Making Sense with Sam Harris
Join neuroscientist, philosopher, and five-time New York Times best-selling author Sam Harris as he explores important and controversial questions about the mind, society, current events, moral philosophy, religion, and rationality—with an overarching focus on how a growing understanding of ourselves and the world is changing our sense of how we should live. Sam is also the creator of the Waking Up app. Combining Sam
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#499 — The Birth of AGI
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The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create Artificial Superintelligence
Kevin Roose
the book is the agi chronicles the inside story of the race to create artificial superintelligence ▶ tap to play from here
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
nick bostrom is probably not as shrill as eliezer at this point but he he he's the person who wrote the book superintelligence that got so many people worried about this ▶ tap to play from here
#498 — More From Sam: Bond Villains, Useful Idiots, Firing Squads, and More
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#497 — The Confidence Man
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Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
somewhat analogous to walter isaacson's biography right i mean he wrote this five six hundred page b essentially a hagiography of elon ▶ tap to play from here
#496 — The Oldest Lie
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Hebrew Bible
Various
when hebrew linguists were reviving hebrew as a spoken language they had to dig through the hebrew bible to find a word ▶ tap to play from here
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Unknown
the earliest anti zionist political text is the protocols of the elders of zion ▶ tap to play from here
#495 — Foreign Policy for Sale
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#494 — A Coin Toss for the Future
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#493 — Two Reasons to Meditate
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#492 — The Second Plane, 25 Years Later
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The End of Faith
Sam Harris
but that document became the first chapter of the end of faith and the resulting book pitched me into almost every culture war battle we've fought since ▶ tap to play from here
#491 — The Suicide of the Left
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
and you just go to the website and you are pitched into unapologetic communist manifesto ▶ tap to play from here
#490 — Lies, Bulls**t, and the Rule of Law
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Being There
Jerzy Kosiński
i think a lot of his success and the you know his ascendancy and his invulnerability to scandal has less to do with him being some kind of political genius and more to do with the situation in which he has found himself right so i i view him as a the the the the analogy that that has worked for me is that he's kind of an evil version of the chauncey gardner character from the the jersey klasinski book and the being there and the and they the film by that name ▶ tap to play from here
#489 — More From Sam: A Fabulist at Cambridge, the Strait of Hormuz, AOC in 2028, and More
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#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
but he's perhaps best known in the general public for his book thinking fast and slow which summarizes much of the work he did with trovsky ▶ tap to play from here
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
michael lewis also recently wrote a biography of the coneman tversky collaboration and that is called the undoing project ▶ tap to play from here
#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity
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#487 — Is AI Already Conscious?
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#486 — Luck All the Way Down
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The Genetic Lottery: DNA, Behavior, and Health
Kathryn Paige Harden
your last one the genetic lottery ▶ tap to play from here
Original Sin: On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame and the Future of Forgiveness
Catherine Page Harden
original sin on the genetics of vice the problem of blame and the future of forgiveness ▶ tap to play from here
#485 — The New Science of Cancer
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
you have an updated version of your pulture prize winning book the emperor of all maladies a biography of cancer which uh came out fifteen years ago ▶ tap to play from here
#484 — Artificial Intimacy
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#483 — The Knots We Tie Ourselves Into
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Religion for Atheists
Alain de Botton
i think y your book religion for atheists came out when was that twenty twelve ▶ tap to play from here
#482 — More From Sam: The Iran Deal, College in the AI Age, Mamdani's DSA, and More
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The End of Faith
Sam Harris
i think in um my first book the end of faith i wrote somewhere probably in an end note that it was just obvious that the end game for civilization is some version of one world government ▶ tap to play from here
#481 — Sam Harris Receives the 2026 Richard Dawkins Award
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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
i was halfway through writing the god delusion myself ▶ tap to play from here
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris
when the end of faith was published ▶ tap to play from here
Letter to a Christian Nation
Sam Harris
followed by the short letter to a christian nation ▶ tap to play from here
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
i've never read the count of monte cristo ▶ tap to play from here
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Leo Tolstoy
the the short tolstoy novel is spectacular ▶ tap to play from here
A Confession
Leo Tolstoy
he wrote his confession which it covers similar ground ▶ tap to play from here
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan
the demon haunted world is one of my favorite books ▶ tap to play from here
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