The Bomb: A Conversation with Fred Kaplan (Episode  

Really hoping Sam sees this comment to understand what the issue with the music is.

If im being honest, pretty recently :-/ an orange duck who has the controls to mankind's worst invention..

Sofi-Tukker?

Imagine Sam dancing to his new intro song

@nordic bear I wanted Bernie to be president now as well as then. But both of them are still better than Trump. He doesnt understand the gravity of using nuclear weapons and the devastation it causes to human life, because he has no empathy.

@Sablicious I never understood the problem of people having a problem with the long-form podcasts. Nobody ever said it has to be consumed in one sitting. There is a pause/play button. Glad to see another Dan Carlin fan in Sam's channel.

You should read Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan...

Not having nuclear weapons is worse. WW3 was a given without nukes. Imagine ww2 with 1960s or 1980s technology. Tokyo was far more damaged than Nagasaki or Hiroshima. So was Berlin. So was Dresden. And many other cities in Japan and Germany.

It's alright. I've heard worse.

Don't you like it? It's Balasubrahmanyam Subbulakshmina's famous new track "Melodic hot wet farts at a trendy affluent yoga retreat", off his new "Moistly cuntflaps" album. It's a total banger.

sam harris probably made that himself....

You are!

@@georgemargaris he needs to stay in his lane then lmfao

Sounds tough being you. You're having anxiety issues from a youtube upload. I don't meditate myself, but it seems like something you might benefit from

@@MFink-oq5hy maybe you should look into it before you comment!?

TheSaksutin- I'll second that!

No, you don't. I have the subscriber feed and it's as persistent as Greenwald's bullshit.

You totally stole that from me!

@@reinforcedpenisstem you don't get humor, do you?

@@synsynsy Do I?

lmao

sam loves the word career

Sam has come with some great ones over the years. The first I remember is "...silver lining in the mushroom cloud..."

poorly acted farce is the way I would put it

It's the sort of line a person speaks when he has a good command of the English language... not much else to it, I don't think.

@Sablicious you can register for a free one year account and he will give it to you 100 precent...if im not mistaken at the end of the year you can also register for a second time and earn another 1 year free subscription...

Matthew Richmond cuz he’s a party animal

@Sablicious All I see is claims, "he'll likely do ..." - in fact you don't know anything about that but you just don't like anything he does.

@Sablicious Do you at least notice your inner resentment or are you completely oblivious to it? It's an honest question.

@Sablicious isn't there no minimum, though? I'm subscribed to his patreon for like a dollar a month or something, and I can get the podcast

You're too optimistic. It's a podcast with one image.

Is this a one-time thing? Has he commented on it? I stopped listening to him after he went full social warrior and took his stuff behind a paywall. There are too many other good free podcasts to listen to, to be bothered jumping through hoops.

@@andybaldman You can still listen to half of most podcasts for free. If you want to subscribe, it's $4 and change a month to hear the whole thing. If you can't afford that, You're not listening to Sam Harris anyway.

@@andybaldman pretty sure Sam has gone through tunnels of hoops to create this content; surely you could jump through one or two more to support his efforts if you find them valuable?

@@GlowGlobe Yeah, sorry. I get where you're coming from. But that's just not how it works today. Sam makes plenty of money doing what he does (speaking, writing, etc). I'm not going out of my way to support someone else's podcast and wallet, when there are so many other worthwhile podcasts out there that are totally free. Sorry if it sounds harsh, but that's just the economics of podcasting today, and Sam as smart as he is should be able to understand that. His content isn't that important, when there's so much other good stuff out there too. If he wants his ideas to compete in the marketplace of ideas, and reach as many people as possible, he needs to compete in the same economy as others. Else he will lose in the long run.

@@andybaldman I suppose I'd have to disagree. Have you heard what he's said about how the advertising model affects media?

Anthony Petrucci I agree. It should never be a single person’s decision. Unfortunately, the select group will all be relying on the same faulty information.

​@@UsernameVincent Hmm, it's possible that the best action is no action if the trade-off is a policy that prevents an unhinged leader from unilaterally causing such mayhem during peacetime. But I'm perplexed how this scenario could exist in reality. Why would somebody launch a weaker first wave strike against you and give you a chance to retaliate? Why not launch as strong of a first wave strike as possible? A lot of the response to these scenarios is less about quick reaction and more about preparedness. I'm not a nuclear policy expert or game theoretician, but in my profession (IT, distributed database systems) disaster recovery is all about preparedness and getting your resources and protocols set up ahead of time so you can weather these sorts of events. That might mean deploying more nuclear subs and having more ground ICBMs spread out among more ally countries so you can retaliate easier, faster, and harder. It means having a more robust chain of succession for your nuclear strike decision committee, so if the president and 60% of the voting members get wiped out in the first strike then there's a clear succession for who gets to vote in their place, and those people are geographically separated from their successors and from each other. It means having redundant communication networks and a clear conviction protocol to determine when a voting member is truly dead or MIA and should be replaced by a successor. It's a complex engineering problem, but these things can be thought through and figured out instead of just granting all the power to one person as a lazy and dangerous solution to the problem. We put a lot of thought and effort into our legal/court system, our civic election system, our computer and banking systems, and we can certainly do the same for our nuclear strike system which is one of the most important systems of all.

@@Surfer8652 using emp to destroy electronics and communication

Yes, the biggest risk are these tyrants that are leaders.

There really are a ton of times we were right there. Many incidents.

I have never ever ever watched a porno in my life so I'll have to take your word for that. PS I'm lying.

Don't forget Life of Brian

It's really all just been down hill after that anyway.

So glad Gates was focusing on viral pand.....aaahhhh, shit.

@@noprolixity Pandemic (acknowledgment of its potential & work on it's prevention) IS actually ONE of the several existential problems the Bulletin includes when it decides where to set the clock each year.

Not me. I'm in full scale denial.

Am i the only one who likes the intro music?

jahwerx reminds me of when podcasts first came out, and you needed an mp3 player to listen to them.

Am I the only one who could give 💩💩? Lol

Pär Worbis Fuck Greta (not literally, you pervert). She’s such an engineered marketing product (of her parents).. good for her though: life sorted ✅

She’s now going to be one of those people I’ll be seeing age without any new ideas or content over the span of my life unless a tragic accident happens.. like an NBA star or something.. (still miss Kobe ☹️)

It's funny how adults get so heated about a teenager telling them what is readily apparent from the research of adults.

Which superpower has bases in former eastern Europe? Which organisation had herded in several eastern European countries, previously members of the Warsaw Pact? The US needs enemies. Without them (plural) it has no idea what do and how to live.

@@LawrenceVTexas I think you're saying it's more likely one would die from those things than a nuclear war. And that seems to statistically be true, so far. Because those are regular happenings, so their risk is somewhat predictable. What makes the prospect of a nuclear apocalypse different is that we have no stats on it happening before (outside of the bombings of Japan), but it also only needs to happen once for us to all be quite fucked. Think of it like this, there are more people alive right now than have died in all of previous human history. So if the nuclear crap hits the world-wide fan, atomic blasts and fallout radiation poisoning will probably quite quickly become the most common cause of all human death, even if we take the entire existance of the species combined. Appealing to historical statistics doesn't make sense when considering a prospect that could turn all previous statistics upside-down.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson said if you are going to die from an intercontinental ballistic missile you won't hear anything because they fly much MUCH faster than the speed of sound. You will simply be here one second and in a flash of light you will be less than dust. You won't see or hear anything, other than maybe a warning on your phone or TV minutes before it happens. I hope that eases your anxiety :)

I was thinking "I really don't like this intro music" before I went through the comments, guess I'm not alone.

I actually like it, though Maidens 2 minutes to midnight would have been better.

@@gazlink1 lol! Now that's a solid opener.

Annoying music vs nuclear annihilation. Hmmm. So hard. Don't cut yerself on that edge.

@@tyrred It's a joke...kind of like Sam's TDS.

Yeah, I'm fine with the military using whatever is most reliable for them.

Wow

And so it was for a lot of people. . . can't imagine witnessing that scenario. . . I bet he appreciates life more than most; it may be an upside for him.

this talk is full length

nope listened in 2020 but wanted to re hear the US retaliation protocol in all its suicidal glory once again.

Terminator 3

“The crazies”

Not war but a great depiction of a small detonation.

Yeltsin too. There are a lot of examples.

I dont buy this. It takes me at least 5 mins to boil and egg

Waqas Mahmood: Perhaps, I am at a higher altitude... where water boils at a lower temperature.

Don't worry Biden had them now

Giant asteroid

"Don't mind me, I'm just cute little low-yield thermonuclear warhead. Nothing to worry about here."

Doesn't have to be nuclear, just on an incoming trajectory.

As a deterrent to those that could use it. It's sad.

There seems to be a bit of a lack of ability or unwillingness to actually assess what has actually happened over the last 3 years. The top guy in the US is dealing with strongmen in high places in the Korean republic and Russia. The guy knows how to deal with these people, this discussion annoyed me a bit because there is a failure to understand the people involved. There is only one way to make certain of removing the threat, and that action has basically been taken. People should really be more appreciative of that, but of course no-one is going to be.

@@mike2carrington So we should be thankful to a new American dictator. Bow down, buddy.

@@mike2carrington yep look at what's happening now

@@cr-nd8qh Trump constantly talked about pulling out of NATO. He said he trusted Putin more than our own US intelligence. How exactly does that deter Putin?

@@natalyawoop4263 I didn't say trump but Biden is a great president. I'm so proud.

UFO's.

It was not a test, it was sunrise triggering the early warning satellites.

He's Slate's best writer

@@yamishogun6501 Slate isn't known for being even close to neutral, most articles are biased towards leftist insanity.

@@jupiterfive1331 Have you read any? Slate is good. Yes, they have a left bias but all opinion sites have biases; it's called principles, values, and belief systems.

@@PMFtheman if I wanted Leftist drivel, I'd read Stephen Lindman...at least Stephen isn't a government boot-licker

It doesn't matter if the person is a garbage truck driver for the city of Des Moines, you need to refute the argument not the person. Ad hominem seems to be the only way Trump supporters can think. You can scream TDS at all the facts and rational thoughts that you don't like, but people who actually care for the truth are just laughing at you.

The Russians said

@@NoOne-me3je Is that reliable?

@@reinforcedpenisstem yes. There are actually many close calls as well.

@@jc.1191 How is it reliable?

@@reinforcedpenisstem It's widely available information, also a documentary

Yes

Lawrence V. Texas Or, you just doubled down on my point for me. Your picture shows your age. You should be mature. But you give yourself a thumbs up on RU-vid?

Lawrence V. Texas I'm sorry bubba, I can't help you. (mute)

Your comment seems to be a sign of Harris worship... apologists who can't stomach even the slightest criticism of someone who, in large part, makes his living criticizing. Ironic. Shows your age.

Autonomous deployment ships launching NASA, DOD and commercially funded SpaceX rocket launches in plain sight, without regulation by the FCC, FAA and other government agencies? Please send me some of the kool-aid that you've been drinking!

Yeah it's gonna happen soon

Ah, that's right. The second one with the guitar was the best but people kept complaining about it. Meh, doesn't really matter.

Is that a film about Rizzo getting her period?

Scrubbing scrubbing scrubbing bubbles!

(Left nostril).

In theory, "the USA, Russia and Europe have defense systems which can take out dozens or even hundreds of incoming missiles" but not in testing. Missile defense is always a shell game. Just throw more shells. That's why an effective ABM has never become operational. Good thing STAR WARS was invented to bankrupt the Soviet union instead.

Don't worry, John Connor will save us.

It's empty headed numptys that are too dumb to converse about the actual topic, but they still want to make a comment

No. Deterance is deterance. MAD worked. Soon we will have sustainable off-planet populations, and MAD will be seen as a scarry period of history. I hope.😬

Plot twist: in most timelines MAD didn't work, and we're only here to talk about it because of the anthropic principle.

@@JohnPritzlaff lolol, good one