Clipped from Making Sense Podcast Episode 331 - A Golden Age for Assholes: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/331-a-golden-age-for-assholes .

Be "less of an asshole, less of the time." Good advice.

This clip is aging in interesting ways.

I've always harboured respect for what Sam tries to do. But Sam walks a tricky path when he suggests people can "care about the wrong things" as a basis for concluding they are assholes.

It's not unreasonable to imagine that two equally educated, experienced, and equally good people can come to vastly different conclusions based on what they care about. The proverb "One man's trash is another man's treasure" comes to mind.

We're all enriched -- and sometimes hindered -- by our own experiences. No one person is omniscient. No one person has all the experiences and all the cares of all people. So, who gets to decide what is good or bad to care about?

Hyper-Sample - Sam Harris on Assholes

Excerpt from discussion with Sam Harris in "Thinking in Public: A Conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson" https://soundcloud.com/samharrisorg/harris-tyson

Hyper-Sample: Neil deGrasse Tyson On Earthlings Aliens and SETI

In this excerpt from the Waking Up podcast #41, mathematician and economist Eric Weinstein critiques Harris' general approach by describing the factors that make conversations on important topics so difficult.

Hyper-Sample: Eric Weinstein Describes the Effect of Elite Rent-Seeking

"There's some level of bad taste that I view as kind of morally disqualifying"

Sam Harris on Bad Style

Blade Runner enhance scene mashed with Joe Rogan Experience #919

Catching Neil deGrasse Tyson Swearing

My son and I thought it would be funny to use this as a notification sound or ringtone or something. It's from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIyjW7w-RtI&t=6s

Listening to The Second Verse made me cry

Jake Paul Ringtone Idea

From SH Podcast "Landscapes of the Mind":

"Kevin Kelly helped launch Wired magazine and was its executive editor for its first seven years. He has written for The New York Times, The Economist, Science, Time, and The Wall Street Journal among many other publications. His previous books include Out of Control, New Rules for the New Economy, Cool Tools, and What Technology Wants. His most recent book is The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future." (June 30 2017, https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/landscapes-of-mind)

Hyper-Sample: Perpetual Newbs - Kevin Kelly On Learning How To Learn

This is a hyper-sampled version of https://samharris.org/podcasts/130-universal-basic-income/.

(This mashing of samples is no substitute for the original podcast)

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Hyper-Sample: Jobs Apocalypse - Yang on Automation, AI and UBI

Normally, I'm eager to chop up a sample in the name of brevity.  But there is something about how Stephen Fry meanders, while somehow getting quickly to the point, which is beyond any ability I may claim to trim things down. 

This is a sample from Making Sense #147: https://samharris.org/podcasts/147-stephen-fry/ .

Making Sense 147

Hyper-Sample: Fry on Fortitude

This is a "droned" rough cut of Orbital's Monsters Exist set (https://soundcloud.com/orbital-4/monsters-exist-launch-party-dj-set-banquet-records).  The original set is 9 times longer, and this is by no means a substitute.

Here "droned" just means layered effects (wobbly layered echoes mostly, some levels changes) to make it more like binaural or study music.

Droned Mixes

Droned - Orbital's Monsters Exist Set

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