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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is the Threat of COVID Growing With the Magnitude of the Threat?

I think the prospect of our converging on a solution to climate change purely based on political persuasion is nonexistent at this point. The idea that we're going to convince the better part of humanity, that climate change is an emergency that they have to make sacrifices to respond to seems like a fantasy given what's happened around COVID. I just think the way to deal with climate change is to create technology that everyone wants that is better than all the, the carbon producing technology. And then we just transition because you want an electric car the same way you wanted a smartphone or anything else and you're working totally with the grain of people's short term thinking.

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