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Notes on Sam Harris & Jordan Peterson discussion in Vancouver (June, 23rd, 2018)

Just spent over 2 hours watching this, and I completely enjoyed it. I would not except anyone to be as nerdy as myself and waste 2 hours like this, not even in my wildest dreams. But, I took some notes while watching that I do believe worth sharing. 1- "To close the loop on that: the only reason why I would focus on religion- in particular there, is that religion is the only language game where in dogmatism is not a pejorative concept. Dogma is a good word, specifically within religion, and the notion that you must believe things on faith, that is in the absence of compelling evidence, that would otherwise cause a rational person to believe it- you know. Religious context is considered a feature- not a bug elsewhere we recognize it to be a bug ,and that’s that’s why there’s the unique focus on religion." - Sam Harris 2- "The process of free speech is the process by which dogmatic errors are rectified, and so it has to be put at the pinnac...