Portal with Eric Weinstein: 11: Sam Harris - Fighting with Friends

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways In this day and age, it’s hard to trust any of our institutions “There’s no place I can go to for ground truth.” – Eric Weinstein“The failure to have a fact-based discussion and the incentives to avoid one… I think it’s the scariest thing we have going apart from the true monsters of pandemic, nuclear war, and things like that” – Sam HarrisSam and Eric’s “creep detectors” went off after having both met Jeffrey Epstein in the past“Twitter and social media is a psychological experiment we’re running on ourselves to which no one has consented. We’ve enrolled half of humanity in this thing, and we’re just seeing what happens. It clearly has effects that are at best non-optimal and at worst catastrophic.” – Sam HarrisSpend the time becoming aware of the malware running in your brain (the nonsensical programs put there by other people)

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On this episode of The Portal, Eric talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher and meditation-guru, Sam Harris. When Sam and Eric sit down they generally agree about a large number of things. So in this experiment of a session, Eric attempts to push the relentlessly reasonable and methodical Sam out of his comfort zone to highlight their genuine differences. These include: beliefs on religion, the logic of voting for unreasonable candidates, Jeffrey Epstein's demise, the competence of the press, the ethics of immigration and more. 

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