On this episode of The Portal, Eric talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher and meditation-guru, Sam Harris. When Sam and Eric sit down they generally agree about a large number of things. So in this experiment of a session, Eric attempts to push the relentlessly reasonable and methodical Sam out of his comfort zone to highlight their genuine differences. These include: beliefs on religion, the logic of voting for unreasonable candidates, Jeffrey Epstein's demise, the competence of the press, the ethics of immigration and more.
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23: Agnes Callard - Courage, Meta-cognitive detachment and their limits
22: Ben Greenfield - Wheat From Chaff in Human Fitness
21: Ashley Mathews (aka Riley Reid) - The mogul and brains behind America's Sweetheart
20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy
19: Bret Weinstein - The Prediction and the DISC
18: Slipping the DISC: State of The Portal & Chapter 2020
17: Anna Khachiyan - Reconstructing The Mystical Feminine From The Ashes Of “The Feminine Mystique”
16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized
15: Garrett Lisi - My Arch-nemesis, Myself.
14: London Tsai - The Reclusive Dean of The New Escherians
13: Garry Kasparov - Avoiding Zugzwang in AI and Politics
12: Vitalik Buterin - The Ethereal Prince and His Virtual Machine
10: Julie Lindahl: Shaking the poisoned fruit of shame out of the family tree
9: Bryan Callen - Cracking Wise
8: Andrew Yang - The Dangerously Different Candidate The Media Wants You To Ignore
7: Bret Easton Ellis - The Dark Laureate of Generation X
6: Jocko Willink - The Way of the Violent Intellectual
5: Rabbi Wolpe - “So a Rabbi and an atheist walk into a podcast...”
4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception
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