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#365 – Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Origin Story of the Wet Market

I've always felt that it didn't matter for two reasons. One is we had the genome of the virus and we could design, we're very quickly designed immediately designing vaccines against that genome. So the origin story didn't matter. Generically speaking, either origin story was politically inflammatory and made the Chinese look bad. The wet market makes them look like barbarians within another century. I mean, it's just they were bad actors and they should be treated as such regardless of the origin.

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