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== Introduction == | == Introduction == | ||
'''Eric Weinstein: (00:00:06)''' Hello, you found the portal. I'm your host, Eric Weinstein, and we're here today with my good friend, Sam Harris. Sam, thanks for coming by | '''Eric Weinstein: (00:00:06)''' Hello, you found the portal. I'm your host, Eric Weinstein, and we're here today with my good friend, Sam Harris. Sam, thanks for coming by. | ||
Eric | '''Sam Harris''' Thank you. That was great. | ||
'''Eric''' So first question are, are you in any trouble that I don't know about? | |||
'''Sam''' I don't think so. I think you know what trouble I get into as I get into it. | |||
'''Eric''' Okay. | |||
'''Sam''' I often look to you for, | |||
'''Eric''' well, occasionally I get a call from you and you say, I'm thinking about getting all of the following form of trouble. Talk me out of it. Try and if I, if it happens that I'm not there for an hour and a half, I get another call saying too late. | |||
'''Sam''' Yeah. I remember one that, a vacation that was unraveling and I was calling you from literally from poolside and why? Yeah. The one vacation I'd taken with my family in a year and I was, I was poised to ruin it and ruin it. I did. And I don't blame you for it, but whatever counsel you gave me did not, did not prevent the unraveling of a vacation. | |||
'''Eric''' Well, I'm here to afford you the opportunity to to, to ruin a future vacation. But let's try to avoid it if we can. | |||
'''Sam''' Okay. | |||
'''Eric''' I'm just curious for, so first of all, I've taken your advice and Tim Ferriss's and Joe Rogan's and started this podcast. You were actually the first person I sat down with, but I had so little idea what I was doing that we blocked out the windows. We had an uncomfortable table in front of the face. The functionary was completely off. We had an Adams family podcast. Exactly. so we're, we're trying things, I'm learning a little bit. But first of all any, anytime you want to flip the tables on me, I'm game to what is top of mind for you at the moment or should we, should, I can go into some topics that I'm curious about? | |||
Eric Weinstein: 00:01:42 Whatever you want to go. This is your show. Okay. So one of the things that I'm starting to think about is doing a little bit of retrospective work, trying to think about where our world, our country is. We're going into another electoral cycle. And I just think this is the most bizarre age imaginable. It doesn't behave like any previous time. And I hear that we're at peak this and peak that, but I don't see any signs of the, what I increasingly see is the incoherence slowing down. Are you also perceiving a world that is kind of intellectually unraveling or are you seeing new kinds of formations that give you the idea that something is actually filling the voids that have been opening up when it comes to coherence? Well, we'll, I, I worry that this is a kind of cognitive delusion to think that the time you're in is always sort of newly chaotic or incoherent or you know, civilizations on the brink in some new way in your time. But I, but I, I'm taken in by it in Arcata be kidding, man. This has never happened. No, no, this is, this is, but there's gotta be some name for this where it's just, you know, it's, it's | Eric Weinstein: 00:01:42 Whatever you want to go. This is your show. Okay. So one of the things that I'm starting to think about is doing a little bit of retrospective work, trying to think about where our world, our country is. We're going into another electoral cycle. And I just think this is the most bizarre age imaginable. It doesn't behave like any previous time. And I hear that we're at peak this and peak that, but I don't see any signs of the, what I increasingly see is the incoherence slowing down. Are you also perceiving a world that is kind of intellectually unraveling or are you seeing new kinds of formations that give you the idea that something is actually filling the voids that have been opening up when it comes to coherence? Well, we'll, I, I worry that this is a kind of cognitive delusion to think that the time you're in is always sort of newly chaotic or incoherent or you know, civilizations on the brink in some new way in your time. But I, but I, I'm taken in by it in Arcata be kidding, man. This has never happened. No, no, this is, this is, but there's gotta be some name for this where it's just, you know, it's, it's | ||