We have built the social media tools that allow bad actors like raputten's regime to use our own hyper partisanship and devisiveness against us, right? So we have egon o the the rampant hacking of our society. We've also collaborated in an increasing dependence on regimes that we can'tt trust. And now it finally seems wand this goes to the point of puton's miscalculation, it finally seems that enough was enough. I mea there d pry a thousand points of salience here we cald seize on.
Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about the wider implications of Russia’s war of conquest in Ukraine. They discuss different forms of war, Putin’s miscalculation regarding the internal divisions of America and the EU, the problem of misinformation, international norms of behavior, the role of China, the civilizational importance of trust, globalization and de-globalization, existential risk, the role of India, Ukrainian leadership, the danger of nuclear war, regime change in Russia, and other topics.
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