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	'''Eric Weinstein:''' Hello, you've found ~~the portal~~. I'm your host, Eric Weinstein, and we're here today with my good friend, Sam Harris. Sam, thanks for coming by.		'''Eric Weinstein:''' Hello, you've found ''The Portal''. I'm your host, Eric Weinstein, and we're here today with my good friend, Sam Harris. Sam, thanks for coming by.

	'''Sam Harris:''' Thank you. That was great.		'''Sam Harris:''' Thank you. That was great.
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	'''Eric Weinstein:''' So this is like sort of a personal question and it has to do with the fact that, I know you've reviewed some of the episodes of the show that you've been partially responsible for helping birth. Do you have any feedback for me as to what's worked? What hasn't? I can sort of talk to you a little bit about where I'm thinking about taking the show and are you happy with it or what would you like to see from The Portal? I have not, I don't think I've asked this from anybody else.		'''Eric Weinstein:''' So this is like sort of a personal question and it has to do with the fact that, I know you've reviewed some of the episodes of the show that you've been partially responsible for helping birth. Do you have any feedback for me as to what's worked? What hasn't? I can sort of talk to you a little bit about where I'm thinking about taking the show and are you happy with it or what would you like to see from ''The Portal''? I have not, I don't think I've asked this from anybody else.

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	'''Eric Weinstein:''' The hope is to really start off with conversations. But if people are following along at home and they say, where's ~~the portal~~? We're just getting started. This is the open these are the opening shots.		'''Eric Weinstein:''' The hope is to really start off with conversations. But if people are following along at home and they say, where's ''The Portal''? We're just getting started. This is the open these are the opening shots.

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	'''Sam Harris:''' But I would encourage you as a, even as a side gig to The Portal, maybe this is not podcast material, this maybe this is an online course or something, but to find a route in to higher mathematics for the, the symbol blocked...		'''Sam Harris:''' But I would encourage you as a, even as a side gig to ''The Portal'', maybe this is not podcast material, this maybe this is an online course or something, but to find a route in to higher mathematics for the, the symbol blocked...

	'''Eric Weinstein:''' Oh, I want to do, I want to do music, I want, I want to do the unity of knowledge. All the stuff that people don't even know is out there to be found because I believe that, you know, I call this transcendence hacking that the feeling of transcendence that often induces religious feelings is really better purposed as a guide to what is it, what is worth paying special notice towards in a world drowning and distraction? And that feeling of, Oh my God, like this thing here, I don't know if you've seen this?		'''Eric Weinstein:''' Oh, I want to do, I want to do music, I want, I want to do the unity of knowledge. All the stuff that people don't even know is out there to be found because I believe that, you know, I call this transcendence hacking that the feeling of transcendence that often induces religious feelings is really better purposed as a guide to what is it, what is worth paying special notice towards in a world drowning and distraction? And that feeling of, Oh my God, like this thing here, I don't know if you've seen this?
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	'''Sam Harris:''' Nice. Nice.		'''Sam Harris:''' Nice. Nice.

	'''Eric Weinstein:''' So you've been through ~~the portal~~ with Sam Harris. Please subscribe to us on Apple, iTunes or Spotify, Stitcher, wherever you get your podcasts, and please check us out on YouTube. Make sure to subscribe. Click the bell if you want to be notified for future episodes. Thanks for hanging in there. Be Well.		'''Eric Weinstein:''' So you've been through ''The Portal'' with Sam Harris. Please subscribe to us on Apple, iTunes or Spotify, Stitcher, wherever you get your podcasts, and please check us out on YouTube. Make sure to subscribe. Click the bell if you want to be notified for future episodes. Thanks for hanging in there. Be Well.

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	'''Eric Weinstein:''' You know, so mine was at his house, right. I'm ushered into a waiting room. He's got some super complicated electronical electronic art. I get up, I look at it and I say, "Wait, is that, is that a camera inside the art?" I first think, "I'm a genius for finding the camera inside there." My next thought is "I'm supposed to find the camera inside the art because the art is supposed to draw my attention and I'm supposed to see that I'm being recorded."		'''Eric Weinstein:''' You know, so mine was at his house, right. I'm ushered into a waiting room. He's got some super complicated electronical electronic art. I get up, I look at it and I say, "Wait, is that, is that a camera inside the art?" I first think, "I'm a genius for finding the camera inside there." My next thought is "I'm supposed to find the camera inside the art because the art is supposed to draw my attention and I'm supposed to see that I'm being recorded."

	I'm called out to a room in back with a huge long, it's sort of exaggerated dining table with a giant American flag as its tablecloth, so that any food or drink that is served on it may spill onto an American flag. And I'm just in high alert, like, "Fuck you. ~~Who, who,~~ who are you?"		I'm called out to a room in back with a huge long, it's sort of exaggerated dining table with a giant American flag as its tablecloth, so that any food or drink that is served on it may spill onto an American flag. And I'm just in high alert, like, "Fuck you. Who— who— who are you?"

	And he comes in and he's got this attractive, again over probably 22, 23-year-old woman. I think she's introduced as an heiress or something and he's bouncing her on his knee in order to get my attention. There's some other guy who says nothing during the meeting. I have no idea what he was doing there.		And he comes in and he's got this attractive, again over probably 22, 23-year-old woman. I think she's introduced as an heiress or something and he's bouncing her on his knee in order to get my attention. There's some other guy who says nothing during the meeting. I have no idea what he was doing there.
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	'''Sam Harris:''' And I think ~~I, one~~ detail I'd like to add here, in defense of the many people, and the many scientists, who are in this guy's orbit and who didn't know how unseemly his life actually was, some of these young women who you'd meet in his company were not just, you know, bimbos or strippers or that some of these people were going to medical school and there's like, these were like smart young women.		'''Sam Harris:''' And I think I—one detail I'd like to add here, in defense of the many people, and the many scientists, who are in this guy's orbit and who didn't know how unseemly his life actually was, some of these young women who you'd meet in his company were not just, you know, bimbos or strippers or that some of these people were going to medical school and there's like, these were like smart young women.

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	'''Eric Weinstein:''' Well, and ~~adult —~~ no, no, this is incredibly important distinction and I don't think that the news media has done a good job of teasing out. It's very attached to the idea of Pedophile Island and Lolita Express. And that lazy, sensationalist journalism is crowding something out, which is that in general from what I understand, so, I met him in 2000- I think 2004, maybe 2003 but before his Florida incarceration and charges, most people that I knew who met him met him with young adult women. And so, my theory is that he was constructed to be the sapiosexual Hugh Hefner.		'''Eric Weinstein:''' Well, and adults— no, no, this is incredibly important distinction and I don't think that the news media has done a good job of teasing out. It's very attached to the idea of Pedophile Island and Lolita Express. And that lazy, sensationalist journalism is crowding something out, which is that in general from what I understand, so, I met him in 2000- I think 2004, maybe 2003 but before his Florida incarceration and charges, most people that I knew who met him met him with young adult women. And so my theory is that he was constructed to be the sapiosexual Hugh Hefner.

	'''Sam Harris:''' Right.		'''Sam Harris:''' Right.

	'''Eric Weinstein:''' And that they stupidly hired, probably, and I guess I don't know this, Humbert Humbert for the role, and that, that dichotomy explains at least a lot of the initial willingness of the science community to play with this person. That, I mean, I'll be honest, I'm not particularly judgmental about consenting adults, even if it's probably ill-advised~~. You~~ know, to have a 50-year spread between two people. If somebody is 20 and somebody's 80 ...		'''Eric Weinstein:''' And that they stupidly hired, probably, and I guess I don't know this, Humbert Humbert for the role, and that, that dichotomy explains at least a lot of the initial willingness of the science community to play with this person. That, I mean, I'll be honest, I'm not particularly judgmental about consenting adults, even if it's probably ill-advised, you know, to have a 50-year spread between two people. If somebody is 20 and somebody's 80 ...

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	'''Sam Harris:''' There's just, it's a completely different thing ~~is it~~'s very easy to see that if you've seen this guy be sort of the womanizing schmuck, right within the bounds of, you know, total legality and he's surrounded by 20 year olds and you know, he's got a 40 year...		'''Sam Harris:''' There's just, it's a completely different thing. It's very easy to see that if you've seen this guy be sort of the womanizing schmuck, right, within the bounds of, you know, total legality and he's surrounded by 20 year olds and you know, he's got a 40 year...

	'''Eric Weinstein:''' Everybody's party to the game.		'''Eric Weinstein:''' Everybody's party to the game.

	'''Sam Harris:''' You ~~would never, you~~ would never suspect this other thing about him~~. Right. Okay~~.		'''Sam Harris:''' You would never suspect this other thing about him.

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	'''Eric Weinstein:''' That is not a fair defense after the Florida situation~~, the~~ Florida situation changes that structure.		'''Eric Weinstein:''' Right. Okay. That is ''not'' a fair defense after the Florida situation. The Florida situation changes that structure.

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	'''Sam Harris:''' You mean his prosecution or Miami Herald thing that came out like a year ago?		'''Sam Harris:''' You mean his prosecution? Or the Miami Herald thing that came out like a year ago?

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	'''Sam Harris:''' Right.		'''Sam Harris:''' Right.

	'''Eric Weinstein:''' So, a lot of people continued to talk to him in part because - and I think this is something that hasn't been teased out - he was supporting an older style of science, which - this is again, something that's gonna be super complicated - was much more disagreeable. Now the woke movement has seized on this as, ~~well~~, that's the cowboy oppressive science of male assholes. But he was supporting a network of people who might not have been supported otherwise to somewhat break out of the mold. And because the U.S. government had stepped away from that work, in large measure, in my opinion, people were so dependent on him that they were eager to look the other way. And there was also the hint, I think, that this wasn't really Jeffrey Epstein, that this was really something else funding.		'''Eric Weinstein:''' So, a lot of people continued to talk to him in part because-and I think this is something that hasn't been teased out-he was supporting an older style of science, which-and this is, again, something that's gonna be super complicated-was much more disagreeable. Now the woke movement has seized on this as, "Well, that's the cowboy oppressive science of male assholes." But he was supporting a network of people who might not have been supported otherwise to somewhat break out of the mold. And because the U.S. government had stepped away from that work, in large measure, in my opinion, people were so dependent on him that they were eager to look the other way. And there was also the hint, I think, that this wasn't really Jeffrey Epstein, that this was really something else funding.

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	'''Sam Harris:''' ...who denigrates Trump as avidly as I do, but I am super careful to be honest. Right? So, like I, it's not that you can't even, you can smear him with his fair.		'''Sam Harris:''' ...who denigrates Trump as avidly as I do, but I am super careful to be honest. Right? So, like I, it's not that you can't even, you can smear him with his fair.

	Eric: Because you can be Sam, I mean, the problem was solved...		'''Eric Weinstein:''' Because you can be Sam, I mean, the problem was solved...

	Sam: These guys can be. Sam Seder can be honest on his show and still have a show. Right? Nobody's going to cancel him because he was too honest.		'''Sam Harris:''' These guys can be. Sam Seder can be honest on his show and still have a show. Right? Nobody's going to cancel him because he was too honest.

	Eric: No~~, I~~, I think that there's like this very weird other, I mean Sam, I don't want to get into the Sam Seder thing in particular.		'''Eric Weinstein:''' No, I think that there's like this very weird other, I mean, Sam, I don't want to get into the Sam Seder thing in particular.

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	On this episode of The Portal, [[Eric Weinstein\|Eric]] talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher and meditation-guru, [[Sam Harris]]. When Sam and Eric sit down they generally agree about a large number of things. So in this experiment of a session, Eric attempts to push the relentlessly reasonable and methodical Sam out of his comfort zone to highlight their genuine differences. These include: beliefs on religion, the logic of voting for unreasonable candidates, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein Jeffrey Epstein's] demise, the competence of the press, the ethics of immigration and more.		On this episode of The Portal, [[Eric Weinstein\|Eric]] talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher and meditation-guru, [[Sam Harris]]. When Sam and Eric sit down they generally agree about a large number of things. So in this experiment of a session, Eric attempts to push the relentlessly reasonable and methodical Sam out of his comfort zone to highlight their genuine differences. These include: beliefs on religion, the logic of voting for unreasonable candidates, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein Jeffrey Epstein's] demise, the competence of the press, the ethics of immigration and more.

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	On this episode of The Portal, [[Eric Weinstein\|Eric]] talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher and meditation-guru, [[Sam Harris]]. When Sam and Eric sit down they generally agree about a large number of things. So in this experiment of a session, Eric attempts to push the relentlessly reasonable and methodical Sam out of his comfort zone to highlight their genuine differences. These include: beliefs on religion, the logic of voting for unreasonable candidates, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein Jeffrey Epstein]'s demise, the competence of the press, the ethics of immigration and more.		On this episode of The Portal, [[Eric Weinstein\|Eric]] talks to one of his closest friends, neuroscientist, philosopher and meditation-guru, [[Sam Harris]]. When Sam and Eric sit down they generally agree about a large number of things. So in this experiment of a session, Eric attempts to push the relentlessly reasonable and methodical Sam out of his comfort zone to highlight their genuine differences. These include: beliefs on religion, the logic of voting for unreasonable candidates, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein Jeffrey Epstein]'s demise, the competence of the press, the ethics of immigration and more.

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	[[File:ThePortal-Ep11 SamHarris-EricWeinstein.png\|600px\|thumb\|Eric Weinstein (right) talking with Sam Harris (left) on episode 11 of The Portal Podcast]]		[[File:ThePortal-Ep11 SamHarris-EricWeinstein.png\|600px\|thumb\|Eric Weinstein (right) talking with Sam Harris (left) on episode 11 of The Portal Podcast]]