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#315 — The Great Derangement

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Future of Human History

Human history was just a theater of utter boredom, right? I mean, basically nothing changed for generation after generation. And now we've hit some kind of asymptote with respect to cultural and technological change. We are virtually on the cusp of democratizing the type of technology that would allow one person or 10 to consciously decide to release some heinous pathogen on all of humanity. So perhaps you can just reflect on how you view this moment in history. It's kind of like epilogue, civilization is kind of the last chapter. An AD, you know, is a page 992. The very last page, so page 1000, which goes from like the early 1770

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