Making Sense
by Sam Harris · first published 2020
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…favorites that I listen to on a regular basis and can highly recommend: EconTalk (Russ Roberts) Conversations with Tyler Darknet Diaries Security Now Sean Carroll's Mindscape Lex Fridman Podcast Making Sense Sam Harris Commentary Magazine The Editors by National Review The Fifth Column The Glen Show (Glen Lowry) Longform Podcasts have had a huge impact on my intellectual development over the last decade.…
on “Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to?” ↗+1, i also like Sam Harris's Making Sense which is a little more pompous but still interesting
on “Against 3x Speed” ↗Making Sense podcast by Sam Harris is pretty good, although he posts much less frequently than Lex Fridman.
on “Joe Rogan has completely disrupted the legacy media” ↗I like Making Sense with Sam Harris. He’s not afraid to challenge guests, or take controversial stands on topics (eg. We don’t have free will) and overall a breath of fresh air in a chaotic world. I think the more fundamental…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts or other audio-based content?” ↗…‘serious’ interests, Peter Attia’s podcast, The Drive, and it’s short-form counterpart, The Qualies, are fantastic. Truly world-class conversations. Another in the same league is Sam Harris’ podcast, Making Sense. Finally, for sheer entertainment value that intersects the world of technology, Darknet Diaries has been a favourite for years.
on “Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?” ↗Pivot - the combo of Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway really works Marketplace - public radio daily about the economy that’s a great education on the economy and everything really Making Sense with Sam Harris - Sam is a powerful thinker and he has a wide range of topics and amazing guests Corecursive - every episode is a story about a piece of software: excellent Hardcore History, of course…
on “Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?” ↗Making Sense with Sam Harris. There are so many good podcast episodes. If you don’t like the first one you listen to, browse the list of episodes. There’s a ton of evergreens.
on “Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2022?” ↗…that it was a great starting point. Much in the same way I might take a code snippet from StackOverflow and modify it to suit my own needs. I listened to a great podcast titled "The Trouble with AI" on Making Sense with Sam Harris. One of the key takeaways I grabbed from it was that GPT is an LLM not an AI. What it is very good at is predicting the next correct character or word in a sequence based off of other…
on “GPT-4 is phenomenal at Code” ↗The only podcast I make sure to keep up with is Making Sense with Sam Harris [0] [0] https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes
on “Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to?” ↗The ones that feel the most like they "get me" are probably Weird Studies and Very Bad Wizards. I'm a fan of Sam Harris's Making Sense podcast too. When I want to dip into political news, I trust the Fifth Column guys to have fairly measured and reasonable takes with a vaguely libertarian bent. I have a handful of other political shows…
on “What podcasts are you listening to?” ↗Making Sense, by Sam Harris
on “Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?” ↗In the Sam Harris podcast Making Sense the director clears up the claim made by the guardian. If you’re interested in getting a better factual grounding on this issue I would recommend listen to it. In addition, the NYT article shows many…
on “The Cancellation of ‘Jihad Rehab’” ↗People should absolutely get vaccinated. After Eric Topol's appearance on Sam Harris' Making Sense podcast, the argument has been made and it's airtight... for you, yourself going and getting vaccinated of your own volition. What should not happen - what cannot happen - is the government or private…
on “Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S. offices” ↗Chesterton's Fence sounds like it was retooled by Jordan Peterson in his definition of truth (broadly: anything evolutionarily useful, Making Sense podcast w/ Sam Harris). Peterson takes it to weird places, IMO, and Chesteron's Fence works better. "Don't remove a fence until you know why it was put there."
on “My seatbelt rule for judgment” ↗Sam Harris in his Making Sense podcast interviewed Timothy Snyder [1] about this topic, they had a decent dive into the history, relationship between the countries and meaning of the war for both sides. 1. https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/301...…
on “Are We Prisoners of Geography?” ↗