Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "Sam Harris" channel.

  1. 26:00 - "Giving a monopoly on violence to the state is just about the best thing we have ever done as a species. It ranks right up there with keeping our shit out of our food" LOL, LOVE IT. I love Sam Harris when he nails it like this, and is funny at the same time. I am not so much enamored with some of the things he said here, but it is a very good podcast with a lot to think about. Thanks SH!
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  2. This is a worthwhile fascinating discussion on the situation in Israel. Thanks Sam, your videos/podcasts are always great.
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  3.  @brucemurdoch8601  You sound crazy
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  4. Every new Elon Musk Tweet is worse than the last. Something screwy with that guy.
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  5. Thank you and gods bless you for Michal Cotler-Wunsh clear, concise and passionate words in support of civilization - obvious to some of us, and apparently not to some others. I just listened to this a second time, and it affected me even more, as well as left me flabbergasted as to the world's reaction to 10-7. It is heart-breaking to have learned about the Holocaust as a child and to be carrying around this ideal of civilization and what civilized people behave like, and then see the reaction to the world to the Hamas invasion of Israel, and to realize the full extent of the hate and dysfuntion of Palestinian society, and what seems like the impossibility to fix it because it is so vicious and closed off to reason and life. What caught my ear particularly in this second listen was Michal Cotler-Wunsh's pointing out of the "civilized" world's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine compared with Gaza's orgy of hate, murder, rape, torture with genocideal intent - pure ISIS-like barbarism. I can't believe I live in such a world.
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  6. Lex is semi-spineless. He has a reputation for asking questions that are borderline tough, but then as you say leaving it with whoever he's talking to say whatever they want. It is the only way someone doing what he does can survive I think. I mean look at Don Lemon's interview with Elon Musk and how vindicative Elon got, cancelling his contract. There is something seriously wrong with Eon Musk, but people are afraid of him because he is so rich. They also seem to think he is right because he is rich beyond belief.
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  7. Well, one intelligent mind anyway. I think Rory is a massive liar and phony.
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  8. One thing I came across recently was the plan for a new type of city. I think it was called Neom, and it is being built in the north west of Saudi Arabia. It is a new concept of a linear city. As I researched this, at least the basic ideas sound fascinating. If we look at how cities have been built throughout history they always center around the older historic parts in a radial plan, or they are gridded out like NYC, but when you think of what our technological expertise is and what is needed in the future, mass transit that can get you somewhere fast, efficiently and carbon-free, this linear model really works. Seems like it would be great also for the environment where you could have pass-throughs, pass-overs, or pass-unders for wildlife to move though instead of what we have today which is giant scars on the land. Saudi Arabis is the last country on the planet I'd like to see develop the lifestyle of the future, but from what I read, this is a fascinating concept ... and it is one being developed by MBS, damn his murderous soul.
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  9. One thing to take issue with Sam Harris when he states that "Kamala Harris' unworkable idea of a wealth tax". First, this is not Kamala Harris' idea - this is an idea that came from respected economists and is in practice in some countries, as stated in Wikipedia: As of 2017, five of the 36 OECD countries had a personal wealth tax (down from 12 in 1990). But, just as an example, the real estate tax is a wealth tax. There is a major crack up in global civilization that will occur if there is not some kind of leveling wealth tax.
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  10. Evil hates the light.
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  11. God dammit ... this is not about the trustworthiness of our institutions ... this is about the trustworthiness of the corporate high-echelon plutocrats and oligarchs that benefit from casting doubt on the government so that they can move in and usurp power and sweep side democracy on the basis of nothing but noise and lies. Sam, you gotta be wise to this, why do you let this go on?
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  12.  @jasonleonard9776  Yeah, I did say crazy. I'd add dangerous to that as well. Probably a few other uncomplimentary adjectives as well if I wasn't being nice.
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  13.  @jasonleonard9776   I understand what you are saying, it's just not an argument. If you were actually making an argument I would not be slamming you. As to your respect, well I'll leave you to think about how much I care about that.
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  14. If the United States is a failing state, and that really coincides with the takeover of the government and the economy by the super-wealthy through corporations and lobbying coupled with defunding the population by lowering wages, exporting jobs and racist manipulations in the media ... why do all the right-winger seem to think that the cure for that is more Republicanism, i.e. Trump? It seems a lot more likely to me that what we see ( like Trump cleverly said ) in the media is not what is happening in the world. That is the reality presented by our TV/movies world and the corporate news media is a facade, as is the idea that the Democratic Party is an honest opposition party when it is beholden for its very existence on corporate funding and charity from rich people. After all everyone has to make a living and at the root of these issues always is how people fit into the economy and what their rank and status is. When there is no other place to run, authors and journalists are not revolutionaries, they are working class people for the most part that need to make enough money to play the big shot celebrities and pay for their families - meaning that as time goes by the limit of journalism is going to be to serve the "corporatocracy". Not to mention the podcasters as well.
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  15.  @whatsthatnoise5955  I don't know if Sam Harris is really wealthy enough that he would fall into a wealth tax, but if he is, too bad, tough toenails for him, he could pay it without any pain if he was a billionaire or multi-millionaire. That's the point.
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  16. Such an excellent and informative podcast ... thank you Sam Harris.
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  17. 47:30 - Round about here Hawkins talks about how you can detach the universe modeling aspect of the brain from the limbic emotional system, but what drive the brain ... how you interface to it or monitor it in that case. One really solid thing I took away from Hawkins' first book was how he called the brain a prediction machine, but those predictions, and perceptions are all weighted by their value to the emotional brain. And one valuation is how much arousal or excitement the body is feeling ... the amygdala - intense emotion puts a weight on what we remember. How does intelligence or consciousness work if you don't have something like that? What does he imagine this naked intelligence thing he wants to create will do? How do you program it, or make requests ... how does it even understand your language or intent if it cannot relate to human experience?
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  18.  @Absolute.Virtue  I think that is mostly semantical BS ... no one is "safe", but the vaccinated are protected, no one just made that up. The issue is whipping up fear of the vaccine when the fear should be of having large numbers of unvaccinated.
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  19. I've been trying to figure out what to make of this “Destiny” (Steven Bonnell) guy when the only real thing to recommend him is that he is a Liberal Left of Center guy who I often agree with and who sticks it to some of the folks he is debating with. The flip side of that is that, no matter how much he knows and facts he can quote, as Sam pointed out that he is totally off-base when it comes to the Middle East and Iran. It makes me feel like he is being manipulative towards his audience in terms of not letting go of some kind of attachment to the Palestinians/Arabs/Muslims. Sam is so obviously clued in to the reality of what Israel faces while "Destiny" ( yuck ) plays the Ben Shapiro game of talking super-fast and quoting HIS facts so he can flip around or overwhelm his debate opponent. I was unimpressed and even at times repulsed by his argumentatative-debate-macho, and interpersonal political skills - like where he sounded like he was manipulating Candace Owens, who is a complete loon. Tell me where is sanity? The best I can see is Sam Harris. I find it hard to find something to disagree with him on. I did agree with Destiny about his perception of the scale of threat of the Right-wing versus Wokeness, or what Elon Musk calls the Woke-Mind-Virus, which I find disgusting and only a way to attack the Left. Stop attacking these people or groups or imagined groups and start focusing on facts, history, perceptions, debate, which we do not get enough of. When people delve into Middle Eastern history it is often at first interest in finding out more, but then it becomes like a super-power of being to throw up an argument to support their opinion or defend their predjudice. I don't think Destiny has any conception of the MIddle East outside of the arguments he's had with people on Social Media. I could of course be wrong, but that is my gut feeling. What do you think?
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  20.  @jmc5335  I think that comment is more about you than anything else. Attack the person because you hate Jews or some such. If you had something to say why not deal with facts instead of highlighting your own prejudices, that you don't even have guts enough to express?
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  21.  @brucemurdoch8601  Oh yeah, I hear Groat's disease is evolving to be much more dangerous because of leaky vaccines. WTF are you even talking about you blithering fool? Notice we don't have super-variants of polio, or measles. You should STFU.
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  22. Sam was pretty courageous to finally stand up to the Weinstein creeps ... great job Sam. How can you not be judgmental against the amazing toxicity and dishonesty of Anti-Vax death cultists. F-them.
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  23. Well, I've been reading comments here, and that is one of the lowest and most pointless. Congrats.
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  24.  @Timzart7  I though Carlson's inteview with Putin was a good thing. I think Putin is a very smart guy, but the US does not want Russia economically connected to the West because as they build up capital they have a huge unexploited country full of smart people and raw materials and will threaten the US hegemony. While I understand, or think I understand Putin's POV, a developed Russia would dominate and could take over Europe economically in a way they will never do militarily, and it is stupid to even think it's possible. America is not perfect, and we can play hardball tougher than any other country when we need to, but critical as I might be about my country, I don't want to see any other country take global leadership and economic power away from us. We seem to be doing a pretty good job of doing that ourselves. I thought Tucker's romp though the Russian grocery store was interesting, and wondered by he got so much crap for that. But then he goes and does the weirdest things, like not only interviewing this pro-Nazi but calling him a leading thinker? Why? All this war and competition in the world right now is exactly analogous to two people fighting in a burning building. We are heading towards oblivion and it is clear our plutocrat leaders are not worrying in the least about the rest of us at all. These podcasting folks annoy me in a way, even the best as I consider Sam Harris and Ezra Klein, two who make and effort to be intelligent and considerate. I had no idea that Sam Felt Ezra has slammed him. It's all in how we all manipulate each other by pretending we are with one brand or way of thinking, and we have to make compromises and pay our dues to Caesar in order to be taken seriously, and we cannot stray too far from the mob, just as our social behavior has to toe the line and not be too different from others. But it means are are all phonies and liars all our lives. I honestly do not think humans are natively intelligent. Our intelligence is in our works, and our books, science, theories and mythology and the external structures we make an subscribe to, but behaviorally we are pretty much all hypocrites out for ourselves and the hierachies leading up to ourself.
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  25. I don't think you are correct. I get the feeling that you would rather suffer with no insurance so you can blame the Libtards instead of actually investigating your many options under the Affordable Care Act. And then to work that into some kind of psychosis where you can justify supporting the Republicans just turns you on and gives you a purpose in life.
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  26. Having to rely on the sanity of EVERYONE not to do this or want to do this is indeed a scary thought. We are at a point where one depressed, delusional, wrong-thinking person might do something like this and forget that even if they have a vaccine their survival still depends on everything else working, and there not being any mutated variations that will come back kill him/her too. I think we have about maybe 300 years of technology ahead of where our collective wisdom is, and that gap is only growing, while our wisdom seems to be falling behind because it is controlled by authoritarian plutocrats who really do not give a damn about the rest of us, and in fact pretty much contempt for the masses aside from slaves to do their bidding that machines cannot do yet. We cannot survive government by these kind of super-powerful and wealthy "kids" ... who remind me of William Campbell's ( I think? ) character Trelane on Star Trek's "The Squire Of Goths", a child with the lives of others in their hand.
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  27. 30:00 - I think a Taser was used .... From Wikipedia: Officers attempted to subdue Blake, and two officers used tasers on him. My point here is that although Sam decries the hyperbolic and quick take on things ... what is this and this kind of language and overloaded comment by the same thing he is criticizing in others? Nothing justifies burning down half a city. Was half a city burned down?
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  28.  @shinryusaiha  Thanks for the vote of confidence, it would be better than this obsequious right-wing apologetic nonsense.
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  29.  @ricknash3055  Google it... Ivermectin, a drug normally used to treat parasites including lice and rabies, did not seem to have a significant impact and improve the symptoms of patients with Covid-19, according to new research published Thursday, in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In January, the National Institutes of Health’s Treatment Guidelines Panel said that there is not enough data to recommend for or against the drug to treat Covid-19 patients. Even without studies to demonstrate that it works, a few doctors have heavily promoted the drug. It’s a cheap medication with anti-inflammatory properties and it seemed to stop the virus from replicating in lab studies. But just because it works in the lab, doesn’t mean it will work in real life. Most mainstream physicians have reserved their judgment about it In this study based in Cali, Colombia, nearly 500 adults with mild disease who had symptoms for 7 days, volunteered to help test the drug. The trial is what’s known as a double-blind randomized control trial, the gold-standard of trials. Half the volunteers got the drug for five days, the other half got a placebo, and standard care. Patients were enrolled in the trial between July 2020 and November 2020 and doctors followed up with that through December. Ivermectin, a drug normally used to treat parasites including lice and rabies, did not seem to have a significant impact and improve the symptoms of patients with Covid-19, according to new research published Thursday, in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In January, the National Institutes of Health’s Treatment Guidelines Panel said that there is not enough data to recommend for or against the drug to treat Covid-19 patients. Even without studies to demonstrate that it works, a few doctors have heavily promoted the drug. It’s a cheap medication with anti-inflammatory properties and it seemed to stop the virus from replicating in lab studies. But just because it works in the lab, doesn’t mean it will work in real life. Most mainstream physicians have reserved their judgment about it In this study based in Cali, Colombia, nearly 500 adults with mild disease who had symptoms for 7 days, volunteered to help test the drug. The trial is what’s known as a double-blind randomized control trial, the gold-standard of trials. Half the volunteers got the drug for five days, the other half got a placebo, and standard care. Patients were enrolled in the trial between July 2020 and November 2020 and doctors followed up with that through December.
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  30. Rory Stewart ... his violent passive aggressivism and defense of what he damn well knows is true and toxic just sickens me to listen to. He may have apologized to Sam for the nasty comments he made, but it's clear to me at least that he was not sincere and was only sorry that someone heard it and reported it to Sam. Why apologize for your true feelings unless you seek to manipulate with lies? His constant interruptions and claims that Muslims are great ... but to me the issue is when the core heart of Islam is in Iran and Saudi Arabia which are countries of intolerence, discrimination, violence ... and he completely ignore that, as well as saying that Hamas is some abberation of Islam when there is very substantial support around the world, and in the UN Muslims states for Hamas under the guise of concern and compassion for the Palestinians, when Muslims are killing Muslims or ethnically cleansing them - it's just totally irrational. There is some reasoning here that he is not sharing or admitting to. What does he get from his life in Muslim countries that he is not revealing? What are his personal relationships with women like in his life? And more broadly since Oct-7th I had never understood what was the huge support for Hamas in Ireland, and across the UK - combined with ignorance on the matter. I am so glad to see Sam standing up against this mountain or BS interruptions from this guy who seems to think he can pass off the most blatant lies if speaks in a soft enough tone. Something just feels very suspicious about Rory Stewart.
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  31.  @davegold  I get you. There's a whole bunch of these guys on YT now. I think the first I can remember was David Pakman, and all they do is post video after video about how some Democrat slams a Republican, and they usually turn out to be total annoyance with no facts, news or redeeming value.
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  32. Well said.
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  33. Could'a fooled me! ;-)
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  34.  @mfeneley  Yeah, I hold Sam in massively high regard for his integrity and intelligence, and incredible patience and ability to articulate "most" issues perfectly. Probably my favorite podcaster that I look forward to listening to, or to see him interviewed.
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  35. Guess I beat you then, cause I never loaded it! ;-) But seriously, there is a lot of corrosive really hateful stuff as in videos out there. Sickening, our country and society is falling apart and the worst people ever and coming in to fill the vacuum.
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  36. > being fully aware beforehand that they are going to be cynically misinterpreted Yeah, Sam really makes a huge effort to explain and facilitate discussion, but sometimes his points should be tossed back.
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  37. Any proof of that or any coherent theory that anyone takes seriously?
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  38. The bit about refusing to care, is false bravado. Of course you should care to some extent, and to say you don't or didn't seems dishonest. I get what you are trying to say to market yourself, but your work really speaks for itself, and it does have warts that are liable for criticism from either side that are valid.
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  39. Nice comment. What else is the governor going to do? The solution once these people are in place is to try to make it work. My understanding is that the city called for immigrants to come live there. I think Sam is entirely correct feeling sympathy for Americans who have grown up here with an wide understanding of what American society it, and then someone from above decides to throw their lives into the blender with total disregard. Foreign groups are different in nature. I recall here in CA when the Vietnamese boat people immigrated to this area. There were a lot of them and they spoke poor English, and people made the same cracks about them eating dogs, etc. But the Vietnamese were poor, hardworking, exceptionally smart, and social, gentle friendly people who just want to get along. When I compare that to a little later when people from Iran immigrated here they were mostly right-wing rich people, with a lot of money and many of them had an attitude and they did not melt into society as much. Of course there is huge overlap and you can't judge people, but sometimes it seems like you can, or you can at least perceive a problem and discuss it. I don't see anything wrong with that. For instance Muslims in Europe ... OMG!
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  40. Trump's Gaza peace plan is hilariously funny in that by absolute chance he stumbled on to what is likely the only actual solution ... assumig that Hamas or worse cannot re-establish itself elsewhere can can reach Israel by ever larger rockets/missiles. There is that saying that keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. If Trump actually had an economic plan, instead of just teasing us with winning so much our heads would be spinning, explained his theory and plan for the economy. As they mentioned this is probably just a vehicle for funneling money to him Bottom line in America is that this Trump guy really needs to end up in prison, along with his benefactors.
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  41. Michael Sandel is awesome ... we should be hearing a lot more from him and people like him than the morons the country is constantly exposed to to manipulate the people so the rich and powerful to abuse their power and take over the government.
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  42. He is so disgustingly dishonest and inhuman - a complete rejection of rationality and logic.
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  43. 8:27 - If you are going to say that the New York Times can be counted on to get crucial things wrong, you better fucking qualify that statement because it is not something you can build a conversation on until you explain what you mean. Otherwise its just another right-wing extremist like Trump saying something like "the failing New York Times" ... meaning everything that criticizes him is failing. Sam you gotta stand for something because you play this game of implying there is a middle ground between good and evil. I initially was interested in your opinions because of your strong stand against radical Islam on the Bill Maher show with Ben Affleck, not that I have any idea why Ben Affleck was so pro Islam. Everything I have heard from you since has been wishy-washy and very afraid to offend your right-wing viewers and guests.
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  44. I've listened to this twice now. An excellent conversation. Very nice to hear stuff like this.
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  45. >> The private sector has covered itself in glory while the public sector has covered itself in shame The reason we had such a mess with Covid-19 was because of a private sector fanatics President who made decisions based on not disrupting the stock market, and whose total ignorance - private sector ignorance, and intentional actions designed to undermine the government, like appointing DeJoy as Postmaster general and other government sabotages. This is a part of Sam's podcast and attitude I find really stupid and offensive ... pandering to the rich people by leaving out a major part of the story in order to further their private sector domination of life in America and our government.
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  46. ​ @davegold  > Can you prove that AIs will never be able to relate to human experience? Pretty combative answer. Of course not, no one can PROVE anything, especially when the definitions of what they are trying to prove are not there. Your comment is mess of mixed up emotions that shows you are defensive over something you do not even understand you are defending. Also shows you do not want to have a conversation about this or even considered what I wrote. You really sound like you are emotionally attached to the whole transhumanist ideas with very little thought or criticism. Grow up and think like a rational scientist. May be? Yeah, sure.
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  47. I'm blaming you anyway! ;-)
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  48. It is so entertaining to see how Sam Harris is going to walk that middle line pretending that he can not offend either the Left or the Right, qualifying everything. But, this situation in the USA is so screwed-up today. Clearly any sane person knows the President of the United States is a crazy criminal minded moron who appeals to the lowest and greediest ... it's just sickening.
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  49.  @martinlutherkingjr.5582  Not sure where you got all that. But yes, the government is the tool of the plutocrats that basically sees all of us as their property and slaves.
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  50.  @TimOsman  What a clownish confused statement that is.
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