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#218 — Welcome to the Cult Factory

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Human Brain at Chess

A good metaphor for this is, let's say you or i were to play garry kasparov at chess. No matter how many moves ahead that garry can see, the super computer can see billions of moves ahead. And when he beats garry, who is the best human chess player of all time, he's beaten like the human brain at chess. We have an expedential degree of a symmetry, and they know us and our weaknesses better than we know ourselves....

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