10:04 This "quote" from the Bhagavad Gita is heavily misquoted and mistranslated, unfortunately. What he is referring to is more aligning and translated as such " I am mighty Time, the source of destruction that comes forth to annihilate the worlds. Even without your participation, the warriors arrayed in the opposing army shall cease to exist."
Existential threats are not rooted in destructive weapons but in traits such as greed, fear, competitiveness, selfishness, hubris etc. and in how species process information and enact their emotions/ compulsions. The level of destruction is aided by the sophiscation of the invented weapons, hence the level of risk grows with the evolution of each species, or put simply, the risk will always escalate over time.
Not exactly. Accidents are a thing. A well meaning being could mistakenly destroy their civilizations progress with sufficiently powerful technologies or creation of diseases in research even. And existential threats are not only created by beings, but natural causes like the meteor that devestated the earth or solar flares, colliding black holes, super nova ejections, etc.
Anyone interested in the subject who hasn’t seen Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “Doctor Strangelove…” is missing out on a great example of how we might become aware of the essential absurdity of our continued existence. Just to lighten things up😉!!
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Sam is friends with the likes of David Frum and Anne Applebaum, Neo-Cons and War Pigs who are doing everything in their power to implement Permanent War. The very type of crazies who are pushing the world to the brink of Nuclear Annihilation. I like Sam's podcasts, but C'mon Man!
A few years back I read "Command and Control", "The Doomsday Machine", and "The Dead Hand" back to back. The main takeaway from all three? Every day without a global nuclear Holocaust is a win.
No the great filter was gamma ray bursts. We showed up at the same time as everyone else, give or take a a few thousand years, mostly because gamma ray bursts in the younger galaxy subsided.
One of my favourite topics. I like these episodes but for me, it should include a little more from Sam due to the length of build up and preface during the intro. The intros are fine, btw, nothing personal, it just throws me off when I come to a Sam Harris video on Sam Harris’s channel but don’t hear him for the first 12 minutes.
We seem to love trilogies, and we seem to love war. All our great stories take a spark to start. But this movie’s installment will be the strangest of all. Forever will be fighting, where there is no war.
Nuclear war involves weapons of "mass destruction". Fat Man killed 40,000 to 80,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That is the most notable nuclear bombing throughout history. Since then, every developed nation or world super powers dedicated and sacrificed time, money, materials and lives to build the biggest and baddest bombs on the planet and gloat about their capabilities. With one claiming they are badder than the next, the question is why? Every country has innocent people who don't want to die, at least this way, even North Korea, China and Russia, the world's most supercharged antagonists. No one in The US wants to die like this. No one in the world wants to die like this. When it is over, no one can throw the V because of all the lives that will be lost. That is the reason why of this threat. The world has become very populated. Governments even suggest that the world has become over populated. Some places in the world has over 5 million people in a 15 mile radius and growing. WW3 is just population control. They can dress it up with their reasoning and motivations all they want, but innocent people will die and are meant to die in the arch of this nuclear threat. But with well over a hundred thousands of nuclear equip ICBMS and other long range missiles and bombs combined, survivors will not be blown back to the stone age. They will die a slow death. Not even the rich will survive the outcome of nuclear war. There are still islands that are radio active from tests done in the 50s. What do you think will happen after the smoke clears from a nuclear war? There are many things where it was declared that science went to far. If this type of war commence, science will have crossed the line, ending humanity. Just imagine an ending of a good action movie where the Earth is rotating around the sun with decomposing corpses on every continent, so peaceful and quiet without anyone alive to ask what the hell happened here. Oh well. So much for a space war.
I'd say if the odds of us wiping ourselves out are "only" 1-in-6 then this is pretty good. Personally I'd say it's much higher than that, at least 50/50 and possibly even 90%+ to be honest...
Fermi paradox solution: intelligences eradicate themselves. That would help explain why the cosmos appears so void of life. .. and the narrator mentions this five minutes in.
@@Paretozen For the same reason i wouldn't want Rinos and Tigers or any animal to go extinct... and i believe we are the only species of Homo Sapiens in the entire universe.
Na I dont think so lol. The single most important thing we could be spending our money on is the military. This way we can remain at the top of the pile. You can either be the one calling the shots or you can be the taking the orders. There is no in between.
The true turning point is when we figured out farming the same land too much depletes the nitrogen in the soil and if we just replace the nitrogen we can farm it forever. And now boom there's 8 billion of us. Unlimited food supply took the governor breaks off of society.
I do not understand the 3rd party girl talking over the podcast or explaining the topic these seem like such a waste of time especially when its pay gated this doesn’t make me want to seek out the whole thing if anything it ruins my interest in the whole thing. Is this sam or some girl who uses the channel like a broadcast television channel? I just don’t get it
I get the impression that they are repackaging old interview content into these narrated episodes. It sucks. Sam Harris isn't interesting enough to repackage like a tv dinner.
Blaming others for your financial failure isn’t going to make your finances any better. Pick yourself up from your bootstraps. Take responsibility for your decisions. Learn from your mistakes, and you will be on your way to financial fulfillment. You got this!!!
@@rossschcheese i have no idea whether he did or not. either way it bothers me. you should only treat someone with this kind of reverence at an awards ceremony, as a debate presenter, or in a documentary once they've been dead for a few decades.
So sick of hearing about this nuclear war fear... Would you launch a nuclear missile on whim or in a conventional war? No? We'll guess what, neither would anyone else either, it's not gonna happen.
I don't view it as an existential threat. I see it as the only reasonable thing human beings can do today. Civilization was clearly a mistake, and it should be corrected as soon as possible.
What makes you come to that conclusion? I’m just thinking off the top of my head about the violence that took hold of our nations cities…. Almost a year of civil unrest in the city I live in in the Pacific Northwest. I saw some of the most traumatic and ferocious violence between authorities and people I’ve *ever* seen in my life. I have many hours of footage on my TH-cam channel. And my next example the only thing I need to say is “january 6th” and instantly an image forms in your mind. I’ve lived in the USA for 43 years and I can say with out question that as far as what my personal experience has been … The gears during trumps presidency where the most violent years I’ve ever seen in my own country with my own eyes. For you to make your comment I feel you have to ignore a lot of things that happened in our country….
@@ericgraham8150 Yes, there were some riots in Democrat-controlled cities. You have a point. I was referring to wars with other countries, and the risks being discussed in the podcast.
Wire like neuronal structures that conduct electricity via ions/neurotransmitters in the CNS/PNS possess no attribute of thinking/life and yet that has “randomly” led to life. Consciousness/thinking is an innate idea that is distinct from carbon skeleton and yet the materialist scientist believes that chemistry turned into biology via “god of randomness”/” magic”/miracle of randomness”. Consciousness can only stem from consciousness itself (Allah/one/indivisible/loving/self-sufficient Perfection).
Sam Harris logic- If everything was different right, I would not be wrong right, and since eveything could be different right, I am correct right. Somone suffering from NPD is incapable of admitting when they are wrong.
10:04 This "quote" from the Bhagavad Gita is heavily misquoted and mistranslated, unfortunately. What he is referring to is more aligning and translated as such " I am mighty Time, the source of destruction that comes forth to annihilate the worlds. Even without your participation, the warriors arrayed in the opposing army shall cease to exist."
Let them eat cake
I always knew that Oppenheimer was being shady with that quote.
Doesn't quite have the same ring to it 😂
Existential threats are not rooted in destructive weapons but in traits such as greed, fear, competitiveness, selfishness, hubris etc. and in how species process information and enact their emotions/ compulsions. The level of destruction is aided by the sophiscation of the invented weapons, hence the level of risk grows with the evolution of each species, or put simply, the risk will always escalate over time.
Not exactly. Accidents are a thing. A well meaning being could mistakenly destroy their civilizations progress with sufficiently powerful technologies or creation of diseases in research even. And existential threats are not only created by beings, but natural causes like the meteor that devestated the earth or solar flares, colliding black holes, super nova ejections, etc.
Anyone interested in the subject who hasn’t seen Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece “Doctor Strangelove…” is missing out on a great example of how we might become aware of the essential absurdity of our continued existence. Just to lighten things up😉!!
It's a lot better than listening to Sam Harris whinge about how superior his moral wisdom is.
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Sam is friends with the likes of David Frum and Anne Applebaum, Neo-Cons and War Pigs who are doing everything in their power to implement Permanent War. The very type of crazies who are pushing the world to the brink of Nuclear Annihilation. I like Sam's podcasts, but C'mon Man!
A few years back I read "Command and Control", "The Doomsday Machine", and "The Dead Hand" back to back. The main takeaway from all three? Every day without a global nuclear Holocaust is a win.
time to go to sleep.....*sees sam Harris video on youtube..... guess not
This introduction goes on for far too long
Damn why do I miss Ham Sarris...
Greetings from 🇲🇽, Sam!
No the great filter was gamma ray bursts. We showed up at the same time as everyone else, give or take a a few thousand years, mostly because gamma ray bursts in the younger galaxy subsided.
You been reading too many the hulk comics bro
This is timely, given the rising volume of drums beating for war on all sides. Good selection of segments.
You sound like one of those people who think giving Russia and china everything they want will make then go away
One of my favourite topics. I like these episodes but for me, it should include a little more from Sam due to the length of build up and preface during the intro.
The intros are fine, btw, nothing personal, it just throws me off when I come to a Sam Harris video on Sam Harris’s channel but don’t hear him for the first 12 minutes.
You can fast forward. That is what I do.
Fermi paradox solution: intelligences eradicate themselves. That would help explain why the cosmos appears so void of life.
And of course the narrator mentions it 5 minutes in.
Idk about these long intros.... 😐
You can skip them:)
@@edenonsale i did... by skipping the entire video. Thanks 😊
@@eugenebyrdman8164 try stfu when no one is talking to you 🙃
It really is annoying.
Right! I skipped thru that shit!
10:47 One more city, one more time.
One iconic city, a bridge will still stand. But irradiated gold, will keep the tale gated for all time.
We seem to love trilogies, and we seem to love war.
All our great stories take a spark to start.
But this movie’s installment will be the strangest of all. Forever will be fighting, where there is no war.
Thank You for talking to Megyn Kelly!
Thanks so much
I fixed the "Doomsday Clock." It now has no hands. Pretty good, huh?
Nice work.
Nuclear war involves weapons of "mass destruction". Fat Man killed 40,000 to 80,000 people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That is the most notable nuclear bombing throughout history. Since then, every developed nation or world super powers dedicated and sacrificed time, money, materials and lives to build the biggest and baddest bombs on the planet and gloat about their capabilities. With one claiming they are badder than the next, the question is why? Every country has innocent people who don't want to die, at least this way, even North Korea, China and Russia, the world's most supercharged antagonists. No one in The US wants to die like this. No one in the world wants to die like this. When it is over, no one can throw the V because of all the lives that will be lost. That is the reason why of this threat. The world has become very populated. Governments even suggest that the world has become over populated. Some places in the world has over 5 million people in a 15 mile radius and growing. WW3 is just population control. They can dress it up with their reasoning and motivations all they want, but innocent people will die and are meant to die in the arch of this nuclear threat. But with well over a hundred thousands of nuclear equip ICBMS and other long range missiles and bombs combined, survivors will not be blown back to the stone age. They will die a slow death. Not even the rich will survive the outcome of nuclear war. There are still islands that are radio active from tests done in the 50s. What do you think will happen after the smoke clears from a nuclear war? There are many things where it was declared that science went to far. If this type of war commence, science will have crossed the line, ending humanity. Just imagine an ending of a good action movie where the Earth is rotating around the sun with decomposing corpses on every continent, so peaceful and quiet without anyone alive to ask what the hell happened here. Oh well. So much for a space war.
I'd say if the odds of us wiping ourselves out are "only" 1-in-6 then this is pretty good. Personally I'd say it's much higher than that, at least 50/50 and possibly even 90%+ to be honest...
"Mandrake, get me some rain water!"
Agreed. The human race isn’t shit compared to what we will create.
Do you care if we wipe ourselves out? What benefit do you personally have in the eternal existance of humanity.
Fermi paradox solution: intelligences eradicate themselves. That would help explain why the cosmos appears so void of life. .. and the narrator mentions this five minutes in.
@@Paretozen For the same reason i wouldn't want Rinos and Tigers or any animal to go extinct... and i believe we are the only species of Homo Sapiens in the entire universe.
We are no different than the animals who kill out of fear of other animals.
Remember when Sam was advocating for a nuclear first strike on Muslims countries? I do.
It was a black marble for the residents of Hiroshima, that I can tell you very strongly
Excelente Sam Harris
Broken record Sam Harris
@@Methbilly Lol. Right. He's got a monopoly on derangement.
Dude is clowning you, clown.
Why is Sam using an AI VOICE FOR HIS VIDEOS NOW ???
That’s Meghan Phelps-Roper, dude. She’s started narrating some of these.
You gotta have Daniel Schmachtenberger on
It's just the distances
Reminder our military budget is almost a trillion dollars still and that money could be better used elsewhere
Na I dont think so lol. The single most important thing we could be spending our money on is the military. This way we can remain at the top of the pile. You can either be the one calling the shots or you can be the taking the orders. There is no in between.
@@Laocoon283 We have FAILED every major military exploit since WWII:
Korea: FAIL
Vietnam: FAIL
Kuwait: FAIL
Afghanistan: FAIL
Iraq: FAIL
Ukraine: FAIL
What makes you think you'd have the freedom to do other things if Russia or China ruled the world? Stop taking your freedom for granted.
I think Humankind became irreversibly doomed when they invented the aluminum foiled 60s TV Dinner. Things haven't been the same ever since.
...
The true turning point is when we figured out farming the same land too much depletes the nitrogen in the soil and if we just replace the nitrogen we can farm it forever. And now boom there's 8 billion of us. Unlimited food supply took the governor breaks off of society.
I think screwdrivers did us in. Something about them...
The Swanson family disagrees
As long as there are different governments and different cultures, there will be threats and threat of war. Monkeys acting badly.
Even if there was one single government and one single culture there would be war lol.
@@Laocoon283 Yup, that's what human monkeys do. Sad.
@@SteveJones379 comedy actually
@@Laocoon283 Tragicomedy.
@@SteveJones379 indeed
At 0.25x it sounds like sam
Yes, this is certainly something we should try to make sense of.
I like listening to the nice lady talk about nuclear annihilation lol
Scary stuff. Just by luck (and JFK) we are even here today.
One of the greatest things to do is rid of all nuclear weapons.yes.wash we could 🤔.
I do not understand the 3rd party girl talking over the podcast or explaining the topic these seem like such a waste of time especially when its pay gated this doesn’t make me want to seek out the whole thing if anything it ruins my interest in the whole thing. Is this sam or some girl who uses the channel like a broadcast television channel? I just don’t get it
I get the impression that they are repackaging old interview content into these narrated episodes. It sucks. Sam Harris isn't interesting enough to repackage like a tv dinner.
i got a vasectomy cuz of nukes.
I don't know why people have kids.
Are we going to get less and less Making Sense original episodes, because more Waking Up content is the focus?
I’d gladly pay for the subscription however due to the people you back I’m pretty broke.
Blaming others for your financial failure isn’t going to make your finances any better.
Pick yourself up from your bootstraps. Take responsibility for your decisions. Learn from your mistakes, and you will be on your way to financial fulfillment. You got this!!!
Huh?
The people Sam backs? Who?
@@PrestoJacobson the Globalists and the Deep State!! Come on, EVERYBODY knows that!!
@@zenlandzipline it was kind of a joke.
this kind of content reads like Sam is some sort of idol. Or a profound thought leader. Comes off narcissistic. I'd rather just hear you talk.
...annoying audio special effects inspire some to murder.
Completely agree. While listening, I cringed thinking about how he wrote this himself.
Interesting take, I kind of like the creativity. Do we know for sure he wrote this?
@@rossschcheese i have no idea whether he did or not. either way it bothers me.
you should only treat someone with this kind of reverence at an awards ceremony, as a debate presenter, or in a documentary once they've been dead for a few decades.
@@rossschcheese It has a lot of the same distinct phrasing he uses for things, so I assume he did.
So sick of hearing about this nuclear war fear... Would you launch a nuclear missile on whim or in a conventional war? No? We'll guess what, neither would anyone else either, it's not gonna happen.
"almost noone is thinking about this problem" - u should read comments of "your community" n dont try to know what others think
... Viva La Omni
6:33
If it wasn't for BOTS Sam Harris wouldn't have even a comment section. GO.....
Didn’t know Sam still had a podcast
In name only. It's just a rehashing of all his old shit over and over.
Thanks for giving us basic examples of how glass can be beneficial. Why has this podcast been dumbed down to this degree? Lol.
It's weird. He's repackaging old interviews and adding this unnecessary narration for children.
No one wants it. Either side.
Exhibit recording at a science museum. I'm out.
Dear god stop.these intros
I don't view it as an existential threat. I see it as the only reasonable thing human beings can do today. Civilization was clearly a mistake, and it should be corrected as soon as possible.
Israel has gone crazy right wing!…. Where’s Bolshevik Sam Harris?….. Cat have his tongue? 🤣
I don't even have to watch this to know that Sam mentions Donal Trump AT LEAST 10 TIMES. Right?
But he will not admit that Trump brought us 4 years of peace.
@@RogerSchlafly Yes, all very peaceful. No chaos at all with Trump. Imbecile. 🙄
What makes you come to that conclusion? I’m just thinking off the top of my head about the violence that took hold of our nations cities…. Almost a year of civil unrest in the city I live in in the Pacific Northwest. I saw some of the most traumatic and ferocious violence between authorities and people I’ve *ever* seen in my life. I have many hours of footage on my TH-cam channel. And my next example the only thing I need to say is “january 6th” and instantly an image forms in your mind. I’ve lived in the USA for 43 years and I can say with out question that as far as what my personal experience has been … The gears during trumps presidency where the most violent years I’ve ever seen in my own country with my own eyes. For you to make your comment I feel you have to ignore a lot of things that happened in our country….
Anyway curious to hear your thoughts
@@ericgraham8150 Yes, there were some riots in Democrat-controlled cities. You have a point. I was referring to wars with other countries, and the risks being discussed in the podcast.
Wire like neuronal structures that conduct electricity via ions/neurotransmitters in the CNS/PNS possess no attribute of thinking/life and yet that has “randomly” led to life. Consciousness/thinking is an innate idea that is distinct from carbon skeleton and yet the materialist scientist believes that chemistry turned into biology via “god of randomness”/” magic”/miracle of randomness”. Consciousness can only stem from consciousness itself (Allah/one/indivisible/loving/self-sufficient Perfection).
Sam Harris logic-
If everything was different right, I would not be wrong right, and since eveything could be different right, I am correct right.
Somone suffering from NPD is incapable of admitting when they are wrong.
I’m having an existential crisis again I’m not sure about romantic love anymore lol
it's nothing more than chemicals or whatever but it's still worth pursuing
work on yourself!
I could get sex whenever whatever lol
Romance is a game. I know how to play. Romance love is for setting up families. Nothing more really. Sex without love is dangerous. Too risky
Sex to me is spiritual and tantric.
Lust overrides a lot. Deludes us.