Making Sense with Sam Harris · 2026-07-08 · 27 min · 5,678 words

#484 — Artificial Intimacy

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Paul, it's great to see you again. It's always great to see you, Sam. It's always Too long between the conversations. Yeah. No, I ca I I haven't checked to see how long it's been, but uh I'm sure there's a lot So that we can talk about here. You're one of the short list of people who I know I'm gonna have a good conversation with no matter w what's happening and

No matter how little prep uh either of us do, it's like a a phone call that I know I'm gonna enjoy. I appreciate it. I've I've been avoiding you since the Epstein files, but I decided to uh to to nun nonetheless push push through despite your prominence in in those documents. Yeah. Um, well we were talking offline about the world cup. Did I Clean correctly that you're not uh as obsessed with it as I am? Are you not a uh

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