Ask Me Anything #18

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Questions answered:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why won't you discuss COVID vaccines and Ivermectin with Bret Weinstein on the podcast?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What do you think about the recent prosecution of a 100-year-old Nazi in Germany?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How can we understand voluntary behavior without free will?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Does aid to the developing world do more harm than good?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Have your views about the risk of artificial general intelligence changed in recent years?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What did you think of Simon Biles's decision to drop out of the Olympics?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How should Facebook and other social media platforms deal with the tradeoff between misinformation and censorship?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why are people so resistant to changing their beliefs?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That's why Sam Harris created the</span> <a href="http://wakingup.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Waking Up</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life's most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.</span></p>