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#185 – Sam Harris: Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, and Meaning

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Utility of Self Compassion

The idea that you're ever confronting anything other than a force of nature in the end goes out the window, right? Or what does go out the window when you really pay attention? We are so evolved to deal with one another as fellow primates and as agents. Even if that weren't possible, the utility for self compassion is also enormous because it's when you just look at what it's like to feel shame about something or feel deep embarrassment about these states of mind.

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