Making Sense with Sam Harris

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#392 — Technology & Culture

Sam Harris speaks with Christine Rosen about how technology is changing our culture. They discuss the courage of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, lost practices like handwriting, tradeoffs in our use of technology, social media, conspiracy thinking, X as a platform for breaking news, the future of journalism, the importance of local news, the asymmetry right and left politically, the strange case of Tucker Carlson, the antisemitic hallucinations of Dan Bilzerian, expectations for a second Trump presidency, antisemitism in America, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe. Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

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  #393 — Is History Repeating Itself?

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  #391 — The Reckoning

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  #390 — Final Thoughts on the 2024 Presidential Election

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  #389 — The Politics of Risk

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  #388 — What Is Life?

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  #387 — Politics & Power

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  #386 — Information & Social Order

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  #385 — AI Utopia

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  #384 — Stress Testing Our Democracy

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  #383 — Where Are the Grown-Ups?

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  #382 — The Eye of Nature

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  #381 — Delusions, Right and Left

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  #380 — The Roots of Attention

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  #379 — Regulating Artificial Intelligence

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  #378 — Digital Delusions