Full podcast episode: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h9-incqXksW6lJ8.html Lex Fridman podcast channel: kzfaq.info Guest bio: Sam Harris is an author, podcaster, and philosopher.

The smoking man: You wanna know some top secret shit about aliens? Sam: not really.

Lex loves talking about UFO's and aliens and I love listening to it.

The greatest threat to humanity is and has always been, men assured of their own brilliance.

Hold it a second Mick West was looking at Tech he does not fully understand and limiting his scope only to a tech he does not understand all while discounting the entirety of the whole event. Including the ships sensors and the eyewitnesses. And the fact that they were seen for weeks at a time. So please do not give Mick West any credit at all. It is totally unfair and gives disrespectful scrutiny of the person's involved who risked their reputations.

Briefcase? Does he mention the briefcase?

Love the video length

I saw a bunch of UAP's in upstate New York in 2012 with two other witnesses. They were doing things that no conventional aircraft can do. I still don't know what they were, but if they were government, they were pretty damn advanced. If they were from beyond, as a skeptic, I've always felt they aren't traveling from point A to B. It's IMPOSSIBLE to travel at light speed for 4 years, (Alpha Centauri being the closest). That said, these things are clearly 'jumping' through, into and out of space. There is something lacking in our understanding of physics. As for presence, I don't think they are that interested in establishing a communion with us. Given the plausible references of historical accounts, they've been here a long time. For all we know, we are their experiment.

Sam is the human embodiment of Eeyore

Nobody talks about the Nordic aliens who seem to be more in charge...

Although I get the idea behind asking articulate people on their opinion about every topic that there is - we should be very well aware that multiple topics, if not the majority, are out of their expertise, by definition. Being articulate and an expert in one area does not mean your view on other areas should be regarded as valid just because you have an opinion and the vocabulary to make it seem plausible. Sam Harris used to be aware or that, of sorts.

I love how sam is in such a bubble that his definition of something going mainstream is that the New Yorker did a piece on it

dont know much about Sam but in this clip he made me feel sane.

David Fravor literally debunked everything mick west said. Why doesn’t lex bring any of this stuff up??

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The length of this video is 1337

Emotions are the problem... the fact that emotions need to be involved in order for people to pay attention. People think they are rational... they are not. Parts of them is... but the bigger part by far is emotional. A super AI would certainly be very good at evading or even utilizing our emotions. A more realistic super AI takes over the world scenario: we just give it everything it wants, cause its too compelling and alluring to resist.

The arrogance of assuming an Alien presence would announce itself is staggering especially among intellectuals. Lex at least hints that we should be more humble. If Sagan was right, they could be a million years or more beyond our tech, what could we possibly have to offer them? But this pales in comparison to the lack of respect these public intellectuals have for the people who acquired the footage of UAPs, as if their military and aviation/radar training is worthless, along with their courage in coming forward to admit they encounter UAPs on a regular basis. It is embarrassing. Something other than ballons is in US airspace and seemingly no one cares, LOL. Instead we waste time pondering what AI might do someday, because every generation of intellectuals needs a boogieman of what ifs and maybes to keep the viewership and publications rolling.

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What in the HELL would Sam know about UAPs?

Guys i saw one when i was 13. Not a mile away, not half a mile away. 50 meters away. Who else was there along with me ? Close to 50 people. The closest thing i can compare it with is that object in Jerusalem, that flashed twice and took off with a speed like nothing terrestrial- find it on youtube. I still tend to think its not from other planet but rather parallel universe. It didnt obey our world's physics.

Who was this person that contacted him?

They were contacted by Elizondo. He was gonna take them to Colorado where he works at US Space Command.

They were definitely talking about Tom Delonge

So Harris just basically says that yeah, how Weinstein described my interaction with this was correct, and then he quickly changes the subject to AI? How uninteresting...

How does he turn UFO's into more authoritarianism?

50/50 chance for nuclear apocalypse. Good thing I beat Fallout

Surprised Sam didn't tie aliens to how bad Trump is. EDIT: I spoke to soon.

Holy shit so does he or doesn’t he? Still waiting to find out

The most important thing touched on in here Lex said at 6:38 about the news cycle wiping important things away, and Sam touched on our "bandwidth" in another interview where he says with everything in the news cycle, we can't focus proper attention on things that deserve that attention. This era is going to be known as the Apathetic Era. We're in it right now and we're seeing hints of it, people like Lex are touching on it and pointing it out, but nobody really sees just how toxic apathy is and how it not only is affecting us today, but will be a key characteristic that our era will be known for by future generations. It's not just about the news cycle, even if that caused/contributed to it. It's like a disease that we've been afflicted with that won't easily be cured, even if the news cycle goes away. People are just generally more cynical and more apathetic now and it's a temporary phase in human history but it will become the one defining thing we'll be remembered for.

Wait, what was Lex gonna say after he said that he tend to think they’re already here and Sam cut him off?

If you don't believe there is enough evidence of alien presence in this planet, watch "The phenomenon" by director James Fox. There is SO MUCH CREDIBLE EVIDENCE of alien life since the 40s that it is almost torturing to hear people dismissing the problem so casually. The channel UNIDENTIFIED streams this film for free in youtube.

Lex, I would like to know your thoughts on Steven Greer and his disclosure program. I realize many learned people perceive his ideas to be complete nonsense, but much of the testimony he has gathered seems to come from serious people with legitimate backgrounds in science and government. While typically remaining skeptical, when I allow myself to consider what if..I imagine a completely different path for humanity than the on we have been on. What if over unity power production has been suppressed for over a hundred years; what if advanced species have visited since the 1940s; what if advanced propulsion has been reverse engineered and utilized by secret organizations? Hope to hear your thoughts someday

Occam's Razor is a rational approach but people treat it as some kind of universal law. Something being more likely doesnt mean that is reality

5:58-6:04 i very much am.

Actually nothing was said in this conversation. The definition of vague.

Mick West debunk videos are great, get him on here or Rogan! 👌

Lol the government use ZOOM?!

Every have insomnia???… then just listen to these two guys voices

Did I just watch 2 minutes of introductory complete confusion without any understanding of really what the question was and total jibberish to set up who gave the answer. Definitely no one is ready.

The truth is out there 👽

This made me understand another layer of Dr. Strangelove

"..It's a flipsided coin" 🤔

LEE7

How did this discussion veer off from UFO's to nuclear war? Man, can't anyone stay focused for more than a few minutes ?!?

Sam doesn't sound like he is all that interested in figuring anything out.

Wow, Sam ran a thought experiment 😳

It was Tom delonge wasn't it

50% chance of nuclear war isn't much of a threat to we who grew up in the 1960s.

Remember when he said Hunter could have killed people and it wouldn’t be as bad as orangeman? This dude is not that smart

Who is he's talking about?

he could use his fame and reach to really help shed light on the UAP issue and he's just like, "eh, i wasn't really interested so it means it's not important." i thought this person was famous for being smart

He spoke 13 minutes and said nothing humm, no one from the real government is going to use zoom.

Good to know all this thanks guys

Don't get me started I can go on forever about aliens ect ect

The aliens don't measure up. The aliens are inadequate. The aliens are not acting intelligently.

I bet that was Lou Elizondo.

I think it would be awesome if super intelligent aliens showed up and these aliens are evangelists for the Legendary Xandu who paid for all misdeeds of sentient life forms by suffering painful demoleculerization but reconstituted a physical form some minor amount of time later. Also, they're from planet maga. I think Sam would have a stroke

You guys like backyard baseball?

How does Sam Harris turn the most interesting topics into the most boring conversations

Ya Sam avoided the UFO stuff. He’s probably like most people I meet. Unable to cope with that possibility atm

imo, public interest wasn't as big as Sam is saying it should've been is due to the dubious nature of the evidence presented, added to years of public ridicule surrounding the topic... if the govt. just came out with a clear set of non debatable videos, people would be shook

The problem is aliens are here but people don’t give a shit there is no interest we rather watch the kardashins and tiktok

I lived through the Cuban Missle Crisis, That's all this is.

You guys keep avoiding the tic tac data etc. Forget all the hypothetical analogies and what ifs. You should of discussed the tic tac for example.

Okay it 2.5x . Wish there was 10x...sheesh.

The government had drones in the 1960's. Just imagine what they have now. At least 30-40 years ahead of what we know.

They stopped talking about UFOs half way through the video lol

Sam on UFOs - "Trump is a bad guy, a really bad guy"

Aliens are just future humans with time travel

Ham Sarris.

UFO SMOKE SCREEN

100 years ago everything changed. We learned about a lot the aliens. We got some tech.

Sam Harris doesn't know enough about the subject to have a valid opinion. Google "Costa Rica UFO photograph" and "Cmdr. Edward Stafford, 'Cosmic Curiosity,' Naval History Magazine." Cmdr. Stafford was a noted naval historian. The US Navy assigned him as technical advisor on the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!"

If the skies are full of extraterrestrial craft, where are all the freakin' radio signals? Ship to ship, ship to probe, ship to mothership, ship to base, ship to colony, base to base, colony to colony and on and on and on. The sky should be awash with radio transmission. Instead it's still the eerie silence. Oh, maybe they've learned to send terabytes of reliable data with ESP. Yah, right, Too many people default to science fiction scenarios vs science fact.

I'm so tired 😫 of "intellectuals" who know nothing about the ufo/uap phenomenon and dismiss it so casually. He's too smart for his own good.

The story of the Skype call is pretty much how these insider experiences have always gone. Never ending baiting that goes nowhere. Safe bet that Grusch’s claims go the same way.

If alien were disclosed, good bye religion business. 😁😁😁

What's for dinner ?

This guy is suppossed to be bright and believes in Mick wests debunking? wow.

It's when a man tries to pose as your proctologist you really have to start worrying

...and it certainly presents all the more threatening, currently, because of the attitudes many take toward others and the disregard people exhibit for all but themselves. It lends to some apparent degradation of character amongst entitled young adults and perhaps, like we just ahead of them predicted, praising them all, losers as winners, WAS detrimental after-all. Huh? Primarily and unfortunately, the rationale that affected our comfortable continuation... back then... feels to be absent with many currently. People stopped advancing and traded-away their courtesies, politenesses, generosities and morality, all for pure defensiveness, offensiveness, aggression and disrespect.

And then the aliens showed up and disagreed with something ridiculous Sam Harris said, so Sam blocked them on social media but kept talking trash about the aliens.

“It was just so bad. We had Trump..” Um, now is no picnic.

Dude if this guy speaks any slower.

wow

Alien already here

God clip but not about ufos lol

UFOs don't equate to aliens.

A strong leader would be a good thing then? Huh.

Rigid ... Biased... Uninventive

What girl fell down a earth? Want lot more information about this topic....

If aliens were real, Trump would have leaked everything during a Twitter rant about Alec Baldwin; "Even the aliens say I'm the best leader they ever saw, ever."

I used to be obsessed with Harris. Oh how far he has fallen.

We’ve been desensitized over this issue for more than 50 years.

It's just us! 😢

Lex you are a legend. Harris is interesting for a 13v year old, and kudos for listening with an open mind. Give a man enough rope eh? I don't think he's ever been particularly interesting, but he's certainly shown himself to be incapable of adapting to the emergent nature of reality lately. Thanks for letting him expose himself, and showing why he is less than worth listening to. Good job lex!

black budget USAPs

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Looks like ' i hate trump ' has ingrained into Sam's identity . 🤣🤣🤣