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24 alternatives to Waking Up with Sam Harris - The Virtues of Cold Blood: A Conversation with Paul Bloom

Sam and Paul explore "the dark side of empathy"

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Waking Up with Sam Harris - The Virtues of Cold Blood: A Conversation with Paul Bloom launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Waking Up #44 - Being Good and Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill▲55
Effective altruism, moral illusions, and existential risk
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Hidden Brain -5: Compassion▲56
The Science of Compassion
2015 · its alternatives →
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Waking Up▲219
Guided meditation with Sam Harris
2018 · wakingup.com · its alternatives →
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Dark Matter of the Mind▲67
The Culturally Articulated Unconscious
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hidden Brain: Ep. 41: Defeated: Losing Hurts (In Surprising Ways)▲55
A conversation about life's unseen patterns
2016 · its alternatives →
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Off Camera - Jack Black▲68
A high-minded and philosophical discussion w/ Jack Black
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Hatching - 17: How to meet your heroes▲93
A podcast about the inner workings of Need/Want
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Polarized - Empathy As A Practical Solution▲65
What impact would empathy as a practical solution have?
2015 · its alternatives →
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Waking Up With Sam Harris - The Best Podcast Ever▲54
Sam and Omer Aziz talk about Islam and Islamism.
2016 · samharris.org · its alternatives →
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Waking Up with Sam Harris - Surviving the Cosmos▲63
The reach of human knowledge and future of AI
2015 · feeds.soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Nonviolent Communication▲70
How to apply empathy in communication
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Blindspot▲86
Hidden biases of good people
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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q: The Podcast From CBC Radio - Sarah Silverman’s Dark Side▲54
Pursue meaning and you’ll find happiness.
2015 · its alternatives →
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Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People- 1: Ron Paul's Baby▲67
Empathy, honesty, and the best raw conversation
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Waking Up with Sam Harris - The Multiverse & You (& You & You & You…)▲60
MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark on Math, AI & the Multiverse
2015 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Common sense with Dan Carlin - The war on bad thoughts▲64
Important perspectivesIn the wake of the last terror attack
2015 · its alternatives →
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Design Review Podcast - Ep. 45 - The Dangers of Empathy▲61
Can empathy do more harm than good?
2016 · designreviewpodcast.com · its alternatives →
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Ignite Show: Scott Berkun - "Why and How to Give an Ignite Talk"▲53
Stories are the heart of a talk.
2015 · scottberkun.com · its alternatives →
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Moral Tribes▲56
Emotion, reason, and the gap between us and them
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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FemgineerTV: Episode 4 - How to Use Empathy to Build Software Products▲68
The one common skill of successful product creators
2016 · traffic.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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a16z - Writing a New Language of Storytelling with Virtual Reality▲69
Chris Milk calls VR the “ultimate empathy machine”
2015 · feeds.soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Youngblood▲71
The moral complexity of war & its psychological toll
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Ego Is The Enemy▲140
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2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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