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Making Sense with Sam Harris

#459 — More From Sam: Corruption, Immigration, The End of White-Collar Work, and More

2/13/202610 min

In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss Trump's cryptocurrency dealings with the UAE and their national security implications, AI timelines and the looming end of white-collar work, the impact of Trump's immigration crackdown on U.S. population decline, potential U.S. military action in Iran, the end of the Minnesota ICE surge, the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime controversy, and other topics.

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Clips

Selling Out National Security
Robots Target White-Collar First
Mustafa’s Timeline, Society’s Shock
Beyond Left and Right

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Sam Harris· Host0:00

    [gentle music] Welcome to the Making Sense podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're hearing this, you're not currently on our subscriber feed, and will only be hearing the first part of this conversation. In order to access full episodes of the Making Sense podcast, you'll need to subscribe at samharris.org. We don't run ads on the podcast, and therefore it's made possible entirely through the support of our subscribers. So if you enjoy what we're doing here, please consider becoming one.

  2. Jaron· Host0:32

    Welcome back to another episode of More From Sam. Hey, Sam, it was, uh, nice seeing you a few minutes ago- Yes [laughs] ... and seeing you again here.

  3. Sam Harris· Host0:42

    Yeah, long time no see.

  4. Jaron· Host0:43

    Yeah, we just did a Substack Live. I thought that was really good.

  5. Sam Harris· Host0:46

    Yeah, yeah. It, it actually kind of surprised me that live still feels like something different, right? I mean, it's like obviously the experience of looking at a camera and, and talking is identical, but just the knowledge that it's live and that you can't take any of your words back is, uh, somehow, uh, uh, thrilling or, uh, gets your attention. So, uh, I like it.

  6. Jaron· Host1:04

    We didn't give subscribers much heads-up at all. We will do that in the future, but we just had thought of it at the last minute and, um, anyone who would like to join us for one of those in the future, you can become a subscriber and join us over there. We will give you more time and, um, I thought it was really cool that we were able to take some questions- Yeah.

  7. Sam Harris· Host1:22

    Yeah ...

  8. Jaron· Host1:22

    from the audience and do that in real time. It's a different experience being live than recording, but, um, we'll do more of those, and we'll see

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