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Dec 2024
31m 28s

#395 — Intellectual Authority and Its Di...

SAM HARRIS
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Sam Harris discusses the breakdown of trust in institutions, the nature of intellectual authority, the danger of bad incentives, the epidemic of conspiracy thinking and misinformation, Trump and Elon, and other topics.

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