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- 1. #484 — Artificial Intimacy · 8 Jul 2026
- 2. #485 — The New Science of Cancer · 14 Jul 2026
- 3. #486 — Luck All the Way Down · 22 Jul 2026
#150 — The Map of Misunderstanding (From the Archive)
11 Aug 2026 · 47 min
From the archive: In this 2019 episode, Sam Harris speaks with Daniel Kahneman at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. They discuss the replication crisis in science, System 1 and System 2, where intuitions reliably fail, expert intuitions, the power of framing, moral i
#488 — Ego, Ecstasy, and Equanimity
4 Aug 2026 · 12 min
Sam Harris speaks with Neal Brennan about the experiences that shaped his life and work. They discuss Sam's mother's television career, growing up with an absent father, his struggles with perfectionism, his first experience with MDMA, dropping out of Stanford
#487 — Is AI Already Conscious?
31 Jul 2026 · 1h 25m
Sam Harris speaks with Cameron Berg about whether AI systems are or could become conscious. They discuss self-reports in LLMs, what models say when deception is switched off, the "bliss attractor" state, consciousness and sentience, the hard problem of conscio
#486 — Luck All the Way Down
22 Jul 2026 · 21 min
Sam Harris speaks with Kathryn Paige Harden about behavioral genetics, moral luck, and the problem of blame. They discuss Harden's book Original Sin, the controversy over Charles Murray and Ezra Klein, why behavioral genetics remains taboo, the meaning of heri
#485 — The New Science of Cancer
14 Jul 2026 · 1h 21m
Sam Harris speaks with Siddhartha Mukherjee about the science of cancer. They discuss the updated edition of The Emperor of All Maladies, whether cancer is one disease or many, why prevention is so hard, inflammation and air pollution as carcinogens, the myth
#484 — Artificial Intimacy
8 Jul 2026 · 27 min
Sam Harris speaks with Paul Bloom about our relationships with AI and the future of human connection. They discuss the surprising pace of AI progress, AI companions as a remedy for loneliness, the importance of mattering to other people, digitally resurrecting
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