#474 — More From Sam: Hasan Piker, Islamism, Making Sense Community, and More
5/7/202617 min
In this latest episode of the More From Sam series, Sam and Jaron talk about current events. They discuss the launch of Making Sense Community, Sam's Ben Shapiro conversation, the New York Times's embrace of Hasan Piker, Zohran Mamdani's approach to Islamism, the misuse of the word "genocide," AI-driven job displacement, and other topics.
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First 90 secondsJaron Lanier· Host0:00
[gentle music] You're listening to Making Sense with Sam Harris. This is the free version of the podcast, so you'll only hear the first part of today's conversation. If you want the full episode, and every episode, you can subscribe at samharris.org. There are no ads on this show. It runs entirely on subscriber support. If you enjoy what we're doing here and find it valuable, please consider subscribing today. Welcome back to another episode of More From Sam. Once again, we're taping this live in front of subscribers. I'll be asking Sam any of the questions that you subscribers have submitted. We'll be fielding reactions in real time so that Sam can address those. Before we get to our first topic, I just wanna quickly mention that Sam has shows in Toronto, which is sold out, next week, DC and New York City. There are still tickets for DC and New York. And then the following week, on May 20th and 21st, uh, you'll be in Dallas and Austin. Also, you have some great podcast guests coming up in the next month or so. Michael Pollan will be released next week, Susan Cain, Alain de Botton, who's just like an incredible human, or seems to me. I haven't met him.
Sam Harris· Host1:02
Mm.
Jaron Lanier· Host1:02
Vinod Khosla, Noah Smith, Jonathan Swan, and others. Okay, I wanna get to our first topic. Actually, this is also a bit of an announcement, but since we're gonna discuss it, I think it counts. We have launched a new community, and for those who haven't heard about it yet, why don't you tell us what your intentions are with it?
Sam Harris· Host1:18
Yeah, this is really, um, I guess, I mean, in my mind, something like a replacement for Reddit. Not... No offense to all the Redditors out there, but I just think we need a, a situation where there's