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Sep 2015
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#18 — The Multiverse & You (& You & You ...

SAM HARRIS
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Sam Harris speaks with MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark about the foundations of science, our current understanding of the universe, and the risks of future breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.

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