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Jun 2018
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#128 — Transformations of Mind

SAM HARRIS
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Sam Harris speaks with Geoffrey Miller about evolutionary psychology. They discuss sexual selection, virtue signaling, social media, public shaming, monogamy and polyamory, taboo topics in science, genetic engineering, gender differences and the "Google memo," moral psychology, existential risk, AI, and other topics.

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