Episode #641
Sam Harris
Books mentioned
The Professor in the Cage
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Crowds and Power
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Among the Thugs
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American Sniper
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
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The Bible
Mentioned by Sam Harris · at 01:45:05 · ▶︎ Watch this moment on YouTube (approximate)
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The Quran
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Hadith
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The Book of Mormon
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Superintelligence
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Letter to a Christian Nation
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The Moral Landscape
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Waking Up
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Neuroscientist and author Sam Harris joins Joe Rogan to discuss brain injury, safety, and ethics in mixed martial arts and combat sports, along with the psychology of violence, war, and crowd behavior. They examine foreign policy, religious extremism, free speech, ethical consumer choices, psychedelics, and the potential risks and benefits of advanced artificial intelligence.
What they talked about
- Jon Jones hit-and-run incident
- MMA training and testosterone levels
- Brain damage in combat sports
- Free will and moral responsibility
- War, ethics, and collateral damage
- U.S. foreign policy and Iraq war
- Islam, free speech, and Charlie Hebdo
- Risks of artificial general intelligence
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