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Sam Harris — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Sam Harris has appeared on 11 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including Making Sense with Sam Harris, The John Johnston Lounge, The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Sam said
“You can't become happy. You can only be happy.”
— Sam Harris (17:27)
“All we really have is our attention. The quality of our life really is a story of what we're paying attention to and what we can notice.”
— Sam Harris (39:14)
“99% of our worry is wasted. The initial signal of fear or anger is information about your life, but in the next moment, those states of mind are almost never valuable.”
— Sam Harris (54:22)
“There are not many examples of a less intelligent species living in proximity to a more intelligent species and managing to control it.”
— Sam Harris, citing Geoffrey Hinton (62:24)
“Whatever the right answer for the emergence of consciousness is... even if we had that description in hand... it would be totally non-explanatory. There's just this explanatory gap and whatever the right answer is, it's still gonna look like a miracle.”
— Sam Harris (10:56)
Episode appearances
11 
“Megalomaniac With A God Complex”: Brutal Musk Doc Reviews The four-hour documentary from Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, screened at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals, paints Elon Musk…
The Second Plane, 25 Years Later The morning of September 11, 2001, Sam Harris was a neuroscience PhD student who had spent the previous decade studying religious belief and meditation. When the…
Sam Harris and former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara met to diagnose the state of public discourse and the rule of law. The conversation was prompted by a shared sense that something has gone…
More From Sam: Cambridge, Iran, Fauci, and Institutional Collapse In this episode of Making Sense, Sam Harris offers a series of sharp, interconnected critiques of institutional failure, elite…
In 2016, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman told Sam Harris that after more than 50 years studying cognitive biases, his own intuitions had not significantly improved. "I'm also very…
The week’s dominant story was a brutal, real-world demonstration of how leverage can destroy fortunes overnight. A high-flying hedge fund manager known as "AI Jesus" was forced to liquidate his…
The Democrats’ Far-Left Problem Sam Harris opened his conversation with Scott Galloway by zeroing in on a moment that crystallized the broader crisis: Dan Abash's interview with RFK Jr., where…
Is AI Already Conscious? A Scientific Approach to an Urgent Question Cameron Berg, a cognitive scientist who has studied at Yale and Meta AI, estimates there is a 20 to 40% chance that current…
Sam Harris opens a conversation about thinking with a striking observation: most people cannot pay attention to anything for thirty seconds without getting lost in thought, even if their lives…
In 2018, Michael Pollan published How to Change Your Mind, a book about psychedelics that became a cultural phenomenon. What he didn't expect was that the experience of writing it would leave him…
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