Sam Harris | Home of the Making Sense Podcast

Launching the Tacit Knowledge Podcast: How the world's hardest problems really get solved

By Kumar Garg

I have forgotten how to read

For a long time Michael Harris convinced himself that a childhood spent immersed in old-fashioned books would insulate him from our new media climate, but he was wrong

Authorship, division of labour, material and digital form; thoughts on Samuel A. Moore's Publishing Beyond the Market

On Christmas day, we had a quiet time this year. One of the things I did was to read Moore, Samuel A., Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (University of Michigan Press, 2025). This is a most enjoyable book that outlines a project and worldview that I know Sam has been cultivating and refining for many years. I should stress that I am not writing a “review” here. I would be conflicted anyway as I am thanked in the acknowledgements. But it did, like all good books, make me think and I wanted to jot down some thoughts. These thoughts are not necessarily novel – sometimes Sam even explores some of them in the book – but I thought it would be enjoyable to express them nonetheless.

Neurodiversity | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

Interdependent Thoughts

Bookmarked Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? by Ted Chiang in the New Yorker

AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans | Melanie Mitchell | Substack

I write about interesting new developments in AI. Click to read AI: A Guide for Thinking Humans, by Melanie Mitchell, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst

Podcast Episode · Plain English with Derek Thompson · 09/23/2025 · 59m

Mystified magicians of the mind

My conversation with neuroscientist Paul Cisek

Marcus on AI | Gary Marcus | Substack

"Marcus has become one of our few indispensable public intellectuals. The more people read him, the better our actions in shaping Al will be." - Kim Stanley Robinson, author of Ministry for the Future. Click to read Marcus on AI, by Gary Marcus, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

Phantom Fluency

Why listening to smart people doesn't make you more thoughtful. You're not bad at remembering podcasts. Podcasts are bad at being remembered.

Episode 5: Metaphors for AI, with Shannon Vallor

This week, Adam talks with Shannon Vallor, a philosopher of AI, about the metaphors we use to talk about AI and ourselves. They also dunk on libertarians and San Francisco billboards, and consider what kind of hope we can have for the future of technology.Messages:  • Support the show at patreon.com/DreamingAgainstTheMachine  • Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram  • Subscribe to the show wherever you get your podcasts!  • Check out other great podcasts from Multitude like Wow if TrueAbout the show:Dreaming Against the Machine is a podcast about envisioning a realistic and hopeful future. Each week, the show’s host, journalist and astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker, will have an earnest (and entertaining!) conversation with a guest about possible futures, seen through the lenses of history, science, and culture. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the terms of the public conversation about what our world can and should be.

Day Two

What I've learned in 48 hours of public sensemaking