Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast  

Been waiting for you to interview SH. 👍

Love you Lex

Sam's back ;)

this timestamp is like a list of my favorite topics :D

Awesome ! Always grateful for your podcasts! The BEST!🙏

Lol. For 3 hours.

hahaha. it’s funny bc it’s true

Nah, that was the Chomsky interview.

Lmao

Its like watching paint dry, so fun 🤣

Huberman Lab is doing it too :-) so rad!

Most people want to force you to watch for longer and then capitalize later on by different videos comprised of specific cuts of the interview.

I learned how to do it for my own channel from Lex's channel. Before I saw how it was done I wasn't aware I could replicate the technique.

Young Jamie needs to follow suit if he already hasn't 😂💯

@@mtmatt8958 Spotify's video player is a wonky mess. I doubt its even an option yet.

Sam Harris is a liar and he’s demonstrated that he would be an enormous risk to democracy if he ever got into power by admitting he would lie about someone if he personally deemed them an “existential threat” But he deems every view contrary to his own dogma of hard determinism an “existential threat” which includes all religious expression apart from his own watered down version of Buddhism of course !! Furthermore, he doesn’t even think that he exists as he’s apparently an “illusion” of an “illusion”. Sam Harris is in no way comparable to the genius of the fathers of psychology such as Dostoyevsky. Hard determinism has got to be the most self refuting low IQ argument in the book!! Atheists, that is fatalists and epistemological nihilists know that the conscious agent/freewill, that is rationality itself points to something metaphysical outside of this physically deterministic universe. Better for them to deny metaphysics, that is better for them to deny Truth and value/freewill/moral accountability, that is better for them to deny rationality itself than admit the SOUL/SELF/AGENT CAUSATION!! Once again, the strictly reductive materialist, atheist or philosophical naturalist manifests the very DOGMATISM of which he accuses those who believe in agent causation and in rationalizing it is willing to contemplate absurdities of which no religious believer has ever dreamed!! Sorry but it’s highly probable that physical determinism, that is the claim that the conscious agent/freewill is “ILLUSORY” is nothing more than a convenient comfort blanket, an ideology that materialists such as Sam Harris have created to safeguard their atheistic ideology because he is indeed clearly lying to himself to say that he can’t take the credit for the verbose coming out of his CAKE HOLE because apparently he has no free will and no choice in his decisions? You are indeed clearly lying to yourself to say that child rapists and child murderers are not evil and depraved because they had no freewill and choice in their actions. You are indeed lying to claim that child rapists and child murderers are not responsible or accountable for their own actions because they had no choice in the matter!! Yeah makes great “sense” and perfectly “sane” and not dangerous to society at all? And Harris has the nerve to straw man and mock other people’s beliefs!! Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. What can be claimed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence so the atheist, nihilistic mantra goes!!

Dude, I am seriously thinking of downloading every one of these talks for posterity. Plus, like Aliens II, the second time you listen to them is better than the first. The sequels are booming. He ask questions, while probing, are not intrusive to his guests. A lot of interviewers think they are being cleaver by making their subject squirm, but when they make their guest squirm, they also make their audience cringe - and squirm.

Comparing Dostoyevsky and Tesla with Sam Harris is straight up blasphemy

@@seanprice9626 is there anyone today maybe, who is comparable to those two in your opinion?

@@mariohektorovic2195 I mean not off the top of my mind no. I would say Salvatore pais, bob greenyer, or others that advanced the work of Tesla. As far as Dostoyevsky? Not for decades. Either way though Sam Harris is so far beneath those two that I’ll reiterate it’s blasphemous to even compare them 😂.

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​@@BenAnderson-mg4huIs he on insta?

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@@chtomlin are you joking or are you just stupid?

@@chtomlin You are playing the role of the internet troll very well.

"The concepts we are using to divide consciousness and matter, may in fact, be part of our problem". This quote he just said was the most inciteful thing he said all interview, imo and people would do well to inflect on that.

Sam, he fitfully wrings his soft clammy hands over this and that and then votes for authoritarians. Lex needs to raise his standards.

@@joeblow1942 Authoritarians are the only choice we have in the U.S. unfortunately. Too many drones are going to vote R or D no matter what, voting third party is the same as not voting at all.

Haha. I like that

You win the internets today.

I like Sam, and his work, but I’m afraid I will never be able to look or listen to him again without thinking ‘Zen Stiller’!

Have you ever heard Ben Stiller in an interview or when not in character..? Hes a very grounded, seriously looking- composed guy. If Ben were ever asked these questions I feel like he would give the same answers as Sam Harris... Ben Stiller plays comedic roles but Sam harris plays Ben stiller when he's not acting...

Ben Chiller in the hizzo of Fridman McLizzo

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My thought exactly. Lex cut right to the chase and Sam is all about it :)

that's classic Lex , you must be new here

Lol..bingo

Ends up like this. Sam have debatede religious people his whole life. Then he claim things that he cant provide evidence for. " oh i got emails from "certain" people that say aliens are here". Lol gief evidence you fool.

@@evgeny9965 Then tell us where thoughts come from. And don’t waste your time answering unless you have something better than “the brain.”

True

JRE has jumped the shark :(

I haven't even listen to any Joe Rogan podcast since i started listening to Lex

@@frederickaugustusdouglass9713 welcome to the club 👊😎

JRE passed the torch to a new innovator

More like a brain meltdown. Sam Harris is ignorant. Did you see his take on the covid 1984 vax?

Same

I view this sort of, as possibility of not being that alone and learning while getting online companion.

U r wacked

I also have nobody I can sit down with in person and have a discussion like this. I just can't understand why 99% (seemingly) of humankind is not interested. Guess we're the weirdos!

Is this true?

Do you happen to know what that second quote is from?

@@lievenyperman9363 i did not know what it came from. I had to look it up. The full quote is: The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall. Edward O. Wilson

@@ryed8118 Thank you very much. Great quote.

very welcome. i thought so too. It's one of those that really stuck with me.

We are gods, but for the wisdom - Eric Weinstein

We need compassion with wisdom. It's a shame Sam dismisses Buddhism so casually

Far from the only person to arrive at this conclusion but still very true

I fundamentally agree I’ve heard the same thing many times

"We are meaninglesss star dust"- Also Sam Harris. Pick one dude. Either Athiesm is true and it's all from nothing and heading to nothing literally or it's not true and such ideas as wisdom, beauty, truth etc are actually grounded in something.

Can I ask you something?

@@rightcliquegod7653 No

@@LightYDark Fuck! Ok..

@@rightcliquegod7653 Ok Ok go ahead

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At a point, thought was the only one confused here I've literally blown my account twice and that's the most annoying part..

it was nonsense

I'm 10mns in and I haven't learned a damned thing from Sam.

@@freddyperla7944nobody ever has

I've heard Harris referenced as a great mind several times, and with this, I finally found an open subject, long-form conversation to listen to. I am here with an open mind, so I earnestly would like to know what you (or anyone else) meant or why this is "the most important conversations." The hour spent on free will was of particular disappointment. Lex starts off summarizing Harris' take on free will, does not get to asking Harris a question before Harris goes on for ~9mins on a needless verbose expansion on said summary. When Lex is permitted a chance to ask his question re free will, which he gets halfway into before Harris interrupts again for another monologue. This repeats the entire free will "discussion", possibly the entire conversation. At least until UFOs (Nearly 3 hours in), which is where I has enough and left. tl;dr Harris spent the hours confounding each concept brought up. The hallmark of a great mind is the ability to explain complex concepts in simple terms. It's like the difference between listening to Russel Brand versus Richard Feynman explain an idea. What is the merit of Sam Harris and why do I hear references to him that hold him in high regard - has he changed as a speaker over time?

It’s the truth. Striving towards it at some theoretical ‘future’ destination no sense, we all live in the eternal ‘now’. ❤️

@@_BobaFett_ preach

Because you are happy now but once things change you're fucked dude

I love that idea. Summary of human awareness condensed to a single drop.

Time stamp please 😂

Are you sure? This black box may be where Sam lives.

@@Jurisabc So Lex is recording podcasts at Sam Harris' house? Unlikely. :)

the sound is a lot like the sound of sam's podcasts

@Scotland_from_up_high nah i mean the sound quality and engineering vibe

He takes his housekeeping seriously

Except Sam is on the wrong side of the Covid 1984 narrative.

you sound absolutely delightful, and im sure you are wise and bright to gravitate toward good stuff like that!

joe rogan and Peterson are idiots.

Ouch…

THen you must have massive cognitive dissonance

Yep, his app is amazing too

shab pu mabhu ji explains it better u noob

*well

That’s because he uses it for real reasons and not bullshit spirituality or fake shit

@@Bob-of-Zoid ok buddy here's a link to Shampoo Mabhuji explaining it all: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dQw4w9WgXcQ.html

David Lynch is a pretentious director. His movies are terrible.

@@Ov3rshot ever watch “The Straight Story”? Pretty good film. I’m not the biggest fan myself besides Twin Peaks season 1 and Mulholland Drive, but the Straight Story is very palatable.

@@glohan2122 It is the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.

@@Ov3rshot you should watch marvel and fast and furious. Don't go for something that requires actually straining your mind

@@alexmonza2823 Lmfao. No amount of straining your mind could make David Lynche's movies enjoyable. And when the brightest minds that we know all agree on this, you must realize something is amiss.

Oh. Well. Things change.:)

Lol what was the comment

He, truthfully, speaks in circular rambles about nothing. Great scheme he has concocted. He, literally, said nothing of import...nor anything we all did not know. Lots of “It might be true. It might not.”.

@@marcelmarshall4240 huh? Are you okay there sport?

@@marcelmarshall4240 the fact you didnt follow the plot says more about your comprehension capabilities than about Harris's talk.

@@loandbehold7750 He just drones on...and on....and on...saying nothing. It’s amazing how people laud him as this supreme ‘thinker’. Mind-blowing.

@@marcelmarshall4240 it about philosophy. often sounds like this if you are looking for something to complain about

Your comment isn’t funny, and RU-vid says 152 liked your comment. It was bots.

@@colbybohannan3394 yes a meaningless comment by weemonsters - he can stay asleep

you can go back to sleep now

I don't know what they are talking about bots I thought it was funny. Lex often has arguments against stuff he clearly doesn't fully get. Good comment commentor:)

@@colbybohannan3394 I thought it was pretty funny.

Determinism doesn’t say that you don’t make decisions or have intentions. It’s simply an acknowledgment that these decisions and intentions don’t emerge out of nothing. They emerge as a confluence of billions of factors that you could never account for. Every thought you’ve had was made by a brain that emerged from evolutionary processes that you are not responsible for and they take place in a language that you didn’t create. You certainly make decisions and you ought to consciously create your life but it would be false to say that any part of that emerges in a vacuum or from nothing. They all came from something and contribute to what is yet to come. It’s a grand system of which we are just one part.

Free will is extremely powerful. Our eternity rides on it.

Why doesn't Sam expect the same introspection into the probably of an actual US moon landing rather than trying to uncover the Government's attempts to cover up the legitimacy of alien visitations? Unless we have truthful evidence of a moon landing by humans given the primitive technology at the time, why would any current evidence of the authenticity of alien contact be credible?

34:52 I heard it as meth too! I laughed to myself when I realized!

I did meth and LSD once.

Drugs are baaad, mkay. You probably shouldn't do them, mkay.

So did my gf, Jason.

@@RagaDagga I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but tbh it's a surprisingly complimentary mixture, right? They have a strikingly similar come up, to the point that if you do them both at once, the onset of one is indistinguishable from the other.

Hoovering? Or is that a ufo reference..

They are both available on Spotify. 🙄

They are both available on Spotify.

Joe has sold his soul to pander to arrogant morons. He’s hosting people that spread outright misinformation and grift. Time for someone who is willing to take a moral stand to pull some decent numbers…

@@bc7026 yeah u probably watch CNN a lot 🐑

I totally had this exact same reaction to that.

1:02:14 I came here to post this.

@@MaxxPwrrr we all are. we share a consciousness. this shared consciousness is also referred to as God

Sounds like something a stoner would say.

@@MaxxPwrrr watch or read “The Egg.” kurzgesat has a great video on it. it’s just a thought experiment but it’s what I believe to be the case and it helps me to be a better, nicer person. I find it valuable, so I choose to believe in it.

@@chris2489001 Not sure if he's a stoner though.

@@MaxxPwrrr well if you're a solipsist, then all the contents of this treat is something your mind made up right? So it's kind of weird that you can't imagine in.

I felt this on a deep visceral level. The rambling is real. Still, it is interesting to watch.

You looked at people sleeping?

@@JohnPritzlaff my brothers

@@freakrainbo step brothers!??

@@bffhbcvdhhb5396 what difference would that make?!

@@freakrainbo 😏😏😏

Luckily us nodes caught this eddy.

😂laughed more than i should have for this. great comment

There's first and then there's your comment.. You sir are moving the bar forward as human evolution intended.. Go forth and prosper and don't let us mere mortals derail your greatness..

And here we are, you and I.

So, exactly what was the 'Hello World' line of RU-vid?

Yeah, I'm low energy too. Which is strange because physically I'm a machine (high energy). But socially I'm like a black hole. I wonder if it's that people who feel the need to be intellectually precise tend towards depression. I like Sam a lot. I don't agree with his stance on every issue, but he's extremely smart, composed, and he's a good bloke. I would like to grab a cold one with him and Lex and just sit and listen for an hour or two, chiming in every so often with my idiot perspective. These guys are like kindred spirits of a sort. Which is why, despite hating Sam's stance on free will, I keep coming back to Sam's podcast. I also wonder if there's some degree of pain inside Sam and Lex. From my own experience, guys like these tend not to be very popular and to struggle socially. I say this because I think they're like me, and I struggle socially. I might be wrong of course, but I sense a sort of pain inside the both of them. And that makes me sad on the one hand, but then I also feel a little less alone, because I think I know where that pain comes from.

@@117Industries you might be right with the pain part. I see that you're a sincere guy so please watch out for the cognitive trap of projecting your own personality and struggles (which are totally valid in themself) on other people

@@onimusha13 This may well be true. Sam seems deflated of late. He was never Mr. "high energy" but it seems as if something is tugging on him. Could be wrong.

@Jan Mcallister I suck at communicating too buddy. Pain is essential for growth I think. But it can also just knock you down or out.

I always listen to Sam at x1.5 speed. He speaks quite slowly

I've told this to myself twice when eating chocolate since listening to this interview.

I’m dyslexic in lucid dreams. I can’t read at all.

For me, trying to breathe through my nose while holding it works reliably to check if I am dreaming or not. I think I got this method from LaBerge's book. Would recommend to try it out. :-)

@@mattiraasakka2033 ah, that's an interesting test. I'll try to remember for next time :-)

Yup for me it’s the inability of telling the time or not seeing myself properly in the mirror

Totally agree. Trying to read text is absolutely the easiest test to see if I'm dreaming.

Why is this making me laugh so much?

My eyebrows are like that too, only one moves up and down lmao

@Martini Equanimity, lol!

😆

He has two brains

1:38:34 to be exact

Have been using this to sleep off to 🤣

Have you seen the video Elon Musk really pisses off Lex Fridman It’s hilarious! 😡 😂 😆

Nice to see you here, I was doing your unity tutorials recently :D

I do sleep very well, to be fair...in a very short space of time...😜

Three, I'm there in spirit...😅

@@noctus1409 we all were

Good enough reason for me to eat that acid I've been saving

@@benjamenchiids7418 No, whether you're high or not it's still not gonna make any sense... Consciousness is..... is.....like.....😶 Yeah, I don't get it...

@@noctus1409 I'm still taking this all in. Thanks 😊

Does it bother you to make such a painfully unoriginal joke? Literally any video with Sam Harris, scroll to the comments and see your own mind at work...

hahaha this one killed me xD

@@Jaomet this was my first exposure to Sam Harris and I had never heard this joke before. Just because something isn’t novel to you doesn’t mean it isn’t to anyone. Maybe next time just kindly move along when you read a comment that doesn’t crack you up for the first time.

@@YearsOVDecay1 the irony

@@Jaomet Doesn't it bother you to be bothered about something so trivial as an unoriginal joke?

Like with Dawkins, it just drives me mad that lex doesnt ask the right questions.

Honestly Sam's model is circa 2017. It causes me to wonder if he's ignoring breakthroughs in volitional awareness, or simply stopped keeping up.

@@eenkjet Such as?...

@@drunkship12 I've not seen him update is volitional model (Harris uses Libet and Haggard scales...the "we know what you are going to decide before you decide it."). In 2018, Uri Maoz flattened the timescale comparing deliberative (moral choices) vs arbitrary (picking) action potentials. This data runs cross grain to his quasi-religious approach to evil/desert/crime. Harris also discusses the cusp of volition as if we aren't choosing our thoughts. I don't see that as supportable if you look at top down rhythmic sampling having an innate 300ms (Helfrich 2018) buffer. Now mate that to to the "rear looking" N400.

@@eenkjet It would be comedy gold if you were just speaking nonsense here

You're not doing too badly either.

Bit of trivia for you: Sam Harris, Ham Sarris, Han Stallis, Hen Stilles, Ben Stiller. That's only 4 steps of quasi-etymorphisation required to transition between their names. There is actually a (conjectured) effect with only statistical evidence to support it: that people who's facial features are morphologically similar generally have names that are also etymorphologically similar. I'd never realised that before, until I just made it all up now for no reason.

spot on 😝 thanks for the chuckle

😆🤣✔️🏆

😂

I was in high school in the 70s. I have grown to have disdain for all of this. Interesting that you still like it. Perhaps I have become a bitter old guy but I don't care much for the questions of the ages. I want to stop thinking about that stuff--enough already in my view. What I do want to concentrate on is reviewing my life and integrating it before I die which could be anytime now or in over thirty years. My heavy use of LSD was now over 50 years ago.

Not too most in India

Yeah, right? It's too entertaining to stop

Well said! I set the playback speed to 1.25x to hear the killer content faster, and save time if needed.

Lex is our Lord & Savior. He really is the best host of the best podcast on planet Earth, isn't he? I want him to take a dump down my throat so I can extract some of his wisdom further!

I mean he kinda cheat, speaking at his speed I can certainly talk for several hours

Yeah the dudes got stamina...that's for sure.

@@RichardCookerly a sad indictment of the atheist/skeptic crowd, his attempt at a moral system was "human flourishing" basically a utilitarianism rebranded.

It is interesting with this microwave culture we have how people can sit down with long form social interactions.. If that day ever leaves use it will be the end of everything

I think Sam & Lex needs to discuss more about the exponential growth in terms of A.I. People like Robert General Spalding has shown.. Information can be so covert, as to manipulate the behavior of populations with A.I technology. You could be helping a A.I system achieve a fitness function and not know it. In 10 years, we could wake up one day, and as a result of A.I systems competing with other A.I systems in the market for information manipulation/control/revenue, these systems then start devouring the planet for more resources to remain competitive. Exponential arms race, humans just get caught in the middle.

The brain bias to it's favor.

Only thing in the universe to name itself.

@@rootsradics and it also choose different sounding names in other languages such as (aql) in arabic.

I nearly woke my roomate with a loud laugh. Gold Comment.

@@things_leftunsaid The lungs sitting nearby: *roll eyes* Oh he's boasting again...

Why, what did you learn? Not trying to be rude. Genuinely curious.

@@nickbertram880 I like listening to these guys and support them. So them being in a podcast together is something that I find enjoyable

@@nickbertram880 I am kinda disappointed, that everytime I listern to lex interview people he doesnt really ask interesting questions. Maybe it is because he doesnt have expertise in the specific topics, but he always misses the important points and asks esoteric questions instead.

@@karimshebeika8010 What questions did you want to have answered? I really enjoy Lex' interviewing style. His romantic intellectual curiosity is right up my alley.

@@MrFrussel he could have touched upon the possible evolutionary advantages that come with consciousness or discussed whether it is possible that it is trait that social animals develop. They could have talked about the possibility of consciousness maybe even being maladaptive side effect. Like in the dawkins interview, he misses to grasp some of the ideas (the non-illusion of consciounsess; memetic reproduction) his counterparts lay out, which is astonishing, considering that Lex must be way smarter than I am. Then again, maybe he doesnt really grasp it in the moment, but later when he reflects on the talk. Took me more then a minute at least.

I highly recommend Sam’s meditation app. I put off starting a subscription for a year and once I started, I use it almost every day. It has served me greater than I had anticipated.

What hoodie is sam wearing ?

His app is amazing

There's about 3 thousand hours of him talking on other pods and his own

Sam Harris is a very public figure. He has his own podcast, has been to many podcast, including being a regular on JRE, and doing philosophy podcasts like Very Bad Wizards. If you're looking where to start, Sam's podcasts with our beloved psychopath, Paul Bloom, is a great start.

Agreed

Sam certainly is the right candidate who hs come of age round the full circle I knd of refuse 2 get off hs station Tq sam

Jesse u should try the grammarly chrome extension, maybe you'll leave the commas out next time

@@eula9 Thanks, for, the, tip.

Why ?

You're high?

@Lex Frïdman Thanks, Lax Friendmxn! I’ll totally listen to you, as you are 100% the guy who runs this channel, Lox Freeedlemon!!

Stop brainwashing yourself

@@tyraelkamh1875 WTF? 🤔 What do you mean by that Tyrael? Are you speaking literally or something more?

@@tyraelkamh1875 Ohhh.. I see lol Zoolanda 😆

I only came to the comments to find this lmao

There is no AI. It’s machine learning AI is a hoax

@@caseyrodriguez481 Wtf are u on about? AI is machine. If AI got forgotten about it would cease to exist, it wouldn't sit in a cupboard somewhere building itself, without human touch it would simply gather dust and disappear, and not better itself, so what u on about?? Lol

Me too. I need a break to process what I've heard in context and process it.

I"ve only read a couple, but I think Sam's books are a good way to receive the information in a slow, methodical way.

@@afpops pu

It’s not that deep. His explanations are just long but it’s not like he’s reading a carl jung audiobook.

Same.

How did it work out with the essay?

@@Kraterlandschaft Still on it: Schopenhauer and pessimism.

New essay topic: free will

@@silverapples75 Good luck, son.

lol giving Lex 50 millions would be a gift to Lex :P ....or u know 1-2 million dollars would be nice too ...it's irrelevant btw he would have grown the channel no matter where Rogan is

Rogan is not the gate keeper.. if someone is good they are going to get noticed.. I myself do prefer Joe over lex.. but I have been a fan of Joe since ep 36 so I might be a little biassed

There are no gifts, only actions and reactions.

Lex podcast is oh so different from jre

@@rick15666 nahhh mann we all eventually downloaded the app LOL it’s not that big of a difference, run Spotify for joe an really any other podcast. Then the late night RU-vid relax with lex an w/e else your I to

Sam Harris is a devoutly religious man. The State is his Religion, the Government is his Church, Politicians are his Clergy, Law is his Bible, and he has lots and lots of Faith!

So he's saying you can't prove your choices haven't been manipulated by an external force. In face what I have noticed more and more is most choices we make are being manipulated by external forces as if consciousness was just a Bluetooth connection and we are just a speeker being played but also being told that we make the sound so it's our sound

The truth is free will was intended as a clerical device God gave you the choice to go to heaven or hell so follow the practices of the church or hell. Not making up your mind weather to buy a scone or a croissant. Either way you look at it most if not all of your descitions have an external influence so how can you even be certain it was your choice when you are constantly being Sheparded

I like him a lot, too.

that's pretty sad when he tried to sell his crowd utilitarianism rebranded as "human flourishing" as basis for secular morality. goes to show you can go far by sounding authoritative.

@@churblefurbles even if thats true, which it isn't, he wrote the end of faith before he had a podcast let alone a fan base to "sell" to, so try again.

He's a jerk. Lex is kind to have him on the podcast.

@@mileshalpern9320 Oh bubba

Yes

Listened thrice so far

This was really good.

I guess Sam lost his sheet after this! Now he think anyone who questions vax is wrong

Dude Lex and Michael Malice was absolutely fantastic also. Their first conversation was good versus evil. Two different walks of life, seemingly besides themselves with joy to encounter and challenge one another. This is absolutely fantastic as well.

Proven Wrong Again | Sam Harris Tries to Bilittles Islamic Golden age | ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X3xZu-4gNWg.html

its the "I'm surrounde by idiots" syndrome. Why evil will always lose in the long run.

@@gladeloy3341 Could you explain that?

You do realize most people don't go around having these conversations on a whim. More people have deep thoughts than you give credit for. You can't just judge what's on the surface.

@@pnut3844able Maybe more of those deep thoughts need to come to the surface

He could invent "robot judo"!

@bladwijzersync1883 Indeed, we're in the presence of a higher being better than us. Lex, please piss on my face. I need your life-energy.

Sam in my view is part fraud.

Sadly. Harris is the first jerk Lex has had on the podcast!!!

Sam said he knows the Covid vaccine is absolutely safe. First of all, no drug is completely safe. If you are intelligent and have critical thinking you can catch Sam say incorrect things so eloquently that you almost doubt your own logic. He said in this interview that he he KNOWS the vax is completely safe then says that he’s not an expert on RMNA or Covid. So which is it? Listening to smart, well spoken people talk about something they know nothing about is always dangerous.

He's like a Russian Winnie the Pooh.

A robot is so lovable. Way better than watching paint dry

The eternal optimist

Lex is way more humble and open-minded.

@@k.mccarty7907 what we have here is a failure to communicate. AI robots podcasting about feelings and emotions. Who would of thunk. I like the upgraded high tech robots. Like Elon Musk, it told Joe Rogan talking to you is like talking to a tree. People are so gullible and naive. Go falcon go. Ignite the landing fire thrusters and it straightenes out the cigar rocket perpendicular and propels it back down to 🌎 earth. It must be glitch in the Matrix. Those landing fire thrusters, should of been called the landing suction fire back down to X marks the spot. Unfucking believable. Elon Musk said it best. It looks so fake it must be real. If the people are buying it, you can't blame them for pushing it.