other categories of like non Concrete things. We have things that don't have spatial, temporal dimension, but they're nonetheless exist. So the integers, right? So numbers. There's a reality, there's an abstract reality to numbers. And it's philosophically interesting to think about these things. So they're not like, in some sense, they're...”
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“I can never run the counterfactuals. I can never, all of this opens the door to a Even more disconcerting picture along the same lines, which is subsumes this conversation about free will and it's the question of whether Anything is ever possible. Like, what if this is a question I haven't thought a lot about it, but it's been a few years, I've been kicking this question around. I mean, what if only the actual is possible? What if we live with this feeling of possibility? We live with a sense that So, you know, I have two daughters. I could have had a third child, right? So what does it mean to say that I could have had a third child? You don't have kids, I don't think.”
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“That's the false starting point. When you find that there's no one in the middle of the boat, right, or in fact, there's no boat, there's just the river, there's just the flow of experience. And there's no center to it, and there's no place from which you would control it. Again, even when you're doing things, this does not negate the difference between voluntary and involuntary behavior. It's like I can voluntarily reach for this, but when I'm paying attention, I'm aware that everything is just happening, like just the intention to move is just arising, right? I'm in no position to know why it didn't arise a moment before or a moment later or a moment or 50% stronger or weaker or so as to be ineffective or to be doubly effective where I lurched for it versus I moved slow. I mean, I'm a not.”
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“And that's almost everybody's starting point when they start to meditate. And that's almost always the place people live most of their lives from. I do think that gets interrupted in ways that get unrecognized. I think people are constantly losing the sense of I. They're losing the sense of subject, object, distance, but they're not recognizing it. And meditation is the mode in which you can recognize, you can both consciously Then recognize its absence. And that's just the flip side of the coin of free will. I mean, the feeling of having free will is what it feels like to feel like a self who's thinking his thoughts and doing his actions and intending his intentions. And the man in the middle of the boat who's rowing.”
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“Well, it's always obvious to me when I pay attention. Whenever I'm mindful, the term of jargon in the Buddhist and increasingly outside the Buddhist context is mindfulness, right? But there are sort of different levels of mindfulness and there's different... Degrees of insight into this, but yes, what I'm calling evidence of lack of free will and lack of the self and like the two sides of the same coin. There's a sense of being a subject in the middle of experience to whom all experience refers. Sense of I, the sense of me.”
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“Yeah, it's all just happening, right? Like, even the mindful and meditative response to this is just happening. It's just like even the moments where you recognize or not recognize is just happening. It's not that this does open up a degree of freedom for a person, but it's not a freedom that gives any motivation to the notion of free will. It's just a new... Way of being in the world”
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“The anger that would have kept you angry for hours or days lasts four seconds because you just the moment it arises, you recognize it and you can get off the, you can decide at minimum you can decide whether it's useful to stay angry at that moment. And obviously it usually isn't.”
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“Meditation is the only way that word can mean many things to many people. But what I mean by meditation is simply the discovery that there is a way to Engage the present moment directly regardless of what's happened, and you don't need to be in a war, you don't need to be having sex, you don't need to be on drugs, you don't need to be surfing, nothing, there doesn't have to be a peak experience. It can be completely ordinary, but you can recognize that in some basic sense there's only this and everything else is something you're thinking. You're thinking about the past. You're thinking about the future. And thoughts themselves have no substance. It's fundamentally mysterious that any thought ever really commandeers your sense of who you are and makes you anxious or afraid or angry or whatever it is. And the more you discover that, the half-life of all these negative emotions that blow all of us around get much, much shorter, right? And you can literally just”
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“Without being lost in thought. And so this happens haphazardly for people who don't meditate because they find something in their life that's so captivating, it's so pleasurable, it's so thrilling. It can even be scary, but it can be even being scared is captivated. It gets their attention, right? Whatever it is. Sebastian Younger wrote a great book about people's experience in war here. Strangely, it can be the best experience anyone's ever had because everything, it's like only the moment matters, right? Like the bullet is whizzing by your head. You're not thinking about your 401k or that thing that you didn't say last week to the person you shouldn't have been talking about. You're not thinking about Twitter. It's like you're just fully immersed in the present moment.”
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“You can pay attention The present moment, and this is meditation by another name, you can pay attention to the present moment with sufficient gravity that you recognize that just consciousness itself in the present moment, no matter what's happening, is already a circumstance of freedom and contentment and tranquility. You can be happy now before anything happens. Before this next desire gets gratified, before this next problem gets solved, there's this kind of ground truth that you're free, that consciousness is free and open and unencumbered by really any problem until you get lost in thought about all the problems that may yet be real for you.”
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“Well, I think all we have is our attention in the end, and we just have to notice what these various tools are doing to it. And it's just, it became very clear to me that It was an unrewarding use of my attention. Now, it's not to say there isn't some digital platform that's conceivable that would be useful and rewarding. Yeah, I mean, we just have, you know, our life is doled out to us in moments and we have and we're continually solving this riddle of what is going to suffice to make this moment engaging and meaningful and aligned with who I want to be now and how I want the future to look, right? We have this tension between being in the present and becoming in the future. It's a seeming paradox. Again, it's not really a paradox, but it can see. I do think the ground truth for personal well-being is to find a mode of being where”
2023-03-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's like being on, like, I'm not on Reddit either, but I don't spend any time thinking about not being on Reddit, right? It's like I just, I'm just not on Reddit.”
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“I think we're Experience a pendulum swing back into the real world. I mean, I think many of us are experiencing that now anyway. Just wanting to Face to face encounters and spend less time on our phones and less time online. I think maybe everyone isn't going in that direction, but. I do notice it myself, and I notice, I mean, once I got off Twitter, then I noticed the people who were never on Twitter, right? And the people who were never based, I mean, I know I have a lot of friends who are never on Twitter. And they actually never understood what I was doing on Twitter. It's like they just wasn't that they were seeing it and then reacting to it. They just didn't know. It's like.”
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“Extramarital affairs on Mars So it's going to get really homely and boring really fast, I think. It's like only the spacesuits or the other Extingcies of just living in that atmosphere or lack thereof will limit how badly we can behave on Mars.”
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“Yeah, well, I think I have a pretty... Humbling picture of that. Because we're still going to be the apes that we are. So when you imagine colonizing Mars, you have to imagine a first fist fight on Mars. You have to imagine a first murder on Mars.”
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“Yeah, or just knowing that it's going to be an arms race to. Authenticate information. So it's like if you can never trust a photograph. Unless it has been vetted by Getty images because only Getty Images has the resources to authenticate the provenance of that photograph and attest that it hasn't been meddled with by AI. And again, I don't even know if that's technically possible. Maybe whatever the tools... Available for this will be commodified and the cost will be driven to zero so quickly that everyone will be able to do it. It could be like encryption but”
2023-03-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Greater siloing of information in the end. We're living through this sort of wild west period where everyone's got a newsletter and everyone's got a blog and everyone's got an opinion. But once you can fake everything.”
2023-03-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And we might have AI and digital watermarks that help us. Maybe we'll not trust any information that hasn't come through specific channels. In my world, I no longer feel the need to respond to anything other than what I put out in my channels of information. It's like so many people who have clipped stuff of me that shows the opposite of what I was actually saying in context. I mean, the people have like re-edited my podcast audio to make it seem like I said the opposite of what I was saying. It's like, unless I put it out, you know, you can't be sure that I actually said it. I mean, it's just, uh, But I don't know what it's like to live like that for all forms of information. And, I mean, strangely, I think it may require a...”
2023-03-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And misinformation plays into this picture in a way that is especially scary. I mean, once you can get a deep fake of Any current president of the United States claiming to have launched a first strike and just send that everywhere.”
2023-03-14 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source