Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "An open letter to Sam Harris" video.

  1. What?! He's probably the most humble person, I've ever come across. I can hardly imagine someone with less ego. I think you are projecting your own shortcomings on others.
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  2. When something makes sense, you cannot help but understand. When you must try, you are fooling yourself.
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  3. You have no idea what you are talking about. None.
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  4. If it was the other way around, you would have complained that Sam didn't let Peterson talk, but only presented his own ideas. Shouldn't the guest on a podcast have preference?
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  5. This is basically natural sciences vs social sciences. Clarity vs obscurantism. Logic vs rhyming.
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  6. Harris is entirely progressive. He often speaks about things we could still improve.
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  7. >>We hit an impasse over the definition of truth.<< Should have known that some pedantic obscurantism gets in the way.
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  8. Apparently he tries to confuse applicability of stories with truth.
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  9. No. Truth is a very simple concept. The problem is that the fuzzy social sciences, Peterson has spent his time in, sidetrack your mind. When you can solve a problem faster than at random, you have true information. For a physicist or mathematician or computational scientist, this is a trivial issue.
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  10. True. He just completely ignores what religion is about and what people believe in and treats it like a kind of book club, wherein people discuss archetypes in literature... He misses the point entirely.
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