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#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Good Is It for Me to Talk About Elon or Brad or Anything?
There was no way we weren't going to have tens of thousands of deaths at a minimum. And it was totally rational to be worried about hundreds of thousands. Nicholas Christakis came on my podcast very early, he predicted quite confidently that we would have about a million people dead in the US. I tried to get him to walk that back. But then we had a fairly long and detailed exchange on this issue which didn't work. There are other relations where I thought, okay, this is just going to be more trouble than it's worth. And there's a lot of that.
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